The article provides approaches to the civil identity research by the method of theoretical analysis of publications and articles on this problem. The concepts of «social identity», «civil identity», «ethnic identity» are analyzed. The article provides the structure of civil identity, as well as its place among social identities of the individual. The formation factors of civil identity are also analyzed. Particular attention is paid to the issues of the relationship and compatibility of civil and ethnic identities, specifically: the similarity of their structure, as well as similarity of the factors of their formation, which gives prospects for further research of their compatibility and emphasizes the influence of ethnocultural socialization on the formation of civil identity. The process of forming a positive civil identity is one of the most important directions of the state national policy of the Russian Federation because civil identity is a powerful factor in the consolidation and innovative development of a society. However, at the moment civil identity in the Russian Federation is still extremely uncertain, which allows us to outline the further direction of civil identity research as a society-forming factor.
Key words
• social identity • civil identity • ethnic identity • structure of civil identity • innovative development • consolidation of society •
Gaichenia Tatiana Andreevna
Postgraduate student of the Faculty of Evaluation and Development of Managerial Human Resources, the Graduate School of Public Administration of the Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration, Moscow, Russian Federation
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