Hard Identity and Soft Identity

Often collective identities are classified depending on their contents and rarely depending on their forms. Differentiation between soft identity and hard identity is applied to diverse collective identities: religious, political, national, tribal ones, etc. This classification is made following the...

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Main Author: Hassan Rachik
Format: Article
Language:Spanish
Published: Barcelona Centre for International Affairs (CIDOB) 2006-04-01
Series:Revista CIDOB d'Afers Internacionals
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Online Access:http://www.cidob.org/es/content/download/1832/17606/file/73-74rachik_cast.pdf
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spelling doaj-2beba71966d74f2c8f656155ca9a5ecf2020-11-25T00:30:37ZspaBarcelona Centre for International Affairs (CIDOB)Revista CIDOB d'Afers Internacionals1133-65952013-035X2006-04-0173-740920Hard Identity and Soft IdentityHassan RachikOften collective identities are classified depending on their contents and rarely depending on their forms. Differentiation between soft identity and hard identity is applied to diverse collective identities: religious, political, national, tribal ones, etc. This classification is made following the principal dimensions of collective identities: type of classification (univocal and exclusive or relative and contextual), the absence or presence of conflictsof loyalty, selective or totalitarian, objective or subjective conception, among others. The different characteristics analysed contribute to outlining an increasingly frequent type of identity: the authoritarian identity. http://www.cidob.org/es/content/download/1832/17606/file/73-74rachik_cast.pdfcultural identityethnicitycommunitytraditioninterculturality
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author Hassan Rachik
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Hard Identity and Soft Identity
Revista CIDOB d'Afers Internacionals
cultural identity
ethnicity
community
tradition
interculturality
author_facet Hassan Rachik
author_sort Hassan Rachik
title Hard Identity and Soft Identity
title_short Hard Identity and Soft Identity
title_full Hard Identity and Soft Identity
title_fullStr Hard Identity and Soft Identity
title_full_unstemmed Hard Identity and Soft Identity
title_sort hard identity and soft identity
publisher Barcelona Centre for International Affairs (CIDOB)
series Revista CIDOB d'Afers Internacionals
issn 1133-6595
2013-035X
publishDate 2006-04-01
description Often collective identities are classified depending on their contents and rarely depending on their forms. Differentiation between soft identity and hard identity is applied to diverse collective identities: religious, political, national, tribal ones, etc. This classification is made following the principal dimensions of collective identities: type of classification (univocal and exclusive or relative and contextual), the absence or presence of conflictsof loyalty, selective or totalitarian, objective or subjective conception, among others. The different characteristics analysed contribute to outlining an increasingly frequent type of identity: the authoritarian identity.
topic cultural identity
ethnicity
community
tradition
interculturality
url http://www.cidob.org/es/content/download/1832/17606/file/73-74rachik_cast.pdf
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