Recognizing the Other as a test of Europeanness. The value-based foundations of individual reflexivity in the era of late modernity
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2019
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Grünhut, Zoltán
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The paper both theoretically and empirically examines the interrelationship between the act of othering (i.e. self-identification via distantiation from the ‘Other’) and the attachment to Europe, while it also addresses the value-based ontological foundations of these epistemologically relevant and praxis-related features. Late Modernity is proposed as a general framework that can hold together these components conceptually. The empirical findings are about 18 EU member states; data were obtained from the European Social Survey (2018). As a general conclusion the paper stresses that people who prefer the relative importance of values about diversity and self-transcendence, they are more open towards the ‘Other’, while they are more attached to Europe as well.
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társadalmi viszonyok , társadalmi szerepek , modernitás , oktatás , művészet , tudomány , munka , europanizáció
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Europolity: Contuinuity and Change In European Governance 13:(2) pp. 125-147. (2019)