Cultural Identity

Abstract

Cultural identity is most certainly sociologically and ideologically constructed and in most cases it is part of person’s self-conception and self-perception that is linked with nationality, ethnicity, religion, social or cultural class, or any other kind of particular group or identity. The concept of identity is ambiguous and it relates with the construction of a shared narrative that defines a community and differentiates them from others. At the same time culture provides diverse ways of interpreting the environment and the world, and given that identity explains and interprets the structure of the relationship between man, community and society, it can be said that identity is a kind of social mechanism of labelling and conceptualization that applies to individuals and groups and society as a whole.