Abstract

Expansion and merging of global capital market, information and service, new opportunities for transportation and communication are the characteristics of the process of globalization, which actually revolutionize political realities and individual political identity. The aim of this article is the investigation into an individual identity transformation in terms of globalization. The phenomenon of individual political identity within the framework of Peter L. Berger and Thomas Luckmann’s social contructionism has been analyzed. It has been defied that according to social contructionism the political identity arises as the element of subjective reality of the individual, that stems from the structure internalization of political realities, its’ legitimation component in the individual consciousness, an process of secondary socialization. The process of individualization is stated to be the signifiant tendency in the structure of social and political realities in terms of globalization. It arises as vehement denial of former social forms. This process provides an individual autonomy in the sphere of social and political identity construction. In the period of modernism the process of individualization creates conditions for the formation of fim social and political identity on the basis of internalization of such institutions as «class» and «country». It has been stated that structure fimness of social reality differentiates the process of individualization of former periods from its modern form, which has been defied by the process of globalization. For not only the individual subjective political realities are constantly changing, but the structure of individual objective reality itself is quite unsteady. Thus, the process of globalization neutralizes the effectiveness of existing political institutions, eroding the structure of political realities. Since the individual is unable to form the stable political identity, basing on institutions such as «country» or «democracy», which are constantly changing, a mass breakaway from mainstream politics to smaller problems of everyday reality takes place. This fact, in its turn, impedes the internalization of the individual political realities and the construction of fim political identity. Thus, political identity acquires the characteristics of plasticity, constant openness and incompleteness.