TRADITIONS AND PARADIGMS OF RESEARCH IDENTITY

Abstract

The article deals with disciplinary paradigms, in the context of which the problem of identity was explored in the humanitarian discourse. The purpose of the article is to analyze the problematic situation of destructive pluralism and the fragmentation of disciplinary and conceptual approaches to the study of identity in modern humanitarian discourse, as well as possible ways to overcome it. By the method of critical analysis of the interpretations of the pluralism of concepts of identity existing in the literature and approaches to its study, the author establishes that the problematic nature of this pluralism is due to the real crisis of personality identity in postmodern society. The modern postmodern identity crisis corresponds to the fragmentation and pluralism of disciplinary approaches and intradisciplinary paradigms used in the study of identity. Fragmented, discrete pluralism of modern studies of identity is often combined with relativization of identity, absolutization of its fluidity and variability in the spirit of the philosophical principles of postmodernism. The implementation of interdisciplinarity in practice turns out to be problematic, since opens not only new opportunities, but also new problems and limitations. Far more problematic than interdisciplinary integration is the intradisciplinary conceptual integration of identity research approaches. The author comes to the conclusion that there are two main models for overcoming destructive pluralism and the fragmentation of identity studies. The first model is maintained in the context of the principles of postmodern philosophy and postnonclassical standards of scientific rationality. The second model for overcoming destructive pluralism and the fragmentation of identity studies is based on the principles and standards of humanitarian classical scientific rationality. The second model is based on the creation of a holistic integral concept of identity based on a productive philosophical paradigm and interdisciplinary integration of existing approaches.

Keywords

• дисциплинарный плюрализм
• концептуальный плюрализм
• идентичность
• идентификация
• междисциплинарная интеграция