Constructing Identities in the Sixth Wave (2010-2060) Culture

Abstract

Identities are at the beginning of the 21st century, in one way or another, related to almost all cultural, religious, and ethnic tensions and conflicts within and between national states. Why identities have become important? In this article, I'm looking for answers to the following questions: What is happening to identities? What alternative strategies and options to constructing identities do people have? How do they change people’s orientation towards “the others” and the future? In my article, I study what challenges current identities pose to education, research, and the economy in the Sixth Wave social, economic, and cultural change. I suggest strengthening hybrid identity and social pedagogical orientation to face the future.

Keywords

• identity
• kondratieff cycles
• fundamentalism
• hybridism
• social pedagogy