Educational and religious identity in the hierarchy of types of social identity

Abstract

Education and religion are the critical parameters in a person's life attitudes. There is the manifestation of the educational and religious identity of the urban population of Dagestan in this article. The empirical data obtained show the dominance of the republican type of social identity in the mass consciousness of the respondents. The author's hypothesis about the importance of educational and religious identity for the respondents was not confirmed by the study results because the respondents' designation of unity with co-religionists prevails only in the subgroup of convinced believers. In addition, the awareness of a community with representatives of their ethnic community is of great importance for the townspeople. The study results show that the surveyed urban population of the republic in various life situations relies on their own religious beliefs, educational attitude, and commandments of the confessed faith.

Keywords

• Educational identity
• Religion
• Religious identity
• Social identity