Ilchuk, S.
(2024).
Impact of social exclusion on social identity: Social-philosophical dimension.
Humanities Studios: Pedagogy, Psychology, Philosophy,
12(1),
149-158.
https://doi.org/: 10.31548/hspedagog15(1).2024.149-158
The article examines the impact of social exclusion on a person’s social identity. For this purpose, the works of foreign and Ukrainian researchers were analyzed and it was found that the latter is mostly considered as a personal construct that arises against the background of intergroup differences and ingroup similarities and expresses a person’s solidarity with group norms, values and ideals. The latter can change during a person’s life under the influence of various challenges and transform a person’s social identity in a positive or negative direction. Thus, in cases where a person has internal resources for solving certain problems or overcoming life challenges, which are accompanied by his exclusion from the usual social environment, his social identity changes in a positive way, and he himself moves to a new level of social life and occupies the corresponding last place in society. Under such conditions, the change in his social identity occurs quite naturally and contributes to the formation of relatively stable ideas of a person about himself and society about him. These ideas are confirmed by the new social status, which marks the role and place that the individual occupies in the social system according to the main spheres of social life. Instead, the exclusion of a person from the usual social environment, as a result of one or another life challenges (loss of job or housing, occupation of the region, migration, etc.), which deprives a person of the opportunity to fully integrate into social processes and be a full-fledged part of society, can be accompanied not only by radical changes in human value system, but also deviant forms of behavior that will lead to social exclusion in the future
social exclusion, social identity, self-concept, mental trauma, social status, social role, social identity crisis
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