SOCIAL IDENTITY MODELS OF BORDERLAND INHABITANTS IN REFERENCE TO COMPLEX SYSTEMS AND CULTURE EVOLUTION THEORIES

Abstract

The important changes in the way people build their identity and cre- ate their acting strategies. In case of borderland inhabitants the situa- tion is even more complex because of a culturally shaped order based on systematic intercultural contacts. In that situation there is a need to adjust hitherto a scientific knowledge how the borderland inhabitants can shape their identity in such a complex and dynamically changing social reality. The main aim of this article is to show on an example of the borderland inhabitants how their identity models can be created in reference to system analyses, complex systems and culture revolution theories. In this article there will be presented a method of percepti- on of the borderland inhabitants identity not as static constructs who undergo simple linear transformations but as open forms of complex networks composed of related elements.