Özet:

Recent political arena suffers under hesitation and contradictory trends between globalisation and multiculturalism and between localisation and ethnic identities, and seeks monoculturalism in respect of countries and people with similar culture coming together in cultural, social, economic co-operations and strategic alliances with those of different cultures and various civilizations that tend to be left outside of these co-operations because of their ‘differences’. In this context, identity question is at the agenda for the people who have a fear to lose their own identities. Identity is a social phenomenon which starts with the identity formation process by means of interaction with the ‘other’ or against the ‘other’. The individual tends to internalise and practice the behaviours, values and norms of the society where he or she has lived in, in order to provide his or her psychological and physical security. In this way, to get an identity one must either identify oneself with someone and/or be perceived as identical to someone else. The continuous and permanent internalisation processes of social setting are resulted in the construction of an individual identity within a social dimension. The universalization of national culture constitutes the ‘civilization’ and the way of living and perception creates the ‘culture under the notions of constructivist theory. In this study, the concepts culture, identity and civilization will be analyzed with the cross-cultural level and the possible confusion will be removed in this descriptive way.

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