National identity issues in the new German elites: a study of German university students.

The problematic of identity, especially collective identity, is a topic of far-reaching importance in advanced modernity (eg Eisenstadt and Giesen 1995) Giddens, for example, highlights identity as a central belong to linking self as "a reflexive project" to modernity (1991) In this throw out Giddens extends Erikson's seminal work upon "identity crisis," which focused upon individual personality development (Erikson 1968) to the disclosure of a larger collectivity; any larger cluster Curiously, Giddens does not treat a particularly significant form of collective identity--that of national identity.

Recent political, economic, and demographic changes around the globe, however, pay back the study ...