Een narratieve verkenning van identiteit

Martens, Manon (2018) Een narratieve verkenning van identiteit. Master thesis, Master Religion Conflict and Globalisation.

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Abstract

People living in modern societies begin, in late adolescence and young adulthood, to construe their lives as evolving stories that integrate the reconstructed past and the anticipated future in order to prove life with some semblance of unity and purpose. Within this dissertation, identity is understood as a dynamic concept consisting of multiple evolving self-stories told by different characters or I-positions. These stories can relate to each other in different, constantly changing, manners; they can be contradicting, they can complement each other or one can be more dominant than the other. I propose a framework for linking this view of personal identity with the concept of ‘virtues’. I argue for a better understanding of virtues as central to one’s identity, in which virtues are understood as moral good qualities and behaviours that, in their multiplicity, can be seen as internalized filters hierarchically arranged by different I-positions and, in their unity, form the core of the self as a life story. To establish empirical support for this virtues-based approach to personal identity, I analyse three in depth-interviews with Hizmet-sympathizers in which I asked about their experiences in the year after the coup attempt in Turkey and the way this affected their personal identity and related virtues.

Type:	Thesis (Master)
Supervisors (RUG):	Supervisor E-mail Tutor organization Tutor email Buitelaar, M.W. M.W.Buitelaar@rug.nl Berger, P. P.Berger@rug.nl
Degree programme:	Master Religion Conflict and Globalisation
Academic year:	2017- 2018
Date of delivery:	02 Mar 2018
Last modified:	03 Feb 2026 11:16
URI:	https://rcs.studenttheses.ub.rug.nl/id/eprint/375

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