Contemporary studies of national-state identity: interdisciplinary approaches

An attempt is made to show the internal complexity and multifaceted nature of modern studies of national and state identity, the importance and relativity of its socio-psychological dimension, as well as the need to search for new approaches to its measurement that meet the needs of a rapidly changing world. Although the list of sociological and psychological referents of identity studies has long existed in different editions and is constantly updated, nevertheless, the socio-psychological dimension of national and state identity is not at all easy to grasp. The importance of the problem of adequacy of criteria for assessing the identification profile of an individual, a group, as well as the possibility of preserving national and state identity in a rapidly and radically changing reality is noted. Identification markers are considered as determinants of not only the subjective reconstruction of the political sphere of relations, civic self-determination, but also the objective process of transformation of social and political spaces. Hypotheses were tested about the relationship between the degree of significance in the consciousness of the masses of self-assessments by types of social identity with the attitude to the country, political institutions, political and civic practices, as well as the connection with their social well-being, a sense of civic spirit. The empirical basis of the research was the information arrays of the sociological monitoring “How are you, Russia?” 2022–2024, as well as data from other studies conducted in 2022–2024 at the Institute of Social and Political Research (ISPR) of the Federal Center of Theoretical & Applied Sociology of the Russian Academy of Sciences.