Identity today: A contest with the unfamiliar?
Every day, we play up to 40 roles in asserting our identity, in a society that is losing its inner cohesion more and more. Who am “I” and who are “we” when all around us, it is the unfamiliar that is setting the tone: globalization, digitalization and increasing migration? An interview with sociologist Prof. Harald Welzer on identity, values and the question of what is still holding modern society together today.