Identidad europea como construcción social complejaAnálisis de la borrosidad en el discurso de la identidad europea generado mediante escenarios de futuro, La

Abstract

This thesis focuses on European identity from a twofold perspective: (a) the European Union identity and (b) individual identification with it. In this sense, social phenomena are considered to be complex realities, i.e. non-linear, fuzzy, catastrophic, fractal and chaotic ones that expressed through language and are construed in socially shared discourses. Consequently, a theoretical approach to identity understood as a complex social phenomenon is presented. This model, following Munne (1995), approaches identity as selfhood and the self as the multifacetic dimensions of identity. It is considered as a complex sistem that is made up of a series of self- and hetero- references that are modulated and expressed through language. In consecuence, the relational role of language is also hoghlighted considering that narrative of identity are articulated in conversations and discursive positionings. Concerning European identity specifically, the need to widen the context in which the narrative of European identity makes sense is especially emphasized. The study proposed different future scenarios, i.e., different configurations of institutional identity in the European Union and then participants are asked to justify then identification with each one of them as well as the feelings that are evoked when they imagine themselves as part of each scenario. Texts elicited by participans are analysed by means of an application of fuzzy logic to Glaser and Strauss (1967) Grounded Theory methodology and with support of the Nvivo software. This methodology makes it possible to highlight, with all the nuances of discourses, some of the characteristics that European identity should have so that it could be increased and generalized."