Changing European Identities

Part I Towards a social psychological analysis of social change in Europe: changing European identities and social change in Europe; a challenge for social psychology; identity processes and social changes. Part II Changing national identities?: coping with social change; processes of social memory in the reconstruction of identities; unimagined community?; some social psychological issues concerning the English national identity; the construction of social categories and processes of social change; arguing about national identities; ascribed identities and the social identity space; an ego/ecological analysis. Part III Constructing a European identity: a social identity perspective on European integration; social representations of history and attitudes to European unification in Britain, France and Germany; how group membership is formed; self categorization or group beliefs? the construction of European identity of French and Greeks. Part IV Coping with social change: social identity of East-Germans; the process of unification between East and West Germany as a challenge to cope with negative social identity; alienation and social identity; the bringing together of two theoretical paradigms.