IN OPINION OF SOME SOCIOLOGISTS, ARMENIAN IDENTITY IS IN CRITICAL CONDITION TODAY
Noyan Tapan
Nov 13 2007
YEREVAN, NOVEMBER 13, NOYAN TAPAN. In the opinion of some sociologists,
Armenian identity is in a critical condition today. Professor
Lyudmila Haroutiunian, the Dean of YSU’s Faculty of Sociology, stated
at the November 13 conference on the subject "Social Reforms and
Problems of Identity." In her opinion, the Armenian identity formed
after the Armenian Genocide, that of a victim, justice supporter,
depressed people, has appeared in a critical situation since 1991. In
L. Haroutiunian’s words, in those years the Armenian people promoted
very serious revolutionary, public activity, had a Karabakh war
and gained a victory in that war. After that, according to her, the
Armenian people faced very serious questions. "The problem of building
a new identity has emerged with the independence, the solution of
which is the current generation’s fate," the professor said.
In L. Haroutiunian’s words, today’s developments have a very serious
ifluence on Armenian people’s national, state, civil, and personal
identity.
According to her, collective history, which has been built on victim’s
indentity, today already cannot develop. "Individual histories have
come to be separated from that collective history," she said.
Dispute-discussions, in particular, on subjects "Identity as Group
Independence: the Nation in Modern Conditions," "Identity and Society,
Social Developments and Reforms" were held during the conference
dedicated to the Day of YSU Faculty of Sociology.