TY  - JOUR
T1  - Formation of the Kazakh Identity
AU - Tauyekel, Ospanov AU - Zinakul, Bissembayeva AU - Gulzada, Mukhamediyeva AU - Kalamkas, Anassova AU - Begdauletova, Karlygash 
JO  - The Social Sciences
VL  - 11
IS  - 8
SP  - 1545
EP  - 1551
PY  - 2016
DA  - 2001/08/19
SN  - 1818-5800
DO  - sscience.2016.1545.1551
UR  - https://makhillpublications.co/view-article.php?doi=sscience.2016.1545.1551
KW  - Kazakhstan
KW  -national identity
KW  -self-consciousness
KW  -ethnic identity
KW  -nomadism
AB  - The study analyzes Kazakh national identity from a social and philosophical prospective. It reviews the main criteria and features of the formation of Kazakh identity as well as its current status. The development of individual identity and its components are reviewed and this identity is analyzed in the context of primordialism and constructionism. A range of theoretical and methodological approaches to identity research are reviewed and different approaches to national identity and its complexity are analyzed with a central focus on the analysis of causes and factors contributing to the formation of Kazakh national identity and ethnic self-consciousness.
ER  -