Personal Identity in the Context of Interdisciplinary Integration

The article analyzes two disciplinary paradigms, in the framework of which the problem of identity was explored in the humanitarian discourse. The aim of the article is to analyze the ways in which sociological and psychological paradigms of identity research interact. There are several approaches within the framework of psychological disciplinary paradigm of the analysis of identity,: 1. psychoanalytic, based on E. Erickson, and 2. approach based on the concept of J. Mead, which combines symbolic interactionism and cognitive psychology.Sociological approach to the research of identity gives priority to the study of social identity and the processes of its formation. Moreover the sociological approach is focused on concrete, mass experimental studies and diagnostics of We-identity, the collective identity of certain social groups.The author analyzes two models of the interaction of sociological and psychological approaches to personal identity. According to the complementarity model, the distinction between these approaches is interpreted as the alternative ways of describing the same object – person in the specific conditions of socio-cultural environment. The psychological approach focuses on how I-identity mediates We-identity, and the sociological approach on how We-identity mediates I-identity.More effective way of combination of sociological and psychological approaches is to develop an integral model of the individual as a subject in which the individualization of the social and the socialization of the individual takes place through the process of identification.