social role

The article gives an analysis and correlation of such concepts as “identity”, “social identity”, “cultural identity”, “sociocultural identity”. Sociocultural identity is examined in the context of multicultural approach to social upbringing, according to which it means for a person to determine his or her identity to cultures and subcultures of those groups to which he or she belongs.

The necessity of development of an extra-curricular educational work in contemporary school as a system of human-oriented studies has become topical due to ineffectiveness of the traditional system of upbringing associated with unrelated activities within the framework of following directions: ideological, political, labor, moral, aesthetic, patriotic, etc. The person is integral and character building cannot be conducted by separating the personality into parts.