They reveal themselves, through the conducts, as logics, styles which may be obscure and irrational, but which can be identified. They appear as reactionary formations to the dispersion and impotence of the self, and are expressed all the more easily that the usual roles, prescribed or not, are too rigid, or on the contrary diluted and uncertain. From 1957-1959 he served as a Press and Broadcasting Officer in the Guyana Information Services. He was educated at the School of Oriental and African Studies (London University) and the Rutgers Graduate School and holds degrees in African Studies and Anthropology.

They manifest themselves in behaviours through offensive mobilisations - assertions, quest for valorisation, effort for coherence - or defensive mobilisations - withdrawal, isolation, doubt, reactions of inferiorisation or dispersion. Ivan Van Sertima was born in Guyana, South America. Identity strategies are established when situations and relationships are experienced in a critical or conflictual mode: tense or empty situations, aggressive or distant relationships. The individual seeks all the more to assert himself or to defend himself as he finds it difficult to bear these resistances to his own effort at coherence, continuity and positivity. On the contrary, the individual involved in interpersonal relations will play the proposed roles according to a certain style bringing into play multiple personal registers, while taking into account the resistance put up by the situation, the technical context and the other actors. The activities in roles are not to be considered as the individual translation of prescriptions whose coherence would be sought at a broad collective level (social and cultural functionalism). be operationally identified through the analysis of verbalizations and egocentric behaviours in interaction situations. In the context of interpersonal relations, the individual orients his or her 'role activities' according to identity strategies, which can. The 'Identity' team of the 'Personalisation and Social Change' Laboratory focuses its reflections and research on the theme of reciprocal influence and the links between changes in identity-related behaviours and strategies and transformations in social roles.

Dr ivan sertima