ABSTRACT
All social actors are now affected by the loss of a natural reference space that could guarantee their source of identity in a quiet, stable way. No longer a naturally available resource, identity has to be renegotiated. As we saw earlier, this ‘reconstructing’ of identity is as true for actors in the world of work looking for a social qualification, as for state actors responsible for locating their countries within a global social system rather than just within a system of states.
