Tożsamość terytorialna a kwestia wyznaniowa. Obraz własny studentów uczelni publicznych Białegostoku

The theoretical objective of the article is to straighten out inconsistencies concerning the notion of identity by distinguishing the way it may be defined within two contradictory perspectives: cognitive absolutism and relativism. While the first of them promotes the vision of the social world as based upon the unique truth, the latter treats it as being constructed by social actors themselves. Upon ordering the theoretical conundrum, the article presents the empirical research conducted by the team: Maja Biernacka (head), Wojciech Wądołowski, Łukasz Wołyniec from the University of Białystok. It was conducted in the period between April and June 2015 via an original, standardized questionnaire on a representative sample (n=1000) of the student community in three major public academic institutions in Białystok, i.e. University of Białystok, Medical University of Białystok and Białystok University of Technology. The module of the research which is exhibited in the article refers to self-defined territorial identities of respondents and their denomination as a statistical correlate.