Structure of identity: problems of analysis

In the article the evolution of scientific ideas about structure of identity is studied, the influence of several factors on this process is analyzed. Firstly the complication of the phenomenon of identity itself in the conditions of globalization and appearance of new kinds of identity ("proteus", net, virtual identity and others), secondly transformation of scientific thinking at the end of the XX-th - beginning of the XXI-st centuries and methodological reflection connected with it in the field of research of multiple and dynamic items, thirdly enrichment of views at the structure of identity because of the increasing of the status problem of identity as multidisciplinary problem. In the article modern hypotheses of structure of identity are presented.