Survey design to identify the forms of identity relationship in Castile and Leon

Abstract

The different connections between individuals and the heritage which surrounds them have been widely analyzed in the literature, stating their complexity and diversity due to the nature of the concept of heritage. This paper is focused on the analysis of one type of connection, the identity one, in a try to quantify it, to check the existence of disparities between persons with a different socioeconomic profile, and to corroborate whether the identity connection varies according to the number of heritage education programs implemented in the territory. To achieve this, we have performed a survey which includes basic socioeconomic information about individuals and questions related to the degree of identity connection. The first results show that, in general, individuals who answered the survey are aware of the heritage which surrounds them, what will let us, in further analysis, measure the degree of identity connection of individuals from Castile and Leon, give an answer to the hypothesis outlined during the elaboration of the survey, and bring to light the importance of heritage education in the creation of identity connections.