Abstract: The transformation from a traditional society to a modern one exhibited itself in the two dimensions of modernization and globalization. The national identity is a process and a result in which citizens produce emotional identification based on emotion and beliefs, and rational endorsement based on cognition and judgment for their states, and thereby obtain a corresponding sense of community. It is an organic unity composed of three interacting elements: territorial identity, citizenship identity and legitimizing identity. Political reformation, social mobility and cultural difference in the process of social transformation lead to crisis in national identity, which can be revealed as crisis of sovereign legitimacy due to modernization, cultural difference and value conflict among different regions as a result of globalization and the highlight of people's collective identity confusion due to fluidity.

Key words: social transformation, national identity, modernization, globalization