Examples of identity in the following topics:
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- Gender identity is one's sense of one's own gender.
- Gender identity is one's sense of being male, female, or a third gender.
- Gender identity is socially constructed, yet it still pertains to one's sense of self.
- Transsexuals, however, take drastic measures to assume their believed identity.
- Sociologists tend to emphasize the environmental impetuses for gender identity.
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- An example of national identity is the way in which Americans are united on the Fourth of July.
- Indeed, the holiday would make little sense if one did not possess a sense of national identity.
- An example of religious identity would be if someone identifies as belonging to a particular religious faith.
- Individuals gain a social identity and group identity by their affiliations.
- Cultural identity is one's feeling of identity affiliation to a group or culture.
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- An individual is usually externally classified (meaning someone else makes the classification) into a racial group rather than the individual choosing where they belong as part of their identity.
- Conceptions of race, as well as specific racial groupings, are often controversial due to their impact on social identity and how those identities influence someone's position in social hierarchies (see identity politics).Ethnicity, while related to race, refers not to physical characteristics but social traits that are shared by a human population.
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- For example, a scientist might have two identical bacterial cultures.
- But social life is complicated and it would be difficult for a social scientist to find two identical groups of people in order to have both an experimental and a control group.
- For a true experiment, she would need to find identical students and identical teachers, then put some in large classes and some in small classes.
- But finding identical students and teachers would be impossible!
- This is done through the introduction of an experimental control: two virtually identical experiments are run, in only one of which the factor being tested is varied.
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- The psychology of self is the study of either the cognitive or affective representation of one's identity.
- The psychology of the self is the study of the cognitive or affective representation of one's identity.
- Current psychological thought suggests that the self plays an integral part in human motivation, cognition, affect, and social identity.
- While he considered the ego to be the center of an individual's conscious identity, he considered the Self to be the center of an individual's total personality.
- Discuss the development of a person's identity in relation to both the Kohut and Jungian self
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- Explicitly contrasted with a social cohesion-based definition for social groups is the social identity perspective, which draws on insights made in social identity theory.
- The social identity approach posits that the necessary and sufficient conditions for the formation of social groups is "awareness of a common category membership" and that a social group can be "usefully conceptualized as a number of individuals who have internalized the same social category membership as a component of their self concept. " Stated otherwise, while the social cohesion approach expects group members to ask "who am I attracted to?
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- Contrast the social cohesion-based concept of a social group with the social identity concept
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- Examining the ways people constructed personal, collective, group, and social identities, researchers taking an identity work approach have outlined four generic processes whereby people give meaning to themselves and others within group contexts.
- First, group members must define an identity into existence.
- Through the combination of all these processes, we would have created a group identity and a set of norms to demonstrate that identity to others.
- In all such cases, people engage in identity work to construct, affirm, and signify membership within social groups.
- People form groups by doing identity work that blends their personal desires with the symbolic materials provided by social structures.
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- Social identity is a theory developed by Henri Tajfel and John Turner to understand the psychological basis of intergroup discrimination.
- According to Tajfel and Turner, social identities are composed of three elements.
- The first is referred to as social identity, the latter is referred to as personal identity.
- In social identity theory, group membership is not something foreign which is tacked onto the person, it is a real, true and vital part of the person.
- Our groups make up part of who we are.The other meaning implied by the concept of identity is the idea that we are, in some sense, the same, or identical to other people.
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- Thus, you use group identity to generalize and make assumptions about a specific individual.
- Stereotyping is when one makes generalizations about a particular person in a negative way based on their perceived group identity.
- In this way, a person's group affiliation is associated with that person's identity.
- The relationship between identity and politics is dynamic and contested.
- Sometimes a person is perceived to be part of a group to which they identify, such as when someone makes assumptions about another person's identity based on their racial background.
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- In 1902, Charles Horton Cooley created the concept of the looking-glass self, which explored how identity is formed.
- The term refers to people shaping their identity based on the perception of others, which leads the people to reinforce other people's perspectives on themselves.
- Through interaction with others, we begin to develop an identity about who we are, as well as empathy for others.
- Discuss Cooley's idea of the "looking-glass self" and how people use socialization to create a personal identity and develop empathy for others