self-identity

Examples of self-identity in the following topics:

• Psychological Approaches to the Self

  • 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

• Adolescent Socialization

  • This is also a time when adolescents start to explore gender identity and sexuality in depth.
  • Among the most common beliefs about adolescence is that it is the time when teens form their personal identities.
  • Researchers have used three general approaches to understanding identity development: self-concept, sense of identity and self-esteem.
  • Unlike the conflicting aspects of self-concept, identity represents a coherent sense of self stable across circumstances and including past experiences and future goals.
  • The final major aspect of identity formation is self-esteem, which is one's thoughts and feelings about one's self-concept and identity.

• Cooley

  • In 1902, Charles Horton Cooley created the concept of the looking-glass self, which explored how identity is formed.
  • An example of the looking-self concept is computer technology.
  • George Herbert Mead described the self as "taking the role of the other," the premise for which the self is actualized.
  • 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

• Reference Groups

  • Social comparison theory is centered on the belief that there is a drive within individuals to gain accurate self-evaluations.
  • Individuals evaluate their own opinions and define the self by comparing themselves to others.
  • Reference groups become the individual's frame of reference and source for ordering his or her experiences, perceptions, cognition, and ideas of self.
  • It is important for determining a person's self-identity, attitudes, and social ties.
  • Reference groups become the individual's frame of reference and source for ordering his or her experiences, perceptions, cognition, and ideas of self.

• Identity Formation

  • Individuals gain a social identity and group identity by their affiliations.
  • Self-concept is the sum of a being's knowledge and understanding of himself.
  • Self-concept is different from self-consciousness, which is an awareness of one's self.
  • Cultural identity is one's feeling of identity affiliation to a group or culture.
  • Discuss the formation of a person's identity, as well as the ideas of self-concept and self-consciousness

• Gender Identity in Everyday Life

  • 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.

• The Nature of Groups

  • One way of determining if a collection of people can be considered a group is if individuals who belong to that collection use the self-referent pronoun "we;" using "we" to refer to a collection of people often implies that the collection thinks of itself as a group.
  • 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?
  • " the social identity perspective expects group members to simply ask "who am I?
  • Contrast the social cohesion-based concept of a social group with the social identity concept

• The Symbolic Interactionist Perspective

  • While they are deciding, the dialogue taking place inside their mind is usually a dialogue between their "self" (that portion of their identity that calls itself "I") and that person's internalized understanding of their friends and society (a "generalized other").
  • There are three main components of the looking glass self:
  • George Herbert Mead described self as "taking the role of the other," the premise for which the self is actualized.
  • Through interaction with others, we begin to develop an identity about who we are, as well as empathy for others.
  • This drawing depicts the looking-glass self.

• Social Identity Theory

  • 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.
  • 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.
  • A positive self-concept is a part of normal psychological functioning.
  • We often gain self-esteem by comparing ourselves with others in our group, particularly if we can claim membership in a prestigious group.

• Group Dynamics

  • In so doing, studies of group dynamics shed light upon some ways groups reflect, reinforce, and/or shift the ongoing reciprocal relationship between self and society.
  • 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.