The well-used term "identity crisis," originates from Erik Erikson's fifth stage, identity versus confusion, in his eight stages of epigenetic personality development. ... Based on the presence or absence of crisis/exploration and commitment, Marcia was able to identify a continuum of four different identity statuses: diffusion (no exploration or commitment), foreclosure (made a commitment without attempting identity exploration), moratorium (actively involved in exploring different identities, but has not made a commitment) and achieved (exploration of different identities and made a ...

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Our postmodern position entails us to strip everything of definitive value resulting in the increased case of identity confusion. I envision my major work as a postmodern narrative which explores the connection between literature and an individual's changing perception of identity. While literary theory may seem divorced from reality, I believe it can illuminate our tangible struggles with identity. ... Bendle's "The Crisis of Identity in High Modernity" and James M. Glass's "Multiplicity, Identity and the Horrors of Selfhood" articulated the vulnerability to "identity confusion...

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In order to assess Billig's evaluation and critique of social identity theory it is important to understand exactly what Tajfel and Turner proposed as one of the most influential theories in modern European social psychology on group identity and conflict. ... Tajfel and Turner's social identity theory wanted to understand the psychological foundation of discrimination between groups. They argued that personal identity gives way to social identity when we identify as belonging to a particular group or crowd. Social identity theory identified three elements " categorisation, ide...

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As the story continues, this symbol of homes also helps to develop their identities and reveals each of their own experiences in assimilating into American culture. One way Lahiri conveys the way in which a home is a reflection of one's identity, as well as the theme of the alienating experience of immigrants assimilating into America and the exposure of two cultures, is through the use of the characterisation of Ashima and the development of her identity. ... This conveys the limited development of her identity in relation to the place she resides. ... The different 'homes' ...

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Anzaldua states in her essay, "Ethnic identity is twin skin to linguistic identity "I am my language. ... In this quote Anzaldua explains that her ethnic identity and her linguistic identity go together as one. This makes her feel that her language makes up an extensive part of her personal identity. ... She believes that being forced to learn English in America is wrong, and alters part of your personal identity, just as learning academic voice through academic discourse could alter student's personal identities. ... But instead this discourse adds something useful and necessary...

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Her process of Americanization is different from her families and so is the process of the construction of her identity based on the ideals of both "American" and "Chinese" cultures. ... " Essentially Leila establishes that the estrangement and inability to assimilate into American culture was due to her Chinese identity and the family roles it comes with. ... There is an estrangement in cultural involved with an individual pursuit of the American Dream, and most certainly there is one within Chinese American identity as shown by Leon, Mah, and Leila. Leon comes w...

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Each writer consistently associates the claims of his discrete individuality with those of a representative cultural identity, and in order to emphasize the sense of common possibility implied by such an association, each chooses to address his audience through a rhetoric of elaborately contrived simplicity.1 As David Levin observes, the movement from private to public standards of identity is the overriding structural feature of Franklin Autobiography.2 What gives this synthesis of democratic identities a cumulative validity and coherence is the attitude of self-conscious discovery with whi...

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To some extent at least, such issues can be redressed by the freedom to role-play and manufacture identities in cyberspace. ... Herein lies the advantage of reconstructing or recreating identities to suit more than one online life. ... Issues of honesty and deception become apparent with the ease of constructing multiple identities and associated personalities. Each different identity, or social mask, allows a person to stay "in character" within the social context of each community of which that person is a member. Other members of course would be unaware to what extent the identity...

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Culturally speaking, globalization has posed threat on national cultural identity. ... On the contrary, fear of losing their identity, nations seeks to protect its own identity and right, this is typical in China. ... The trend of globalization has made Chinese government more aware of the importance to preserve its own identity. ... Setting traditional festivals such as Qingming and Zhongqiu as national holidays also reminds people the importance of preserving their own cultural identity. ... It is globalization that makes Chinese people feel their sovereignty and cultural identity is being t...

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The university has been a key element in forming one's identity through professional status, because it is a major step one takes before entering the professional realm of society. ... As many ethnic Albanians of Kosova transitioned from uneducated, rural peasants to educated, urban inhabitants in the 1970s, it follows that their identity changed respectively. ... Without a university education, it is difficult for one to assimilate into the Macedonian professional or intellectual arena; therefore, it is difficult to construct a positive identity in relation to one's profess...

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Social constructivists believe when we construct our world, the issue of gender is the most prominent factor when constructing our own and others" identities. As social beings we derive a sense of identity through belonging to groups, the basic two groups of humans are male and female and so from a very early age we tend to identify with one or the other. ... Psychoanalytic perspective focus on how we make sense of sexual differences and this they believes influences how we develop our own identity, they no longer look to physical differences but what meaning is given to these differences...

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However the negative connotations of "when this one is pulled down" symbolizes the loss of their cultural identity as they adopt 'Australian' traditions and therefore, limit their sense of belonging to their homeland. ... Individuals ostracised from a society are prevented from gaining a strong sense of acceptance and identity. ... The use of anaphora and listing of the vast number of atrocities further emphasises the extent of the wrongdoings, demonstrating that the Aborigines' sense of belonging may only be restored through the acknowledgment of their cultural identity. ... In...

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The events of this time period, such as the French and Indian war, and increasing tension with Britain regarding its policies regarded the colonies served to help form a sense of unity and identity, although strained at times because of local differences and an unwillingness to cooperate at certain critical junctures. In the early 1750's, there was very little sense of unity or a national identity between the colonies as a whole. ...

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Fair treatment of business partners, distributors, as well as competing companies demonstrates a virtue-based ethics system that instills trust and an ethical identity considered valuable for continued success. ... This positive identity provides favorable opportunities not otherwise likely. ... Taylor's responsibility to its stockholders involve creating a favorable corporate ethical identity to provide continued growing trust to attract future investors while adhering to ethical business practices and remain focused on fiscal responsibility to its stockholders best financial interests. ...

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A conspicuous firmness about Bender-Baird's book is her vigorous and thoughtful consideration about the participants' ideology of their own identity, testimonial confidentiality, and information accessibility. ... Army official, who upon discussing her identity coming out as a transgender, was stereotypically judged, and eemed unfit for higher political admission. ... The author discreetly analyzed and interpreted the literature behind her use of terms, appropriately describing the historical usage and semantic application of the word "transgender." As discussed, the author was a...

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The strongest characteristic within development takes shape in the form of identity. ... For instance, for a child to be associated with a dominant identity that is skewed more towards the negative end of the spectrum entails possible adverse behavior patterns consistent with the identity of dominant associations. ... The reasoning behind this anticipated variance is that while a son that is named after an absent father could feel a stronger since of identity to the behavior patterns of that absent father molding the psyche of the son in a negative manner, nothing is ever 100% and it is indee...

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Japanese internment in the aftermath of the attack on Pearl Harbor in December of 1941, caused a new sense of ethnic and national identity within the Japanese American community. In Jane Naomi Iwamura's article, "Japanese Americans and the Birth of a New Civil Religion,"" the author argues that: "what has emerged from the collective experience of war and internment is a faith that is tied to no particular religious tradition, but that takes racial-ethnicity identity as its starting point. ... In other words, the author states that the experience of internment and war for the Japanese peop...

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It was during this period that the two parties, although their differences were ameliorated to an extent, moved forward another step in defining their respective party identities. ... In particular, religion was a central to the political identities of politicians. ...

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Such relationships also have the ability to rob them of individuality however, often causing changes in identity after altering personal beliefs and desires in pursuit of the natural human need to belong. ... Connections can force a decision between retaining the things which make up one's identity; their beliefs and desires, or succumbing to the human need to belong, where choosing the former can result in alienation and isolation, however choosing the latter can result in a loss of individuality and sense of self by conforming to the beliefs and desires of others. ...

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Sociologists Candace West and Don Zimmerman argued that gender was less a component of identity -fixed, static- that we take with us into our interactions, but rather the product of those interactions. ... And this might result in the primary association of women's identities and purposes with motherhood. ... Women are being excluded from formal political processes, expelled from the paid workforce, and denied reproductive freedom as their bodies and identities are maternalized . ...

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Most often sexual orientation and gender identity is misunderstood because, I personally taught that both were actually the same, but now I know that sexual orientation refers to what gender one is erotically attracted to while gender identity refers to one's anatomic sex as stated by (Bailey 2003). ...

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Civil society is a zone of freedom for individuals and groups to shape their norms and determine for themselves the internal structure of group authority, purpose and identity. In contrast, the government is a domain of common purpose and identity, characterized by overarching public norms made and enforced by a legal framework and implemented by official institutions. ...

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We are aware that there are a variety of different types of social groups such as gender, sexuality and race; however social class is the main area in division in people, it informs gender, sexuality and race identities. ... Evidently to the theory, self identity as well as behaviors of individuals can be influenced by the terms used to describe them. ... Furthermore, in relation to "performativity" (Butler, 1993) explains performative discourse, whereby the reiterate statement of "she stinks" highlighted within the case study, shapes Christina's identity. ... Within a school institute or...

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By doing this, I will be examining positive and negative effects of factors in society under the field of families and identity. ... All three of the selected thinkers include conflicted identity, disruptive family structure and disorderly cases of childhood. ...

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Cunningham and Flew see the ABC as an attempt to achieve a synthesis of these elements to create a sense of cultural identity (Cunningham and Flew, 2000: 237-240). ... Sartre supports this theory, stating that national identity emerges from international conflict and non-transparent relations as an embodied situated consciousness (Sartre, 1978). ... The resulting impact of these commercial outlets is the creation of a broad based ideology stemming not from individualism but from a mass media mechanism, and as a result, the sense of identity becomes less individual and more closely associated...

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