A psychological identity relates to self-image (a person's mental model of him or herself), self-esteem, and individuality. An important part of identity in psychology is gender identity, as this dictates to a significant degree how an individual views him or herself both as a person and in relation to other people, ideas and nature. In cognitive psychology, the term "identity" refers to the capacity for self-reflection and the awareness of self.
Sociology places some explanatory weight on the concept of role-behavior. The notion of identity negotiation may arise from the learning of social roles through personal experience. Identity negotiation is a process in which a person negotiates with society at large regarding the meaning of his or her identity.
Psychologists most commonly use the term "identity" to describe personal identity, or the idiosyncratic things that make a person unique. Meanwhile, sociologists often use the term to describe social identity, or the collection of group memberships that define the individual. However, these uses are not proprietary, and each discipline may use either concept and each discipline may combine both concepts when considering a person's identity."
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You can read Arto Mutaten's "About the Notion of Identity" for more information on the idea of identity.
“The notion of identity has been used in many different situations: we have, for example, the notions of national identity, regional identity, professional or vocational identity, personal identity, etc. Identity is an identity of something, and the identity occurs in a concrete environment. The identity consists of natural and cultural properties. Constitution of identity is bridge building between the two kinds of factors. For example, national identity is a construction of natural and cultural factors. The construction is done by human beings. This is a general structure of the notion of identity: identity is human construction.”
-Abstract from author
Academic Search Complete. Web. 2 Mar. 2011.
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“The notion of identity is an extremely central one. Identity helps us relate to things within our environment. Who am I? Who are we? The answers suppose identity in one sense or another. There is a proper need for identity. However, this does not imply that there should be a kind of thing called identity.”
Academic Search Complete. Web. 2 Mar. 2011.
“The identity of one changes with how one perceives reality.”
-Vithu Jeyaloganathan
"Our achievements of today are but the sum total of our thoughts of yesterday. You are today where the thoughts of yesterday have brought you and you will be tomorrow where the thoughts of today take you."
-Blaise Pascal
The idea of identity is an important aspect of my project in multiple ways. For one, your past, your family, etc., is a huge part of who you are as an individual. Those are the things that shape you into a dynamic human being. Your family passes on their ethnicity and language to you, and also raises you in a certain way which shapes how you act and react later in life. This action/reaction process is also caused by your past and experiences. Identity can also be thought of as a visual aspect. For my project, I am dealing with the question of whether or not my specific identity is necessarily important that it is known. Will this make my work more subjective if I am obviously present? And if my identity isn't shown, will others be able to connect with the work and understand it? Well, it could be slightly shown, just distorted.
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