identity |
Working Definition:
The expression of the awareness of being the same agent in the past as one is in the present.
Disciplinary Definitions:
"There is a tension in identity commitment. It is the tension between the individual's needs and proclivities on the one hand and the deaminds of socity on the other . . . Identity is something of a collaboration between the person and the social world" McAdams, The Stories We Live By, 94-95.
"self-concept: the beliefs, desires, values, and attributes that define a person to himself or herself."Kosslyn & Rosenberg, Fundamentals of Pyschology G-11.
Comments:
A Cultural Identity is to be recognized as a member of a culture by the habitual performance of a set of cultural practices associated with that culture.
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June 13, 2007
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