Collective identity

The Construction of Nation Identities Shiyi Chen Arts Department, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada, 64805161 ABSTRACT This discussion paper explores the importance of the construction of a nation’s identity and assumed ways in which this construction can be made. Two possible ways have been suggested: 1) building a brand and associating it with specific sign values, through this gain the support to national identity; 2) localizing foreign brands or products, enriching them with…

Media Shaming, Press Pacification, The Power Elite and Socialization The integration of views of misrepresented communities have been determined in many instances as ways of promoting collective identity in the process of normalizing their experiences within a given setting. However, the kind of globalization that is taking place today works ona different level. On the one hand it supposes that the necessity of promoting diverse views is informed by the idea that people are interacting on a…

birth. Prosocial behaviour, self-identity, and group identity are some aspects of social development. These aspects will be defined and further examined throughout this text to see the importance they each have on an individual’s social development as well as their relation and influence on one another. The first aspect of social development that will be examined is prosocial behaviour. Prosocial behaviour can be defined as helping, sharing, showing…

“Identity” can be seen as a person’s perception of themselves, however, it is becoming more prominent to define “identity” in a social way or how people express themselves based on the demand for acceptance by others. Chris Cunningham, in “To Watch the Faces of the Poor”: Life Magazine and the Mythology of Rural Poverty in the Great Depression”, details the desire for middle-class citizens to be viewed as or compared to “the pioneer” due to the positive reputation given by the media (200).…

would be no one”(Burkitt, 2009 p.190). This is why we have ideas of social selves, suggesting that, the self is centre. Meaning creating a self identity becomes necessary. Giddens argues that, it’s the result of postmodernity. Formerly people were already positioned into categories and ones identity were already determined. “The sources of our identities are no longer stable and secure”(Burkitt, 2009 p). But now we’ve moved away from a term Giddens call; time-space distantiation towards…

Stuart Hall in “Cultural Identity and Diaspora” says that Identity is not as clear or transparent as it appears to be, rather it is problematic (222). In postcolonial context identities can be seen as ever changing phenomenon and they are constantly shifting (10). According to him identities are not transparent and create problems for post-colonial subjects. Instead of thinking about identity as an accomplished fact, one must see identity as a product, which is never accomplished or which is…

core of one’s self is his identity -- his absolute consistency with himself, which “derives its distinction from what it is not” (Bennet, Grossburg, and Morris 173). An inherent faith in the validity of this identity is vital, lest we become vulnerable to descending into an abyss of self-doubt and total nihilism. Yet with the introduction of multicultural society beckoned by modernity, so too entered a phenomenon that systematically undermined the validity of one’s identity. These multicultural…

is based on Social Identity Theory where decision makers tend to group themselves and others or, at least, creating their own social identities of themselves comparative to others and giving positive or negative evaluations to different categories (Dovido & Hebl, 2005; Tajfel, 1982; Tajfel & Turner, 1986). In general, decision makers are consistently rating persons from their own groups higher than people from other groups (Goldberg, 2005). To sustain a positive sense of identity and reduce…

her identity. Another psychologist, Leslie Bell, also studied how people go to extreme lengths to change how people depict an individual’s character based on deemed societal norms. Bell wrote about her findings in an essay “Hard to Get: Twenty-Something Women and the Paradox of Sexual Freedom,” where women, in particular, often suffer from the dictated norms of society in regards to sex.. The women that Bell interview portray their journey of splitting, in essence creating another identity…

football academy are struggling with is social identity. For example, the athletes are performing as individual’s trying to out win one another, from the behavioural observations it states that ‘the football players have been behaving as a bunch of individuals with little sense of belonging to an academy team’ and ‘it appears there is no emotional attachment between football players within the academy team as a whole’. Tajfel (1978) proposed that social identity is ‘part of an individual 's…