Identity management

A personal identity is something that defines a person and is developed throughout the course of their life. It is made up of the essential and unique characteristics which defines you and includes both aspects of your life which you have control over such as what your interests are and what you do during your spare time, as well as factors which you have no control over for example your physical characteristics and where you grew up. Digital Identity is the technological equivalent of Personal…

Identity Development in different life stages Abstract: This article is going to discuss the identity development the lifetime. Based on the Erik Erikson’s theory (1950), the psychosocial development has eight stages including infancy, early childhood, play age, school age, adolescence, young adult, adult hood and maturity. There are psychosocial crisis in each stage, which are trust and mistrust, autonomy and shame, initiative and guilt, industry and inferiority, ego identity and role…

religion, food, social propensities, music, and art, it's also a shared patterns of practices and interactions, psychological feature constructs, and understanding that is learned by socialization. thus, it is viewed as the development of a group identity encouraged by social patterns that are particular to the gathering. cultural encounters are collaborations between at least two people that operating according to totally different social norms.Generally, we expect a cultural encounter within…

Acquired knowledge can be categorised into 2 types: personal knowledge and shared knowledge. The former refers to knowledge held by an individual and is not universally acknowledged. The latter refers to knowledge shared among a group, and that knowledge is largely the same for every member of that group. Although there may be slight differences in shared knowledge for individual members, knowledge can be classified as shared knowledge if if it is easily shared. However, every individual within…

Identity is a socially constructed concept. We learn about our own respective identity and the identity of others through interactions with family, peers, organisations, institutions, the media and through other connections we make in everyday life. Identity is the beliefs, qualities, personality, appearance and culture that make a person who they are. Identity relates to self image, self esteem and individuality. Personal identity evolves over the course of our lives and may involve aspects of…

it is called “Identity vs Confusion” and is the stage which adolescents go through (Swartz et al., 2011). Through the use of examples of the struggles faced by South African adolescents as well as the discussion of skills and the values necessary to solve an Identity crisis, this essay will demonstrate how stage five can be related to challenges faced in one’s life.…

The teenage period is a defining moment for any individual. People in this stage are referred to as teenagers or adolescents. The term adolescent is also interchangeably used with teenager because the term adolescent refers to the first years of the teenage life. Adolescence may even last until the final years of teenage life depending on the individual. During this period, the individual undergoes a variety of changes in his life. The changes are caused by the activation of the teen’s hormones.…

What does affect your role in a social group? Your skills, knowledge, abilities or strength (physical or moral)? Are you sure that you will have the same social place with different people? It seems that we choose how we behave among our countrymen, but it is not. First and foremost, it all depends on the conditions in which the group is. Consider one of the most interesting and controversial experiments in psychology and sociology . Didier Desor conducted a study on the behavior of rats…

themselves and live within the context of their identity, race, class and culture. Social inequalities experienced by the African American race was due to the sign of hopelessness shown because of the social class they were born to, as well as, the way they were raised. Due to the lack of job opportunities and education, families in urban communities suffer because it creates tension. In Dorothy Allison’s essay, “A Question of Class,” she explores her identity by focusing on her experiences as…

psychologist and is best known for developing the concept of identity crisis. His greatest innovation was when he set up the eight stages of development; that shape personality and experiences throughout childhood to adulthood. He believed that one must pass through one stage before entering the next stage. The eight stages are: Trust vs. Mistrust, Autonomy vs. Shame & Doubt, Initiative vs. Guilt, Industry vs. Inferiority, Identity vs. Role Confusion, Intimacy vs. Isolation, Generativity vs.…