Social identity

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…

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…

The effects of his social environment can be traced to a few years before adolescence. The first eight year of the individual’s life serve as the foundation for all incoming development; early notice of the needs of the child is important (Evans, 2000, p.16). Those years also act as the stepping stones of the teen’s interests and his social interaction skills. The frequency of social interaction is also linked to other factors. Evans (2000) clarified…

“A Perfect Day for a Bananafish” and The Catcher in the Rye were two of his pieces that would forever modify humanity’s approach on the social norms and expectations when the book was published in 1951. In Salinger's literature, particularly “The Catcher in the Rye” and “A Perfect Day for Bananafish”, feature characters that mirror each other, and himself, due to his views on materialism…

Identity is what makes someone themselves. Someone’s past can shape their identity. People can define themselves by what they like, what they wear, or what they like to do in their free time. All of those things make up someone's identity. I am musical, strong-willed, and Creative. I’d like to think I’m very musically inclined. Music has always been a passion of mine. I know how to play about six different instruments. Some of them are very closely related such as the trumpet and cornet. I…

opinion, thought, knowledge, or belief makes a person unique. Having a different perspective from another individual makes a person unique. Our character and personality is based off of our beliefs and personal choices. Our knowledge is part of our identity. All of these intangible aspects define a person. For example, Walt Disney’s creativity and imagination was often overlooked by many because his ideas were far different from others and frankly considered abnormal at the time. Today, his…

Locke’s central thesis was that personal identity consists, not in sameness of substance, but in ‘sameness of consciousness’(Shoemaker on the Memory Theory). When something psychological like soul, memory and something immaterial etc. are assumed to account for persistence through time, which is the numerical identity between objects at different times(Seymour, Lecture 4/4), they are categorized as the non-physical accounts. In Locke’s view, consciousness was used as a synonym of memory…

Cultural Identity is something that makes people who they are; it can deeply affect how you see the world because it shapes how you perceive new things. And as a child, many people do not realize the impact observed actions can have on someone when forming cultural identity. How a person grows up can really change who they are as a person, due to the great influence that parents and caregivers have on the children in their early years. Not only that but, when a child is exposed to a new…

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…

The Identity of An Immigrant’s Child As people transition from childhood to adulthood, their self identity is gained through their careers, achievements, religion etc. Although, it’s not so easy to just simply find your identity. It is said that most teenagers go through an identity crisis on their journey to find their identity. This is true. However, I believe it can be more difficult for immigrant teenagers or even teenager with immigrant parents. The children of immigrant parents have…