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Name Institution Professor Course Date How Does Paid Employment Affect a Person's identity?... Introduction The identity of people is more often than not shaped by the kind of career they engage in.... identity is a distinctive feature of a person or a group of people that set him or them apart from others.... Personal identity entails individuality, self esteem and self image.... The personal identity that a person creates about himself affects many aspects of his life....
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They develop low self esteem which has a very negative impact on an individual coexistent in a group.... All this depends on the magnitude and impact of the aggression on an individual and on the entire group (Averill 2002, p.... he relative deprivation is the discouraging feeling which emerge as a result the excising gap between what an individual have and what he expect (Lain 2002, p.... Groups formed on psychological perception have a shared identity and are delegated the responsibility of meeting certain affiliation needs....
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an individual's personal identity is perhaps an image of who he/she really is with all the personal attributes that one possesses to personal preferences which eventually shapes our professional behavior as we step into our professional lives.... It is very important for an individual to know, express, develop and integrate personal and professional lives.... The paper "Individual identity as Social Science and Psychology" describes that Professional behavior can also be understood by the notion of identity itself because our identity which also provides us with the uniqueness and differentiation from the other person is responsible for everything....
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The concept of identity has been a subject of intense debate and speculation perhaps since the dawn of civilization.... ociological imagination is the way in which we stratify ourselves within our society and plays a large role in how we create our own identity.... Similarly, gender is a learned identification with a particular biological sex - male or female - while sexuality refers to the way in which people organize their world based on sexual identity....
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Identity and personality are two different aspects of an individual.... The essay "Uncertainty of identity in Contemporary Society" discusses the dilemma of a person's identity and evaluates the increasing uncertainty about identity in contemporary society.... identity requires active engagement in his/her part.... The way one speaks and dresses, the way one interacts with others shapes the identity as a similarity, which is of the people like one, and by difference, of those who are not....
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opeau (1998) has highlighted how identities can be shaped by race and ethnicity, which has been viewed as a means to promote geographical cohesion, where identity is shaped by ethnicity and serves to differentiate an individual from other groups.... This essay "identity as a Relational and Incomplete Entity" is about how identity formation in western cultures has been influenced by the policy of imperialism and how the legacy of imperialism has led to a tendency to ignore the ethnic elements of a minority culture....
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he politics and political consciousness of an individual are some of the most important details in the mechanism of forming national identity.... The paper "National identity Construction in Everyday Life" describes that national identity is a complex mechanism that is affected by different factors every day.... Americans created their national identity almost without war as well as the British.... War as a tool of creating an original and self-sufficient national identity has a great example in Nazi Germany....
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3) formed based on a given criterion to establish how group membership influences an individual's behavior towards certain issues or situation thereby creating a social identity for themselves.... From the paper "The Social identity Theory and School Bullying" it is clear that students accept bullying as a norm of action when their group or network of friends set it as the group's norm; hence they align their behaviors to bullying to be socially acceptable to their groups....
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