Finding My Identity PSY201-01 Human Growth and Behavior Professor Daniel R. Kleber November 30‚ 2011 Finding my Identity James Marcia’s theories of identity status along with Erik Erikson’s identity vs. identity confusion both coincide with periods in my adolescence and middle adulthood life. “Marcia’s theory of identity achievement argues that two distinct parts of an adolescent identity: crisis (i.e. a time when one’s values and choices are being reevaluated)
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The identity we assume can often be a large part of how we see ourselves and how others around us can get a snapshot of our personalities‚ our origins‚ and how we wish to be portrayed. Sometimes the line between distinct identities can be blurred and a person can lose sight of who they are or where they feel like they belong most. Such can often be the case for immigrants as myself‚ who can sometimes struggle to find the identity that addresses the new life they have molded into and most represents
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My Identity as a writer has developed and grown throughout the Language and Literacy for Teachers unit through acquiring further knowledge of the processes of written composition. This knowledge has come from the readings given in the unit but also from the weekly writing tasks in the Writer’s Journal. The Writer’s Journal has given me the opportunity to explore my creativity in writing and become familiar with different forms of text and their composition‚ forming my identity as a learner-writer
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2015 The Real Me My personality is what makes me who I am today. Although I may have some weaknesses in my personality‚ I am basically the upbeat type. I try to be as happy as I can most of the time. Everyone cannot please each other but if everyone pleases everybody and are cheerful most of the time. My ethnicity‚ my location‚ sports‚ and my ambitions for the future have shaped my identity. My personality and being a Christian were affected by my adoptive parents. My father is a disciplinarian
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Defining my own cultural identity by Stefanie Öttl Culture is one of the most difficult concepts in the human social sciences and there are many different ways of defining it. It is often argued that culture is a learned behaviour pattern shared by a specific group of people. Culture is about shared meanings‚ and language is the privileged medium in which meaning is produced and exchanged. People sharing one culture interpret the world in roughly the same way. Defining my own cultural identity seems
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Labels and Comparisons: My Social Identity In order to explore our identities regarding class‚ race‚ gender‚ religion‚ and other aspects of human life‚ we must look at the ideas that make up social identity. Social identity consists of four elements: Categorization‚ or attaching labels to people; Identification‚ which refers to associating oneself to certain groups; Comparison‚ or viewing other groups differently from our own; and Psychological Distinctiveness - we each want to be different from
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Philip Van Eick ENG 101 Section 3 Professor Sobel “My Hyphenated Identity” 9.25.2013 My Dutch-Indonesian Life I consider my hyphenated identity to be an important part of who I am‚ which is Dutch-Indonesian. This is a distinct group of people from the islands of Indonesia‚ situated across the equator. Although the Portuguese were the first Europeans to arrive in the area‚ the Dutch settled and stayed in Indonesia for roughly 300 years. The Dutch were there a long time and created a unique
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My way of defining culture is something that makes up your background or something that shapes you. The times of my life have been good and sometimes bad‚ so that’s how my cultural identity is made up. I have multiple things that makes up my cultural identity‚ but here’s a few I’ll tell you about. My cultural identity mainly revolves around Food‚Clothing & Music. Boy boy boy don’t I like getting new clothes and trying on new things well shopping is another thing that makes up the way I am I enjoy
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Daniel Clark CHI4930.006 10/10/2011 Ancient food Traditions and Ethnic identity in the South of China A wide range of cultural factors are influential in the building of a people’s ethnic identity. Among the more publicized subjects related to ethnic identity in China‚ are political‚ religious‚ and economic topics. Still other subjects are related to issues of territorial independence or succession from China proper. Study in these areas has been relatively extensive and thorough due in part
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attending Vacation Bible School every summer only to have a Bat Mitzvah when you turn thirteen. These contrasting ways of life are my normal. My mom‚ born in 1957‚ was raised in a small town in northern Minnesota. My dad‚ on the other hand‚ was born in 1938 in what is now Israel. While my mom grew up as a devout Christian living a typical suburban life in the Midwest‚ my dad grew up speaking Hebrew‚ practicing Judaism‚ and hiding in bomb shelters during World War II. This might explain why it’s been
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