Identity
From The Art and Popular Culture Encyclopedia
"I want to be different, just like my friends." "I shop therefore I am" --Barbara Kruger "I want to be different, like everybody else I want to be like. I want to be just like all the different people. I have no further interest in being the same, because I have seen difference all around, and now I know that that's what I want. I don't want to blend in and be indistinguishable. I want to be part of the different crowd, and assert my individuality along with others who are different like me."--"It's Saturday" (1992) by King Missile |
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Identity is the sameness some individuals share to make up the same kind or universal; or paradoxically, the difference or character that marks off an individual from the rest of the same kind, selfhood and a name or persona—the mask or appearance one presents to the world—by which one is known.
Identity may refer to:
Philosophical topics
- Identity (philosophy), also called sameness, is whatever makes an entity definable and recognizable
- Law of identity, principle of logic stating that an object is the same as itself
- Personal identity (philosophy), the numerical identity (continuity of existence) of persons through time
Personal conception and expression
- Gender identity, also known as core gender identity, the gender(s) or lack thereof, that a person self-identifies
- Identity formation, the process of the development of the distinct personality of an individual
- Identity (social science), individuality, personal identity, social identity, and cultural identity in psychology, sociology, and philosophy
- Persona, a social role or a character played by an actor with oneself
- Sexual orientation identity, how people identify their own sexuality
Specifications of persons
- Identity change
- Identity document
- Identity theft, the deliberate appropriation of someone else's identity (without that person's permission) for criminal purposes
- Personally identifiable information
Group expression and affiliation
- Christian Identity, a Christian religious movement
- Cultural identity, person's self-affiliation (or categorization by others) as a member of a cultural group
- Identity politics, political arguments that focus upon the self-interest and perspectives of self-identified social interest groups or minorities
- National identity, belief in membership of a nation
Computer science
- Digital identity, representation of a set of claims made by one digital subject about itself or another digital subject
- Federated identity, assembled identity of a person's user information, stored across multiple distinct identity management systems
- Online identity, social identity that an internet user establishes in online communities and websites
Etymology
From Middle French identité, from Latin idem (“the same”). See identical and idem.
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