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Identity. The History of Identity
About this book
Essay from the year 2019 in the subject Philosophy - Miscellaneous, language: English, abstract: The Oxford dictionary defined the theme as the fact of being who or what a person or thing is. In the word of James.D. Fearon, he sees identity as a social category defined by membership rules and alleged characteristic attributes or expected behaviours.In the opinion of Jenkins (1996.4) refers to it as the ways individuals or collectivities are distinguished in their social relationship with other individuals and collectivities. While Deng (1995: 1) sees identity as what is used to describe the way individuals and groups define themselves and are defined by others on the basis of race, ethnicity, religion, language and culture.Also, according to Hogg and Abrams (1988: 2) identity is people's concept of who they are, of what sort of people they are and how they relate to others. It can also be the state or fact of remaining the same one or ones as under varying aspects or conditions.
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