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Being and Identity
The notion of being is principally related to the here and now, but it is philosophically linked to meanings human beings attach to existence. In other words, the way we behave and act in the world are not by happenstance. We are taught how to be. We are imbued with meanings and interpretations that may not predetermine our lives but certainly affect how we interpret our place and selves in the world. This undeniably influences identities, because our ignorance or awareness of being suggests something ...
- Art
- Class
- Culture, Ethnicity, and Race
- Agency
- Biracial Identity
- Class
- Class Identity
- Code-Switching
- Complex Inequality
- Critical Race Theory
- Culture
- Culture, Ethnicity, and Race
- Diaspora
- Dimensions of Cultural Variability
- Diversity
- Ethnicity
- Group Identity
- Hegemony
- Race Performance
- Racial Contracts
- Racial Disloyalty
- Society and Social Identity
- Status
- White Racial Identity
- Whiteness Studies
- Xenophobia
- Developing Identities
- Age
- Being and Identity
- Consciousness
- Deindividuation
- Development of Identity
- Development of Self-Concept
- Evolutionary Psychology
- Extraordinary Bodies
- Generation X and Generation Y
- Habitus
- Hybridity
- Id, Ego, and Superego
- Individual
- Individual Autonomy
- Individuation
- Intersubjectivity
- Mind-Body Problem
- Nigrescence
- Person
- Personal Identity versus Self-Identity
- Philosophy of Organization and Identity
- Reflexive Self or Reflexivity
- Saturated Identity
- Self
- Self-Affirmation Theory
- Self-Assessment
- Self-Concept
- Self-Discrepancy Theory
- Self-Efficacy
- Self-Enhancement Theory
- Self-Esteem
- Self-Image
- Self-Monitoring
- Self-Perception Theory
- Self-Portraits
- Self-Presentation
- Self-Schema
- Self-Verification
- Socialization
- Theory of Mind
- Gender, Sex, and Sexuality
- Identities in Conflict
- Accommodation
- Acculturation
- Adaptation
- Bilingualism
- Biracial Identity
- Clan Identity
- Conflict
- Corporate Identity
- Cultural Contracts Theory
- Culture Shock
- Double Consciousness
- Identification
- Identity Change
- Identity Diffusion
- Identity Negotiation
- Identity Salience
- Identity Uncertainty
- Intercultural Personhood
- Mindfulness
- Mobilities
- Modernity and Postmodernity
- Passing
- Perceptual Filtering
- Philosophy of Mind
- Simulacra
- Language and Discourse
- Ascribed Identity
- Avowal
- Brachyology
- Colonialism
- Deconstruction
- Dialect
- Discourse
- English as a Second Language (ESL)
- Ethnicity
- Etic/Emic
- Figures of Speech
- Forms of Address
- Framing
- Hermeneutics
- Hyperreality and Simulation
- Idiomatic Expressions
- Intonation
- Invariant Be
- Labeling
- Language
- Language Development
- Language Loss
- Language Variety in Literature
- Narratives
- Phonological Elements of Identity
- Pidgin/Creole
- Profanity and Slang
- Public Sphere
- Rhetoric
- Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis
- Satire
- Semantics
- Semiotics
- Signification
- Structuration
- Style/Diction
- Symbolism
- Tag Question
- Trickster Figure
- Living Ethically
- Media and Popular Culture
- Articulation Theory
- Consciousness
- Consumption
- Critical Theory
- Cultural Capital
- Cultural Studies
- Embeddedness/Embedded Identity
- Framing
- Frankfurt School
- Globalization
- Material Culture
- Media Studies
- Mediation
- Propaganda
- Social Capital
- Society of the Spectacle
- Spectacle and the Self
- Stock Character
- Surveillance and the Panopticon
- Technology
- Values
- Visual Culture
- Visual Pleasure
- Nationality
- Citizenship
- Civic Identity
- Clan Identity
- Collective/Social Identity
- Collectivism/Individualism
- Culture
- Diaspora
- First Nations
- Historicity
- Identity and Democracy
- Immigration
- Memory
- Nationalism
- Patriotism
- Philosophical History of Identity
- Political Identity
- Sovereignty
- State Identity
- Terrorism
- Third World
- Transnationalism
- Transworld Identity
- War
- Worldview
- Protecting Identity
- Relating across Cultures
- Religion
- Representations of Identity
- Archetype
- Attribution
- Authenticity
- Basking in Reflected Glory
- Bricolage
- Commodity Self
- Critical Realism
- Cultural Representation
- Desire and the Looking-Glass Self
- Existentialist Identity Questions
- Extraordinary Bodies
- Hyperreality and Simulation
- Identification
- Identity Politics
- Intertextuality
- Looking-Glass Self
- Masking
- Material Culture
- Mimesis
- Minstrelsy
- Orientalism
- Other, The
- Philosophy of Organization and Identity
- Race Performance
- Self-Presentation
- Social Constructionist Approach to Personal Identity
- Social Constructivist Approach to Political Identity
- Stereotypes
- Subjectivity
- Theories of Identity
- Afrocentricity
- Articulation Theory
- Asiacentricity
- Black Atlantic
- Cognitive Dissonance Theory
- Communication Competence
- Communication Theory of Identity
- Contact Hypothesis
- Corporate Identity
- Critical Race Theory
- Critical Realism
- Critical Theory
- Cultivation Theory
- Cultural Contracts Theory
- Enryo-Sasshi Theory
- Ethnolinguistic Identity Theory
- Eurocentricity
- Global Village
- Identity Scripts
- Immediacy
- Interaction Order
- Mirror Stage of Identity Development
- Modernity and Postmodernity
- Optimal Distinctiveness Theory
- Organizational Identity
- Otherness, History of
- Persistence, Termination, and Memory
- Phenomenology
- Philosophy of Identity
- Political Economy
- Postliberalism
- Pragmatics
- Public Sphere
- Racial Contracts
- Regulatory Focus Theory
- Social Comparison Theory
- Social Economy
- Social Identity Theory
- Sociometer Hypothesis
- Symbolic Interactionism
- Terror Management Theory
- Theory of Mind
- Third Culture Building
- Uncertainty Avoidance
- World Systems Theory
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