As you read through the entries, it will be helpful for you to know how to use the Reader's Guide. In fact, you may choose to browse the terms simply by browsing the categories within the Reader's Guide. The Reader's Guide is provided to assist readers in locating articles on related topics. It classifies articles into 15 general topical categories: Art; Class; Culture, Ethnicity, and Race; Developing Identities; Gender, Sex, and Sexuality; Identities in Conflict; Language and Discourse; Living Ethically; Media and Popular Culture; Nationality; Protecting Identity; Relating Across Cultures; Religion; Representations of Identity; and Theories of Identity. Entries may be listed under more than one topic. So, for example, if you are interested in how identities are protected, you would go to the “Protecting Identity” section in the Reader's Guide and then look at the list of headwords that fall within that category. You will see entries such as Agency, Deviance, Face/Facework, Race Performance, Role Identity, Self-Consciousness, and Self-Construal. Then, if you select one—for example, Face/Facework—you can then search for that entry and read a detailed description of what the term means, how it relates to the category, and how it is related to identity.

• Art

• Aesthetics
• Architecture, Sites, and Spaces
• Artistic Development and Cognition
• Bricolage
• Children's Art
• Confessional Art
• Human Figure, The
• Modern Art
• Modernity and Postmodernity
• Photographic Truth
• Renaissance Art
• Self-Image
• Self-Portraits
• Setting
• Simulacra
• Social Realism
• Visualizing Desire

• Class

• Absolute Poverty
• Anomie
• Class
• Class Identity
• Complex Inequality
• Consumption
• Cultural Capital
• Globalization
• Hegemony
• Immigration
• Material Culture
• Social Stratification Theory
• Status
• Third World
• World Systems Theory

• Culture, Ethnicity, and Race

• Agency
• Biracial Identity
• Class
• Class Identity
• Code-Switching
• Complex Inequality
• Critical Race Theory
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• 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
• Whiteness Studies
• White Racial Identity
• 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

• Bisexual/Bicurious
• Difference/Différance
• Embodiment and Body Politics
• Gay
• Gaze
• Gender
• Ideal Body, The
• Identity Politics
• Performativity of Gender
• Queer Theory
• Scopophilia
• Sexual Identity
• Sexual Minorities
• Velvet Mafia
• Visuality
• Visualizing Desire
• Voice
• Voyeurism
• Womanism

• Identities in Conflict

• Accommodation
• Acculturation
• Adaptation
• Bilingualism
• Biracial Identity
• Clan Identity
• Conflict
• Corporate Identity
• Cultural Contracts Theory
• Culture Shock
• Double Consciousness
• Identification
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• 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

• Antiracism
• Corrosion of Character
• Cosmopolitanism
• Ethical and Cultural Relativism
• Ethics of Identity
• Eugenicism
• Humanitarianism
• Identity and Reason
• Identity Politics
• Liberation Theology
• Myths
• Narratives
• Neoliberalism
• Postliberalism
• Social Movements
• Terror Management Theory
• Xenophobia
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• 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

• Agency
• Deviance
• Face/Facework
• Ontological Insecurity
• Personality/Individual Differences
• Psychology of Self and Identity
• Race Performance
• Role Identity
• Self-Consciousness
• Self-Construal

• Relating across Cultures

• Bilingualism
• Code-Switching
• Double Consciousness
• Ethical and Cultural Relativism
• Global Village
• Immediacy
• Impression Management
• I-Other Dialectic
• Multiculturalism
• Nomadology
• Pluralism
• Political Psychology

• Religion

• Fundamentalism
• Liberation Theology
• Modernity and Postmodernity
• Mythologies
• Pragmatics
• Religious Identity
• Rituals
• Secular Identity
• Syncretism
• Transcendentalism
• Values

• 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
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• 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