What influences shape your identity?

Identity formation and evolution are impacted by a variety of internal and external factors like society, family, loved ones, ethnicity, race, culture, location, opportunities, media, interests, appearance, self-expression and life experiences.

What are examples of cultural identities?

Race, gender, sexuality, and ability are socially constructed cultural identities that developed over time in relation to historical, social, and political contexts. Race, gender, sexuality, and ability are cultural identities that affect our communication and our relationships.

What of the following shapes a person’s identity?

People’s personal identity can be shaped in many different ways. Three factors that are important in shaping one’s personal identity include, but are not limited to, their culture, their memories, and their societal labels. Memories are almost as important in shaping a person’s identity as their culture.

What forms a person’s identity?

Identity is the qualities, beliefs, personality, looks and/or expressions that make a person (self-identity as emphasized in psychology) or group (collective identity as pre-eminent in sociology). A psychological identity relates to self-image (one’s mental model of oneself), self-esteem, and individuality.

How is identity related to culture?

Culture is a defining feature of a person’s identity, contributing to how they see themselves and the groups with which they identify. A person’s understanding of their own and other’s identities develops from birth and is shaped by the values and attitudes prevalent at home and in the surrounding community.

What parts of your identity are determined by others?

Our identity includes our looks, personality, beliefs and fears. Each individual in society assigns themselves a particular role, whether it be as a mother, brother, retiree, performer, sportsman or as a part of their occupation, a doctor or lawyer.

How do we understand our own cultural identity?

A person’s understanding of their own cultural identity develops from birth and is shaped by the values and attitudes prevalent at home and the surrounding, noting that the cultural identity, in its essence, relates to our need to belong.

What is the nature of individual identity?

Individuals possess a dynamic nature and are in constant interaction with their community. A person’s understanding of their own cultural identity develops from birth and is shaped by the values and attitudes prevalent at home and the surrounding, noting that the cultural identity, in its essence, relates to our need to belong.

What is the role of symbols in identity formation?

Symbols play a pivotal role in how we form an identity. This relates similarly to language in that our language is simply a combined set of symbols that represent the letters and words of our ancestors. This helps to characterize how we relate information to the world and how information is given to us.

What is the role of choices in identity formation?

They contribute to changing or adding up to our identities and the identities of those who we relate to. By “choosing oneself among possibilities”, as Sartre said, we reveal who we are through every choice we make; and with every choice we make, we reshape our identities.