Essays on Individual Identity

A social expectation is a disguised social standard for societies as a whole, about what individuals ought to do. It works on two unique levels—first on specific family or cultural gatherings and second on the overall population. Good evening Mr. Siddique and classmates today I…

Some scholars argue that African communitarianism does not do justice to individuality. Critically discuss this claim. What is communitarianism? According to the Oxford English Dictionary, Communitarianism is an ideology which emphasizes the responsibility of the individual to the community and the social importance of the…

The world is constantly changing and there is nothing one can do about it. Literature changes along with the rest of the world. Writers and artists dedicate what they do to show us what the world was like at a certain point in the world…

The act of remembrance is strategically used to explain a group’s past and to transform it into a reliable collective identity for the group’s present. In his foundational work, Realms of Memory, Pierre Nora defines memory as “subject to the dialectic of remembering and forgetting”…

A subculture is a group of individuals with the same interests that oppose social norms in society. it is a culture division within a larger culture with separate values and practices unique to them. They identify themselves semiotically, behaviourally and ideologically. Subcultures can have an…

Self-identity is a topic that many of us think we have mastered, but, in the real sense, we haven’t. Through exploring several studies, psychologist Tasha Eurich discovers that approximately 95 percent of people think they are self-aware, but only 10-15 percent of them truly are….

Introduction The aim of this essay is to address the existing conflict of racial discrimination, the reasoning behind why people of a certain race feels more privileged than the others, racial superiority and discussing it thoroughly backed up by Realistic Conflict Theory and Social Identity…

Everyone has multiple identities. Someone can be a parent, sibling, child, and friend, while at the same time they can be a customer, coach, coworker, and student. That same day, they can be someone cheering on a sports team or music team, or someone participating…

In the current societal landscape what does it mean to be an individual? Does society even allow its people to be and do whatever they want to do? All their lives people are taught about what not to do and what is “Right,” but is…

In these articles the theme of biological identity is portrayed as the driving force to social identity. We can see that these articles show how gender identity is defined by the physiological factors of a person in relation to social cultural norms, but not taking…