What is identity ?
The fact of being who or what a person or thing is.
Identity is the set of qualities, beliefs, personality traits, appearance, and/or expressions that characterize a person or a group. Identity emerges during childhood as children start to comprehend their self-concept, and it remains a consistent aspect throughout different stages of life.
What is femininity ?
qualities or attributes regarded as characteristic of women or girls.
Femininity, in the context of the Social Sciences, refers to a socializing ideology that encompasses various interpretations and expressions of being a woman. It is not a fixed set of essential traits, but rather a concept that defines and organizes gender-related practices and relationships.
what is masculinity ?
qualities or attributes regarded as characteristic of men or boys.
Masculinity involves displaying attitudes and behaviours that signify and validate maleness, and involves being recognised in particular ways by other men and women.
Gender Identity
Gender identity is your deeply-held inner feelings of whether you’re female or male, both, or neither.
Cultural Identity
Your cultural identity is a critical piece of your personal identity that develops as you absorb, interpret, and adopt or reject the beliefs, values, behaviours, and norms of the communities in your life. Our cultural identity can evolve, as culture is ever-evolving and dynamic.
Social Identity
Social identity refers to the ways that people’s self-concepts are based on their membership in social groups. Examples include sports teams, religions, nationalities, occupations, sexual orientation, ethnic groups, and gender.
Geographical Identity
An individual or group’s sense of attachment to the country, region, city, or village in which they live.
Political Identity
Political identity is a form of social identity marking membership of certain groups that share a common struggle for a certain form of power. This can include identification with a political party, but also positions on specific political issues, nationalism, inter-ethnic relations or more abstract ideological themes
loss of Identity
A lack of self belief. Questioning value and worth – who am I without this job, role, title? Feeling lost without a sense of direction. Disconnected to personal values
Stereotypes
Stereotypes are characteristics that society instinctively attributes to groups of people to classify them according to age, weight, occupation, skin colour, gender, etc. Sexual stereotyping involves associating girls and boys with separate and, at times, opposing sets of characteristics.