Social Identity
The social identity is an individual self-concept as a member of a social group that influences how this person thinks, acts, feels as well as her self-view and her body-image (Falvo & Holland, 2017, p. 21). When identity mainly grounds on politics a dichotomous mindset rules and the experience of oppression fades away (Talwar, 2018). The political identities are tricky.
The identity expression is versatile. For example, the soccer chants shift from group-reinforcement to group-threatening when one team or another scores (Scheepers et al., 2003). The discrimination inter-groups responds to a desire for cognitive coherence and a need for positive self-esteem (Abrams & Hogg, 1988). We dislike the self-blurriness coming from a hasty game-changing, we abhor the displacement and intuitively identify it with the melancholy of disbelonging.
In my opinion, the goal of the social sciences is empowering us to deal with our place within a very big picture and spans of time that are subsumed in our daily experience. But for making the social sciences humanly understandable is needed to suppose the existence of “managerial identities” among our many identities that gives cohesion to the set, that look both inwards and outwards (Watson, 2008).
We have overlooked the transformative practices able to change the oppression, masochism and guilt social schemes around the politics of identity (Grossberg, 1996). The architecture and natural surroundings partly determines the identity of a person influencing her self-view, shaping its manifestation (Hauge, 2007). Thus, identity can be shattered due to a displacement. Indeed, the forced migration due to the lack of support to local networks resulting from the global financial stakeholders’ unwillingness to change their role as masters of humankind is paramount over any other identity crash (Rawlinson, 2016, pp. 193–194).
In other words, the modern cravings for control, chiefly over the nature, has led to a social fragmentation that makes the contemporary construction of identity both situational and incongruent since our identity has been reduced to profiles and profilicity (D’Ambrosio, 2018). Therefore, Bodi would also advocate for the right to be forgotten like a fundamental one (Abbasi et al., 2017).
The widening income inequality and the impact on indigenous populations also raises questions about the social and cultural dimensions of human identity. Additionally, the displacement caused by policies and decisions made about our cities and sexuality highlight the role of social structures and power dynamics in shaping our identity. Therefore, we’ll reflect now on the ways in which technological progress, social structures, and cultural traditions shape our understanding of human identity.