Erick Erickson Definition Of Identity Essay

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The term identity is a contested and unclear term, the term existed since the Roman and Greek civilization. In fact the term had several connotations: in philosophy the term identify from Latin: identitas ("sameness"), is the relation each thing bears just to itself, in philosophy the word identity was used to refer to classify entities that had the same characteristic in a way that x=y. The Law of identity originates from classical antiquity. The modern formulation of identity is that of Gottfried Leibniz, who held that x is the same as y if and only if every predicate true of x is true of y as well. It is important to distinguish the philosophical concept of identity from the more well-known notion of identity in use in psychology

Indeed nowadays definition of identity is derived from Erick Erickson’s concept of an “identity crisis”. The word identity is used today have two distinct but intertwined meanings: social and personal. The personal identity refers more to dignity, honor and pride. Whereas social identity refers to a social category, a group of people designed by a label or labels that is commonly used by the designed people, others or both. This is the sense employed when we refer to

The social categories have two distinguishing features: the first one is the implicit or explicit “rules of membership and the second is the characteristics of a person (beliefs, moral commitment or physical attribute.) In other words, the social categories are socially constructed and encompass role identities (mother, father, doctor etc...) as well as type identities as national, ethnic and religious identities.. One of the earliest statements of social identity was made by Kurt Lewin, who emphasized that individuals need a firm sense of group identification in order to maintain a sense of