Quotes About Social Identity

#1. Our physical identity or what I may call the social identity is the most interesting.

Gian Kumar

#2. Without social identity, there is, in fact, no society.

Richard Jenkins

#3. When I watch animals, I realize I am watching individual with lives that matter, to them. It isn't just another chicken or another mouse. She is that particular hen, autonomous and unique. He is that particular mouse with a unique life and social identity.

Jonathan Balcombe

#4. The act of claiming an identity can be transformational. It can provide healing and empowerment. It can weld solidarity within a community. And, perhaps most importantly, it can diminish power from an oppressor, a dominant group.

Simon Tam

#5. Cyberspace or the Abyss of social media has no hiding place that technology cannot find anyone who seeks to hide their identity... so be careful what you say it may hunt and haunt you forever in the real world.

Don A. Holbrook

#6. I cannot see that keeping the status quo intact would help in any way to solve the problems of inequality or suffering in this world. I would go for taking action towards change instead of accepting the inevitable.

Elina Juusola

#7. Social Security Number Cards by themselves were never intended to be personal identity documents because they cannot confirm that a person presenting a card is actually the person whose name appears on the card.

Ron Lewis

#8. The greatest religious problem today is how to be both a mystic and a militant; in other words how to combine the search for an expansion of inner awareness with effective social action, and how to feel one's true identity in both.

Ursula K. Le Guin

#9. If your trashcan or wheelbarrow has dent in it, you don't buy a new one. Maybe that's because we don't use trashcans and wheelbarrows to communicate our social status or identity to others.

Randy Pausch

#10. The easiest way to obtain an updated version of a candidate's CV is via SocialMedia

Bernard Kelvin Clive

#11. Theatre, in which actors take on changing roles, has among its many functions the examination of identity. For the individual, theatre is a kind of identity laboratory in which social roles can be examined vicariously.

Richard Hornby

#12. All personal, psychological, social, and institutionalized domination on this earth can be traced back to its source: the phallic identities of men.

Andrea Dworkin

#13. From a young age, I was rubbing elbows with a very different kind of person and social class, and I felt a lot of tension and conflict in my identity because of that.

David Lindsay-Abaire

#14. But even with respect to the most insignificant things in life, none of us constitutes a material whole, identical for everyone, which a person has only to go look up as though we were a book of specifications or a last testament; our social personality is a creation of the minds of others.

Marcel Proust

#15. Kids don't care about rock and roll as much as they used to, as the other generations have. It's already turned into nothing but a fashion statement and an identity for kids to use as a tool for them to fuck and have a social life.

Kurt Cobain

#16. It is place, permanent position in both the social and topographical sense, that gives us our identity.

J. B. Jackson

#17. Bodies are not only biological phenomena but also complex social creations onto which meanings have been variously composed and imposed according to time and space.

Katrina Karkazis

#18. The woman who thinks she can choose femininity, can toy with it like the social drinker toys with wine - well, she's asking for it, asking to be undone, devoured, asking to spend her life perpetrating a new fraud, manufacturing a new fake identity, only this time it's her equality that's fake.

Rachel Cusk

#19. Social scientists sometimes talk about the concept of "identity". It is the idea that you have a particular vision of the kind of person you are, and you feel awful when you do things that are out of line with that vision.

Steven D. Levitt

#20. Their monstrous forms represent the perverse defiance of normal categories and the confusion of identity associated with social and cosmic disorder.

Karen Armstrong

#21. Now I existed solely thanks to the quantum paradox, my brain a collection of qubits in quantum superposition, encoding truths and memories, imagination and irrationality in opposing, contradictory states that existed and didn't exist, all at the same time.

Robin Wasserman

#22. Our sense of being a person can come from being drawn into a wide social unit; our sense of selfhood can arise through the little ways in which we resist the pull. Our status is backed by the solid buildings of the world, while our sense of personal identity often resides in the cracks

Erving Goffman

#23. Facebook is the perfect place to try on different identities until she finds one that sticks.

Brooke Hauser

#24. Teenagers make it clear that games, worlds, and social networking (on the surface, rather different) have much in common. They all ask you to compose and project an identity.

Sherry Turkle

#25. Online life is practice to make the rest of life better, but it is also a pleasure in itself.

Sherry Turkle

#26. All ideas about identity, of course, fit perfectly into the social media wonderland we live in. They seem to really connect. There's a science-fiction aspect to our contemporary life. What's virtual, what's real ...

Vijay Seshadri

#27. We were very poor and my family lost everything during the war - our home and our identity. But I'm a believer in luck and think the social conditions you're born into provide the opportunity for you to prove your luck. And I suppose I've been lucky.

Sigmar Polke

#28. I've always been interested in the social conflict of my age, my own time, as well as the result of positive and negative of social change, and the ongoing quest we all have, from the cradle to the grave, for identity.

Stephanie Rothman

#29. An external locus of identity is unhealthy and yet the very thing that social media encourages in those with low self-esteem.

Sam Owen

#30. Because he thinks Facebook is the lowest common denominator of social discourse. Though he does like to talk about social media as a vehicle for constructing and performing identity. Whatever the hell that means.

Becky Albertalli

#31. Despite all of the social advances in women's rights and the push for gender equality in the workplace, it seems like modern men still want a woman that they can take care of at home.

Shannon Mullen

#32. Mr. Speaker, Americans want, need, and rightfully expect Congress to protect them from the prying eyes of identity thieves and give them back control of their Social Security numbers and personal health information.

Luis Gutierrez

#33. In the social jungle of human existence, there is no feeling of being alive without a sense of identity.

Erik Erikson

#34. I think that people post to social media to help shape their public identity.

Eli Pariser

#35. Gender identity is our internal response to a social construction that attempts to make a connection between a person's biological makeup and their eventual role in society.

Sam Killermann

#36. As for my identity within the context of New York nightlife? I left in the '90s, so I'm not part of the scene anymore. I'll always be interested in what's happening downtown, and I try and keep up with the changing faces on social media.

James St. James

#37. I think today that's a very big problem because of the world we live in and the social media and everything ... everybody is obsessed with their own identity, but seen through other people.

Salma Hayek

#38. One day stores will no longer have gender classifications. Instead the consumer decides how and what they want, rather than the social engineering of corporations. The concept of gender will be extinct.

Lorin Morgan-Richards

#39. I think social networking is absolutely here to stay. Now, whether or not the label will Facebook forever, depends in part, I think, on whether Facebook wants to try to be less proprietary, be more central to the operation of defining and stewarding identity online.

Jonathan Zittrain

#40. I have come to realise that the most critical of the social media accounts are the least verbal in real life and I can assure you that most social media trolls have no physical troll land to dwell.

Aysha Taryam

#41. The sole social evil is darkness; humanity is identity, for all men are made of the same clay.

Victor Hugo

#42. the symbolic dimensions of disaster and recovery cannot be separated from political history. Even as buildings and memorials become the touchstones of memory and identity, they are also implicated in larger social, cultural, and political processes.

Lawrence J. Vale

#43. The web is at a really important turning point right now. Up until recently, the default on the web has been that most things aren't social and most things don't use your real identity. We're building toward a web where the default is social.

Mark Zuckerberg

#44. Nor did she believe in identity, certainly not the local nationalistic version of it. She said that man was only smart if he was able to shed his identity.

"Skin color is a little hard to shed," she said, "it's true. But the DNA of your social class is even harder to get rid of.

Sayed Kashua

#45. Through "posts" and "sharing," by exhibiting one's loves and tastes, personal stories, photos, and more, each "curates" a public image of oneself on the web, to which one then continually strives to conform. Personal identity becomes one's reflection in the others' eyes.

Nicos Hadjicostis

#46. Being an evil dude: You create this false identity of who you really are and hide behind that as a means to deal with your peers and to hide behind your social awkwardness and inabilities and inadequacies.

Blake Judd

#47. In Canada, for boys, your identity is built on hockey. It's your social position; it's everything. And I was the worst hockey player of Canada.

Denis Villeneuve

#48. My identity has everything to do with me and my instrument. It doesn't have to do with what production style I use, or how many people played on it, whether it's sparse or grandiose or whatever. And I'm social, frankly.

Liz Phair

#49. The way that identity has been commercialised through movies and TV, and now through social networking, means we're all sort of working to a script, a collective idea of what needs to happen next.

Linda Papadopoulos