Identity Development Theories

Question 1

Identity

Answer 1

One’s personally held beliefs about the self in relation to social groups and the ways one expresses that relationship.

Question 2

Socially Constructed Identity

Answer 2

One’s sense of self and belies about one’s own social group as well others are constructed through interactions with the broader social context in which dominant values dictate norms and expectations

Question 3

Disciplinary Origins of the study of identity

Answer 3

Psychology
Sociology
Social Psychology
Human and Developmental Ecology
Postmodern and Poststructural

Question 4

Psychology

Answer 4

Focus on understanding of self or personal identity

Question 5

Sociology

Answer 5

An individual’s identification with a given social group

Question 6

Social Psychology

Answer 6

Identity formation and what drives individuals to adopt group identities and to express those identities through behaviors, alone or in the collective

Question 7

Human and Developmental Ecology

Answer 7

Identity Development is an interactive process between individuals and environment that leads to increasingly complex understandings of self and self in context

Question 8

Postmodern and Poststructural

Answer 8

Identity is socially constructed and naturalized in temporal and cultural contexts