Work and Money: Payoffs by Ethnic Identity and Gender Upon arrival in the host country, immigrants undergo a fundamental identity crisis. Their ethnic identity being questioned, they can be classified into four states – assimilation, integration, separation and marginalization. This is suggested by the ethnosizer, a newly established measure to parameterize a person’s ethnic identity, using ind...

This paper presents an approach for the disambiguation of individuals using the semantics of identity and social circles. Identity information is extracted and integrated to provide a presentation of existing identity information currently on the web relating to a given individual. Communities are used to discover identity resources, share them socially, and critique the resources based on the ...

In Tractatus, Wittgenstein says that “to say of two things that they are identical is nonsense, and to say of one thing that it is identical with itself is to say nothing.” This seems to make all the discussion about identity trivial; is there anything that can be said about identity? The extensive discussion about identity demonstrates that the notion of identity is far from trivial. Think, fo...

Semi-structured face-to-face interviews were used to examine the influence of riding on the identity construction of people with disabilities. The fifteen participants, three men and twelve women, were between fifteen and sixty-five years old and have various physical disabilities. The data analysis derives from identity theory, a social-psychological theory that understands identity as an inte...

As a result of the epiphany of giant multinational media conglomerates, transnational trade networks and the politics of globalization, it is tempting to believe that individual and national identities have morphed. This article argues that such homogenization in relation to individuation is tedious to accept. It draws from theories of symbolic interactionism, social psychology, Foucauldian, an...