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Identity is the qualities, beliefs, personality, looks and/or expressions that make a person or group. Gender identity forms an important part of identity in psychology; other aspects of identity, such as racial, religious, ethnic, occupational etc. may also be more or less significant. Psychologists most commonly use the term "identity" to describe personal identity; sociologists, however, often use the term to describe social identity or the collection of group memberships that define the individual.
In philosophy Heidegger, following Nietzsche, did work on identity. For Heidegger, people only really form an identity after facing death. It's death that allows people to choose from the socially constructed meanings in their world, and assemble a finite identity out of seemingly infinite meanings. For Heidegger, most people never escape the "they", a socially constructed identity of "how one ought to be" created mostly to try to escape death through ambiguity.
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In philosophy Heidegger, following Nietzsche, did work on identity. For Heidegger, people only really form an identity after facing death. It's death that allows people to choose from the socially constructed meanings in their world, and assemble a finite identity out of seemingly infinite meanings. For Heidegger, most people never escape the "they", a socially constructed identity of "how one ought to be" created mostly to try to escape death through ambiguity.
Citation: Wikipedia
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Identity_(social_science)
National identity
Gender identity
Racial identity
