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Tag: Identity

  • Michael Jackson’s Identity Formation

    So I have avoided watching anything on tv about Michael until tonight. I just finished watching it and I had a few thoughts about his identity formation. I am sure that I could do more research on this, but I probably will not. There were three ideas that stood out…

  • The People You Go to School With

    Today was a great day. We woke up in Raleigh, NC. Stayed with a friend from college. Drove up to Richmond, VA to have lunch with a friend from high school. Continued driving up to Baltimore, MD, and we are staying with a friend from graduate school. I was able…

  • Finding a Market

    I’ve been thinking a lot about finding a market where I can harvest the benefits of my investments. In trying to find my market, I’m finding myself – what my passions are – what my skills are – what accomplishments have been – what my opportunities will be. In looking…

  • My ideas are not I, my ideas are me

    For the longest time, I thought that my ideas = me.  I placed so much of my identity in my ideas that when someone criticized or ridiculed or attacked my ideas – that they were criticizing, ridiculing, and attacking me.  I think it was a sub-concious – well actually, self-conscious…

  • Be Unique, but Belong

    A few months ago, I was doing some reading for research, and as I was reading Erikson’s ideas on identity I came up with this line – Be Unique, but Belong.  It was the summary of the section that I was reading.  It wasn’t even what I was reading about…

  • 10 Session Seminar on Identity Formation

    I am getting ready for a 10 week seminar on Identity Formation in Online Spaces at a church in the area for parents of teens.  It’s focused on my research and helping parents understand the formation process of their teens and students in online spaces.  I hope to give them…

  • Identity Science and Art

    As I continue to process through Identity, I face the challenge of many of the social science research that I read.  In my opinion, Social Science research is interested in researching how something works or happens.  They attach numbers to an experience or a feeling and then crunch the numbers…

  • Sculpting analogy – break down

    As I continue to think through the metaphor of sculpting identity, the main break down of the metaphor is that a sculpture cannot be involved in the sculpting, but in identity formation, the individual can self-contruct their identity.  Identity sculpting will then represent then identity that is socially or relationally…

  • Identity Sculpture

    I have been thinking about the last post since I posted it yesterday.  I thought about it all day yesterday.  I am learning and researching in the field of identity formation.  I have so much to learn still, but the problem with research and theory is that once you have…

  • Identity Sculpting

    Identity sculpting – is helping people to see their identity or form their true identity.  Michaelangelo defined sculpting as the art of “taking away,” and not so much the “adding on” of clay.”  I’ve been thinking about seeing the Reconstructing Identity display at the Getty Villa this week.  The torso…

  • Constructing Identity

    Identity can be constructed.  Identity can be self-constructed, but it can also be socially-constructed – which I thnk is just another form of self-construction, but initiated by social interaction.  Self-Construction: It is when you consciously or subconsciously determine your own identity.  You construct possible roles or me’s that determine your…

  • Aloha Spirit

    I am overwhelmed by the way that I’m blessed.  I am overwhelmed with the things that I have been able to do – and the opportunities of the future.  As I reflect on the past and the future – as I reflect on where I have come from and where…