Identity may refer to:
Philosophy
Mathematics
Social science and psychology
- Identity (social science), stemming from cognitive theory, sociology, politics, and psychology.
- Cultural identity, a person's self-affiliation (or categorization by others) as a member of a cultural group
- Gender identity, the gender with which a person identifies (or is identified by others)
- Psychological identity, an individual's unique identity that develops relatively late in his life. (see Identity formation)
- Identity In Organizational Communication, organizational communication scholars look at how our membership in different organizations shapes our “selves,” both in our workplace and in our group affiliations.
- Online identity, established and used by computer network users (see also Digital identity in Computer Science)
- identity politics, the focus of political debates around questions of group indentity
- National identity, belief in membership of a nation.
In some countries where there is more than one "nation" in the state or identity is otherwise confused, there may be a debate over what the nation's real identity is, see:
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Business
- Accounting identity, a basic accounting relation that must hold by definition
- Corporate identity, the physical manifestation of a business brand
- Identity theft, the deliberate appropriation of someone else's identity (without that person's permission) for criminal purposes
Computer science
Religion
Television, film, music and literature
See also
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