PERSONAL IDENTITY

It is a process of exchange in which

people who live together show
themselves, analyze, compare and
approve or disapprove of each
other, establishing strategies to
achieve social recognition through
the expression of ideas, feelings,
beliefs and values.
 PROCESS OF
CONSTRUCTION

Identity is built day by day, from

childhood, in coexistence, in the
emotional exchange we have with
our family, friends and
acquaintances; and continues to
strengthen throughout life.
 ABOUT
US?
Elements that owe one's
identity: ❖ Groups to which you
belong
• Name
❖ Age ❖ Problems and concerns
❖ Sex
❖ Nationality ❖ Future projects
❖ Personal Physic
s
❖ Main values
characteristics Psychologic ❖ Religion – beliefs
❖ Activity al ❖ Economic situation
carried out ❖ Place of residence
❖ tastes ❖ Academic
performance
❖ Preferences
CONSTRUCTION
PROCESS
THE IDENTITY
□ Recognition of your own body.
□ Identification of the closest
people.
□ Gradually he relates to the world
around him.
□ Learn to satisfy their needs.
□ And he recognizes that he needs
others to live and develop.
the idea
of the
self
 You can say it's me from:

□□□ Recognition of physical

□ Beliefs

characteristics
The values
The ideas

□ Tastes
□ Hobbies
□ Skills
□ Personal potentials

They make it unique and

different from the others
With the identification of one's own identity

Each person can detect what

does

Only
Autonomous
SELF-ESTEEM Unrepeatable > SELF-KNOWLEDGE
Different
SELF-ASSESSMENT
 “OUR IDENTITY IS BUILT ON
RELATIONSHIP WITH SOCIAL GROUPS”
Family
We are the
Nation
result of: School
Region
Location
Social class
Ethnicity

As our identity develops, we achieve a sense of belonging to cultural

groups with which we share
common characteristics.
 They mark a
Exclusion
relationship

There is Us: Ingroup

The others:
THE DEVELOPMENT OFOutgroup
IDENTITY
PERSONAL ACCORDING TO ERIKSON
It last for ever
At each stage, the individual is faced with a specific task, the
outcome being either achievement or failure.
Failure at one task compromises all the others.
They are carried out in a social environment, favored or hindered by
this

Achievements are always the product of:

1 .- the way the environment influences the self .
Parents
It all depends on the attitude of
Teachers
Companions
2 .- in the way the self reacts to the environment.
 TASKS OF ADOLESCENCE
(Erick Erikson)

Labor Vocational Choice

StabilityIdentity Identity Who am I?
psychosexual Conflict - rebellion
Achievements Opportunities Capacities Interests Expectations

Balance
 Regulatory crisis

Overcoming tasks and consolidation of identity or reaching the

“Identity Dysfunction Syndrome” : returning again and again from
Define your tasks .

Stages of identity

1 .- Identity achieved Follow your own decisions and goals

2 .- Mortgaged identity HE achieved through the influence of
others
3 .- Diffuse identity No has been defined
4 .- Identity moratorium HE postpones and prolongs the period
of definitions
 FIVE IMPORTANT POINTS TO CONSIDER ABOUT THE
IDENTITY
1 .- Identity is built in interaction with others.

2 .- Identity is a socially constructed definition of being

3 .- Central to the definition are:

a) The sameness-sense of being.

b) Space-time continuity.
c) Recognition by others of existence.
4 .- Identity is an eminently subjective phenomenon, with a strong
emotional component.
5 .- The formation of identity involves a process of recognition
and valorization of one's own individuality
Yo
Self-esteem
 IMPACT OF PREJUDICE AND THE ROLE OF
COMPONENTS

Social Categories:

Argentines
Chines Doctors
e
French
 Mechanics

DAMAGE

Prejudice is a value judgment, usually

negative, towards a group based on
insufficient or incomplete information.

Etymologically:
PREJUDICE:
Lawyers
Junior Fairs
judge without prior knowledge
 How does the
prejudice?

Based on
stereotypes
Assessment
refusal of a
cluster
 Stereotype Simple and deeply rooted conception
that one has, individually or
collectively, of a person, fact,
institution.

Mental scheme from which we perceive things; We qualify, we value ways

of categorizing experience and anticipating events.

“Regarding the dignity and

diversity of people

Tolerance