1. Identity: internally and externally created
... the existence of both internal and external forces in determining identity, there are individuals who believe the identity is shaped solely through interactions with others. George Mead, in his work The Self, states, "(The self) arises in the process of social experience and activity, that is, develops in the given individual ... as a result of his relations to that process as a whole and to other individuals within that process" (Mead, 104). In his work, Mead also discusses how a social group that gives an individual his/her self can be called "the generalized other." Of this he bravely...
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