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  1. Human Rights and the Excess of Identity: A Legal and Theoretical

    Identity is a central theme in contemporary politics, but legal academia lacks a rigorous analysis of this concept. The aim of this article is twofold: (i) firstly, it aims to reveal presumptions on identity in human rights law by mapping how the European Court of Human Rights approaches identity and (ii) secondly, it seeks to analyse these presumptions using theoretical insights on identity.

  2. Identity (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)

    If so it will not, and did not even in the poorer theory, express identity. For example, "having the same income as" will be an I-predicate in a theory in which persons with the same income are indistinguishable, but not in a richer theory. ... ---, 2002. "Vagueness, Identity and Leibniz's Law", in P. Giaretta, A. Bottani and M ...

  3. Citizenship, legal status, and proof of identity: identity as a legal

    The natural person is a core pillar of the present world order, which is grounded upon normative universal principles, such as Article 1 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR): 'All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights.' Jurists interpret this article as meaning that every human being has a legal personality with rights and duties.

  4. Identity Theory

    Identity theory is a family of views on the relationship between mind and body. Type Identity theories hold that at least some types (or kinds, or classes) of mental states are, as a matter of contingent fact, literally identical with some types (or kinds, or classes) of brain states.

  5. How a new identity-focused ideology has trapped the left and undermined

    Identity-sensitive legislation: ... Standpoint theory: ... Rather than acknowledging that the law is a necessary but insufficient tool for social change, the conclusion drawn was that laws ...

  6. Identity Theory

    Introduced almost thirty years ago, identity theory is a social psychological theory that attempts to understand identities, their sources in interaction and society, their processes of operation, and their consequences for interaction and society from a sociological perspective. This book describes identity theory, its origins, the research ...

  7. The Development of Identity Theory

    Abstract. This chapter offers a roadmap on the development of identity theory, highlighting the important points regarding the sources of the many ideas incorporated into identity theory, and the different foci in identity theory. Three foci are discussed: the focus on the interaction between and among persons; the focus on the roles, groups ...

  8. PDF Breaking Glass: Identity, Community and Epistemology in Theory, Law and

    the critical frontiers of legal theory and education. Her 1990 Stanford Law Review article on anti-essentialism, Race and Essentialism in Feminist Legal Theory,3 became the effective anthem of that decade. There, she wrote: [I]n this article I destabilize and subvert the unity of . . . "woman" by introducing the voices of black women ...

  9. The Mind/Brain Identity Theory

    The identity theory of mind holds that states and processes of the mind are identical to states and processes of the brain. Strictly speaking, it need not hold that the mind is identical to the brain. Idiomatically we do use 'She has a good mind' and 'She has a good brain' interchangeably but we would hardly say 'Her mind weighs fifty ...

  10. Identity theory

    identity theory, in philosophy, one view of modern Materialism that asserts that mind and matter, however capable of being logically distinguished, are in actuality but different expressions of a single reality that is material. Strong emphasis is placed upon the empirical verification of such statements as: "Thought is reducible to motion in ...

  11. Law of Identity: Explanation and Examples

    The moon in the night sky is always the moon. It's not suddenly going to be the sun or a star because the moon's identity is unique to it. This is a perfect example of the Law of Identity because it shows that we recognize the moon and understand it is different from other celestial objects. Claiming "I am myself" reinforces your unique ...

  12. Law of identity

    Identity is a relation on individuals. It is not a relation between propositions, and is not concerned with the meaning of propositions, nor with equivocation. The law of identity can be expressed as , where x is a variable ranging over the domain of all individuals. In logic, there are various different ways identity can be handled.

  13. Identity Theory

    In this fully updated and thoroughly revised second edition of Identity Theory, Peter J. Burke and Jan E. Stets expand their discussion of identity theory to address new theoretical and empirical research in the field. They cover identity characteristics, the processes and outcomes of identity verification, and the operation of an identities to detail in particular the role of emotional ...

  14. Identity and Political Theory

    Identity and Political Theory. Clarissa Rile Hayward Ron Watson. Identity politics is the politics in which people engage when they mobilize on the basis of, and when they define their experiences, their political problems, and their aims in terms of the good of identity-groups. Historically, identity politics grew out of the experience of ...

  15. Identity Theory and Social Identity Theory

    Social Psychology Quarterly 2000, Vol. 63, No. 3,224-237. Identity Theory and Social Identity Theory*. JAN E. STETS. PETER J. BURKE Washington State University. In social psychology, we need to establish a general theory of the self which can attend to both macro and micro processes, and which avoids the redundancies of separate the- ories on ...

  16. Religious Group Identities in Genocide: Social Identity Theory as a

    This paper argues that social identity theory may assist in the legal interpretation of the 'religious group' of the law of genocide where individuals are targeted for their - perceived or real -membership of a competing religious group. According to the theory, personal (religious) identity is based on membership in significant social ...

  17. (PDF) Identity Theory

    An Identity. An identity is a set of meanings attached to roles individuals occupy in the social structure (Stryker, [1980] 2002 ) (role identities), groups they identify with and belong to (group ...

  18. Identity Development in Adolescence and Adulthood

    From Erikson's early writings, several broad approaches to identity theory and research have emerged, laying differential emphasis on the psychosocial, phenomenological, and the contextual nature of identity. This article has reviewed some of the writings and research that have sprung from the identity status model of James Marcia (1966, 1980 ...

  19. Law, Growth, and the Identity Hurdle: A Theory of Legal Reform

    This Article offers a new theoretical approach to understanding resistance to legal change in the corporate and commercial context by introducing the sociological concept of "community economic identity" (CEI) into legal scholarship. I argue that community leaders (typically, but not exclusively, from the political, legal, and business spheres) generate public and recognizable identities-e.g ...

  20. Why Believe Conspiracy Theories?

    In our work, we address this gap by pinpointing the tension between believers and non-believers within the family unit. This tension is where deviance is created and identity threat can be observed. Future research could examine how conspiracy theory group identity is formed and how the responses from non-believing groups in turn shape this ...

  21. Understanding Knowledge Sharing From an Identity-Based Motivational

    Our theorizing is grounded in identity theory and recognizes knowledge-sharing identity centrality as an internal source of motivation for knowledge sharing. We also decipher how employees express their knowledge-sharing identity centrality through self-regulatory mechanisms by incorporating key premises from social cognitive theory.

  22. Social Identity Theory

    Social Identity Theory was originally proposed by British social psychologist Henri Tajfel in the 1970s. Later Tajfel's student John Turner further improved the theory and put forward the self-categorization theory in 1985. In 1970, Tajfel employed the Minimalist Group Paradigm to observe how groups function. In his experiment, the subjects ...

  23. Identity Law

    You can verify, using a truth table that , for all proposition P. (1) P OR F is equivalent to P. (2) P & F is equivalent to F. (3) P OR T is equivalent to T. (4) P & T is equivalent to P. Let's explain (1). The OR operator requires, to make a true statement, that 1 at least of the two proposiitons be true.

  24. Doctor Who Theory Predicts Mrs. Flood's First Name (& Reveals Her ...

    Doctor Who introduced the mysterious Mrs. Flood in the 2023 Christmas special, and one theory suggests her first name could also reveal who she is. Played by Anita Dobson, Mrs.Flood is a character ...

  25. Identity Theory: Revised and Expanded

    This book describes the origins of identity theory, its development, the research that supports it, and its future direction. It covers the central roles of meaning and resources in human interaction and purpose. It provides a detailed analysis of the nature and operation of identities. A central aspect of identities, identity verification, is ...

  26. LGBTQ group files Title IX complaint against Moore County, NC

    The new state law also bans instruction in the curriculum on sexuality, sexual activity or gender identity in kindergarten through fourth-grade classrooms. The district policy uses slightly ...

  27. Another Lina Khan Theory Loses in Court

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  28. Analysis: Trump hush money case raises thorny legal issues

    NEW YORK (AP) — The cover-up is worse than the crime, the expression goes. And in the hush money case against Donald Trump, prosecutors say the cover-up made the crime worse.. In an indictment and other documents unsealed Tuesday, prosecutors say Trump falsified internal business records at his company about a payoff to a porn actor in order to keep a potentially damaging story from coming ...

  29. Mississippi enacts transgender bathroom ban in public schools

    Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves signed a bill into law Monday that would bar transgender people from using bathrooms that correspond with their gender identities in the state's public schools.

  30. The Development of Identity Theory

    This reflects that dictum that the "self reflects society" (Stryker 1980 [2002]). This idea follows from James's ( 1890) notion that there are as many selves as there are different positions that one holds in society and as there are different groups who respond to the self. In identity theory, different theorists focus on different ...