Supported by theoretically-sensitive ways of conceptualizing identity and social justice, the author develops an understanding of the ways pre-service teachers shape their identities through participating in community events.
The Huffington Post: Caitlyn Jenner has completely changed the landscape when it comes to the way mainstream cultures conceptualizes transgender identity.
I'm really fucking queer... I'm exclusively interested in queer identified people/people who can conceptualize queer identities, those who understand non-monogamy, people void of gender role stereotypes in their own mind".
Most social psychologists conceptualize social identities as large social categories, which people occupy, such as African American, woman, and HIV-positive person (Hogg and Abrams 1988; Tajfel and Turner 1979; Turner 1982, 1985, Turner et al. 1987).
Social identity theory as conceptualized by Tajfel and Turner (1979) refers to perceived identity of the groups to which people belong (Tajfel 1982).
Identity can be conceptualized as the "self in context" or the situated self.
Identity is therefore conceptualized as an ongoing process that encompasses the 'sense of self' created through social interactions.
For example, although a group of farmworkers might be most appropriately conceptualized as a community of identity for a CBPR effort, there may be some advantages of also including representatives from the agricultural industry, such as their potential role in policy change.
Considering its importance, celebrity worship has been conceptualized as a part of identity-development (e.g., Giles and Maltby 2004).
Most research on moral identities conceptualizes morality exclusively in terms of care and justice, but work from across the social sciences indicates that these represent only a corner of the moral landscape.
