During a program sponsored by an educational nonprofit organization, Facing History and Ourselves, the students viewed scenes from the television show "All in the Family" and discussed issues of identity, membership and ostracism.
Identity: membership of a group may carry affective meanings that may motivate or demotivate, eg., black pride in a history of resistance to oppression, eg., as Muslims we must aid fellow Muslims in a time of need. .
Across Western countries, access to citizenship is much more exclusive than residence, the reason being, in Brubaker's (1992, p. 182) words, that 'citizenship in a nation-state is inevitably bound up with nationhood and national identity, membership of the state with membership of the nation'.
What I had wasn't just an illness now; it was an identity, a membership in a peculiarly demanding sect.
Even the Austrians, despite their dominant position within the empire, could not avoid having to choose between their Austrian identity and membership in the great German entity in which they would be dissolved.
The organizational form of the cooperative is based on the sustainability principles of solidarity, democracy, identity and membership promotion and has a high potential for democracy [55].
Social identity reflects membership in various social groups (e.g., clubs, social class), and personal identity represents the unique attributes that differentiate one person from another (Howard 2000; Tajfel 1982).
For this purpose, they sent out a set of fictitious applications, differing only in applicants' names, which in India may signal Muslim religious identity or membership in a higher or lower caste group.
I believe people want to connect to both broad-brush swathes of people — everyone they know, everyone they work with, everyone they went to school with, friends of friends — and more carefully defined groups, with finer control over identity and membership.
"[i]dentity and loyalty were no longer to be based on family, tribe, kinship, or even religion: the overriding identity was membership in the ummah of Muhammad.
(This is one of the many differences between radical Left and right wing masked groups. The KKK's identity and membership, for example, are explicitly exclusionary: not everyone can be a member of the white race or wear the hood).
