multiple identity

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As we have seen, people have multiple identities.
Furthermore, since we all have multiple identities, what determines which identity is salient at any given time?
Two fundamental insights about identity are critical : first, actors have not only one identity, but multiple identities.
As for identity, one could of course speak of 'social identity', as has been done by various historians working on multiple identities or diasporas.
The children thus experienced multiple identities to which their languages contributed, and which, on the whole, they accepted with equanimity.
The individual agents or contracting parties who were at the heart of the economists' system had multiple interests and multiple identities.
But many of them are being used for radically new purposes: not humorous 'othering' but inclusive assertion of multiple identities.
In part two (chapters four to eight), she examines how the narrators' multiple identities are constructed through those narratives.
Monarchies have generally encouraged multiple identities among their subjects, while nationalist republics have demanded uniformity among the citizens of the nation.
He does not tell us, though he suggests he understands (pp. 173-4) how people used these boundaries to craft multiple identities.
Multiple identities : examining gender and marital status differences in distress.
Even those who do make a positive decision to leave settlements may hold multiple identities or statuses.
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