Identity and Conflict
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4188410 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Isaac Levi (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2007 |
| Volume | 74 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 25-50 |
| Publication date | 2007-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Social research (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0037-783X • E-ISSN: 1944-768X |
| Publisher | Project MUSE (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1353/sor.2007.0042 |
| OpenAlex | W308785970 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 4 |
carry many different identities. X may be a US citizen, a Democrat, a secular humanist, a father, a husband, a grandfather, bureaucrat, and a great many other things.1 As Sen recognizes, to say that all agents carry many different identities should not be equated with the banal observation that each of us possesses many different characteristics at a given time and over time. An agent identifies only with some of the groups with whom the agent shares traits in common. These are the groups who have an influence what we value and how we behave (Sen, 2006: 20). Sen has long been a critic of attitudes among economists concerned with explaining and predicting behavior in terms of selfinterest even if such interest is generous enough to include interest in the welfare of others or interest in promoting the goals of others. The values promoted by decisionmakers can vary. They may become affiliated with institutions, ethnic or religious groups, with their country, profession, their families in ways that run counter to their personal goals no matter how altruistic the latter may or may not be. They may conform to the requirements of some moral code or code of honor. Doing any one of these things may entail considerable self-sacrifice. We need not insist on a view as to how widespread this behavior is in order to acknowledge that such behavior counts for a considerable portion of both routine and deliberate behavior. According to Sen, having an identity is an affiliation with a group and commitment to a code of conduct or system of value commitments associated with the affiliation
Aesthetics · Economics · Ethnic group · Honor · Humanism · Identity (music) · Law and economics · Morality · Order (exchange) · Political science · Sacrifice · Self-interest · Sociology · Theology · Value (mathematics) · Welfare · Culture, Economy, and Development Studies · Economic Theory and Institutions · Law · Philosophy · Psychology · Social Psychology
| Unique citing works | 3 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,16 |
| Citation span | 2007 - 2021 (15) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |