Sexual Identities
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 7079010 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Ken Plummer (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2007 |
| Publication date | 2007-02-15 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | OTHER |
| Venue | The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology (JOURNAL) |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1002/9781405165518.wbeoss094 |
| OpenAlex | W4251183086 |
| ISBN | 9781405165518 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 8 |
The term identity is derived from the Latin root idem , implying sameness and continuity, and helps to provide a sense of who we are and of who other people are. It serves as a crucial bridge in social life between human beings and wider cultures; it implies a sense of meaning and a sense of categorization and differentiation; and it marks out differences — between ourselves and others. The idea of identity speaks of locating a person within a personal and social category. It suggests answer to the question “who am I?” placing one's self and life within a framework of past (what kind of person I was and how I became it), of present (of who I am now), and future (guiding the sense of who one will be and how one is different from others). Sexual and gendered identities help to locate people within sexual and gender cultural frameworks
Aesthetics · Bridge (graph theory · Categorization · Epistemology · Identity (music · Linguistics · Meaning (existential · Root (linguistics · Social life · Social science · Sociology · Gender Studies · Historical Gender and Feminism Studies · Psychology · Social Psychology
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |