// Glossary
Identity
6 topics
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Did Your Favorite Media Shape Your Values?
The recognition of who one is and the integration of associated values and roles. Media serves as an important resource for identity formation.
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Is Making Something Shaping One's Inner Self?
The sense of who one is, or self-recognition arising from relationships with groups one belongs to. Making provides opportunities to strengthen or redefine this identity. Handwork weaves the narrative 'I am someone who can make' or 'I am someone who makes things like this.'
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Would You Want to Wear Clothes Where Meaning Takes Priority Over Comfort
The self-image or affiliation formed and expressed through clothing. Strengthened by wearing meaning.
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Is Making Problem-Solving or Self-Expression?
One's unique way of being that characterizes oneself. Through the act of making, one can confirm, form, and express one's identity. The work becomes a mirror of 'one's own way of being.'
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When Your Favorite Coupling Changes, Does That Mean You Yourself Are Changing?
One's self-perception of who one is. Changes in hobbies can sometimes accompany shifts in identity.
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Does Accumulating Knowledge Change a Person?
Self-recognition of who one is. Accumulation of knowledge can strengthen, shake, or reconstruct this recognition.