Identity

Identity may refer to:

Social science

Group expression and affiliation
  • Cultural identity, a person's self-affiliation (or categorization by others) as a member of a cultural group
  • Identity politics, political arguments that focus upon the self-interest and perspectives of social interest groups or minorities
  • National identity, belief in membership of a nationality

Racial and ethnocultural
  • African Australian identity, the objective or subjective state of perceiving oneself as an African Australian
  • Arab identity, the objective or subjective state of perceiving oneself as an Arab
  • Australian Aboriginal identity, the objective or subjective state of perceiving oneself as Aboriginal Australian
  • Jewish identity, the objective or subjective state of perceiving oneself as a Jew
  • Māori identity, the objective or subjective state of perceiving oneself as a Māori
  • Native American identity, an evolving topic based on the struggle to define "Native American" or "(American) Indian" both for people who consider themselves Native American and for people who do not

Ethno-regional

Racial classification
  • Black British identity is the objective or subjective state of perceiving oneself as a black British person
  • Brown identity is the objective or subjective state of perceiving oneself as a brown person
  • White identity is the objective or subjective state of perceiving oneself as a white person

Philosophy
  • Identity (philosophy), also called sameness, is whatever makes an entity definable and recognizable over time.
  • Law of identity, principle of logic stating that an object is the same as itself
  • Personal identity, the numerical identity (continuity of existence) of persons through time

Specifications of persons
  • Identity change
  • Identity document
  • Identity tensions, contradictory identities feeling by a person, f.e. being a mother and a daughter at the same time
  • Identity theft, the deliberate appropriation of someone else's identity (without that person's permission) for criminal purposes
  • Personally identifiable information, information that can be used to uniquely identify, contact, or locate a single person

Arts, entertainment, and media

Music

Albums

Songs
  • "Identity" (Sakanaction song), a 2010 song by Sakanaction
  • "Identity" (X-Ray Spex song), a single and song by X-Ray Spex, P. Styrene from the album Germfree Adolescents
  • "Identity", a 1983 song by Bucks Fizz that is the B-side to "London Town"

Other uses in music
  • Identity (music), a transformation of pitches in music
  • Identity (tuning), an odd member below and including a limit
  • Also, researchers in music talk about 'musical identities', to describe various phenomena. Amongst them, 'musical identity' may be related to the manner in which an individual uses music practice as part of his identity or various behaviors that specific categories of musicians have, practicing their art (ex.: one may talk about the musical identity of jazz musicians).

Television

Programs and series

Episodes
  • "Identity" (Arrow), second episode of the second season of Arrow
  • "Identity" (Burn Notice), second episode of the USA Network television drama series
  • "Identity" (Charlie Jade), an episode of the television series Charlie Jade
  • "Identity" (Legend of the Seeker), an episode of Legend of the Seeker
  • "Identity", an episode of the TV series Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
  • "Identity" (NCIS: Los Angeles), the series premiere of NCIS: Los Angeles

Other uses in arts, entertainment, and media

Business
  • Accounting identity, calculation or measurement that must be true regardless of the value of its variables
  • Brand identity, the qualities associated with a brand
  • Corporate identity, "persona" of a corporation by way of branding or use of trademarks

Computer science
  • Decentralized Identifiers, a type of identifier that enables a verifiable, decentralized digital identity.
  • Digital identity, representation of a set of claims made by one digital subject about itself or another digital subject
  • Federated identity, assembled identity of a person's user information, stored across multiple distinct identity management systems
  • Identity column, database field that uniquely identifies every row in the table and is made up of values generated by the database
  • Identity management, administrative area that deals with identifying individuals in a system and controlling access to resources by placing restrictions on them
  • Identity (object-oriented programming), the property of objects that distinguishes them from other objects
  • Online identity, social identity that an internet user establishes in online communities and websites
  • Self-sovereign identity (SSI), the user has a means of generating and controlling unique identifiers as well as some facility to store identity data

Mathematics

See also
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