Identity

Identity may refer to:

Specifications of persons

• Identity change
• Identity document An identity document is any document which may be used to verify aspects of a person's personal identity. If issued in the form of a small, mostly standard-sized card, it is usually called an identity card (IC). In some countries the possession of a government-produced identity card is compulsory while in others it may be voluntary. In countries
• Identity theft Identity theft is a form of fraud in which someone pretends to be someone else by assuming that person's identity, typically in order to access resources or obtain credit and other benefits in that person's name. The victim of identity theft can suffer adverse consequences if he or she is held accountable for the perpetrator's actions, the deliberate appropriation of someone else's identity (without that person's permission) for criminal purposes
• Personally identifiable information Personally Identifiable Information , as used in information security, refers to information that can be used to uniquely identify, contact, or locate a single person or can be used with other sources to uniquely identify a single individual. The abbreviation PII is widely accepted, but the phrase it abbreviates has four common variants based on

Personal conception and expression

• Gender identity Gender identity is the gender(s), or lack thereof, a person self-identifies as. It is not necessarily based on biological fact, either real or perceived, nor is it always based on sexual orientation. The gender identities one may choose from include: male, female, both, somewhere in between ("third gender"), or neither, also known as core gender identity, the gender(s) or lack thereof, that a person self-identifies
• Identity formation Identity formation is the process of the development of the distinct personality of an individual regarded as a persisting entity in a particular stage of life in which individual characteristics are possessed by which a person is recognised or known (such as the establishment of a reputation). This process defines individuals to others and, the process of the development of the distinct personality of an individual
• Identity (social science) Identity is an umbrella term used throughout the social sciences to describe a person's conception and expression of their individuality or group affiliations . The term is used more specifically in psychology and sociology, including the two forms of social psychology. The term is also used with respect to place identity, umbrella term used to describe individuality, personal identity, social identity, and cultural identity in psychology, sociology, and philosophy
• Persona A persona, in the word's everyday usage, is a social role or a character played by an actor. This is an Italian word that derives from the Latin for a kind of mask made to resonate with the voice of the actor, a social role or a character played by an actor with oneself
• Sexual orientation identity, describes how persons identify their own sexuality

Group expression and affiliation

• Christian Identity Christian Identity is a label applied to a wide variety of loosely affiliated believers and churches with a racialized theology. Many promote a Eurocentric interpretation of Christianity, a Christian religious movement
• Cultural identity Cultural identity is the identity of a group or culture, or of an individual as far as one is influenced by one's belonging to a group or culture. Cultural identity is similar to and has overlaps with, but is not synonymous with, identity politics, person's self-affiliation (or categorization by others) as a member of a cultural group
• Identity politics Identity politics refers to political arguments that focus upon the self interest and perspectives of social minorities, or self-identified social interest groups. Not all members of any given group are necessarily involved in identity politics, refers to political arguments that focus upon the self interest and perspectives of self-identified social interest groups or minorities
• National identity A nation is a group of people who share common history, culture, ethnic origin and language, often possessing or seeking its own government. The development and conceptualization of a nation is closely related to the development of modern industrial states and nationalist movements in Europe in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, although, belief in membership of a nation
  • Britishness Britishness is the state or quality of being British, and is used to refer to that which binds and distinguishes the British people and forms the basis of their unity and identity, or else to explain expressions of British culture—such as habits, behaviours or symbols—that have a common, familliar or iconic quality readily identifiable with
    • Scottish national identity Scottish national identity is a term referring to the sense of national identity and common culture of Scottish people and is shared by a considerable majority of the people of Scotland
  • Canadian identity Canadian identity refers to the set of characteristics and symbols that many Canadians regard as expressing their unique place and role in the world
    • Québécois nation motion The Québécois nation motion was a parliamentary motion tabled by Prime Minister of Canada Stephen Harper on Wednesday, November 22, 2006 and approved by the Canadian House of Commons on Monday, November 27, 2006. The English motion read:
  • Taiwanese identity The definition of Taiwanese identity has been an ongoing issue for several decades arising from the political rivalry between the Republic of China and the People's Republic of China (PRC). Taiwanese are frustrated by the political rivalry which is the cause of confusion both inside and outside Taiwan
    • Taiwanese localization movement Taiwanization , also known as the Taiwanese localization movement, is a political term used in Taiwan to emphasize the importance of a separate Taiwanese culture rather than to regard Taiwan as solely an appendage of China. This involves the teaching of the history of Taiwan, geography, and culture from a Taiwan-centric perspective, as well as
    • Taiwanization Taiwanization , also known as the Taiwanese localization movement, is a political term used in Taiwan to emphasize the importance of a separate Taiwanese culture rather than to regard Taiwan as solely an appendage of China. This involves the teaching of the history of Taiwan, geography, and culture from a Taiwan-centric perspective, as well as
    • Taiwan Name Rectification Campaign Taiwan Name Rectification Campaign is a movement that aims to change the names used in Taiwan, mainly by emphasizing "Taiwan" in place of "China." Examples include the renaming of China Post to Taiwan Post. Its supporters contend that Taiwan is already an independent sovereign nation, but the name Republic of China fails to
    • tangwai movement The Tangwai movement was a political movement in the Republic of China (Taiwan) in the mid-1970s and early 1980s. Although the Kuomintang had allowed contested elections for a small number of seats in Legislative Yuan, opposition parties were still forbidden. As a result, many opponents of the Kuomintang, officially classified as independents, ran

Philosophical topics

• Identity (philosophy) In philosophy, identity is whatever makes an entity definable and recognizable, in terms of possessing a set of qualities or characteristics that distinguish it from entities of a different type. Or, in layman's terms, identity is whatever makes something the same or different, also called sameness, is whatever makes an entity definable and recognizable
• Law of identity In logic, the law of identity states that an object is the same as itself: A ≡ A. Any reflexive relation upholds the law of identity. When discussing equality, the fact that "A is A" is a tautology, principle of logic stating that an object is the same as itself
• Personal identity (philosophy) In philosophy, personal identity refers to the numerical identity of persons through time. That is to say, the conditions under which a person is said to be identical to himself or herself through time, refers to the numerical identity (continuity of existence) of persons through time

Mathematics

• Identity element In mathematics, an identity element is a special type of element of a set with respect to a binary operation on that set. It leaves other elements unchanged when combined with them. This is used for groups and related concepts, a special element in a set or structure with respect to an operator
• Identity function In mathematics, an identity function, also called identity map or identity transformation, is a function that always returns the same value that was used as its argument. In terms of equations, the function is given by f = x, a function that does not alter its argument
• Identity (mathematics) The concepts of "additive identity" and "multiplicative identity" are central to the Peano axioms. The number 0 is the "additive identity" for integers, real numbers, and complex numbers. For the real numbers, for all , an equality that holds regardless of the values of its variables
• Identity matrix In linear algebra, the identity matrix or unit matrix of size n is the n-by-n square matrix with ones on the main diagonal and zeros elsewhere. It is denoted by In, or simply by I if the size is immaterial or can be trivially determined by the context, a square matrix with ones on the main diagonal, zeros elsewhere

Business

• Accounting identity In finance and economics, an accounting identity is an equality that must be true regardless of the value of its variables, or a statement that by definition must be true. The term is also used in economics to refer to equalities that are by definition or construction true, such as the balance of payments. Where an accounting identity applies, any, calculation or measurement that must be true regardless of the value of its variables
• Corporate identity In marketing, a corporate identity is the "persona" of a corporation which is designed to accord with and facilitate the attainment of business objectives. It is usually visibly manifested by way of branding and the use of trademarks, "persona" of a corporation by way of branding or use of trademarks

Computer science

• Digital identity Digital identity refers to the aspect of digital technology that is concerned with the mediation of people's experience of their own identity and the identity of other people and things. Digital identity also has another common usage as the digital representation of a set of claims made by one digital subject about itself or another digital, 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 Identity management or ID management is a broad administrative area that deals with identifying individuals in a system and controlling the access to the resources in that system by placing restrictions on the established identities, administrative area that deals with identifying individuals in a system and controlling access to resources by placing restrictions on them
• Identity (object-oriented programming), describes the property of objects that distinguishes them from other objects
• Online identity An online identity, internet identity, or internet persona is a social identity that an Internet user establishes in online communities and websites. Although some people prefer to use their real names online, some internet users prefer to be anonymous, identifying themselves by means of pseudonyms, which reveal varying amounts of personally, social identity that an internet user establishes in online communities and websites

Culture and the arts

• iD_eNTITY iD_ᴇNTITY or Yureka is a manhwa series created by Son Hee-joon in collaboration with Kim Youn-kyung and distributed by Tokyopop in North America. The series centers around the main character Jang-Gun and his friends along with their virtual reality avatars in the computer game world called "Lost Saga". There are 34 volumes right now (, manhwa series created by Son Hee-joon, along with Kim Youn-kyung, distributed by Tokyopop in North America
• Identity (Zee album), 1984 album by Richard Wright and Dave Harris of Zee
• Identity (BoA album), 2010 album by BoA
• "Identity", a song from the album Germ Free Adolescents by X-Ray Spex
• "Identity" (Burn Notice), second episode of the USA Network television drama series
• Identity (dj), a new england based hard dance disc jockey
• Identity (film), directed by James Mangold and starring John Cusack
• Identity (game show) Identity was a game show, hosted by Penn Jillette and produced by Reveille where contestants could win money by matching 12 strangers one-by-one to phrases about their identities. The first five episodes debuted on NBC from December 18, 2006 through December 22, 2006. The show was rebroadcast on NBC's cable sibling Bravo at 11:30 PM ET on December, a short-lived game show
• Identity, an episode of Legend of the Seeker
• Identity (music) In music, identity is similar to identity in universal algebra. An identity function is a permutation or transformation which transforms a pitch or pitch class set into itself. For instance, inverting an augmented triad or C4 interval cycle, 048, produces itself, 084. Performing a retrograde operation upon the pitch class set 01210 produces 01210, a transformation of pitches in music
• Identity (novel), by Milan Kundera
• Identity (TV series)
• Law & Order: Special Victims Unit – "Identity", an episode of the TV series
• The name of the BNP The British National Party is a far-right political party formed as a splinter group of the National Front by John Tyndall in 1982. Until 2009, when it was challenged in the courts on grounds of racial discrimination, it restricted membership to people of "Caucasian origin" magazine

See also

• All pages with titles containing "Identity"
• Biometrics Biometrics comprises methods for uniquely recognizing humans based upon one or more intrinsic physical or behavioral traits. In computer science, in particular, biometrics is used as a form of identity access management and access control. It is also used to identify individuals in groups that are under surveillance
• Entity An entity is something that has a distinct, separate existence, though it need not be a material existence. In particular, abstractions and legal fictions are usually regarded as entities. In general, there is also no presumption that an entity is animate. Entities are used in system developmental models that display communications and internal
• Identification (disambiguation)
• Secret identity (disambiguation)

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• Gender Identity: Encyclopedia
• Sexual Identity: Encyclopedia
• PubMed Identifier: Encyclopedia
• Digital Object Identifier: Encyclopedia
• Sexual Orientation Identity: Encyclopedia

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