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Sociological Self

The document discusses a personal identity wheel tool for reflecting on social identities. It includes examples of common social identity groups like gender, race, religion, and encourages the reader to consider which identities they most and least identify with and how identities affect how they and others perceive them.

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Sociological Self

The document discusses a personal identity wheel tool for reflecting on social identities. It includes examples of common social identity groups like gender, race, religion, and encourages the reader to consider which identities they most and least identify with and how identities affect how they and others perceive them.

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Personal Identity Wheel

1. What are the identities that positively affect your social relationship? Explain.

2. What are the identities that negatively affect your social relationship? Explain.
Social Identity Wheel

Ethnicity

Socio-Economic
Race Status

Religious
or Spiritual
Affiliation
Gender
1. Identities you think about most often

2. Identities you think about least often

3. Your own identities you would like to learn


Sex
more about

Age
4. Identities that have the strongest effect on
how you perceive yourself

5. Identities that have the greatest effect on


how others perceive you.
Sexual
Orientation
Physical,
Emotional,
Developmental
(Dis)Ability

National
First Origin
Language
Social Identity Groups
Social identity groups are based on the physical, social, and mental characteristics of
individuals. They are sometimes obvious and clear, sometimes not obvious and unclear, often self-
claimed and frequently ascribed by others. For example, racial groupings are often ascribed as well
as self-claimed. Government, schools, and employers often ask an individual to claim a racial identity
group or simply ascribe one to an individual based on visual perception. Other social identities are
personally claimed but not often announced or easily visually ascribed such as sexual orientation,
religion, or disability status.

For the purpose of this self-examination please identify the memberships you claim or those
ascribed to you. Below are examples of social identity groupings. Since issues of social identity often
are the basis of much social conflict, it is reasonable to expect that even the terms we use to describe
them may cause disagreement. So, feel free to use your own preferred terms for the material below.

Examples
(Feel free to use your own language for your identities.)
Gender Woman, Man, Transgender, Post-Gender

Sex Intersex, Female, Male


Race Asian Pacific Islander, Native American, Latin@, Black, White,
Bi/Multiracial
Ethnicity Irish, Chinese, Puerto Rican, Italian, Mohawk, Jewish, Guatemalan,
Lebanese, European-American
Sexual Orientation/ Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Pan-Attractional, Heterosexual, Queer,
Attractionality, Questioning
Religion/Spirituality Hindu, Muslim, Buddhist, Jewish, Christian, Pagan, Agnostic,
Faith/Meaning, Atheist, Secular Humanist
Social Class Poor, Working Class, Lower-Middle Class, Upper-Middle Class,
Owning Class, Ruling Class

Age Child, Young Adult, Middle-Age Adult, Senior

(Dis)Ability People with disabilities (cognitive, physical, emotional, etc.),


Temporarily able-bodied, temporarily disabled

Nation(s) of Origin United States, Nigeria, Korea, Turkey, Argentina


and/or Citizenship

Tribal or Indigenous Mohawk, Aboriginal, Navajo, Santal


Affiliation

Body Size/ Type Fat, Person of Size, Thin


Marginalized Group: social identity groups that are disenfranchised and exploited
Privileged Group: social identity groups that hold unearned privileged in society

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