Avowed Identity- young, caring, sensitive, strong willed, hardworking, loving, insecure
Ascribed Identity- sister, loving, hard worker, caring, funny, beautifel, pale, friendly hyper
The people that I got my ascribed identities from would be my family and my closest friends. The people in my life who know the most about me. I feel that right away when you are born you are given ascribed identities. Throughout the years your ascribed identities may mainly change and that some of them may stick with you until the day you die. The way that I have been raised I feel has given me my positive Avowed and Ascribed identities that I carry. I am very thankful that I was raised by two wonderful parents and that I have turned out to be the way that I am.
Some of the identites that have changed a couple times would have to be my outgoing/ shy level. When I was young around the age of 2- 5 yrs old I was a very talkative young girl that would never shut up and would always speak for my little sister. then as I went to elementary school I started to be more nervous and got quieter. I moved around a bit in elementary school and was forced to meet new friends which caused me to be way more shy. Throughout middle school was the age group when I felt insecure about myself until like my junior year in high school when I got my first boyfriend I became way more outgoing. Ever since then I have been breaking more and more out of my shell and all my friends think that I am a super outgoing person. So a persons identity can for sure change drastically through out the years. I feel that the ascribed identities that I have got in my life have all been pretty positive which is awesome and for sure brings up my self esteem.
Well being a red head and pale my who life I have got alot of crap from it through out my life. When I was younger it never really bothered me until about the age of middle school high school age. My friends and other people always gave me a hard time for having such pale skin and I would get called names for awhile for being a red head, yet those are identities that I cannot really control. I guess a main identity that I wish I could resist would be the fact that I am a hard core people pleaser and push over. My whole life this has been an awful identity that I strongly dislike and have improved on this slowly throughout the years.
Do you feel that the avowed identities and ascribed identities usually match up for the most part?
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For me I do feel like my avowed and ascribed identities do match up most of the time. When I am in class professors ascribe the identity of student to me and that is also my avowed identity. There are a couple of avowed/ascribed identity conflicts. For instance my parents sometimes view me as a child but I view myself as an adult.
ReplyDeleteI think for the most part they do match up because alot of how we protray ourselves is from what others have told us, which kind of confirms that what we think of ourselves is accurate considering others besides ourselves, who can see us in an unbiased light, think the same thing.
ReplyDeleteI would say that most of the time they do match up. There are only a couple that I could think of that were ascribed to me by more than just a couple people. I agree with what Charissa said too. We tend to be what other people tell us we are.
ReplyDeleteI think everything depends on the environment for which people are in. For instance, someone might generally act happy when I am with friends, but more unhappy with my family. Thus, each group--friends and family--might see the same person's disposition differently. So, I guess I disagree somewhat with Cheryl. I don't really think the ascribed and avowed identities match-up most of the time. Instead, I think they only match-up if the environment is suitable for it.
ReplyDeleteI did find that most of my identites matched up, which was sweet to me because I never really took the time to realize that most of the time the way I feel about myself is the same as what others feel about me! Obviously there were some differences in my identies, but for the most part it seemed I did have a lot of the same!
ReplyDeleteI wouldn't want to say that any of your identities are wrong, but they are in the wrong categories. Avowed identity refers to identity given to a person by a person. And the Ascribed identities are given by other people, other than yourself. But of course, these categories are another attempt to do just that, categorize. If you describe both of your avowed identity and ascribed identities as close to the same things because you feel that not even that system could describe you, I find that extremely noble and awesome to yourself. Just remember the perspective of those who still do need labels to describe themselves.
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