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  2. Recognition (sociology) - Wikipedia

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    Recognition justice is a theory of social justice that emphasizes the recognition of human dignity and of difference between subaltern groups and the dominant society. [9] [10] Social philosophers Axel Honneth and Nancy Fraser point to a 21st-century shift in theories of justice away from distributive justice (which emphasises the elimination of economic inequalities) toward recognition ...

  3. Master status - Wikipedia

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    In sociology, the master status is the social position that is the primary identifying characteristic of an individual. The term master status is defined as "a status that has exceptional importance for social identity, often shaping a person's entire life."

  4. Social status - Wikipedia

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    In his scheme, which remains influential today, people possess status in the sense of honor because they belong to specific groups with unique lifestyles and privileges. [6] Modern sociologists and social psychologists broadened this understanding of status to refer to one's relative level of respectability and honor more generally. [7]

  5. Big Five personality traits - Wikipedia

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    In her review of the personality disorder literature published in 2007, Lee Anna Clark asserted that "the five-factor model of personality is widely accepted as representing the higher-order structure of both normal and abnormal personality traits". [180]

  6. Identity (social science) - Wikipedia

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    Identity is the set of qualities, beliefs, personality traits, appearance, or expressions that characterize a person or a group. [1] [2] [3] [4]Identity emerges during childhood as children start to comprehend their self-concept, and it remains a consistent aspect throughout different stages of life.

  7. 'I' and the 'me' - Wikipedia

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    The ' I' and the 'me ' are terms central to the social philosophy of George Herbert Mead, one of the key influences on the development of the branch of sociology called symbolic interactionism. The terms refer to the psychology of the individual, where in Mead's understanding, the "me" is the socialized aspect of the person, and the "I" is the ...

  8. Hierarchical structure of the Big Five - Wikipedia

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    The lexical approach (bottom up) is limited for two reasons, they claim. First, not all personality characteristics are well represented in natural language. [6] Second, personality characteristics occur at various levels of breadth, from narrow to wide, with wider characteristics taking up the majority of variance in factor analyses.

  9. Social dominance orientation - Wikipedia

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    The basis of this theory of societal level SDO is rooted in evolutionary psychology, which states that humans have an evolved predisposition to express social dominance that is heightened under certain social conditions (such as group status) and is also mediated by factors such as individual personality and temperament.