Sentences with phrase «social identity markers»

Maths teachers were telling me that they had been made to feel unwelcome, like they didn't fit in, that they weren't part of our community — simply because of the way they looked or spoke or other social identity markers.

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The state's propensity to assign individuals identities through voter registration lists and social security numbers or more generally to reinforce conceptions of individual rights serves as an example; the roles of educational systems (through individualized test scores) and professional careers (organized around cumulative skills attached to the individual's biography) provide further examples.7 This work is important because it shows the dependence of self - constructs on markers in the culture at large: the self is understood not only in terms of internal development but also as a product of external reinforcement.

In Marathi medium schools, sanctioned use of the regional language results in the language having high social capital though in English medium schools Marathi is used as an identity marker and as a socializing tool with negative connotations.

Toyin Ojih Odutola's portraits drawn in ballpoint pen, charcoal, pastel, pencil, and marker examine identity, race, and social concepts of skin color in American society.