The Collaborative International Dictionary of English. 2000.
Identity formation — is the process of the development of the distinct personality of an individual regarded as a persisting entity (known as personal continuity) in a particular stage of life in which individual characteristics are possessed by which a person is… … Wikipedia
Identity management — In information systems, identity management is the management of the identity life cycle of entities (subjects or objects). An identity management system: # Establishes the identity ## Links a name (or number) with the subject or object; ## Re… … Wikipedia
Identity driven networking — (IDN) is the process of applying network controls to a network device access based on the identity of an individual or group of individuals responsible to or operating the device. Individuals are identified, and the network is tuned to respond to … Wikipedia
Identity and Access Management — (IAM) is a concept that combines business processes, policies and technologies that enable companies to: * provide secure access to any resource. * efficiently control this access. * respond faster to changing relationships. * protect… … Wikipedia
Identity theft — is a form of stealing another person s identity 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… … Wikipedia
Identity control theory — Identity Control Theory, created by Peter Burke, focuses on the nature of peoples identities and the relationship between their identities and their behavior within the realm of their social structure. The identities of the individual are rooted… … Wikipedia
Identity (social science) — Identity is an umbrella term used throughout the social sciences to describe an individual s comprehension of him or herself as a discrete, separate entity. This term, though generic, can be further specified by the disciplines of psychology and… … Wikipedia
Identity 2.0 — Identity 2.0, also called digital identity, is the anticipated revolution of identity verification on the internet using emerging user centric technologies such as Information Cards or OpenID. Identity 2.0 stems from the Web 2.0 theory of the… … Wikipedia
Identity politics — is political action to advance the interests of members of a group whose members are oppressed by virtue of a shared and marginalized identity (such as race, ethnicity, religion, gender, sexual orientation, or neurological wiring). The term has… … Wikipedia
identity element — n. an element of a mathematical system that does not change the other elements in the system when it operates on them: zero is the identity element for addition (x + 0 = x) and one is the identity element for multiplication (y × 1 = y) … English World dictionary
