identificational
- adjective
- /ˌaɪdɛntɪfɪˈkeɪʃənl/
- Substantial identificational shifts are occurring to the extent that dual (or multiple) and possibly competing loyalties are commonplace.
- cultural and identificational
Examples
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The identificational aspects of a person's background can significantly influence their experiences and interactions in society.
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Milton Gordon attempted to supply the answer to these quandaries in 1964 by breaking assimilation down into ideal types of cultural, structural, marital, identificational, attitude receptional, behavior receptional, and civic assimilation.
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Without a great deal of effort, additional identificational portraits and other kinds of references associating an artist with the person of Nicodemus can be recognized.
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Since the brain is not culturally wired to one state or condition, a person's behavioral and identificational tendencies also change when moving from one culture to another.
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Furthermore, assimilation is a cultural, associational, attitudinal, identificational process by individuals, not by groups as collectivities.
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In conjunction with their identificational role, such events also serve as what Sherry Ortner has called "key scenarios" or "key cultural strategies" in which both valued end states and effective means for achieving them are dramatized for all to see.
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Polleross has recently adopted the term "sacred identificational portraits" for images that incorporate likenesses of rulers with representations of holy persons.
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Moreover, the recurring metaphorical expressions, identificational constructions, and process of nominalization project a mind that views its feelings as disconnected from its own psyche.
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It is rarely accomplished rapidly because, in the socialization of ethnic group members, aspects of the group's culture, values, norms, and even behavioral and identificational patterns are transmitted across generations, albeit quite possibly in increasingly altered form.
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In identity studies, identificational labels help to clarify how individuals perceive themselves in different social contexts.
Synonyms
Helps you know who someone is or what something is from sight and sound
Surface Forms
Morphology
identificational = identification (semi-transparent) = identific + ation + al
The adjective is transparently formed from 'identification' plus '-al', but the stem alternation in the larger family makes the full form slightly less obvious for many learners.
Etymology
Identificational comes from parts that mean 'same' and 'to make', with ident- meaning 'same' and -fic- meaning 'to make', and you can see the same idea in identify and identity. So identificational is about the 'act of identifying', which is why it means 'relating to who or what something is'.
