Question: In the Neo-Eriksonian identity status paradigm, exploration and commitments determine what in large part?
Answer: any individual's sense of identity

Question: What do many people gain from their identity groups?
Answer: a sense of positive self-esteem

Question: People favoring those in their group over outsiders, is an example of what?
Answer: discrimination

Question: Belonging and discrimination are both important to researchers working in what tradition?
Answer: the social identity tradition

Question: Distinction between in and out groups has been shown to affect people's evaluations of others in work related to what?
Answer: social identity theory

Question: What approach takes the sense of self and belonging as a fixed thing?
Answer: a primordialist approach

Question: The view that identity is based on a political choice of characteristics is rooted in what theory?
Answer: social constructionist theory

Question: Primordialist and social constructionist views need to be understood in what contexts?
Answer: political and historical contexts

Question: Various research traditions are using what lens to examine phenomena?
Answer: the lens of identity

Question: What stigma do correctional officers have to deal with?
Answer: glorified maids

Question: The implications of identity and identity construction are discussed in what settings?
Answer: occupational settings

Question: What are people in stigmatized jobs forced to create?
Answer: an identity they can live with

Question: What are the two examples give for justifications and values for occupational choices?
Answer: workplace satisfaction and overall quality of life

Question: What is it called when someone aspires to the characteristics of significant others?
Answer: benign

Question: What is it called when someone wants to dissociate from the characteristics of significant others?
Answer: malign

Question: Dissociating from the characteristics of significant others is a process of what?
Answer: defensive contra-identification

Question: The formation of identity occurs through identifications with whom?
Answer: significant others

Question: What may a person display in terms of both exploration and commitments?
Answer: relative weakness or relative strength

Question: What is the permutation when a person lacks exploration and commitment?
Answer: identity diffusion

Question: What is the permutation when a person has not chosen goals in the past but is willing to in the future?
Answer: identity foreclosure

Question: What is the permutation when a person is ready to make commitments but unable to commit?
Answer: identity moratorium

Question: What is the permutation when a person commits to identity choices?
Answer: identity achievement

Question: Many scholars confuse identity as a category of practice and what other category?
Answer: category of analysis

Question: What do many scholars demonstrate a tendency towards?
Answer: their own preconceptions of identity

Question: The idea that identity is made of components that are identified by individuals is what idea? 
Answer: the idea of identification

Question: Some scholars try to introduce new concepts to capture the fluid qualities of what?
Answer: human social self-expression

Question: What is it impossible to do with identity?
Answer: define it empirically

Question: What is identified as determining how a person views him or herself to a significant degree?
Answer: Gender identity

Question: What are racial, religious, ethnic, and occupational aspects aspects of?
Answer: identity

Question: Identity refers to the capacity for self-reflection and awareness in what scientific study?
Answer: cognitive psychology

Question: Who was one of the earliest psychologists to take an explicit interest in identity?
Answer: Erik Erikson

Question: What distinction is sometimes referred to as the self?
Answer: ego identity

Question: The personal idiosyncrasies that separate individuals are called what?
Answer: the personal identity

Question: What are the 3 names for the collection of a person's social roles?
Answer: the social identity or the cultural identity

Question: In what tradition is Erikson's work to track identity formation throughout a lifetime?
Answer: the psychodynamic tradition

Question: Whose definition of identity closely follows Erikson's?
Answer: Laing's

Question: One person's perception of another's perception is an example of what concept?
Answer: metaperspective of self

Question: The person, aspects of self, and personal characteristics displayed to others are components of what?
Answer: self/identity

Question: Who formulated the classifications of strategic manipulator, pastiche personality and the relational self?
Answer: Kenneth Gergen

Question: In what classification is a person who regards all experiences are role play and becomes alienated from his or her social self?
Answer: The strategic manipulator

Question: In what classification is a person who gives up the chance for a true self and adopts social perceptions of him or herself?
Answer: The pastiche personality

Question: In what classification is a person who gives up their exclusive sense of self and defines him or herself only in terms of social engagement?
Answer: the relational self

Question: The strategic manipulator, pastiche personality, and relational self are linked to the rise of what culture?
Answer: postmodern culture

Question: What concept helps map and define people's experiences of self in society?
Answer: the concept of boundaries

Question: What is a volatile, flexible, and abstract thing?
Answer: identity

Question: Language, dress, behavior, and choice of space are affected by recognition by what group?
Answer: other social beings

Question: What do markers help create?
Answer: boundaries

Question: Markers can be used to exert what on other people?
Answer: influence

Question: What is the third fastest growing economy in India?
Answer: Himachal Pradesh

Question: What is Himachal Pradesh ranked in the highest per capita of Indian States?
Answer: fourth

Question: What enables Himachal to sell hydroelectricity to other states?
Answer: Abundance of perennial rivers

Question: What three things is the economy of the state dependent on?
Answer: hydroelectric power, tourism, and agriculture

Question: What other Indian states does it sell hydroelectricity to?
Answer: Delhi, Punjab, and Rajasthan

Question: When did the Chief Commissioners Province of HP come into being?
Answer: 15 April 1948

Question: When was the State of Himchal Pradesh Act passed?
Answer: 18 December 1970

Question: When did Himachal emerge as the 18th state of the Indian Union?
Answer: 25 January 1971

Question: When did Himachal Pradesh become a union territory?
Answer: 1 November 1956

Question: Why did the  Chief Commissioners Province of HP come into being?
Answer: as a result of integration of 28 petty princely states

Question: When did Congress secure an absolute majority?
Answer: In the assembly elections held in November 2012

Question: How many seats did Congress win?
Answer: 36 of the 68 seats

Question: Who was sworn in as HImachal Pradesh's Chief Minister for a record sixth term?
Answer: Virbhadra Singh

Question: Who administered the oath of office and secrecy?
Answer: Governor Urmila Singh

Question: Where was the oath of office and secrecy taken?
Answer: historic Ridge Maidan in Shimla

Question: Himachal is extremely rich in?
Answer: hydro electric resources

Question: Who is the first state in India to have every family have a bank account?
Answer: Himachal

Question: How much hydroelectric power can be generated?
Answer: 20,300MW

Question: What has rapidly spread due to economic increase?
Answer: Luxury hotels, food and franchisees of recognised brands e.g. Mc Donalds, KFC and Pizza hut

Question: What is current GDP estimated at?
Answer: ₹ 254 billion

Question: What is the state well known for?
Answer: handicrafts