It is primarily through our identification with social groups that we define ourselves.

To define ourselves basically means to characterize the goodness and badness or the level or position of our thoughts and activities. Some people might state that we define ourselves primarily through our indentification with social groups. I strongly agree with the statement. I suppport my claim with two points. Defining ourselves is very subjective and are dependent on our indetification from our social groups. Social groups are groups of people with same thoughts or characteristsics. Every time we are influnced by people surrounding us or the social group we associate with and helps us develop our own personality. For instance, a new born child develops his personality as a derivative from his parents. They are the social group which here is a family he associates with. He might be defined by people to be good son, bad son. Moving further, once he goes to college he might be asscoiated with social group of friends. They further influence his thinking and character. He might now be recognized as the friend of back benchers. In the corporate world, we are defined by our corporate social group. We are futher added with more indentites such as he is an employee of XYZ company, should have good technology grasp, he is diligent and harworking. Further in the parenting age we are added with more social indentities such as a good parent or bad parent, good role model for kids. If we go out for travelling we might be added to the soca=ial group of Indian. We humans are social beings, so it very hard to seperate oursevles are think of as an single unit. Some people might argue that each individual should have its own personality and should be able to define themesleves as a single unit. But this is partically impossible, we are always associated with social groups right from out birth and are some way or other affected and carved becuse of these social groups. So we primarily define oursleves, through our indentifiation with social groups