Changing identity

Identity, Control and Changing Reality

The current climate of technological change promises to have significant impact on many aspects of work, society and higher education. In relation to higher education, such claims are commonly associated with speculation about the survival of universities as we know them. Some projections sound wild and some well founded. It can be hard to delineate the two. It is clear that professional life h...

Changing Identity: the Emergence of Social Groups

Homo Economicus has progressed from an atomistic and self-interested individual in standard economics to a socially embedded agent in modern economics who is endowed with a particular social identity or with specific preferences for the latter. While this vision makes the economic agent more realistic, its representation by adding variables in an agent’s utility function poses problems. The dis...

Changing Identity: The Emergence of Social Groups1

The original Homo Economicus has progressed from an atomistic and self-interested individual to a socially embedded agent in modern economics. In particular, social interaction models suggest that the individual’s own utility of undertaking an action may be influenced by the number of peers taking this same action. Hence, people gain by conforming to, or differentiating their behaviour from tha...

Changing Pedagogy: Culture and Identity in Organisations

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The Changing Nature of Software Community and Identity