It is primarily through our identification with social groups that we define ourselves.
Write a response in which you discuss the extent to which you agree or disagree with the statement and explain your reasoning for the position you take. In developing and supporting your position, you should consider ways in which the statement might or might not hold true and explain how these considerations shape your position.
It is debatable whether people define themselves primarily through their identification with social groups. As humans are social animal, and since people are almost always surrounded by other people and makings of other people, it is natural for most people to describe themselves regarding their observation from social groups.
To begin with, inevitably, people define themselves through identification with social groups they belong to. There are generally more than two groups that people belong to: family, school, gender, religion, field of vocation, and so on. As easily and most commonly seen is people's last name, which usually comes from their ancestors. People shape and mold their values, thoughts, goals according to their family culture. Moreover, even in religions, people find and choose their actions and behaviors regarding their religions and mimic people in their religious meetings. This goes similar with schools people attend, gender, and jobs each person has. People usually follow and accept the objectives of social groups they belong to.
Furthermore, defining oneself can occur with one's identification with social groups they are not member of. Different gender/sex, different religion, country, and culture can tell people of what they are and help contemplate about themselves. In terms of sex, if one person is not a male, then that person will be a female, thus identifying with female groups. Also, through observing different country and culture, one can define oneself to be not one of them, which enables an individual to gain a better picture of oneself. Sometimes, looking at what one is not helps them to mold their identity.
Additionally, people's thoughts of themselves transforms as their social groups change with age and experience. People in their 50s will have a difficult time sympathizing with teenagers because their lives look drastically different from each other. Often times, struggles and types of experiences change with age, thus, making people to change their definition of themselves. People in their 50s were once a teenager as well; however, different life styles have transformed their minds and thoughts, so they no longer identify with teenagers. This shows how ones identification of social groups can have huge contribution to description of themselves.
All in all, because of aforementioned reasons I agree with the statement that people define themselves largely through their identification with social groups. Identity crisis takes place when people are confused of which social groups they belong to and do not belong to. Especially in this day and age, mixture of gender, heritage, and culture happens a lot, thereby creating much confusion. People's inability to discern their idenfication with social groups hinder them from having a clear definition of themselves, which shows that the given statement is valid.
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Essay evaluation report
Sentence: People's inability to discern their idenfication with social groups hinder them from having a clear definition of themselves, which shows that the given statement is valid.
Error: idenfication Suggestion: identification
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argument 1 -- OK
argument 2 -- OK
argument 3 -- OK
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Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 4.5 out of 6
Category: Good Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 0 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 1 2
No. of Sentences: 23 15
No. of Words: 448 350
No. of Characters: 2375 1500
No. of Different Words: 216 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.601 4.7
Average Word Length: 5.301 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.662 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 199 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 116 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 83 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 62 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 19.478 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 5.61 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.435 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.352 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.538 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.116 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 5, column 46, Rule ID: ONES[1]
Message: Did you mean 'one's'?
Suggestion: one's
...ermore, defining oneself can occur with ones identification with social groups they ...
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Line 7, column 560, Rule ID: ONES[1]
Message: Did you mean 'one's'?
Suggestion: one's
...identify with teenagers. This shows how ones identification of social groups can hav...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, furthermore, however, if, look, moreover, regarding, so, then, thus, well, to begin with
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 15.0 19.5258426966 77% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 6.0 12.4196629213 48% => OK
Conjunction : 19.0 14.8657303371 128% => OK
Relative clauses : 9.0 11.3162921348 80% => OK
Pronoun: 48.0 33.0505617978 145% => OK
Preposition: 67.0 58.6224719101 114% => OK
Nominalization: 15.0 12.9106741573 116% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2452.0 2235.4752809 110% => OK
No of words: 447.0 442.535393258 101% => OK
Chars per words: 5.48545861298 5.05705443957 108% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.59808378696 4.55969084622 101% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.74111028047 2.79657885939 98% => OK
Unique words: 229.0 215.323595506 106% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.512304250559 0.4932671777 104% => OK
syllable_count: 739.8 704.065955056 105% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.59117977528 107% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 4.0 6.24550561798 64% => OK
Interrogative: 0.0 0.740449438202 0% => OK
Article: 0.0 4.99550561798 0% => OK
Subordination: 4.0 3.10617977528 129% => OK
Conjunction: 5.0 1.77640449438 281% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 4.0 4.38483146067 91% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 23.0 20.2370786517 114% => OK
Sentence length: 19.0 23.0359550562 82% => OK
Sentence length SD: 34.5701664491 60.3974514979 57% => The essay contains lots of sentences with the similar length. More sentence varieties wanted.
Chars per sentence: 106.608695652 118.986275619 90% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.4347826087 23.4991977007 83% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.30434782609 5.21951772744 82% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 7.80617977528 26% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 8.0 10.2758426966 78% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 6.0 5.13820224719 117% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 9.0 4.83258426966 186% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.179892443996 0.243740707755 74% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0742131492866 0.0831039109588 89% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0731228893468 0.0758088955206 96% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.128507769564 0.150359130593 85% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0528517756518 0.0667264976115 79% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.1 14.1392134831 100% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 43.73 48.8420337079 90% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.92365168539 111% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.9 12.1743820225 98% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 14.56 12.1639044944 120% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.5 8.38706741573 101% => OK
difficult_words: 111.0 100.480337079 110% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.5 11.8971910112 97% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.6 11.2143820225 86% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 11.7820224719 102% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 66.67 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 4.0 Out of 6
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