ABSTRACT
The concept of identity has a long theoretical history and has recently re-emerged as culturally important. The creation of identified subjects is a means of social control, a way for the state to perpetuate itself. The identity selection is done by some faceless self who is outside or distinct from the identities themselves, who is able to put on first one and then another face. The oversimplification of identity does not allow, then, for differences within identity categories. Including some associative memberships as identities and examining various group memberships simultaneously permits an understanding of identity as fluid and of individuals as mobile. Questions of identity and moral decisions have largely been limited to studying the ways in which, specifically, gender socialization shapes moral decision making. Moral thinking, Carol Gilligan argues, generally incorporates elements of both, but men tend more heavily towards the justice track, while women more often employ the care track.
