civic identity
Local group membership
Civic identity is one's sense of belonging to a political community—a city, state, or nation—and the connection felt to its institutions, values, and fellow citizens.
It shapes how people participate in public life: Voting strengthened her civic identity.
Unlike ethnic or religious identity, civic identity is based on shared governance and civic ideals rather than ancestry or belief.
- votingFormally registering a choice
- voter registrationSigning up for elections
- citizenshipStatus as state member
- democracyRule by the people
- pledge of allegianceFormal declaration of devotion
collective memory · nationalism · solidarity · sense of belonging · grassroots organizing · volunteerism · community garden · community building · block party · civil rights · neighborhood associations · belonging · town hall meetings · public square · activism · social movements · public trust · social cohesion
- City Flags
- local historytown history, local archives, local history, village history, founding
- official sealspresidential seal, Great Seal, state seals, state seal, government seals
- UK governancedevolution, local government, local councils, central government, local authorities
- urban fictionurban drama, urban fiction, city life, street life, inner city
- Urban Literatureurban settings, city life, cityscapes, urban decay, urban landscape
civic identityradical individualism
Belief in absolute personal sovereignty
private self · personal identity · self-identity · individualism · egocentrism
civic identityethnic identity
Belonging to ancestral group
tribal identity · ethnonationalism · racial identity · clan identity · religious identity
civic identitystatelessness
Having no recognized citizenship
alienation · political apathy · anomie · disenfranchisement · exile