Chapter 3 Connecting lives

Question 1

Identity

Answer 1

Combines a person’s sense of self (sometimes described as ‘personal identity’) − who you think you are − and how society perceives you.

Question 2

Self

Answer 2

Everything that makes a person and distinguishes them from other people.

Question 3

Social identities

Answer 3

An identity given by connections to other people and social situations (often contrasted with personal identity).

Question 4

Stereotypes

Answer 4

A widely held, but fixed and oversimplified, image or idea of a particular type of person or thing.

Question 5

In-groups

Answer 5

People who are categorised as belonging to the same social, ethnic or age group.

Question 6

Out-groups

Answer 6

People who are categorised as not belonging to the same social, ethnic or age group.

Question 7

Discrimination

Answer 7

The unequal treatment of groups identified on the basis of difference, for example race and ethnicity, class, gender, age and disability.