Contemporary political identities citations

Question 1

Davis 1

Answer 1

identity definition
the characteristics determining who or what a thing is
identity is a paradigmatic product

Question 2

Taylor

Answer 2

explain identity as a project of the self

identity is an issue of agency and self-determination: that the individual is a self-determining subject

Question 3

Eyesenck

Answer 3

Eyesenck’s personality theory, example of a trait theory where social identity is defined in terms of genetically determined personality traits such as:
openness to experience and contentiousness

Question 4

Spivak

Answer 4

identity politics
the political motivation to make ones interests visible and included
therefore marginalized groups in society claim group rights such as Black lives matter?

Question 5

Burr

Answer 5

identity as constituted in discourse, challenge perspective

psychological center of gravity is moved out of the individual and into the social relm

Question 6

Kitzinger

Answer 6

constitutions of lesbian identity
lesbianism as pathology
lesbianism as an individuals private lifestyle choice
lesbianism as a political identity

Question 7

Davis 2

Answer 7

intersectionality definition
the interactions between individual differences such as race, gender in social practices, lives, and cultural ideologies and the outcomes of these interactions in terms of power

Question 8

Birch

Answer 8

national identity definition
the worlds entire land surface is now divided between nations and states, nationalism is the most successful ideology in human history

Question 9

BSA

Answer 9

nation building

what helps the UK together is a sense of BRITISHNESS

Question 10

Billig 1

Answer 10

national identity in political discourse

nationalism continually reproduces the concept of a nation is a world of nations as the natural order of things

Question 11

Billig 2

Answer 11

invoking the national “we”

we shall fight them on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds 1940

Question 12

Gray

Answer 12

in ordinary talk national identity is contextual and is dependent on who is doing the claiming

Question 13

Condor

Answer 13

national identity in ordinary talk, often contested always accountable discussions about national identity and belonging among the English are often marked by disinterested appeals to moderation and a desire to avoid the imputation of prejudice

Question 14

social cognitive theories

Answer 14

cognitive identities in the form of schema
self-concept- a persons sense of identity, their beliefs about what they are like
self-schema- the organised body of information or beliefs that relate to a persons self

Question 15

explain identity as a product of the social

Answer 15

identity is a social location rather than a mental attribute therefore we have collective identities such as race, class, age
motivation, behavior, and interaction have the consequences of in-group favoritism and out group discrimination

Question 16

what problems can national identity cause

Answer 16

intergroup hostility
terrorism and extremism with the rise of nationalist and extremest movements
migration/ multiculturalism