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Extra Identities Flashcards

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Weeks

SEXUAL IDENTITY REMAINS TRADITIONAL AS HETEROSEXUALITY IS SEEN AS THE NORM

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  • gays will point out “I am gay”, others won’t
  • have to declare your belonging to something else
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Plummer

SEXUAL IDENTITY REMAINS TRADITIONAL AS HETEROSEXUALITY IS SEEN AS THE NORM

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  • homsexuality is a process
  • homosexual career - a male who has accepted the label of homosexual will seek out others and join a subculture in which stereotypical homosexual characteristics are the norm
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Mac An Ghaill

PEERS REINFORCE TRADITIONAL HETEROSEXUAL IDENTITY

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  • heterosexual boys preoccupied with the 3 f’s
  • football, fighting and f###ing
  • this would suppress many emotions
  • fear, intimidation or love were all feminised and condemned, unlike anger
  • therefore, they grow up to be emotionally unexpressive adults, damaging the boys and society
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Rich

WOMENS SEXUALITY HAS BEEN OPPRESSED IN A PATRIARCHAL SOCIETY

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  • women’s sexuality oprpressed through institutes such as marriage, sexual violence and objectification of women
    compulsory heterosexuality
  • women socialised into subordinate role so they’re “available” for men
  • lesbian identity seen as a threat to men
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Equality Act 2010

SEXUAL IDENTITIES ARE CHANGING DUE TO NEW LAWS

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  • unlawful to discriminate against anyone on the grounds of sexuality in workplace, public sector, education etc.
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McCormack

SEXUAL IDENTITIES ARE CHANGING DUE TO PEERS

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  • initially homophobia rose from conservatives who were traditional; nuclear family
  • less social capital = less open gay
  • S.28 Equality Act 2010, Every Child Matters policy has impacted attitudes towards sexuality
  • schools promote diversity/sexualities
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Jackson

SEXUAL IDENTITIES ARE CHANGING DUE TO WOMEN BEING LESS OPPRESSED

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  • ladettes
  • much more open and liberated about their sexual encounters
  • more open about being promiscuous
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Anderson

NATIONAL IDENTITY IS TRADITIONAL AS PEOPLE IN A COUNTRY ACT AS AN IMAGINED COMMUNITY

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  • nation = imagined community
  • never meet fellow members
  • national identity = socially constructed through symbols eg flags/anthems
  • through the media, we are encouraged to get behind our nation’s interests
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Phillips et al

EDUCATION SYSTEM SOCIALISES INDIVIDUALS INTO A TRADITIONAL NATIONAL IDENTITY

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  • national curriculum supports ideology of nationalism
  • history lessons = key factor in national identity
  • taught through the eyes of the country taught in
  • shared sense of involvement and identity
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Schuden

BRITISH PEOPLE SOCIALISED INTO COMMON NATIONAL CULTURE AND IDENTITY THROUGH VARIOUS MEANS

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  • eg common language - english
  • eg education - history
  • eg symbols - monarch
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Sardar

NATIONAL IDENTITY IS CHANGING DUE TO CHANGES IN NORMS/VALUES IN UK

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  • world is in the middle of identity crisis
  • no longer east vs west / capitalism vs communism
  • historical english traditions seen as meaningless to current population
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Hewitt

NATIONAL IDENTITY IS CHANGING DUE TO ENGLISH IDENTITY BEING PORTRAYED NEGATIVELY

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  • Britain has seen white backlash from w/c whites
  • pereferential treatment of ethnic minorities
  • in a fight between white vs minority, white more likely to be in trouble as it is assumed it was a racial fight
  • education system can create/reinforce national identities
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McLuhan

NATIONAL IDENTITY IS CHANGING DUE TO GLOBALISATION CAUSING CULTURAL HOMOGENISATION

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  • predicted global village would occur
  • internet means world is interconnected
  • as it moves at the speed of light, new patterns of communication is created
  • distant events presented with personal dimension
  • communities across the world are entwined with one another’s affairs
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Les Back

NATIONAL IDENTITY IS CHANGING DUE TO MULTICULTURALISM CAUSING CULTURAL HYBRIDITY

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  • ethnographic study of 2 council estates
  • whites, blacks, asians formed new shared culture - neighborhood nationalism
    –> a feeling of solidarity and common identity with people from the same area
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Hall

SUPPORTS HEWITT + MCLUHAN + LESBACK

NATIONAL IDENTITY IS CHANGING DUE TO GLOBALISATION CAUSING CULTURAL HOMOGENISATION, CULTURAL HYBRIDITY AND CULTURAL RESISTANCE

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  • suggests that countries may display 3 different reactions to globalisation;
  • They may accept a global culture, and all countries will become more similar – Cultural homogenisation
  • They may take in some parts of global culture and develop a new but still individual cultures – Cultural hybridity
  • They may resist global culture and fiercely protect their cultural heritage, becoming more traditional and nationalistic – Cultural resistance
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Shakespeare

PEOPLE WITH A DISABILITY FACE DIFFICULTIES, LEADING TO A VICTIM MENTALITY (TRADITIONAL)

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  • disabled are socialised into seeing themselves as victims due to their impairment
  • use as a reason for failure
  • lack of positive role models
  • treated with pity and awkwardness
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Ridley

DISABILITY IS A TRADITIONAL AS IT’S REINFORCED BY AWKWARD TREATMENT

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  • Scope UK charity
  • 4/5 = “not yet disabled”
  • treat equally, not awkwardly
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Barnes

DISABILITY IS A TRADITIONAL DUE TO LACK OF POSITIVE MEDIA MODELS

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  • representations in media traditionally negative + stereotyped
  • rarely presented as having their own identity
  • eg. in need of pity/charity, as victims (killed in shows), villains, burdens, sexually abnormal
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Murugami

DISABILITY IS BECOMING INCREASINGLY NORMALISED

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  • to create an identity that accepts impairment, they must see themselves as a person first, and a disability as a characteristic
  • to do this, they must reconstruct what is considered “normal”
  • very few are able bodied their whole lives
  • see disability as a condition, not an impairment that sets people apart from society
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Equality Act 2010

LEGISLATION IS BEING INTRODUCED TO PROTECT

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  • prevents discrimination
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Media Role Models

MORE POSITIVE ROLE MODELS WITH DISABILITIES

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  • Richard Branson (dyslexic) - owns virgin group
  • James Lebrecht (spina bifida) - activist for disabled rights
  • Haben Girma (blind/deaf) - increases access for disabled to books

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