IDENTITY Flashcards
Agents of socialisation push people toward ________ identities
hegemonic identities
Oakely
Manipulation, canalisation, verbal appellation
Evidence of changing gender identities (4)
‘ladettes’ (Jackson)
‘new men’
‘crisis in masculinity’
‘mosaic identities’
Mac an Ghaill
Crisis in masculinity
Gender identity theorist
Oakley
Mackintosh and Mooney
Upper class invisibility- social closure
Fox
Upper middles, middle middles, lower middles
Hutton
Decline in trade union membership and dispersal on working class communities= decline in working class identity
Skeggs
Working class women feel looked down on therefore try harder with their looks
Murray
The underclass- laziness and fecklessness
Who speaks about social closure/ UC invisibility ?
Mackintosh and Mooney
Who speaks about declining working class identities through decline in trade union memberships and communities dispersing?
Hutton
Evidence social class identity is not changing
Money can still buy opportunities
Evidence social class identity is changing
Consumer culture now means we are defined by what we buy
Media gives access to high culture
Barnes
Media portrayal of disabled as dependent and weak with no sex life
Zola
‘learned helplessness’ (stigma leads to master status)
The Social Model
eg the design of buildings (Shakespeare argues this stands in the way of a positive disabled identity)
Shakespeare
Building design stands in the way of a positive disabled identity
The Medical Model
Defined by disability
Can lead to victim blaming or learned helplessness
Murugami
We now have the ability to construct a positive identity
How does the media construct age?
Promotes stereotypes and different norms and values expected
Laslett
‘The third age’- refers to a more fulfilled generation
‘The Third Age’
Laslett, refers to a more fulfilled generation
Who speaks about learned helplessness?
Zola
Palmer
‘toxic childhood’
Who speaks about toxic childhood?
Palmer
Postman
Childhood identity is created by how much a parent shields them
Corner
Elderly feel like a burden
Fanon
‘white mask’ - adoption of hybrid identities can help to fit in at school
How is ethnic identity shaped?
Family, education, religion, media
Bradford
Found that the majority of children with mixed ethnic identities were born in the UK