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
Cashmore and Troyna
Ethnic minority communities ‘turn inwards’
Hall
Globalisation is leading to the creation of ‘new ethnicties’
Weeks
If you are gay, your sexuality identity is a bigger part of you
McIntosh
Internalisation of label = fulfilment of stereotype
Rich
Women’s sexuality is oppressed by men- lesbianism threatens male power
Declining national identities
Becoming difficult to find British culture shared by all
Sadar
National identities are declining- ‘Englishness’ is based on old traditions
Anderson
‘imagined community’
‘imagined community’
Anderson
Elderly feel like a burden
Corner
Media portrayal of disabled people as weak and having no sex life
Barnes
Spencer
Many ethnic minorities are white
Winston James
racism unifies cultures
Jacobson
Young Muslims form a strong identity as a response to exclusion
Hewitt
‘multiculturalism’- white working class communities sees racial inequality as unfair
Kumar
‘Englishness’ is diluted
Wilson
Men need to ‘spread the seed’
Hey
Studied girl friendship groups- found that norms and value are male dominated
Mac an Ghaill
fighting, football and fucking
Feminine identities (4)
Housewife/mother, breadwinner, career woman and single mother
Denscombe
increase in female risk taking behaviour
Connell
Hegemonic is the most common masculine identity
Plummer
‘homosexual career’
Changing sexuality identity
Age of consent, sexuality isnt fixed, Reiss- sexuality is complex
Changing ethnicity identity
Moodood 2nd gen immigrants- Brasians, cultural hybridity
Featherstone and Hepworth
Retro fashions coming back
‘age is fluid’
Featherstone and Hepworth
Overall view of Featherstone and Hepworth
Age identities are becoming more positive
Learned helplessness, victim blaming
Zola
The label creates the behaviour (effeminate)
McIntosh
Disabled people get turned down from jobs- 2 in 3 people feel uncomfortable
Ridley
Building design stands in the way of a positive disabled identity
Shakespeare
Social and Medical model
Shakespeare
We now have the ability to construct our own identities, independent of disability
Murugami
The Homosexual Career
Plummer
Lesbianism threatens male power- women subjected to ‘compulsory heterosexuality’
Rich
Study on Native American tribes and their attitudes toward homosexuality
Quinn
Report done showing the ‘homosexual encounters’ between Americans
The Kinsey Reports (1948)
Sexuality identity is a bigger part of those who are not heterosexual
Weeks
Middle aged have the most status and power, but also can have negative associations- ‘mid-life crisis’
Bradley
Disappearing childhood
Postman
Elderly feel like a burden
Corner
The Third Age
Laslett
Cosmetics give us the opportunity to constantly reinvent ourselves
Powell and Biggs
Retro fashions coming back in show the decreasing gap between the elderly and the youth
Featherstone and Hepworth
Youth seen as a period of storm and stress in Western cultures
Mead
Toxic childhood
Palmer
Not everyone can afford to rejuvenate themselves with cosmetics
Biggs