Identity Flashcards

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What are the 7 factors in identity?

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Ethnicity
Gender
Sexuality
Age
Disability
Nationality
Social class

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Sociologists for ethnicity & identity

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Gilroy
Hewitt
Cashmore & Troyna
Jacobson
Winston James

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Black Atlantic

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Gilroy used it to describe an identity of black youths that’s not rooted only in the UK or the origin country
Black identity created by shared experience of racism and powerlessness

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Multiculturalism

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Hewitt
White backlash against it where inequality not favoured by white wc. Saw pos discrimination as negative (will impact them)

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What 3 theories in ethnicity discuss resistance or hybridity?

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Cashmore & Troyna- minorities turn inwards to protect themselves. They turn to their own community for supoort
Winston James- racism unified African-Caribbeans in the UK
Jacobson- young Pakistani’s adopt strong Islamic identity, embracing culture

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