Identity

Question 1

What is identity?

Answer 1

It is sameness that is based around the characteristic or features you share with others.

Question 2

Woodward (2000) view on identity?

Answer 2

Argues that for someone to have an identity an element of choice is required.

Question 3

Bradley (1996)

Answer 3

Passive and Active identity.

Question 4

What is Passive Identity?

Answer 4

One you were either born/socialised into.

Question 5

What is Active Identity?

Answer 5

People actively choose to pursue. e.g. a footballer.

Question 6

Sex

Answer 6

Classifies people as being male or female based on their biological characteristics.

Question 7

Gender

Answer 7

Describes socially constructed behaviour.

Behaviour which is made/shaped by the social world in which we live.

Question 8

Parsons (Functionalist Sociologist - 1950s)

Answer 8

Sex-role differentiation.
Instrumental - describes the role that men should adopt (to go out and earn money).
Expressive - describe the caring role that women should take on (to look after the home and children).

Question 9

A persons gender identity is…

Answer 9

Fluid

shaped and constructed through their experiences which are often quite gendered