L1: Place and Community

Question 1

What are the two kinds of identity qualities? (2)

Answer 1

Instrinsic (1)
Emergent (1)

Question 2

What are the two kinds of identities? (2)

Answer 2

Interiorisation (1)
Exteriorisation (1)

Question 3

What is the difference between an intrinsic and emergent identity? (2)

Answer 3

Instrinsic - we are born with our identity (1)

Emergent - our identity is shaped by the environment we grow up in (1)

Question 4

What does Tim Ingold say about “belonging to the land?” (1)

Answer 4

We assume that we keep our geneological connection to the land even if we move away

Question 5

How can we understand genealogical identities? (3)

Answer 5

Identity is transmitted (gifted) from one generation to the next (1)

People are created from biogenetic substance before they are brought into the world (1)

Everything we experience is added onto our set identity but land does not form us (1)

Question 6

How can we understand relational identities? (3)

Answer 6

Who we are as persons emerges from our relations (1)

Persons are continually growing and coming into being (1)

We become similar through sharing inhabitation with the land (1)

Question 7

Which model does ethnic and racial differences not make sense in? (1)

Answer 7

Relational identity model

Question 8

“Whereas in the genealogical model […] is encompassed within […] in the relational model generational is encompassed within the [….] of […]”

Fill blanks (5)
Who said this? (1)

Answer 8

Life (1)
Generations (1)
Process (1)
Life (1)

Tim Ingold (1)

Question 9

Where does everyone live? (1)

Answer 9

In a place, somewhere (1)

Question 10

What does Geertz say about where people live? (1)

Answer 10

” No one lives in the world in general”

Question 11

What does Casey (1996) say about people and places? (1)

Answer 11

“We are not only in places but of them”

Question 12

Why is our experience of the world never quite “bounded?” (2)

Answer 12

Our experiences go beyond the boundaries of the map (1)

How we represent the places that we are from will vary (1)

Question 13

What is a conventional community? (1)

Answer 13

Communities where people lived and were sites of face to face interactions

Question 14

What should communities feel like? (1)

What do communities balance? (1)

Answer 14

Stable and cohesive places (1)

Communities balance freedom and secuirty (1)

Question 15

What does Barth say that ethnic groups and boundaries emphasise about identities? (1)

Answer 15

They emphasise that collective identities dont just arise in isolation of other people but through interaction and transaction (1)

Question 16

What do people who share an identity also often share? (1)

Give an example (1)

Answer 16

Symbols (1)

Scottish people and the Scottosh flag (1)

Question 17

How are symbols personal and social at the same time? (2)

Answer 17

Symbols can bring people together and start social action (1)

Symbols can be interpreted with individual meanings (1)

Question 18

Identity emerges through social isolation. What is another way that identity can emerge? (1)

Answer 18

In opposition to others

Question 19

How are boundaries useful in establishing identity? (1)

Answer 19

Boundaries help people understand how they are distinct (1)