Week 7 Flashcards
Social identity
Social Identity: The view that people have of their own and others positions in society.
These learned!!! personal and social affiliations my include gender, sexuality, race, class, nationality, and ethnicity.
Personal identity and social identity are different!!
We limit the variation of behaviour by categorizing people into groups.
No one is anyone except in relation to someone else.
When we tag people- we look to others for confirmation
Roles that we take that shaoe our social identity only exhits in relation to toher- for example only a sister if I have a brother, only a teacher if I have students
babies
we are not born knowing the meaning of who we are- babies are blank slates- dont know identity or blank slates
enculturation
agents of enculturation
Enculturation: The process through which individuals learn an identity.
Imagined community
Refers to the fact that even in the absence of face-to-face interactions, a sense of community is culturally constructed by forces such as mass media.
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Concsiouly and uncouncisouly present ourselves to others based on different social contexts
We learn everything through a process called enculturation
What makes us Canadian: polite, history, national anthem- we learn our Canadian identiy through our school, participation in events/rituals (hockey,
Margaret Mead!!!! need to know
— American Samoa (tiny island).
Challenged the idea that teenage rebellion and experimentation are the result of hormonal changes during puberty.
She studied teenage girls- they were completely diferent compared to Americas
They fought less with their parents and they had more sexuall freedom. She said that teenagers varie depending on the culture they are from.
Gender is one of the ways we use to catagorize people . But what is gender? Biologically (chromosomes) there are two sexes- men and women.
Gender is the social role: socially defined and constructed.
In North American: we assign this very early: ultrasound. Even when genitalia matches chromosomes- they do surgery- gender orientated names and dresses
As the kids grow up- we teach them gendered behavior- women are taught to speak in particular ways- goes up at the end of their sentences. We teach boys to be taugh, not too cry. And girls are allowed to be confronted. . Girls are caring and helpful
This is different in different cultures
In many first nation cultures- there are three genders- 2 spirit.
In indian- the hydra and biological males who take on more femine of dress and action/behavior. But they are not transgender- they are a 3rd gender- they are not transitioning
Taught process
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egocentric
Egocentric: A view of the self that defines each person as a replica of all humanity, as the location of motivations and rive, and as capable of acting independently from others.
Egocentric: although we are all different , we are all different, we can act independently- we have relationships but they do not define us- we are different – NORTH AMERICAN
sociocentric
Sociocentric: A context-dependent view of self. The self exists as an entity only within the concrete situations or role occupied by the person.
Sociocentric model: individuals cannot be separated from their relationships
In japan: interdependence between the person with family or groups- this is more important then indepent individual. Can see this in personal pronouns –they change with who they are talking to. Example: language according to status. Maintaining the social relationship that shapes you as an individual- actually changes you. They do not see themselves as separate entities. Your faily is who you are
How do societies distinguish individuals from one another?
Similarities and differences and to assign them to one group or another, its not something you are born with- it changes.
Not all societies use the same differences or similarities to construct social code, nor use them in the same way.!!!!
Characteristics for defining the self!!:
Characteristics for defining the self!!: i.e. kinship, gender, age, class, race, etc. facets of identity that are also universaly used to differentiate or group people together
i.e. Language in Quebec: the fact that by attepting to preserv languge skills in Quebec- they are demarkeating themselves, their history, they are different social group.
