SOC202H5 Lecture 5: Sample Questions
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Sample questions: (1) define collective identities and describe how race/ethnicity and gender and sexuality are collective identities. Collective identity is an individual"s cognitive, moral, emotional connection with the broader community, practices and institutions. Collective identity is created when people have positive feeling for their group members and have a shared thinking (social mind). Collective identity can either be seen as objective or as a construction. However, recent thinking emphasizes the constructionist view, which indicates that identities are not fixed; they are malleable, fluid and subject to interpretation. When a collective identity is created, it produces a shared way of thinking (social mind) which identifies situations that need attention and this cognitive attention can lead to action. Race, ethnicity, gender and sexuality are not objective (cid:498)given(cid:499) they are. It was believed that the (cid:498)melting pot(cid:499) in the united states would cause racial and ethnic differences to disappear and created a homogenized.
