SCLG1001 Study Guide - Final Guide: Raymond Williams, Consumerism, Randy Savage
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Identity = everything you mean when you say i". Complex and conscious ways we live in society. How it related to other people, to the world, to culture, to your body, structure. Essentialist view on identity the enlightenment (1700"s) Non-essentialist view on identity: subject positions as socially produced. Don"t freely choose", immediate categories / social labels. Needs to be recognised by others: primary subject positions we have in society are understood as oppositional. Able-bodies/disabled: oppositional subject positions are relational. Subject positions are not self-sufficient they are created through the play. Roles are learnt through socialization = process through which we come to identify with a subject position. Don"t have a sense of identity before socialization experiences, surroundings (people, environment, society, generation, class, culture) Primary: what we are taught by our immediate family. Secondary: behavioural patterns reinforced by social agents of society. Identity is not integral / essential, then, but socially formed. Many have argued there is no self" before socialisation.
