Evaluate the Claim That Identity Is Determined by Relationships
Evaluate the claim that Identity is determined by relationships
Essay Plan
First Paragraph
Introduction
Define Identity
Quote Changing identities
Gender identity
Mines (DVD)
Second Paragraph
New mothers
Gous quote
Quote pg 254, 269 and 265
Body image
Racial – Fanon - 278
Third Paragraph
Social psychology
Michael Billig – quote 274
National Identity – 212
Freud - quote
Fourth Paragraph
Conclusion
Quote – 252
Erik Erikson
Evaluate the claim that Identity is determined by relationships
Definitions are important as they influence how we think and how our lives are shaped, just as our identities make us who we are, with different relationships pushing us in different directions. Aspects of our lives change as well as our routines, habits, bodies and relationships. We each have multiple identity positions with national identities playing a visible and important role in the way our social life is organized, ‘so much of how we inhabit the world is dependent on our identities’. (Changing Identities, 2009, CD2) The roles and relationships we form in our lives from our families to our jobs will all affect our identities but do they determine the paths of our lives. Our Identities are formed from an early age and continue to develop throughout our lives. They can be altered through many things, for example the relationships we form with other people, or through the changing of our jobs as described in the mining village of Rhondda when the mines were closed and the men made unemployed (Inequalities and differences, 2009). The men described their identities as being unknown through the loss of their jobs. In that particular town gender played a huge part. The men went out to the mines while the women stayed home, so when the men lost their association with the mine they struggled to find out “who they actually were” and they had to form some new relationships in order to feel ‘manly’ again. This kind of gender identity is common and
Essay Plan
First Paragraph
Introduction
Define Identity
Quote Changing identities
Gender identity
Mines (DVD)
Second Paragraph
New mothers
Gous quote
Quote pg 254, 269 and 265
Body image
Racial – Fanon - 278
Third Paragraph
Social psychology
Michael Billig – quote 274
National Identity – 212
Freud - quote
Fourth Paragraph
Conclusion
Quote – 252
Erik Erikson
Evaluate the claim that Identity is determined by relationships
Definitions are important as they influence how we think and how our lives are shaped, just as our identities make us who we are, with different relationships pushing us in different directions. Aspects of our lives change as well as our routines, habits, bodies and relationships. We each have multiple identity positions with national identities playing a visible and important role in the way our social life is organized, ‘so much of how we inhabit the world is dependent on our identities’. (Changing Identities, 2009, CD2) The roles and relationships we form in our lives from our families to our jobs will all affect our identities but do they determine the paths of our lives. Our Identities are formed from an early age and continue to develop throughout our lives. They can be altered through many things, for example the relationships we form with other people, or through the changing of our jobs as described in the mining village of Rhondda when the mines were closed and the men made unemployed (Inequalities and differences, 2009). The men described their identities as being unknown through the loss of their jobs. In that particular town gender played a huge part. The men went out to the mines while the women stayed home, so when the men lost their association with the mine they struggled to find out “who they actually were” and they had to form some new relationships in order to feel ‘manly’ again. This kind of gender identity is common and
References: ‘Changing Identities’ (2009) Exploring Social Lives (Audio CD 2), Milton Keynes, The Open University Inequalities and differences, (2009) Exploring Social Lives, (Audio CD3), Milton Keynes, The Open University. Hollway.W (2009) ‘Identity change and identification’, in Taylor, S., Hinchliffe, S., Clarke, J. and Bromley, S. (eds) Exploring Social Lives, Milton Keynes, The Open University. Clarke.J (2009) ‘Making national identities: Britishness in question’, in Taylor, S., Hinchliffe, S., Clarke, J. and Bromley, S. (eds) Exploring Social Lives, Milton Keynes, The Open University.