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Chapter 7 - Cultural Studies
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- 1SubjectivityThe condition of being a person and the processes by which we become a person; that is, how we are constituted as cultural subject and how we experience ourselves
- 2Self-identityThe conceptions we hold about ourselves and our emotional identification with those self-descriptions
- 3Social identityThe expectations and opinions that others have of us
- 4Western cultural repertoire of the self assumes that:- we have a true self;
- we possess an identity that can become known to us
- identity is expressed through forms of representation
- identity is recognisable by ourselves and by others - 5IdentityBest understood not as a fixed identity but as an emotionally charged discursive description of ourselves that is subject to change
- 6Essentialism and identityIdentity exists as a universal and timeless core of the self that we all possess. Persons have an 'essence' of the self that we call identity. Thus a fixed essence for femininity, masculinity, Asians, teenagers...
- 7Anti-essentialism and identityIdentity is cultural 'all the way down', being specific to particular times and places. Here language 'makes' rather' than finds, because words are not taken as having referent with essential/universal qualities. Identity is not a thing but a description in language
- 8Identity as a projectIdentity is our creation, it is always in process, and builds on:
- what we think we are now in the light of our past and present circumstances
- what we think we would like to be, the trajectory of our hoped-for future - 9The enlightenment subjectPerson as unique unified subject an Individual, centred around the mind. That is a Cartesian view, “I think, therefore I am”. People capable of organizing themselves, who take responsibility for their actions and are accountable for them.
- 10The sociological subjectWhere the identity is formed in relation to 'significant' others. Though the self is conceived as possessing an inner unified core, this is formed interacively between the inner world and the outside social world.
- 11The postmodern subjectDecentred self: shifting, fragmented and multiple (sometimes contradictory) identities. Different identities at different times. If we feel to have a unified identity from birth, that is because we construct a comforting story, a narrative about ourselves.
- 12Historical subject of MarxismThe identity is partly based on what you are but also on what you are not. The identity is based on the past, therefore what it is to be a person cannot be universal. A modern capitalist has another identity than a baron with servants.
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