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Sociologists
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- 1Gillespie - Ethnic identity (Punjabi and TV)young British Punjabi use TV and videos to redefine their ethnic identities and how TV and video are used to recreate culture of Asians in Britain
- 2Johal - Ethnic identity (Brasians)Hybrid ethnic culture - e.g. Br-Asian, Asians act Asian in front of parents and British in front of peers, depends on context. Usually peers have more of an influence.
- 3Ghumann - Ethnic identity (asians and values)Tradition, religion and family values play important role in upbringing of second-generation Asians in the UK and family values such as loyalty, honor and religious commitment were important
- 4Mac an Ghaill - Ethnic identity (teachers racist)some teachers held racist attitudes. in response to racism, pupils develop survival strategies in order to resist negative labelling. Included ethnic minority groups forming close relationships and subcultures
- 5Back - Ethnic identity (cultural borrowing)emergence of new identities among peer groups based on 'cultural borrowing' - some young white people were attracted to aspects of black culture and white and black youths developed a shared identity based on mixed ethnicity
- 6Butler - Ethnic identity (asians adopt western ideas)Although young British Asians retained respect for Islam, also adopted some western ideas about education and careers
- 7Brah - Ethnic identity (cultural code switchers)Young British Asians are very skilled cultural code switchers, more appropriate way to see their identities than as a hybrid of a cross between two cultures
- 8Mahmood - Ethnic identity (newly emerging ethnic identity)Criticizes studies of newly-emerging ethnic identities. Claims some of these sociologists have mistakenly assumed that 'new ethnicity' and 'cultural hybrid' are new - for example, Jewish, Irish and others are long established British communities which might be seen as involving hybrid identities
- 9Jacobson - Ethnic identity (young Asians and Islamic identity)Young Pakistanis are adopting a strong Islamic identity. This positive embracing of an Islamic identity in terms of diet, dress and other religious practices is a form of defense and resistance to racism
- 10Rich - sexuality identity (oppress women - compulsory heterosexuality)compulsory heterosexuality - women's sexuality is controlled by men to keep them heterosexual through marriage and domestic violence
- 11Mcintosh - Sexuality identity (labelling - SFP)people are labelled in terms of sexuality and begin to adopt expected characteristics and fulfill the SFP - e.g. ways of speaking for homosexuals
- 12Weeks - Sexuality identity (sexual identity is a strange thing)sexuality is a strange thing, as some people who take part in sexual activity with others of same gender don't identify with being gay, vice versa. Also says that 'i am heterosexual' is relation to identity, but 'i am gay/lesbian' statement of belonging.
- 13Shakespeare 1) disability identity (medical model)MEDICAL MODEL - disabled people often socialised into the way of seeing themselves as victims and that 'the person with impariment may have an investment in their own incapacity, because it can become the rationale for their own failure' - creating victim mentality
- 14Shakespeare 2) disability identity (social model)SOCIAL MODEL - major obstacles to forming a positive disabled identity. Disabled people often socialized to see themselves as inferior. Often isolated from each other, so forming a strong, collective identity is difficult.
- 15Murugami - disability identity (disability is characteristic)disabled person has the ability to construct a self-identity that accepts their impairment but is independent of it. So they see themselves as a person first, and their disability as just one of their characteristics
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- AS - Level Sociology Flashcards on Sociologists , created by georgiezx on 12/05/2016.
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- georgiezx · May 2016
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