What Influences Our Social Identity? (continued)
Overview
A teenager streams music from one continent, wears fashion designed on another, eats food with roots in a third, and chats with friends across the globe, all before breakfast. Globalisation has thrown the world's cultures together as never before, and identity has become something people increasingly assemble rather than simply inherit. This topic asks what that does to who we are.
Here you will meet the key ideas of identity in a global age: cultural defence, where people cling to tradition; hybrid identities, where cultures blend into something new; and homogenisation, the fear that the world is becoming the same everywhere. You will weigh the gains and losses of cultural diversity, multiculturalism and global culture, and explore digital identities and the pick-and-mix way many people now build the self out of what they consume.
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- Cultural defence.
- Hybrid identities.
- The homogenisation of identities (b) Positive and negative impacts on identity of:.
- Cultural diversity.
- Multiculturalism.
- Global culture.
- Digital identities.
- Identities linked to consumption patterns and lifestyle in a ‘pick and mix’ society.
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- Holding on tightly to a traditional culture or religion to protect identity is known as: A. hybridity B. cultural defence C. homogenisation D. assimilation Answer: B
- A new, mixed identity formed by blending two or more cultures is called a: A. global identity B. digital identity C. hybrid identity D. master identity Answer: C
- The process by which cultures around the world become more similar is called: A. multiculturalism B. homogenisation C. cultural defence D. socialisation Answer: B
- Which sociologist is associated with the idea that identities are constantly remade through cultural mixing? A. Talcott Parsons B. Ann Oakley C. Stuart Hall D. Charles Cooley Answer: C
- A pick-and-mix approach to identity suggests that people increasingly build the self from: A. the social class they are born into B. what they choose to consume C. their biological sex D. formal social control Answer: B
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