ANTH 1120 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Nebulous, Anthropology Today, Enculturation
14 Oct 2017
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Making sense of a changing world: anthropology today. Social identity: the view people have of their own and others positions in society. Social identities are earned personal and social affiliations including gender, sexuality, race, class, national identity, etc. Social identities are critical to the functioning of any society; they help individuals understand their own place, role and function in the world, and how to relate to others -enculturation. We are talking about the relationship between self and society-each of us individuals and the border world we live in. Social identities exists everywhere in the world (the view people have on their own and other. Social identities are learned, and personal- help create relations in society. As anthropologists social identity is not biologically imprint, we are not born to know who we are we learn how to be white or black. We learn from society about how we look at ourselves.
