ANT102H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: The Dilemma, Umbundu, Menopause
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Our social identities are constructed by large part by others, who, by their behaviour toward us, confirm that we occupy the spot of the landscape we claim to occupy: nobody is anybody except in relation to somebody. Identity learned personal and social types of affiliation, including gender, sexuality race, class, nationalism, and ethnicity, for example. Hugh brody suggest that the innuit baby begin to know that she is an important member of her family almost the moment she is born. Stories present people of all ages with ways of knowing about who thy are and where they come from. We are not born knowing who we are or what our places are on the social landscape; we learn to be canadian, husbands, wives, etc. Enculturation the process through which individuals learn an identity. This can encompass parental socialization, the influence of peers, the mass media, government, or other forces. Imagined community a term coined by benedict anderson in 1983.
