IS 1004 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: John Locke, Individualism

• School: Virginia Tech
• Department: International Studies
• Course: IS 1004
• Professor: All

Document Summary

Identities become part of the self as the self moves through its history. They provide the basis of meaning and cosmic self worth. Communities of scarcity suppress choice and individualism by means of. Where as societies of surplus emphasize choice and individualism based on. Learning how to desire occurs differently in traditional communities defined by scarcity. The basic theme that we want to understand is. One of the keys to the answers is the distinction between the self and the identities assumed by the self. Identity refers to our projections of ourselves symbolically into the world in terms of multiple public demands, values, and obligations that define our roles. moment within a communal or public context. We shape our communal identities, our cultural identities shape us. Culture grounds this through symbols, rituals, values, and institutions to which we become attached and to which we identify understanding of the sacred ground of being.