SOSC 111 Lecture Notes - Second International
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Identity used to be much more stable and fixed. Class, work, nation, nationality, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, family. Identity is your sense of self, how you place yourself in the world. Identity is about sameness and difference, i belong to this group and i am different from this group . Identity is tied up with narratives of self. Identity is about choosing and not choosing sometimes you are just placed in categories whether you like it or not. Identity is personal and social personal and collective, groups. For marxists, class most fundamental source of identity. The death of class in the past few decades. Collapse of the socialist second international with first world war. Nationalism the nation as powerful sense of belonging. Marxists view nationalism as an ideology (a mystification that serves class interests) Rise of nationalist right in europe through 1990s globalization, immigration, rising unemployment, welfare cuts.
