ANTA02H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 5: Arnold Van Gennep, Trobriand Islands, Gennep

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Identity: learned personal and social types of affiliation, including gender, sexuality, race, class, nationalism, and ethnicity, for example. Enculturation: the process through which individuals learn an identity. This can encompass parental sociolization, the influence of peers, mass media, governments, or other forces. Imagined community: a term coined by benedict anderson in 1983. It refers to the fact that even in the absence of face-to-face interactions, a sense of community is culturally constructed by forces such as the mass media. Natures vs nurture: coined by francis galton in 2974. References a longstanding scholarly debate concerning whether or not human behaviors and identities are the result of nature (biological) or nurture (learned). Individualistic: a view of the self in which the individual is primarily responsible for his or her own actions. Holistic: when an individual"s sense of self cannot be conceives as existing separately from society or apart from his or her status or role.

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