INTC 1F90 Final: Final Lecture.docx

• School: Brock University
• Department: Intercultural Studies
• Course: INTC 1F90
• Professor: Jeff Reichheld

Document Summary

Identity construction: relationship to culture, significant influences: family, media and peer group, grand narrative: tells what culture s/b like; therefore tells what individuals s/b like. Taken for granted: culture and identity natural , do not question either. 2 kinds of identity: ascribed and avowed: outside/inside; etic/emic. Stereotype: categories to make sense of the world, become reified (ie ascribed identity, become prejudice. Presence of other: shapes / defines in-group/out-group, me/not me; us/ not us. Identity: a relatively stable understanding of self in respect to culture. Group formation (boundaries) not negative, but can cause negative effects: ethnocentrism, stereotyping, prejudice, etc. Race and ethnicity: constructs based on external factors; physical characteristics (race) history and location (ethnicity, difference = power, because they"re learned, we can interrogate them. Symbol: stands in for an object; not the object itself. Language and symbol arbitrary and conventional i. e. agreed to have the meaning; no natural connection to the object.