SOC 202 Chapter Notes - Chapter 6: Psychosexual Development, Raise Your Glass, Postfeminism
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* magazine ads that appeal to our sense of ourselves as unique individuals, subcultural styles that allow us to create resistant ideas. * essentialist theories say identity is a fundamental, unchanging core of meaning that precedes culture and politics; identity receives it"s legitimacy through it"s grounding in history. * social constructivist theories emphasize cultural and political circumstances in which identities are produced; process through which identity expresses broader social relations. * genetics might establish parameters for what we can do, think or feel but culture gives us the story lines of who we think we are. * persistence in categories such as gender and race as markers of identity highlights the relationship between culture and physicality, unequal pressures encountered by members of different groups to. * in history, who you were was prescribed by the roles you occupied in institutions (school church, family)
