SOC 202 Chapter Notes - Chapter 6: Louis Althusser, Frantz Fanon, Mirror Stage

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 202
• Professor: Stephen Muzzatti

Document Summary

Transamerica, the film is interesting as a paradigmatic exploration of the traditional western theme of identity. Popular culture testifies to the centrality of identity on producing meaning and pleasure in out everyday lives. Identity as something inherent within an individual or group, foregrounding instead the complex process through which narratives of identity express broader social relations, including and especially relations of power. Over the course of the last century, development in the field of psychology, political theory, and philosophy have highlighted some of the logical and practical problems with essentialism, while offering variations on constructivist models of identity. Genetics might establish broad parameters for what we can do, think, or feel, but it is culture that give us the ingredients to establish the story lives of who we think we are. Embodied subjectivity: contemporary practises such as health and fitness, regimes and forms of body modification such as tattooing, piercing, and plastic surgery. The history of identity some different theories.