SOC202H5 Chapter Notes - Chapter 5: Collective Identity
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Only when a situation has meaning for a specific group of people and that meaning is a negative one can the situation get defined as a social problem. Contruction of a social problem depends on the prior construction of a collective identity. Produced by specific agents claims-makers (creators) Created when audiences (recipients) evaluate claims as believable. If recipients accept the producers" definition becomes a. If they become mobilized to take action social movement. Identity is malleable, fluid, and subject to interpretation. Interactive and shared definition produced by several interacting individuals way of thinking (social mind) that perceives certain situations as troubling and in need of attention. When a collective identity is activated produces a shared. Cultural assertiveness of a specific collective identity based on ethnicity, race etc. Psychologically satisfying yet often relatively low cost. Engages the ethnic or racial group"s intellectual leaders, who.
