ANTA02H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 5: Canadian Identity, Social Code, Enculturation
25 Mar 2013
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Identity learned personal and social types of affiliation including gender, sexuality, race, class, nationalism, and ethnicity, for example. Stories present people of all ages with ways of knowing about whom they are and where they came from. Storytelling is also a way of communicating information from one generation to another. Hugh brody highlights that we are not born knowing who we are or what our places are on the social landscape; we learn to be canadian or japanese, husbands or wives, andrea, gavin, We learn how we related to others as songs, daughters, students, friends or lovers. Our sense of canadianness, like any other identity, is cultivated and learned through various agents of enculturation the process through which individuals learn an identity. This can encompass parental socialization, the influence of peers, the mass media, government, or other forces. Personal names in all societies are intimate markers of the person, differentiating individuals from others.
