AS Key Studies Identity

1. Suggests that female friendship groups are a powerful tool for controlling behaviour -> these expectations are rooted in patriarchy (3)
4. We are now defined by water we buy within society rather than what we do within society. (7, 3, 6)
5. Suggests that people have a homosexual career -> a male who has accepted the label of homosexual will seek out others to socialise with -> more about acceptance than identity (7)
6. Argues that the nation is an imagined community and that members of a nation will never meet most of their fellow members (8)
10. Suggest countries dispaly three reactions to globalisation; cultural homogenisation, cultural hybridity, cultural resistance. (6, 4)

1. Considers the white backlash of multiculturalism. As policies to achieve equality have been perceived as unfair to the white community. (6)
3. Suggests that an over generous benefits system has encouraged some people not to take responsibility for their own actions (6)
7. Suggests that fewer people share a common experience of work & jobs for life no more -> people are able to choose their identity rather than having them defined by what job we do. (4)
8. Language used to describe disabled people is discriminative. -> such as deformed & abnormal (4)
9. Found evidence of racism due to the British peoples perceived threat and fear (6)

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