Identity determines who belongs; who determines who belongs; who belongs where and how does someone belong
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How is putting someone in a category power?
To determine which category someone belongs to can be seen as public accusation
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What are the principles of classifications?
There are consistent, unique classificatory principles in operation; categories are mutually exclusive and the system is complete, it is universal and classifies everybody
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What are categories a reflection of?
The present so therefore they change over time as they are a social construction of knowledge and the importance of knowledge at the time
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What does order create?
A hierarchy
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How is social identity doubly symbolic?
When you are the same as a group and the group acknowledges you are the same as it so therefore you are a member of the group
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What is the power of recognition?
The group may not recognise you as part of the group so you are an exile
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How did Druckman view identity?
“Membership in a clan, religious or ethnic group becomes part of an individual’ self-identity and critical to sense of self-worth”
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How does Anderson explore the concept of the "imagined community"
It is a large social space in which all of the members cannot meet face-to-face but nevertheless feel socially connected because they all share the core values, morals and experiences
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What effect does loyalties have on identity?
People defend those groups that are more important to their definition of who they are, these loyalties differentiate whom to support and whom to avoid
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What are the symbolic systems of recognition?
Trust; protection; belonging
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What is within the horizontal unity?
The vertical orientation of social status
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What did Dalal say about security?
"People experience levels of security in relation to their own and other’s perceptions of their structure position within the group”
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What does the symbolic system set out?
Criteria upon which performance will be judged
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What is the embodiment process?
The production of the effect of identity, the effect of various modes of affiliation is an embodiment process
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What are some examples of belonging as performance through ritual?
Narratives, texts, food, dress, acts, group culture, hybridity, authenticity, taking an oath, a national anthem, different clothes and eating certain foods
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What did McNay say about performativity in identity?
It should be thought of as a temporal regulation of socio-symbolic norms and practise where the idea of the performative expressed the cultural arbitrariness of the “performed” nature of identity
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What is a hegemony?
Class as bodies with shared interests, often thought as shared economic or material interests
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How is putting someone in a category power?
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To determine which category someone belongs to can be seen as public accusation
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