What is my lecturer's definition for Personal Identity?
Personal Identity is used to refer to self-categories which define the individual in terms of their individual differences from others
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What is my definition of Personal Identity?
Personal Identity refers to categories that make us unique
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What is my lecturer's definition for Social Identity?
Social Identity refers to the social categorical self and ways in which we can be labelled based on our role within social settings
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What is my definition for Social Identity?
Social identity refers to ways we can be labelled by society, and it often is the same categories used for data collection in things like the census
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What are some examples of Social Identity?
Some examples of Social Identity would be:
-age
-gender
-ethnicity
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What are some examples of Personal Identity?
Some examples of Personal Identity would be:
-habits
-interests
-preferences
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What does Personal Identity relate to?
It relates to our personality and characteristics
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What does Social identity relate to?
It relates to formal roles or other ways in which we might be defined
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Is there a clear cut difference between Social and Personal Identities?
No, there's not always a clear difference - e.g. ethnicity is usually considered a social identity, but if someone is greatly influenced by the culture of their ethnicity, then this would be something personal to them.
Therefore, we could call this a Pe
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What were my lecturer's 3 key summary points on Bucholtz's and Hall's Identity and Interaction theory?
The key summary is as follows:
1. identity is produced through linguistic interaction
2. Identity is sociocultural
3. 'Identity is the product rather than the source of linguistic practices'
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What was my lecturer's full summary of the Identity and Interaction theory?
The full summary was: We construct our identity through our language. Language is not simply a means of reflecting who we are, but creating a way of presenting ourselves through negotiated interactions. It is changeable and subject to various contextual f
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My comment on lecturer's summary
Because Bucholtz and Hall don't believe that identity is fixed, language isn't used to reflect a fixed identity.
Instead, it's used to create an identity 'on the spot'/present ourselves in a certain way and the identity chosen to be created is based on
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What is my definition of Personal Identity?
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Personal Identity refers to categories that make us unique
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What is my lecturer's definition for Social Identity?
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