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| Which 3 authors discuss the importance of identity? |
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| What is identity crisis, and to what does it lead? |
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1. Feeling that your identity is being undermines
2. Often leads to people reasserting their familiar cultures and identities |
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| Why is the multiplicity of possible identifications an issue? |
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| Because people are assuming identities based on consumer choices, lifestyles, and subcultures with gender, generation, sexuality, and/or involvements in social movements |
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| What are ascribed identities? |
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| Seen to be giving way to new possibilities of identification involving choice & negotiation in which there is accommodation of pluralism, diversity, change, and transformation |
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| The process of ascribed identities might NOT be considered a problem because: |
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| It is possible to recognize that identity is a fiction and then live and work with that fiction |
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| The process of ascribed identities MIGHT BE a problem because: |
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| For some, identity is considered a kind of "performance" |
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| What two things has globalization done for identity? |
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1. Expanded the repertoire of identity
2. Has been working to change the basis of our relation to identity |
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