Question

have you ever thought of changing the qualities and identities you have written in the diagram? why?

Answer 1

Answer:

where is the diagram dear....

Answer 2

1.1.1 Summary

Identity involves:

a link between the personal and the social;

some active engagement by those who take up identities;

being the same as some people and different from others, as indicated by symbols and representations;

a tension between how much control I have in constructing my identities and how much control or constraint is exercised over me.

1.2 Who am I?

Let us start with an example of an individual and his identity which illustrates the link between the personal and the social. The social scientist Madan Sarup uses the example of his passport, which gives information about his identity in an official sense. Our passports name, describe and place us. A passport describes an individual; it names one person. It also states to which group, in particular which nation, that person belongs:

I have three passports, all British … In the first one, I am a young man with a lot of hair and a confident smile. My height is 5ft 8in and I am a school teacher. In my second passport photograph, most of the hair has gone. I have a white beard and a serious expression. My height is now 1.73 metres and I am a college lecturer. In the third passport, the smaller red one, I am bald. Again I have a serious expression, but now my face is heavily lined. A friend asks: which is the real you? Of course, people see me in many different ways … I want to have a closer look at my red passport… At the top are the words ‘European community’ … The passport refers to my nationality – British Citizen.

(Sarup, 1996, p. xiv)