Chapter 3: identity

any relationship between two or more individuals in a network of relationships that involve an element of individual agency as well as group expectations and form the basis of social organization and social structure.

the status of being a person

how a society determines right and wrong

How has your society's behaviors been changed by outside influences

How the males and females and others of your family organization connect to each other

structures and activities that transmit social inequality from one generation to the next

stylized and usually repetitive acts that take place at a set time and location

stories that transmit a culturally meaningful messages about the universe, the natural

the way in which humans organize themselves in groups and networks.

The relative social position of an individual and the part a society expects an individual to play in a given status.

• Ojibwa Native tribe - attribute personhood to all forms of nature, and is tied to one’s relationship with their ancestors

• Hindu - Personhood is tied to one’s past life actions

• The way people develop their cultural identity

  • Understood on individual level

• social characteristics

• language

• locality

• kinship

• age

• nationality

• social class

• Identify is primarily through people’s relationship with other

• dependent upon the social context in which a person finds themselves

When a person fluent in many languages is placed in a position to choose which part of their identity to bring “forward”