Please enable JavaScript.
Coggle requires JavaScript to display documents.
Identity - Coggle Diagram
Identity
GENDER IDENTITY
-
-
-
-
WILSON (1975)
Necessity of reproduction requires men to be promiscuous - 'spreading the seed'. While women need to stay loyal to their husbands to ensure his help in the upbringing of their child and to nurture their child.
PARSONS (1955)
Females have an expressive role in the family - natural and based on their childbearing role. Men have an instrumental role - natural and based on their physical strength. Both however are reinforced through socialisation.
FEMINIST PERSPECTIVE
Gender identity is socially constructed by a patriarchal society. Male dominated society creates and reinforces stereotypes of how males and females should be.
MAC AN GHAIL
'Macho lads' value the 3F's - Fighting, Football and F*ing'.
-
-
SEXUAL IDENTITY
REISS (1961)
Young male prostitutes regarded themselves as heterosexual, regardless of the fact they had sex with men for money. They actively despised the men as a way of neutralising their behaviour.
PLUMMER (1996)
Suggests that homosexuality is a process and males who accepted the label of homosexuality will seek out others and join a subculture.
-
Historically, homosexuality has been considered: a perversion, a mental illness and even a criminal offence.
-
Suggests that homosexuality is a process, males who accepts the label of homosexuality will seek out others and join a subculture.
RICH (1980) - Argues that women's sexuality is oppressed by men in patriarchal society, through institutions such as marriage, sexual violence and through the sexual objectification of women. Women are socialised into a subordinate and heterosexual role, ensuring there ability to men.
-
DISABILITY IDENTITY
A physical or mental condition that limits a person's movements, senses or activities.
The Medical Model
-
-
-
Leads to a 'victim-blaming' mentality, where the problem lies with the disabled individual, rather than with a society that has not met their needs.
SHAKESPEARE (1996) - Argues disabled people are often socialised into this way of seeing themselves as victims, and that 'the person with impairment may have an investment in their own incapacity, because it can become the rationale for their own failure'. Thus creating a victim mentality.
The Social model
-
Society is the disabling factor, rather than the individual. For example, the design of buildings which deny access to those with mobility problems.
Approach can lead to the view that disability is socially constructed, since it rests on assumptions of what is 'normal' and 'abnormal'.
SHAKESPEARE (1969) - Argued that there are major obstacles to forming a positive disabled identity. Disabled people are often socialised to see themselves as inferior. Disabled people are often isolated from one another, so forming a strong, collective, identity is difficult. Also a lack of positive role models in the media.
The label disabled carries a negative label that affects all interactions between the disabled person and others. key issue for many disabled people is that their disability becomes the defining aspect of their identity for others, see them in relation to their disability.
MURUGAMI (2009)
Argues that a disabled person has the ability to construct a self-identity that accepts their impairment but is independent. Thye see themselves as a person first, and see their disability as just one of their characteristics.
AGE IDENTITY
-
-
POSTMAN
In contemporary societies, new technologies such as the internet or television blur the separation between childhood and adulthood as children now have access to the 'adult world'.
-
-