Module 2. Our Power & Identity

LEARNING OBJECTIVES

At the end of the module, students will be able to:

  1. explain the influence of culture on collective and self-identity
  2. discuss how personal, social, and cultural identities shape perceptions
  3. illustrate the relationship between social labels and categories on status and stratification
  4. evaluate the intersectionality of race and other forms of identity
  5. assess the impact of technological advances and innovation on identity
  6. understand the connection between identity and the reproduction of inequality

 

KEY TERMS & CONCEPTS

Adaptive Culture
Affinity Groups
Alternative Subculture
Anomie
Cancel Culture
Code-switching
Coercive Organizations
Collective Consciousness
Collective Identity
Cultural Capital
Cultural Change
Cultural Generalities
Cultural Patterns
Cultural Traits
Cultural Universal
Cybersocial
Interactions
Defensive Othering
Dropping Out
Gatekeepers
Global Electronic Cultural Communities
Globality
Globalization
Group
Group Dynamics
Heterogenization
Homogenization
Hustling
Ideal Culture
Identity
Idioculture
Implicit Othering
International Culture
Intersectionality
Looking Glass Self
Maladaptive Culture
Mechanical Solidarity
Model Minority
Multiple Identities
National Culture
Normative Organizations
Oppressive Othering
Organic Solidarity
Organization
Organizational Culture
Othering
Power for Patronage
Primary Groups
Racial Trauma
Sanctions
Secondary Groups
Shared Culture
Socializing Agents
Subcultures
Symbolic Power
Transnational Communities
Transnationals
Two-ness
Utilitarian Organizations

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Our Lives: An Ethnic Studies Primer Copyright © 2022 by Vera Guerrero Kennedy and Rowena Bermio is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License, except where otherwise noted.

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