Coming of Age Week 3 Lesson 1

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Coming of Age 

Week 3 

Lesson 1

The individual and society

How do you define yourself?

Social identities reflect the way individuals and groups internalise established social categories within their societies, such as their cultural (or ethnic) identities, gender identities, class identities, and so on. 

These social categories shape our ideas about who we think we are, how we want to be seen by others, and the groups to which we belong

Othering is a concept used to define someone's own 'normal' identity by distancing oneself from the Other.  

With Other one means someone else and is therefore classified as different. 

The idea of ‘otherness’ is central to sociological analyses of how majority and minority identities are constructed.

The representation of different groups within any given society is controlled by groups that have greater political power.

How is your protagonist/character "other"?

 Social identities are created through our ongoing social interaction with other people and our subsequent self-reflection about who we think we are according to these social exchanges

 identities are produced through agreement, disagreement, and negotiation with other people. We adjust our behaviour and our self-image based upon our interactions and our self-reflection about these interactions

How has an interaction or event changed how your protagonist sees him/herself?