1. What is Identity, and How are Identities Constructed?
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What is Identity, and How are Identities Constructed?

2. Identity How people view themselves Constantly changing Space Scale
Time

3. Identifying Against Defining certain groups as “other”
Defining our own group as “not other”
Stereotypes aid this
Why would people do this?
What are some examples?

4. Gender Social differences men and women, rather than anatomical
Defines what is “feminine” and “masculine”
What are some of these feminine and masculine qualities identified in the U.S.?
What are some things that we associate with being masculine or feminine
Changes greatly over
Time
Space

5. Race A categorization of Humans based on physical characteristics
Some characteristics deemed more important within societies
Skin color not a reliable indicator for genetic closeness
Japanese, Serbian, and Norwegian children
Kenyan, Australian, and Indian children

6. Race Questions What races do we acknowledge today?
Why do we classify based off of skin color?

7. Racism What is racism? How is this identifying against?
Attitude towards visible differences in individuals resulting in concepts of superiority
How is this identifying against?
Can lead to an ascribed status as opposed to an achieved status
Can impact work, social life, living situation, and many other aspects of life

8. Segregation
The act of setting one or more groups apart from another or others
Residential Segregation: the degree to which two or more groups live separately from one another in different parts of an environment
Five measurements of segregation:
Evenness
Exposure
Concentration
Centralized
Clustered

9. Invasion and Succession
One group of immigrants come to a city
New immigrants move to a city
Other immigrants often occupy space in the city
New immigrants displace old