Lesson 1.2 UTS

• Family Membership – most significant feature to determine a person’s social identity
• Language and religious affiliation- important marker of group identity
• Personal Naming – a universal practice with numerous cross-cultural variations, establishes a child’s birth right and social identity.
• Three- phased rite of passage - ritual activities to prepare individuals for new roles from one stage of life to another such as birth, puberty, marriage, parenthood, and death
• SEPARATION – people detach from their former identity to another
• LIMINALITY – a person transitions from one identity to another
• INCORPORATION – the change in one’s status is incorporated
• Three phased rite of passage - rites of passage helps a person adjust from social dimensions. But sometimes, individuals disagree on their respective identities.
• Identity Struggles - When there is a discrepancy between the identity a person claims to possess, and the identity attributed to that person by others
• Identity Struggles - When there is a clash between self-identification and inherited collective identification emerging from the cultural changes and conflicting norms and values in the postmodern society.
• Illusion of Wholeness - Exhibits how individual selves throughout the world continuously reconstitute themselves into new selves in response to internal and external stimuli. Therefore the cohesiveness and continuity of self are only illusory.