Assignment- Cultural Studies

Assignment

Name:-Hareshwari Kapdi

Sem-2

Batch:-2019-2020

Roll no:-6

Submitted by:- Smt.S.B. Gardi Department of English MKBU

Paper:- Cultural Studies

Paper no:-8

Course:- M.A. English

Topic:- Identity

# Introduction:-

Identity can be argued to be something unique to each of us that we assume is more or less consistent (and hence the same) over time.. our identity is something we uniquely possess: it is what distinguishes us from others.

#Definition:-

1. The set of behavioural or personal characteristics by which an individual is recognizable as a  member of a group.
2.  The quality or condition of being the same as something else.
3. The distinct personality of an individual regarded as a persisting entity; individuality.

#What is Identity:-

I'd like to propose a more holistic version of "identity". It starts at the foundation, and ends in a concept we are currently calling "Self-sovvereign Identity. "I suspect the latter name will evolve over time, but the concepts are beautiful and important.

" Identity is never solidified and always in flux. Instead of a single. Unchanging self, we might consider a 'liquid self', one more verb than noun."

-Nathan Jurgenson

Identity is who you are- it's everything that makes you,you-memories, relationships, secrets etc.

Identity is recognition & discernment-others need to confidently assess that you, and not a counterfeit

Identity is correlation management- Organisations use powerful databases to correlate pleces of our identity, with little respect to our rights to privacy and selective disclosure.

1. Identity is who you are. We sometimes break it up into preformal identity (memories, relationships, secrets) and formal identity (documents, numbers, names-i.e. administrative identity) but it's all part of our identity. Everywhere that we intersect with the world is a bit of Identity-Discovery meets Identity-Creation . Sometimes this selfhood is called " ipseity".
2. Identity is recognition and discernment. Identity is also about others seeing us and differentiating us from all of the other people in  their lives. The need to confidently assess that you are you, and not counterfeit.

A login and password is how we make it easy for a computer to tell people apart, while a face, voice, and a shared history is how humans naturally identity each other. The login and password was created to suit the computational regime of 1960s computers: the mere record of hundreds of names and passwords was "challenging" at the on the other hand, human beings have evolved to computational capabilities like vision, pattern recognition,  dimensionality reduction, internal representation , and shared representation of identity in social spheres. Computers are still catching up in this area, and their weaknesses are exploitable.

3. Identity is correlation  management-  Human dignity requires that we have the right to selectively disclose parts of us as we gain trust in others. The "getting-to-know-you" phase of a relationship is not trivial, nor can it be easily shortcutted (as most OkCupid and Tinder users will tell you.

Databases often strip the right to selective disclosure away by implementing powerful correlation techniques. Perhaps your picture is on Twitter and Facebook, and suddenly Google can connect everything you've said in both places about yourself. The right to privacy and self-disclosure is an important part of identity.

#What is a person's identity ?

Identity is the qualities, beliefs, personality, looks and/or expressions that make a person (self- identity) or group (collective identity) , in Psychology. Categorising identity can be positive or destructive. Other aspects of identity, such as racial, religious, ethnic, occupational etc.

" Unless we base our sense of identity upon the truth of who we are, it is impossible to attain true happiness"

Identity of I (poem)

Identity is not what I promise other

Identity is what I do when I am alone

Identity is what I think of others

Knowing all the hatred they've shown

Identity is what every wound reminds me

Identity is what I learn and what I pass by

Identity is what I see in the mirror

After giving my best try

Identity is what I make out of my given chance

Identity is what I accept and what I sent

No one else has control over me

Life is about me, and what I Identifiy 

  -Abhiraj Rajadhyaksha

The identity of a person is, for Cultural Studies, dependent upon the roles played by that person, the signs that designate that person. Identity is constituted through experience, and representations is a significant part of experience, Experience includes the consumption is a significant part of experience. Experience includes the consumption of signs, the making of meaning from signs and the knowledge of meaning. However, Cultural Studies believes that experience also masks the connections between different structures in society. We do not always understand that we are not in control of our lives, and that we are subject to ideological control. That is, experience often makes us believe that we are free agents, when we are in reality victims of discursive and ideological regimes that treat us as consumers alone. We do not always have the power of choice that is in itself an illustration generated through representation.

Cultural studies examines how representation function in a particular society.

The definition of identity is who you are, the way you think about yourself, the way you are viewed by the world and the characteristics that define you. An example of identity is a person's name . An example of identity are the traditional characteristics of an American.

#Reference:-

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•  "Social Identity Theory". Universiteit Twente. Retrieved 2008-05-24.

•  Benet-Martínez, V., & Hong, Y-Y. (2014).

# Conclusion:-

In Cultural Studies the preferred term to speak about 'meanings' is 'representation' . Representation is the process of signifying, and includes the word/ sign and it's concept/ meaning. Representation presents the world in such a way that we can understand it. Representation can be an  image,a word a sound of concept. It uses these 'signs' in order to generate meaning. That is, representation is the alphabet of a Culture: the alphabet is used to make meaningful sentence. In short, it is language.

Word+ concept behind the word =meaning

Word, concept, meaning, context= representation.