By Richard Jenkins
With no social id there is not any human international. with out frameworks of similarity and distinction, humans will be not able to narrate to one another in a constant and significant model. within the moment version of this hugely profitable textual content, Richard Jenkins develops his argument that identification is either person and collective, and may for this reason be thought of inside one analytic framework. utilizing the paintings of significant social theorists, comparable to Mead Goffman and Barthes, to discover the event of identification in lifestyle, Jenkins considers various diverse matters, together with: embodiment categorization and bounds the institutionalizing of identities id and modernity. Written in an open and student-friendly variety all through, this multidisciplinary textual content has been completely revised and up to date, and is vital studying for all scholars attracted to the idea that of identification within the modern global.
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At this point, Mead hypothesises the existence of a ‘generalized other’, representing the organised community to which an individual belongs and against which she is poised and defined. Simply taking the attitude(s) of specific individual others – a looking-glass self – might produce a series of ‘me’s, rendering the self inherently unstable over time (the ‘me’ would thus be similar to the ‘I’). A degree of personal consistency in the self can, therefore, only be assured by taking on consistent attitudes.
6 Mead offers us the prospect of placing the thinking of individuals at the centre of the human world without lapsing into either precious subjectivity or mechanical objectivity. Mental processes become neither wholly interior nor wholly exterior. Cognition and consciousness may seem to be some distance from identity. An interactional view of (the) mind is, however, vital for an understanding of identification. The self is unimaginable without mental processes, and vice versa. Identity without selfhood is similarly implausible.
Thus individual and collective identities are systematically produced, reproduced and implicated in each other. Following Foucault, Hacking (1990) argues that the classification of individuals is at the heart of modern, bureaucratically rational strategies of government and control (which is not a back-door admission of the distinctive modernity of discourses of identity, or reflexive identity itself). Identities exist and are acquired, claimed and allocated within power relations. Identification is something over which struggles take place and with which strategems are advanced – it is means and end in politics – and at stake is the classification of populations as well the classification of individuals.
