Scottish national identity

THEORETICAL FOUNDATION AND HYPOTHSES Status and status dissimilarity People pursue status in social groups (Anderson & Kilduff, 2009). Firstly, what is status? In the existing literature, quite a lot of overlaps exist with the definitions of status. Among them, respect is widely recognized as indicators of peoples’ position and status within social collectives (Anderson & Kilduff, 2009; Bendersky & Shah, 2013). Thus, to put it explicitly, status is defined as the respect ones receive from…

motivated to accentuate the identity of their groups and protect, defend and improve the value afforded to those groups and their members (Ellemers & Haslam, 2012). In some instances this process can be to the detriment of other groups and their members (Tajfel, 1978c). Identity management strategies. There are certain strategies that individuals in groups can adopt in order to address the low-status of their social groups and in turn recuperate the value of their social identity (Ellemers &…

But there 's no easy self identifier that can explain an entire human, and sometimes self-identifiers make others who don 't fit into an easy category feel alien and isolated when they have no reason to be. Your identity should not be comprised of simple tags, it 's easy to know when friends describe people as “the one with the nose” that their nose isn 't the only thing that characterizes them. However, it 's harder for people to accept that if they are unable to…

In the Disney animated classic, “Beauty and the Beast”, there is a scene where Gaston is talking to Belle and he takes her book away and says to her, “It’s not right for a woman to read. Soon she starts getting ideas…and thinking..” Gaston saying this wasn’t even the part that is wrong with the entire picture; it’s the fact that the entire village agrees with him because women reading was not something women should be doing back in that day. Women were seen as cookers, cleaners, and the ones who…

There are many different cultures that exist in our current society. Many cultural conflicts in the past have led to superiority of cultures over others, which has resulted in slavery in some cases. This leads to the concept of cultures, clashes, communities and freedom. These concepts can be conveyed through many different ideas in texts. The two texts The astonishing life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation by M.T. Anderson and The Arrival by Shaun Tan, convey the ideas of cultural…

on in Sociology. Through the concept of identity, a piece of self, we can dive deeper into how humans manage impressions and techniques used in face saving. In various episodes of Dexter, notions of identity, impression management, and saving face can be observed. TIE IN TRANSITION OF IDENTITY…

This helps achieve her purpose of embracing one’s true heritage and identity as she states, “I will no longer feel ashamed of existing, I will have my voice: Indian, Spanish, white. I will have my serpent’s tongue...I will overcome the tradition of silence” (Anzaldua 59). This statement shows how much the author has grown…

1.2 What is the social choice theory? Nowadays, Social choice theory become a tool for an analysis of collective decision making. The member should start out their opinions or values clearly of a given community or the citizens to attempts to derive from the collective verdict or statement. For this situation can be called direct democracy were determined directly by the members or the citizens of the society. The other form of democratic government is also possible and frequently find in modern…

Identity is a complex concept and it can be explained in many contexts. However, we can think of identity as an exterior and interior factor to define an individual. In the play Yellow Face, the characters Marcus and David struggle with their identity and they both have their own interpretation of what identity is. Marcus point of view is that identity is self-constructed and David’s perspective on identity is socially constructed. Identity of an individual should comprise both the socially…

My Life “Culture” can be defined to each individual in a unique way. According to Merriam-Webster, culture is, “the customary beliefs, social forms, and material traits of a racial, religious, or social group” (Dictionary.com). Personally, I believe that someone's culture is made up of family, friends, memories, traditions and so much more. My personal culture is made up of my whole existence including my large Italian family, social life, and sports. To define my culture with just a few words…