Consumption, Leisure, globalisation and identity: LT11

Question 1

Lyotard: Postmodernist

Answer 1

‘Big theories’ of identity formation (class, gender ethnicity) are metanarratives and no longer explain why people adopt identity

Question 2

What have Idenitities become ?

Answer 2

more fluid and are constantly changing

Question 3

Bocock: Postmodernist

Answer 3

People are shopping for lifestyle and in effect buying and creating ideno

Question 4

Dittmar: consumer society

Answer 4

Buying material possessions help reinforce identity.

Question 5

Bauman: Consumer society

Answer 5

Life has become a shopping mall consuming whatever you want creating an identity

Question 6

Strinati: media society

Answer 6

The media and popular culture has become increasingly powerful in shaping consumer choices

Question 7

Clarke and Critcher: leisure and cap

Answer 7

Individuals are manipulated in capitalist society to take part in certain leisure activities

Question 8

However, leisure and capitalism

Answer 8

In today’s society there are groups that resist commercialisation of leisure

Question 9

Urry: post-modernity

Answer 9

Tourism is being sold on the basis of ‘identity packaging’

Question 10

Tourist Gaze: Urry

Answer 10

Viewing and experiencing of objects or locations with curiosity or interests for tourists or

Question 11

What factors impact our choice of identity?

Answer 11

. Occupation: Money
. Social class: Money
. Age: Peer group
. Gender: Gender role socialisation
. Ethnicity

Question 12

The effects of globalisation on identity?

Answer 12

. More diversity: people have wider access to global media
. International tourism: Absorb other cultures
. Migration: Communities more diverse

Question 13

Responses to globalisation:

Answer 13

1. Reaffirming traditional identity
2. Ethnic minority emphasis culture
3. Hybrid identity