Identity_Unit 3

 

🌐 Identity Wheel

Stuart Hall — Cultural identity, social identity, representation, and diaspora.

• Key reading: “Who Needs ‘Identity’?” (1996)

Judith Butler — Gender identity, performativity, and how identity is socially constructed.

• Key work: Gender Trouble (1990)

Paul Ricoeur — Personal identity, selfhood, memory, and narrative identity.

• Key work: Oneself as Another (1990)

Charles Taylor — Identity, recognition, culture, and the self.

• Key work: Sources of the Self (1989)

Erik Erikson — Psychological development and identity formation, especially during adolescence.

• Key work: Identity: Youth and Crisis (1968)

Michel Foucault — Identity, power, discourse, and how society shapes the self.

• Key works: The History of Sexuality and Discipline and Punish

Jean-Paul Sartre — Existential identity, freedom, selfhood, and the relationship between the self and others.

• Key work: Being and Nothingness (1943)

George Herbert Mead — The social construction of the self through interaction with others.

• Key work: Mind, Self, and Society (1934)

Zygmunt Bauman — Fluid, changing identity in modern and postmodern society.

• Key work: Identity (2004

                         ┌──────────────────┐
                         │  NATIONAL        │
                         │  IDENTITY        │
                         │  Example: Nepali │
                         └────────┬─────────┘
                                  │
              ┌───────────────────┼───────────────────┐
              │                   │                   │
              ▼                   ▼                   ▼
     ┌──────────────┐      ┌──────────────┐    ┌──────────────┐
     │   SOCIAL     │      │   PERSONAL   │    │   GLOBAL     │
     │   IDENTITY   │◄────►│   IDENTITY   │◄──►│   IDENTITY   │
     │              │      │              │    │              │
     │ Student      │      │ Creative     │    │ Global       │
     │ Teacher      │      │ Friendly     │    │ citizen      │
     │ Daughter     │      │ Ambitious    │    │ Environment │
     │ Professional │      │ Independent  │    │ human rights │
     └──────┬───────┘      └──────────────┘    └──────────────┘
            │
            ▼
     ┌──────────────────┐
     │   CITIZENSHIP    │
     │     IDENTITY     │
     │                  │
     │ Nepali citizen   │
     │ Rights & duties  │
     │ Voting / laws    │
     │ Civic engagement │
     └──────────────────┘

The Five Dimensions

Identity	What it means	Example
Personal Identity	Characteristics, values, interests and qualities that make you unique	Creative, confident, ambitious, introverted
Social Identity	Identity connected to the groups and roles you belong to	Student, teacher, friend, daughter, professional
National Identity	Sense of belonging to a nation and its culture, history and traditions	Nepali, Nepali language, festivals, cultural heritage
Citizenship Identity	Identity connected to your formal membership in a state, including rights and responsibilities	Nepali citizen, obeying laws, voting, civic participation
Global Identity	Seeing yourself as part of the wider global community	Concern for climate change, human rights, global peace, international cooperation

💡 Classroom Example

A student named Anisha:

• Personal: Creative, hardworking, curious
• Social: University student, daughter, friend, volunteer
• National: Nepali, connected to Nepali culture and traditions
• Citizenship: Nepali citizen with civic rights and responsibilities
• Global: Interested in climate change and global education