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Baraiya Bhavna P. is a second year student with Roll Number 3 studying in the year 2012-13. The document discusses how identity is socially constructed and dependent on one's relationships and roles within a social context. It changes based on one's location and influences the level of agency one has within a given social system. Identity is defined in relation to others and is legitimized through experience and representation rather than as a free or fixed concept.

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Id Identity Name: Baraiya Bhavna P. Roll No: 3 Sem: 2 Year: 2012-13
Identity Crisis • Identity goes on changing place to place •How we get “Identity”…? Relation to ‘Other’ we get identity I(self) = Other E.g. West East (superior Identity) (Inferior Identity)
Identity is socially constructed/legitimized Identity dependent upon the roles played by that person. Constituted through experience, and representation. Free agent. Not have the power of choice.
Notion of ‘femininity’ and ‘masculinity’
Identity based on the ‘location’
Identity determines the degree of agency we possess in a given social system.
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