Lecture seven; Identity.

- Essentialism
If one part of your brain is larger. another part is likely to be lacking.
- Physiognomy; the study of facial characteristics. A suggestion that you can study someones facial characteristics and tell how intelligent someone is. 
- Chris Ofilli 'Holy virgin Mary' - A black artist trying to fit into something that had white culture. 
- Pre modern identity
- Modern identity 
- Post modern identity
Different as times change/
- Secure identities...
Farmer worker
Soldier 
Factory worker
Housewife
Gentleman
Househusband
- The more valuable goods you have within modern identity, the more you are showing you don't need to work. 
- The upper class want to distinguish themselves from the lower class.
- Identity is constructed out of the discourses culturally avaliable to us.
- Discourses include things such as your age and background. 
- Class, nationality. race, gender, sexuality.
Class; 
- Working class emerges when people move to cities and start working in factories/
'Mass observation' 1937.
Northern people being observed by southern people - shows a divide. 
- Martin Parr; makes the identity of particular countries quite 'jokey' using particular stereotypes. 
Las Vegas; the rest of the world can be seen here through symbolic identity.
- Chris Ofilli uses things from his heritage to show he is proud in his work. 
Gender and sexuality; 
- Tends to be more about women. 
- Women are breaking into a field that has previously been dominated by men. 
- The difference between men and women means that men are praised for things which would be seen as 'wrong' if a woman did the same thing. 
- Identity is constructed through our social experiences. 
- Social networking creates false identity.