{"id":1653,"date":"2006-01-12T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2006-01-12T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/wptest\/2006\/01\/12\/identity-and-postmodern-society-a-philosophical-investigation-into-the-way-identities-are-constructed-in-contemporary-societies\/"},"modified":"2006-01-12T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2006-01-12T00:00:00","slug":"identity-and-postmodern-society-a-philosophical-investigation-into-the-way-identities-are-constructed-in-contemporary-societies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/2006\/01\/12\/identity-and-postmodern-society-a-philosophical-investigation-into-the-way-identities-are-constructed-in-contemporary-societies\/","title":{"rendered":"Identity and Postmodern Society: a Philosophical Investigation into the way Identities are Constructed in Contemporary Societies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Outline: I will be exploring the different factors that contribute to the formation of identity in a Postmodern society and the idea that too many choices\/influences have induced a new desire for singular, primary identities i.e. those based around fundamental religious beliefs\/ rooted in a particular locality etc. Aims: \u2022 To investigate what \u2018identity\u2019 means in the Postmodern age. \u2022 To explore how the influence of social institutions such as the Church, state, patriarchal family etc has been eroded by factors such as globalisation and contrast this with the ways in which people were influenced by these things in the past. \u2022 To examine the ways we try to construct identity on a daily basis i.e. through consumer culture and provide an exposition of the range of choices available to us. \u2022 To show that Postmodernism and the \u2018Network Society\u2019 in the \u2018Information Age\u2019 may leave the individual feeling detached from any kind of immediate society\/community meaning that the chaos and pastiche of postmodernity has led to a need for direction and this is leading to a \u2018regrouping\u2019 around primary identities. \u2022 To provide an exposition of different types of primary identity such as the American Militia and religious fundamentalist groups. Sources: My key thinker will be Manuel Castells and I will be using his book: \u2018The Power of Identity\u2019. Further sources will include:- \u2022 David Harvey: The Condition of Postmodernity \u2022 Craig Calhoun: Social Theory &amp; The Politics of Identity \u2022 Anthony Giddens: Modernity &amp; Self Identity \u2022 Charles Lasch: The culture of Narcissism<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Victoria Stansfield, 2006, Stage 3<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8792,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[461,22,123],"tags":[159,28,157],"class_list":["post-1653","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-461","category-abstracts","category-stage-3-abstracts","tag-consumerism","tag-identity","tag-postmodernism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1653","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8792"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1653"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1653\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}