Social identities in consumer‐brand relationship: The case of the Hijab‐wearing Barbie doll in the United States

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Suman Mishra ◽  
Amal Bakry
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
The United States ◽  
Social Identities ◽  
Barbie Doll ◽  
Brand Relationship

Queer as Trad

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tes Slominski
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Traditional Music ◽  
The United States ◽  
Social Identities ◽  
Musical Performance ◽  
Ethnographic Interviews ◽  
Music Scene ◽  
Ethnicity And Race ◽  
Irish Traditional Music

This chapter demonstrates that studying the experiences of queer musicians and dancers is vital to understanding the relationships among music, selfhood, and social identities in Irish traditional music. By breaking the silence around LGBTQ performers of Irish traditional music through ethnographic interviews with queer musicians in the United States, this chapter addresses the paradox that non-normative participants experience musical performance as simultaneously liberatory and confining. This chapter explores musicians’ feelingful experiences of “the music itself” as an escape and examines the issues queer musicians face in gaining recognition in the Irish traditional music scene. More broadly, this chapter begins a conversation about nationalist assumptions around sexuality, gender, ethnicity, and race still implicit in the (re)production of sounds and bodily practices considered “Irish.”

Relational Racializations

2019 ◽  
pp. 89-101
Author(s):  
Frances R. Aparicio
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Puerto Rico ◽  
Skin Color ◽  
The United States ◽  
Social Identities ◽  
National Identities ◽  
Racial Experiences ◽  
Light Skin ◽  
The Social ◽  
Social Meanings

I examine the racial experiences that four Intralatino/as have had visiting their respective home countries, as well as within their own social circles in Chicago, in being excluded and Othered in terms of their skin color and their multiple, hybrid national identities. These experiences with race and skin color—both dark and light skin colors—are informed by the dominant racial national imaginaries of countries such as Mexico, Puerto Rico, Colombia and Ecuador. While highlighting the relational and situational nature of the social meanings accorded to skin color, these four anecdotes of racial belonging and non-belonging also problematize and complicate our understanding of race and social identities in the United States.

Ambiguous Financial Responsibilities: Second Wives and Alimony Reform Activism in the United States

2016 ◽  
Vol 38 (17) ◽  
pp. 2474-2494 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jocelyn Elise Crowley
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Social Movement ◽  
Collective Identity ◽  
The United States ◽  
Social Identities ◽  
Financial Transfers ◽  
Human Relationships ◽  
Boundary Ambiguity ◽  
The Social ◽  
Financial Obligations

Alimony, which involves financial transfers from mostly men to women after a divorce, has recently received more scrutiny in the United States by members of an emerging social movement. These activists are attempting to change alimony policy in ways that economically benefit them. One important part of this movement are second wives, who ally themselves with their new husbands and against first wives in the pursuit of alimony reform. This analysis examines how these second wives articulate their objections to alimony by introducing the concept of economic boundary ambiguity, meaning in this case, a state of human relationships where financial obligations between first and second wives are contested. In addition to creating several tangible stressors, economic boundary ambiguity can also have important consequences for women’s own social identities as well as the collective identity and the success of the social movement overall.

Grandfamilies in the United States: an intersectional analysis

2018 ◽  
pp. 189-208
Author(s):  
Megan L. Dolbin-MacNab ◽  
April L. Few-Demo
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Critical Analysis ◽  
Social Systems ◽  
The United States ◽  
Social Identities ◽  
Grandparents Raising Grandchildren ◽  
Cultural Contexts ◽  
Race And Class ◽  
The Family ◽  
Political Intersectionality

This chapter utilised the theoretical framework of intersectionality to provide a critical analysis of grandparents raising grandchildren, or grandfamilies, in the United States. The analysis focused on how grandparents’ multiple social identities may overlap and conflict with one another, and how these social identities are embedded within historical and cultural contexts that privilege some social identities over others. By considering representational, structural, and political intersectionality, the current analysis revealed that oppressive discourses related to age, gender, race, and class are central to understanding the challenges facing grandfamilies. Even the family structure itself can be a basis for marginalisation. Finally, the analysis also revealed how social systems of oppression are reproduced structurally through federal and state policies that, while designed to be supportive, may further oppress and disempower grandfamilies with specific social identities..

Implicit Political Identity

2013 ◽  
Vol 46 (03) ◽  
pp. 545-549 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alexander George Theodoridis
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Social Class ◽  
Political Behavior ◽  
Political Identity ◽  
The United States ◽  
Social Identities ◽  
Precise Definition ◽  
Measurement Strategy ◽  
Party Ideology ◽  
Conceptual Foundations

It is easy enough to rattle off numerous categories of social identities long of interest to political behavior scholars—race, sex, state or nation, party, ideology, social class, etc. But, a precise definition and measurement strategy for examining these identities is more elusive. This article discusses the conceptual foundations of a recently developed approach to measuring identity and focuses on its specific application as a new measure of partisanship in the United States.

scholarly journals The Affective Politics of the Precariat: Reconsidering Alternative Histories of Grassroots Worker Organising

2016 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Jennifer Jihye Chun
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Social Change ◽  
The United States ◽  
Social Identities ◽  
Top Down ◽  
Liberal Politics ◽  
Global Era ◽  
The Past ◽  
Liberal Capitalism ◽  
White Immigrants

<p>This article engages with Guy Standing’s arguments about the affective politics of the precariat by reflecting on the conditions that facilitate, as well as constrain, the solidaristic transformation of the precariat. After evaluating Standing’s Polanyian theory of social change based on assumptions about the destructive tendencies of neo-liberal capitalism and a liberal politics of hope, it offers two critical interventions. First, celebrating the solidaristic traditions of the past industrial era erases historical patterns of labour organising that were quite exclusionary for traditional denizens such as women, non-white immigrants and people of colour in the United States. Second, a top-down approach to solidaristic transformation neglects alternative histories of grassroots worker organising around non-work social identities and communities. This historical erasure and neglect overlooks how oppressed and socially devalued workers have sought to challenge the fundamental gap between reality and rhetoric under liberal capitalist democracy, a key predicament for long-standing members of the precariat that persists in today’s global era of pervasive inequality and precarity.</p>

Where the Blame Lies: Unpacking Groups Into Their Constituent Subgroups Shifts Judgments of Blame in Intergroup Conflict

2021 ◽  
pp. 095679762110269
Author(s):  
Nir Halevy ◽  
Ifat Maoz ◽  
Preeti Vani ◽  
Emily S. Reit
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Gender Gap ◽  
Intergroup Relations ◽  
Black People ◽  
The United States ◽  
Social Identities ◽  
Perceived Support ◽  
Intergroup Conflict ◽  
White People ◽  
Intergroup Conflicts

Whom do individuals blame for intergroup conflict? Do people attribute responsibility for intergroup conflict to the in-group or the out-group? Theoretically integrating the literatures on intergroup relations, moral psychology, and judgment and decision-making, we propose that unpacking a group by explicitly describing it in terms of its constituent subgroups increases perceived support for the view that the unpacked group shoulders more of the blame for intergroup conflict. Five preregistered experiments ( N = 3,335 adults) found support for this novel hypothesis across three distinct intergroup conflicts: the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, current racial tensions between White people and Black people in the United States, and the gender gap in wages in the United States. Our findings (a) highlight the independent roles that entrenched social identities and cognitive, presentation-based processes play in shaping blame judgments, (b) demonstrate that the effect of unpacking groups generalizes across partisans and nonpartisans, and (c) illustrate how constructing packed versus unpacked sets of potential perpetrators can critically shape where the blame lies.

scholarly journals Unschooling and the Self: A dialogical analysis of unschooling blogs in Australia and New Zealand

2019 ◽  
Vol 26 (3) ◽  
pp. 484-499
Author(s):  
Adele O’Hare ◽  
Joe Coyne
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
School System ◽  
The United States ◽  
Free Play ◽  
Social Identities ◽  
The Self ◽  
Home Education ◽  
Public Figures ◽  
Thought Leader ◽  
Multiple Voices

Unschooling is a form of home education in which free play, trust and autonomy are highly valued. Unschooling is also a countercultural movement that began in the United States in the 1970s. Applying dialogical theories about the development and exchange of ideas through dialogue, unschooling can be seen as an internally persuasive, centrifugal discourse that resists an authoritative, centripetal discourse that assumes children’s education happens at school. The researchers conducted a dialogical analysis of 19 unschooling blog posts that contained autodialogue among multiple voices within the Self, including I-as-unschooler, I-as-mother, I-as-countercultural, I-as-learner, and I-as-thought-leader. These I-positions interacted with inner-Others, such as public figures in the unschooling movement, other bloggers, children, mainstream adults, and the school system. There were clear tensions as the bloggers engaged in imagined dialogue with their critics. As an exploratory, qualitative study on an under-researched phenomenon, the study opens up questions for further research, including how values, beliefs, and identities play out in unschooling families in practice, and contributes unique insights into the ways unschooling bloggers dialogically author their social identities.

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