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.

1. Id Identity
Name: Baraiya Bhavna P.
Roll No: 3
Sem: 2
Year: 2012-13

2. 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)

3. 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.

4. Notion of
‘femininity’
and
‘masculinity’

5. Identity based on the
‘location’

6. Identity determines the degree of
agency we possess in a given social
system.