This document discusses the importance of identity in cultural studies. It states that identity is dependent on roles and signs, constituted through experience, and subject to ideological control. Identity is a consequence of representation and discourse, based on one's location, and determines the degree of agency that one has.

1. Paper No:-E.E205 Cultural
Studies
Topic:-Importance of Identity in
Cultural Studies
Name:-Andharia Darshangi
Roll no:-01
M.A:- I
Sem:-II
Batch no:-2011-12

2. Key Areas
Language and discourse
Identity
Every day life
Ethnography
Media studies
Audience studies
Cultural intermediaries

3. Identity
Dependent upon the roles
The signs
Constituted through experience
We are subject to ideological control
We don’t have “power to choice”
(Nyre)

4. Consequence of representation And
discourse
Based on location
It determines degree of agency