Self and Identity

• Self: The total array of meanings and feelings that one associates with my “entire being.”

• Identity: How we are known to others, usually a very small aspect of one’s “self.”

• What matters in social life is your Identity.

Social Identity

• A Social Construction• Arises from

Interaction with others

The X-Files and Social Justice

• (Or How to be Excluded…)

Membership--Insiders/Outsiders

• Criteria of “inclusion”• Criteria of “exclusion”

Useful Information to Understand Justice and Events

• Population and demography

• Organization

• Group

• Identity

• Activity and Meaning

Considerations to Understand Justice/Injustice

• What is the Standard?• To whom does it apply?• Which criteria are used

and by whom?• How are the criteria

applied?• Can the standard and

criteria be reviewed and changed?

Power and Justice

• Ability to define a situation

• Maintain that definition for others

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Prohibition

Joseph Gusfield, Symbolic Crusade

Amendments: 18th (1919); 21 (1933)

Target: Immigrant Groups/Catholics

• Claims-makers (Adovcates)– W.C.T.U.

– Rural/protestant life style and values

• Consequences• Alcohol

Poison/Alcoholism• Organized Crime