“The concept of intersectionality provided a conceptual language for recognising that everybody is simultaneously positioned within social categories, such as gender, social class, sexuality and race.” (Phoenix, 2006 press.22) In order to comprehend the social relations within a society, intersectionality is crucial. It addresses the commonalities and differences within social categories. Human beings are social individuals. We are all born into a certain place, time and space. (Burkitt, 2009) Individuals are not alone, and one is embodied in the society into social relationship, hence social signifies other people. So all these notions of “self” and “others”, becomes some sort of ongoing relationship. Thus, it might not be physically present
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I would be no one”(Burkitt, 2009 p.190). This is why we have ideas of social selves, suggesting that, the self is centre. Meaning creating a self identity becomes necessary. Giddens argues that, it’s the result of postmodernity. Formerly people were already positioned into categories and ones identity were already determined. “The sources of our identities are no longer stable and secure”(Burkitt, 2009 p). But now we’ve moved away from a term Giddens call; time-space distantiation towards disembedding mechanism (Burkitt, 2009). Due to globalisation, local places has no longer the same significance, hence we are no longer dependent on collective decision, but rather individual choices. The self has become a “reflexively created project“ in contemporary society; meaning, one always has to think about, how to form/identify oneself within social relations, which can be challenging for others. “our identities are never composed only with reference to our own projects of self, for these projects and images of what we want to be are always in dialogic interaction with others” (Burkitt, 2009 p. 359 in
I would be no one”(Burkitt, 2009 p.190). This is why we have ideas of social selves, suggesting that, the self is centre. Meaning creating a self identity becomes necessary. Giddens argues that, it’s the result of postmodernity. Formerly people were already positioned into categories and ones identity were already determined. “The sources of our identities are no longer stable and secure”(Burkitt, 2009 p). But now we’ve moved away from a term Giddens call; time-space distantiation towards disembedding mechanism (Burkitt, 2009). Due to globalisation, local places has no longer the same significance, hence we are no longer dependent on collective decision, but rather individual choices. The self has become a “reflexively created project“ in contemporary society; meaning, one always has to think about, how to form/identify oneself within social relations, which can be challenging for others. “our identities are never composed only with reference to our own projects of self, for these projects and images of what we want to be are always in dialogic interaction with others” (Burkitt, 2009 p. 359 in