Personal Identity: Straight, Straight Vs. Black, Straight, And Fat

It is only in the past four to five weeks since beginning this module on Sociology in relation to Physical Education, Physical Activity and Sport that I have properly thought about and indeed got a chance to reflect on the various concepts relating to this absorbing topic. Sociology in its most simple form is the study of human behaviour. Man Vs Woman, White Vs Black, Straight Vs Gay, Catholic Vs Protestant, Skinny Vs Fat. These are all battles that various people will go through and fight every day of their lives due to societal norms and sociological values, they are too similar to a battle in that many end in hardship, and in the fact that some are fought without reason. Throughout this essay I am going to discuss how my own personal identity has been constructed, I am going to reflect on what I have wrote in my diary this past week in the hope to find out why personal identities are constructed in different ways. I will consider the influences of societal norms …show more content…
I’m not quite sure if this was a moment of intellectual brilliance or that of a mind gone completely mad but when writing this essay I was reminded of what I think is a truly brilliant quote. To me and for the sake of this essay we will just presume that what Ophelia meant by this was that everyone knows what they are, better still everyone knows what they are supposed to be. Boys are supposed to wear blue, have short, hair, like sports…girls are supposed to wear pink, have long hair, play with dolls, Irish people are good at GAA and every black man should be good at running and basketball! The point I am getting at here is that everyone knows what they are supposed to be or do in relation to physical activity and sport. But does anyone really know what they may become or who they may become if one was to get rid of these rigid societal values in today’s