Answers to in-text Questions

Caption  Answer 
How do daily interactions with other people form or sustain your identity? What is being communicated here about gender, identity, and culture?  We learn how to perform our identities through our interactions with others, and those identities are reinforced by being around those like us. In this image, the father figure is demonstrating an aspect of masculine identity (shaving ones face) with a son figure
How many people in this photo are performing a social role and its accompanying identity requirements? Be sure to justify your answer.  Both the woman in the car and police officer are performing a social role. Both are "acting in ways that both society
and they perceive to be associated with a certain identity." The police officer is performing the role of law enforcement by pulling the woman over (likely for breaking a traffic law). The woman is performing the social role of a citizen who has been pulled over: keeping her hands on the wheel and communicating with the officer. 
What is meant by a symbolic self, and why do we have to account to other people for who we are?  Your identity represents something symbolic to other people, and arises from your interaction with others. We have to account to other people because we share meanings. 
How do you explain the fact that a person can experience different sides of self and hold different views simultaneously?  We can experience different sides of self and hold different views because we have many aspects of our individual personalities and identities. 
How is your sense of identity represented by connections to the past?  Our sense of identity can be represented by           connections to the past through origin stories. These     stories, which, have a narrative structure that builds off a sense of origin and a sense of continuity, are often              one of the first ways we shape and build our identities.