Question #21

Blog Prompt #21

1. In what ways do you “construct” your identity? In what ways do you “perform” in your daily life?

I think people construct their identities by choosing things that they are familiar with or like and make it part of who they are. For example a person grows up in a certain area like Michigan and then because they know that area they connect themselves to that area by calling themselves Michiganders. Although they do not need to make it part of their identity. They then perform that construction by tell other people that they are from there or describe themselves through reference to that area.

2. Describe some ways in which your personal culture and social environments are “constructed”.

I would say that my social and cultural environments are constructed in a similar way to my identity. In fact the social and cultural environments are those things which help construct my identity. They are constructed by other people as well though. They connect me to other people as well.

3. Describe some ways in which your physical environment/space is “constructed”.

My physical space is constructed through the actual movement of materials and space. Things are moved around, purchased, organized to make a familiar space. Which I am then able to make apart of my identity and social construction.

4. In your daily life, what would you consider to be “real” and what would you consider to be “constructed/fabricated”?
The things in our lives that are constructed are real because we make them apart of our everyday life. We implement them all the time. We make time for them. So I would say that constructed things are very real.