Identity

Today's context of practice lecture was on IDENTITY. I am going to briefly state different points and facts made in the lecture, it was very interesting to see how theories from previous philosophers has contributed to how various people think and act today based on how they perceive themselves and others identities.
In the lecture, we discussed many different topics, one being about :

PHYSIOGNOMY
this is judging or stereotyping a person's face based on their features and using that as indicators to analyse their character or intellect.
This led to allowing racism to play a big part in basing different people on their features.
Phrenology is a part of physiognomy.
Cesare Lombroso, an Italian criminologist, who tried to create a link between people's facial features and their criminal past, creating the notion that criminal tendencies can be inherited and certain races such as blue eyed and blonde haired humans carried more intelligence than other races.

We also discussed about phases of identity:

pre modern identity: states that personal identity is stable

modern identity: has the trickle down theory consisting of emulation and distinction. Emulation being that some people in the lower class of society wished to mimic/look like those in the higher class and started creating knock off outfits of their attire and thus making the higher class people create a more distinctive look and ever changing fashion so that there is always something more expensive that is not easily affordable by the lower classes.

post modern identity: can be related to the work of Michel Foucault, a French philosopher, where he uses a discourse analysis with different categories used to define how people make up their own identity in this post-modernism society. A few of this categories are race, class, gender, sexual orientation, education.