Political Science · Political Theory
Who said that 'we define our identity always in dialogue with, sometimes in struggle against, the things our significant others want to see in us'?
AWill Kymlicka
BCharles Taylor ✓ Correct
CStuart Hall
DTariq Modood
Correct answer: (B) Charles Taylor — The statement is by Charles Taylor, so the answer is Taylor.
Explanation
★The statement is by Charles Taylor, so the answer is Taylor.
★He made it in his essay The Politics of Recognition.
★Taylor holds that identity is dialogical, formed in relation to significant others.
★Because identity depends on recognition, denial of recognition can damage the self.
★This is why minority groups demand public acknowledgement of their identity.
★Will Kymlicka focuses instead on group differentiated minority rights.
★Stuart Hall theorised cultural identity as fluid and constructed in discourse.
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