ABSTRACT
In recent years in the broad field of cultural studies there has been a growing interest in questions of identity. Questions commonly discussed include:
n How is the identity of any one individual created? n In the creation of individual identity what factors are salient and how do these
factors interact? n To what extent is any one individual’s identity a matter of personality and to
what extent do influences from the socio-cultural context impact? n How much commonality of identity is there, first, between two individuals who
inhabit the same physical and socio-cultural space and, second, between two individuals who inhabit very different physical and socio-cultural spaces?
