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Tham khảo tài liệu 'prehistoric & protohistoric cyprus phần 2', ngoại ngữ, anh ngữ phổ thông phục vụ nhu cầu học tập, nghiên cứu và làm việc hiệu quả | 32 Issues Agendas Archaeological Constructs Social identity has formed a central concern of western philosophy since the 18th century and a key concept in psychology for almost 100 years. The term gained prominence in the mid-20th century with work of Eriksen 1950 in social psychology whence it was taken up in sociology. Only since the mid-1980s however has it become part of widespread academic discourse e.g. Rouse 1995 Hall 1996 . Issues related to social identity have transformed the geopolitical map of the 21st century. Early anthropological studies of traditional societies were concerned with the construction of what they saw as a fixed stable and creative identity Kellner 1992 141 . Modernists in turn regarded identity as more mutable personal and self-reflexive and so the boundaries of possible identities expanded. Postmodernists now have promoted the concept of dispersed identities and argue that people adopt differing identities as social situations demand Jameson 1984 . Pushed to its limits a postmodern denial of identity would have serious implications for any archaeological narrative Rowlands 1994b 141 . The viability of identity social cultural ethnic or otherwise as a useful analytical concept remains widely debated amongst contemporary social scientists. Some scholars caution that it is a speciWcally modern western concept based on notions like boundedness internal homogeneity and uniqueness which may or may not be relevant in other cultures Handler 1994 . Others argue that whilst identity may play a signiWcant role in contemporary politics it is too ambiguous and essentialist to be of any value whatsoever in social analysis Brubaker and Cooper 2000 . A more balanced view maintains that identity alongside memory must be problem-atized more focally if we wish to consider how social forces and cultural practices impact on the ways that people view themselves Yelvington 2002 240-3 . Most social scientists today regard identity as the product of .