Identity - Discussion

Week 1 – Managing Organizational Behavior

Fall 2022, Ewha School of Business

Discussion
The Danish Girl
Agenda

✤ Describe what social groups (or categories) are found in the movie?

✤ Find out any lines or plots regarding identity-related concepts

✤ Given that multiple identities can conflict or cooperate, figure out

what kind of identity conflict/cooperation unfolded in the movie?

✤ Figure out the ways to reconcile the negative group behavior (e.g.
favoritism, out-group negativity, etc.)

✤ Articulate what else you found related to (social) identity in the

movie?
Further Questions

✤ What does the flying scarf at the last scene mean?

✤ What about the perspective of Gerda on “Lily”?

✤ Did she look at Lily as a man or a woman?

✤ Emancipation from social categories

✤ Sometimes social categories suppress what we

really want to be (or do)

✤ e.g. Glass ceiling; “The Clay Spoon”

✤ Gerda loves Lily as a human being, regardless of

his(her) social groups (gender)
- If you abandon the social group boundaries, you will find
deeper understanding of others
Takeaways
✤ Identity is a key to understand OTHERS, as well as myself

✤ Social groups which are discredited are actually FRAMED by

others, not given
- That means those discredited can be re-framed as legitimate

✤ COMMUNICATION, verbal or non-verbal, is critical for

understanding other social groups even to which we don’t want
to belong
Any Questions?