Zygmunt Bauman theorises that in the contemporary world, claims to citizenship and a viable identity are largely defined by a person’s consumer status. Outline and critically assess Bauman’s position, using examples to illustrate your arguments. It’s a research essay for a sociology subject, the Sociology of Identity. It’s 2000 words, and worth a 30% weighting. They have provided us with some some references and then expect us to find some more. Here are the references we were given (I will upload the PDFs to assist). Other references are welcome also : Bauman, Z 1992, ‘Soil, blood and identity’, Sociological Review, vol. 40, no. 4, pp. 675701. Available from: 10.1111/j.1467954X.1992.tb00407.x. [8 November 2017]. BAUMAN, Z. (2001), Identity in the globalizing World1. Social Anthropology, 9: 121–129. doi:10.1111/j.14698676.2001.tb00141.x Marx and the contemporary theory of culture Zygmunt Bauman, Social Science Information Vol 7, Issue 3, pp. 19 33 First Published June 1, 1968