SOCIAL IDENTITY THEORY
ELLEMERS
Ingroup vs outgroup: you will always be in favor of your ingroup members
Mere categorization effect: alleen al mensen in een groep plaatsen zorgt al voor voorkeur
voor ingroup members
Realistic conflict theory: conflicts between members of different groups arise from
competition over scarce resources, deze waren niet te vinden in de studie
Sit: explains when do people think in we instead of I or us vs them.
- Psychological process
Social categorization group making
Social comparison: group comparison
Social identification: self as belonging to a social group
- Identity management strategies:
Individual mobility: people may seek escape, avoud or deny belonging to a
devaluaed group and seek instead to be included in a group of higher social
standing
Social creatibity: group members seek to redefine the intergroup comparison
by representing the ingroup in terms of positive rather than negative
characteristics
Social competition: group members engage in gorms of conflict designed to
change the status que. (improving work conditions, gain intersex marriage)
- Socio-structural characteristics
The way someone responds to their groups chircumstances depends on
perceived characteristics of the prevailing social structure
Subjective belief structures, permeability, stability
Core predictions:
- To the extent that individuals internalize a group membership as a meaningful
aspect of their self-concept, they will strive to make favorable comparisons
between this group and relevant outgroups in order to achieve or maintain a
positive social identity
- As a result social categorization can be sufficient to engender intergroup
discrimination and intergroup conflice
- The search for positive social identity may take different forms depending on
consensual definitions of social reality that pertain to socially shared ustifications
Key problems: thinking sit is all about categorization and ingroup favoritism
- Fails to recofnize that the theory distinquishes beteeen a number of idferent
identity enhanvement strategies
- Neglect the fact that the core predictions of sit refer to specific boundary
conditions
- Overlooks the moderator variables that are predicted to impact on peoples use of
particular identity enhancement strategies.
Self esteem: successful intergroup discrimination should elevate self-esteem, depressed
or threatened self-esteem should promote intergroup discrimination.
, Self categorization theory:
- Social categorizations can bemade at differend levels of inclusiveness or
abstractions.
….
Identity:
- Who are you, what are you, how am i?
Social identity: relationship between the individual and the environment
- Who am I becomes where am i
Forming real social identity
- Social classification, or the sociostructural component
Identifying people into different groups
- Specific behavioural and normative consequences and expectations, cultural
component
Categorizations based on the colour of eyes, ear length, the preference for a
certain holiday meaningless
Stereotypical behaviours in a group
Social classification leas to opositive intergroup differentiation because people
want to feel good about themselves and therefore tend to make a disticion in
facour of their in-group.
- Judgement of an ontological nature, ontological component
Judging the person
Social identity are intersubjective relaitites that are formed and defined to the social
world, independently of the particular individual that is located by them. The individual
has hardly anything to say about this and there is nothihn individually subjective about
establishing a social identity.
Identity vs identificacation.
- Identification Is a psychological process. Identify with a group or person
1. correspond to an existing social distinction.
2. Identification with the group to which one belongs can also resisted or denied
- Identity is an individual
Identity as a social fact- who what somebody is socially is different then self-
identification. A
Ascription: process of definition by others
Self-ascription: definition by yourself
..
Social identity salience: the extent to which people think of themselves a smembers of a
particular group in any given situation
ELLEMERS
Ingroup vs outgroup: you will always be in favor of your ingroup members
Mere categorization effect: alleen al mensen in een groep plaatsen zorgt al voor voorkeur
voor ingroup members
Realistic conflict theory: conflicts between members of different groups arise from
competition over scarce resources, deze waren niet te vinden in de studie
Sit: explains when do people think in we instead of I or us vs them.
- Psychological process
Social categorization group making
Social comparison: group comparison
Social identification: self as belonging to a social group
- Identity management strategies:
Individual mobility: people may seek escape, avoud or deny belonging to a
devaluaed group and seek instead to be included in a group of higher social
standing
Social creatibity: group members seek to redefine the intergroup comparison
by representing the ingroup in terms of positive rather than negative
characteristics
Social competition: group members engage in gorms of conflict designed to
change the status que. (improving work conditions, gain intersex marriage)
- Socio-structural characteristics
The way someone responds to their groups chircumstances depends on
perceived characteristics of the prevailing social structure
Subjective belief structures, permeability, stability
Core predictions:
- To the extent that individuals internalize a group membership as a meaningful
aspect of their self-concept, they will strive to make favorable comparisons
between this group and relevant outgroups in order to achieve or maintain a
positive social identity
- As a result social categorization can be sufficient to engender intergroup
discrimination and intergroup conflice
- The search for positive social identity may take different forms depending on
consensual definitions of social reality that pertain to socially shared ustifications
Key problems: thinking sit is all about categorization and ingroup favoritism
- Fails to recofnize that the theory distinquishes beteeen a number of idferent
identity enhanvement strategies
- Neglect the fact that the core predictions of sit refer to specific boundary
conditions
- Overlooks the moderator variables that are predicted to impact on peoples use of
particular identity enhancement strategies.
Self esteem: successful intergroup discrimination should elevate self-esteem, depressed
or threatened self-esteem should promote intergroup discrimination.
, Self categorization theory:
- Social categorizations can bemade at differend levels of inclusiveness or
abstractions.
….
Identity:
- Who are you, what are you, how am i?
Social identity: relationship between the individual and the environment
- Who am I becomes where am i
Forming real social identity
- Social classification, or the sociostructural component
Identifying people into different groups
- Specific behavioural and normative consequences and expectations, cultural
component
Categorizations based on the colour of eyes, ear length, the preference for a
certain holiday meaningless
Stereotypical behaviours in a group
Social classification leas to opositive intergroup differentiation because people
want to feel good about themselves and therefore tend to make a disticion in
facour of their in-group.
- Judgement of an ontological nature, ontological component
Judging the person
Social identity are intersubjective relaitites that are formed and defined to the social
world, independently of the particular individual that is located by them. The individual
has hardly anything to say about this and there is nothihn individually subjective about
establishing a social identity.
Identity vs identificacation.
- Identification Is a psychological process. Identify with a group or person
1. correspond to an existing social distinction.
2. Identification with the group to which one belongs can also resisted or denied
- Identity is an individual
Identity as a social fact- who what somebody is socially is different then self-
identification. A
Ascription: process of definition by others
Self-ascription: definition by yourself
..
Social identity salience: the extent to which people think of themselves a smembers of a
particular group in any given situation
