SOCIAL IDENTITY THEORY
- Created by: Claire McMillan
- Created on: 21-05-13 15:23
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- SOCIAL IDENTITY THEORY
- AO1
- By Tajfel 1970
- social identity is a person's sense of who they are, groups, class, religion, football team contribute and are an important source of prode and self-esteem
- to increase our self-esteem and self-image we enhance the status of our group in comparison to another e.g. Man U is the best, Arsenal are rubbish
- by grouping things together, we tend to exaggerate the difference of other groups and the similarities of the same group
- 3 stages
- Social categorisation-1. when we see ourselves or other people as part of a group
- Social Identification- 2. where we make ourselves a part of the group by wearing team tops so we adopt the identity of the group
- Social Comparison- 3.when we compare our group with others, usually seeing the out-group group are lower than the in-group to boost self-esteem
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- POSITIVE
- TAJFEL 1970
- found being part of a group is enough to lead prejudice against other people not within that group.
- Poppe and Lissen 1999 found people show in group favouritism in surveys
- SHERIF ET AL 1961
- found that conflict is not necessary as social comparison is present even if the groups are not introduced
- VERKOOIJEN ET AL 2007
- found people change their behaviour to conform with the group they are in.
- explains real events such as football violence and racism
- TAJFEL 1970
- NEGATIVE
- DOBBS AND CRANO 2001
- found much less in-group favouritism than in Tajfel and other earlier studies
- doesn't explain individual differences such as why some groups aren't violent, e.g. some football fans
- DOBBS AND CRANO 2001
- POSITIVE
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