SOCIOL 41 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Arthur Schuster, Personal Identity, Identity Component
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See their own standards of value as universal and intrinsically true. Maintain cooperative relations with other in-group members. Demonstrate a willingness to retain membership in the in-group. Show positive affect toward the other in-group members. See the out-group as contemptible, immoral, and inferior. When individuals see their various in-groups as relatively distinct from one another. Associated with higher tolerance for out-groups and diversity. Refers to overt acts that treat members of certain out-groups in an unfair or disadvantageous manner. Ethnocentric attitudes will often produce discriminatory responses toward the out-group. The mere categorization of persons as belonging to an out-group can lead to discriminatory responses by in-group members. This theory assumes that individuals want to hold a positive self-concept. Personal identity - uniquely personal aspects of ourselves. Social identity - self-definitions based on our social categories and social group memberships. The social identity component depends on the groups or social categories to which one belongs.
