SOCPSY 1Z03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Psy, Impression Management
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Social identities: the self in terms of our roles in a group, situated self: the way you are/act/the identity you have within a certain situation. Identity control theory(burke: premise: behaviour is a product of our attempts to control perceptions of situations in ways that con rm the meaning associated with our identities, components: identity standard, input, comparator, output. Providing a basis to choose which situations we enter and which we avoid: 2. In uencing the consistency of behaviour across different situations, may use different identities in different situations, bringing identities where they are relevant: 3. In uencing consistency in behaviour across time, meanings attached to roles usually stay the same. Some roles are discarded over time, and behaviours change. Shared understanding about rules and conventions of a situation. Lecture is a frame- supposed to sit down, listen, do not talk, take notes.