PSY 341 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Social Identity Theory, In-Group Favoritism, September 11 Attacks
30 Jan 2020
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The classification of people into groups on the basis of common attributes: social identity. Identification with a group that"s been incorporated into the self concept. Usually involves emotionally significant social categories or groups. Proposes that categorizing oneself and others into an ingroup and an outgroup is sufficient to generate intergroup competition: self-esteem hypothesis. Self-categorization: self-categorization theory (turner & oakes, 1989) proposes that categorizing oneself as a group member becomes more likely as the perceived difference between the ingroup and outgroup increases: situation dependent. Chronic social identities: chronic identities are ones that are always with us, regardless of how much the situation changes, relative deprivation theory, dissatisfaction with current situation. Comparison to one"s own past or to other people. Prejudice research: response to that feeling of deprivation, personal relative deprivation, group relative deprivation. 1: prejudice, hostility towards outgroups, relative gratification theory, your ingroup is doing better than other groups, grofman & muller (1973)
