Summary
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This landmark work offers a tour of the latest developments in Social Identity Theory from the leading scholars in the field. First proposed by Tajfel and Turner in 1979, Social Identity Theory has proved enormously influential in stimulating new theory and research, and in its application to social problems. The field is developing apace and important new lines of work have opened up in the past few years. The three sections of the book cover: theoretical contributions to the field; recent empirical assessments of key elements of the theory; and applications of Social Identity Theory to bring about changes in problematic intergroup relationships.
Models, Meanings and Motivations
Models, Meanings and Motivations
Social identification is now recognized by most social psychologists, and perhaps a broader audience as well, as a key concept for theorizing about social processes. One of the reasons for this increasingly central role is the ability of social identification to speak to various levels of analysis. Thus social ...
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