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In recent years, social identity and social categorization theories have offered some of the most exciting developments in social psychology informing work on everything from intergroup relations to personal identity. This comprehensive and wide ranging book surveys the latest empirical and theoretical findings, alongside original contributions, to provide an invaluable overview of this important field. Bringing together an international cast list of contributors, Social Identity explores a broad range of psychosocial phenomena including intergroup discrimination, influence, group polarization, collective behavior, impact of minorities, prejudice, stereotypes, and leadership. The book maps some of the key debates in contemporary social psychology. It will be essential reading for academics and students in psychology and related fields.
Social Identity and National Identity
Social Identity and National Identity
Of all the variants of social identity, national identity is perhaps the one that has had the most dramatic impact on historical events, with both positive and negative consequences for humankind.
The great romantic-nationalist movements of the nineteenth century, as well as the movements of national liberation in the first half of the twentieth century and the most recent break-up of multinational European states, are clear examples of the past and present role played by this type of identity. Identity with national or ethnic categories is evidently also a reference point used by Tajfel in the development of his theory, as inferred from the character of some of his early work (Tajfel, 1969b, 1970a).
Even though the ...
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