Summary
Contents
Social Psychology provides student readers with essential help with all aspects of their first course in social psychology, including advice on revising for exams, preparing and writing course assessment materials, and enhancing and progressing their knowledge and skills in line with course requirements on a social psychology course.
The Self
The Self
Core Areas
- Actual, ideal and ought selves
- Collective identity
- Group-based social identity
- Individual versus collective self
- Person-based social identity
- Psychodynamic self
- Relational social identity
- Self-categorisation theory
- Self-maintenance model
- Self motives
- Self-perception theory
- Self-presentation
- Social comparison theory
- Structural and normative fit
- Symbolic interactionalist self
Learning Outcomes
By the end of this chapter you should be able to:
- define and understand the key concepts outlined above;
- describe and evaluate the theories of the key thinkers on self-knowledge;
- understand that there are different types of self;
- examine the concept of social identity and to understand the ...