Social Identity Complexity

By Sonia Roccas, M. Brewer. 2002

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Subfields: Social Psychology, Sociology and Political Science

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A model of intersectional stress and trauma in Asian American sexual and gender minorities. (2018, background): “The parallel and interactive processes of LGBTQ and Asian American identity development (Chung & Katayama, 1998; see also Roccas & Brewer, 2002) can be fraught with challenges that constitute what we refer to broadly as “intersectional stress and trauma” (Bryant-Davis, 2007; Carter, 2007).”
A motivational hierarchy within: primacy of the individual self, relational self, or collective self? (2012, background): “Furthermore, complexity is a property that varies across persons for the individual self (Linville, 1987; McConnell & Strain, 2007), relational self (Showers &Kevlyn, 1999; Showers & Zeigler-Hill, 2004), and collective self (Roccas & Brewer, 2002).”
Included but Invisible? Subtle Bias, Common Identity, and the Darker Side of “We” (2016, background): “Depending on their degree of identification with the different categories and contextual factors that make particular identities salient, individuals may activate two or more of their multiple social identities simultaneously (Roccas & Brewer, 2002) or sequentially (Turner, 1985).”
The Roles of Perceived Identity Compatibility and Social Support for Women in a Single-Sex STEM Program at a Co-educational University (2011, background): “Social identity theory (e.g., Hogg and Abrams 1988; Roccas and Brewer 2002; Tajfel and Turner 1979) suggests that people develop multiple, nested social identities based on their group affiliation (e.g., identities related to their careers, gender, race, socioeconomic status), and that different…”
Changes in Athletic Identity Following Team Selection: Self-Protection versus Self-Enhancement (2004, background): “While membership in intimate groups and small task groups tends to be based on personal ties and face-to-face interaction, membership in large task groups and social categories is more likely to be based on symbolic attachments and feelings of collective identity (Roccas & Brewer, 2002).”
Social identity: The role of self in group processes and intergroup relations (2017, background): “A person’s overall social identity can vary in complexity (Brewer & Pierce, 2005; Roccas & Brewer, 2002).”
“Mixed” Results (2015, background): “Roccas and Brewer (2002) proposed four main strategies for managing multiple social identities, and there is some theoretical evidence that multiracials may use similar strategies, such as merging their racial identities while navigating between them (Binning et al., 2009; Renn, 2000).”
Explicit and Implicit Catalysts of Consumer Resistance: The Effects of Animosity, Cultural Salience and Country-of-Origin on Subsequent Choice (2006, background): “Future research could, for instance, draw from social psychological research on the interplay between social identities – for instance between a subidentity and a superordinate identity – to provide insights on consumption of foreign products based on which identity is made salient (Roccas and Brewe”
Managing Intractable Identity Conflicts (2009, background): “Roccas and Brewer (2002) have referred to the capacity to hold dual identities as social identity complexity, which reflects the degree of overlap perceived to exist between the subgroups one is a member of.”
Social Identity and Self-Regulation (2007, neutral): “Social identity approaches assume a hierarchical organization to self-concept, suggesting that content of self-concept is organized within a series of hierarchically organized identities that may or may not feel connected with one another (Roccas & Brewer, 2002).”
Acculturation Strategies and Integrative Complexity (2009, methodology): “…/ Acculturation Strategies and Integrative Complexity 109 We suspect that there is a reciprocal relationship between the two (e.g., Mischel, 2004; Roccas & Brewer, 2002), but we focus here on the situationist explanation to argue that biculturals’ greater integrative complexity stems from…”
Multicultural Employees: A Framework for Understanding How They Contribute to Organizations (2013, background): “In contrast, the hybridizing ideal type identifies with the intersection of cultures, similar to intersection (Roccas & Brewer, 2002), aggregated (Pratt & Foreman, 2000), and blended patterns (Phinney & Devich-Navarro, 1997).”
Biculturalism Unpacked: Components, Measurement, Individual Differences, and Outcomes (2007, background): “Naturally, individuals’ subjective experience of their identity and their behavior/competencies do not have to map onto each other (Roccas & Brewer, 2002).”
Category membership moderates the inhibition of social identities (2004, background): “Roccas and Brewer (2002) recently introduced the concept of social identity complexity, suggesting that individuals differ in the extent to which their subjective mental representations of identities are interrelated.”
Can counter-stereotypes boost flexible thinking? (2013, background): “…that encouraging individuals to maintain distinct cultural, ethnic, and religious identities can yield considerable social and personal benefits; it can for instance increase tolerance and reduce prejudice (Crisp, Hewstone, & Cairns, 2001; Crisp, Walsh, & Hewstone, 2006; Roccas & Brewer, 2002).”
Ideological Social Identity: Psychological Attachment to Ideological In-Groups as a Political Phenomenon and a Behavioral Influence (2015, background): “In essence, social identity represents a process of depersonalization, “whereby people come to perceive themselves more as the interchangeable exemplars of a social category than as unique personalities” (Roccas and Brewer 2002, 50).”