Social identity theory: past achievements, current problems and future challenges

By Rupert Brown. 2000

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Subfields: Gender Studies, Social Psychology, Sociology and Political Science

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Religious Group Identification and Inter-Religious Relations: A Study Among Turkish-Dutch Muslims (2007, background): “352 differentiation rather than out-group derogation, dislike and other forms of negative affect (Brown, 2000).”
Testing a Moderated Mediational Model of Workgroup Incivility: The Roles of Organizational Trust and Group Regard (2010, background): “Cook and Wall (1980) defined trust at work as the extent to which an employee ascribes good intentions to and has confidence in the words and actions of others in the organization.”
How Should My Chatbot Interact? A Survey on Social Characteristics in Human–Chatbot Interaction Design (2019, background): “Researchers can explore social identity theory [Brown 2000; Stets and Burke 2000] regarding to ingroup bias, power relations, homogeneity, and stereotyping, in order to design chatbots with identity traits that reflect their expected social position [Harré et al. 2003].”
Rationality and Psychology in International Politics (2005, background): “…that identification with a group is linked to a willingness to conserve communal resources+116 Even when it is in the interest of cooperators to 107+ For a review of SIT, see Brown 2000+ 108+ Tajfel 1970+ 109+ Tajfel and Turner 1986+ Putting the group in the individual avoids the problem of…”
Measuring the social impacts associated with Super Bowl XLIII: Preliminary development of a psychic income scale (2012, methodology): “According to social identity theory (Brown, 2000; Stets & Burke, 2000), individuals define themselves (in part) according to their membership in various social groups.”
Making a Virtue of Evil: A Five‐Step Social Identity Model of the Development of Collective Hate (2008, background): “Closer to home, we also agree with Brown (2000) when he argues that one of the critical tasks for social psychologists – and social identity theorists in particular – is to understand precisely when groups display hostility to each other.”
Identity Development, Personality, and Well‐Being in Adolescence and Emerging Adulthood (2012, background): “Social-psychological (e.g., Brown, 2000; Spears, 2011) and sociological (e.g., Hitlin, 2003; Stryker, 2003) perspectives hold that individuals have multiple identities—for example, one can be Black, American, and planning to be a doctor in the future.”
Positive intergroup attitudes: The role of ethnic identity (2007, background): “However, social identity theory is a theory of ingroup bias rather than outgroup derogation (Brown, 2000).”
Social-Psychological Interventions for Intergroup Reconciliation: An Emotion Regulation Perspective (2016, background): “Although higher levels of ingroup identification are not always linked to negative treatment of the outgroup (e.g., Brewer, 1999; Brown, 2000), in postconflict situations of hostility and distrust it is plausible to suppose that group identification would be connected to ingroup favoritism and…”
Explaining Group Influence: The Role of Identity and Emotion in Political Conformity and Polarization (2015, background): “Turner’s de-emphasis of the self-esteem plank of social identity theory may stem from uneven empirical support for this proposition (see Brown 2000).”
Cracking but not Breaking: Joint Effects of Faultline Strength and Diversity Climate on Loyal Behavior (2015, background): “Such ingroup favoritism may lead individuals in each identity-based subgroup to feel they are unfairly treated or discriminated against by other identity-based subgroups (Ashforth & Mael 1989; Brown, 2000).”
Social Norms: A Review (2016, neutral): “Encompassed within social identity theory is self-categorization theory (Maines, 1989; Turner & Oakes, 1986), which describes how group identification inf luences behaviors associated with group membership, such as conformity, leadership, stereotyping, and ethnocentrism (Brown, 2000).”
Professional identity and turnover intentions of social workers in Beijing, China: The roles of job satisfaction and agency type (2019, background): “According to Brown (2000), social identity theory ‘proposes that people strive to achieve or maintain a positive social identity (thus boosting their self-esteem) and that this positive identity derives largely from favourable comparisons that can be made between the ingroup and relevant outgroups’.”
Responding to Societal Devaluation: Effects of Perceived Personal and Group Discrimination on the Ethnic Group Identification and Personal Self-Esteem of Latino/Latina Adolescents (2009, background): “Although the motivations to maintain positive personal and group evaluations both may stem from self-enhancement needs (Tajfel & Turner, 1986), Turner (1999) argues that they are conceptually distinct and should be differentially related to socialenvironmental threats (see, however, Brown, 2000).”