Identity theory and social identity theory

By Jan E. Stets, Peter J. Burke. 2000

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Subfields: Sociology and Political Science

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In Sociology and Political Science

1. Wendy Wood
2. Jan E. Stets
3. Peter J. Burke
4. Gert Roodt
5. Heesup Han
6. A. Eagly
7. John B. Davis
8. Tatiana Ryba

Citations in the corpus

• 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.”
• Satisfaction with Firm Performance in Family Businesses (2010, methodology): “Identification of the family with the business is consistent with the arguments of social identity theory (e.g., Stets & Burke, 2000).”
• “We Weren't Like No Regular Dope Fiends”: Negotiating Hustler and Crackhead Identities1 (2008, background): “…personality traits or sociologically-based categories substantiated by racial, ethnic, class, or gender-based groups, others conceptualize identity as a robust, malleable, and intricate phenomenon (e.g., Hogg and Ridgeway 2003; Hogg, Terry, and White 1995; Stets and Burke 2000).”
• Ecological Identity: The Development and Assessment of a Measurement Scale (2018, background): “Much identity research also presumes that people hold multiple identities that are more or less central to the broader self-concept (Brenner, Serpe, & Stryker, 2014; Carter, 2015; Oakes, 1987; Stets & Burke, 2000).”
• Values, identity and pro-environmental behaviour (2014, background): “Theorists in the symbolic interactionist tradition proposed the development of the self through reflection from others in social exchanges (Mead, 1934; Breakwell, 1986) and Stets and Burke (2000) proposed that identities develop through processes of self-categorisation and identification.”
• Configurational Models to Predict Residents’ Support for Tourism Development (2017, background): “The residents’ demographic characteristics function as indicators of their support for tourism development, as also considered by other scholars (e.g., Almeida-García et al. 2016; Harrill 2004; Khoshkam, Marzuki, and Al-Mulali 2016; Lee 2013; Nunkoo and Gursoy 2012; Stets and Burke 2000).”