IDENTITY Flashcards
Categories of self-conception of identity
Consensual - memberships of groups that are common knowledge
Sub-consensual - traits that need interpretation
3 types of identities
Human identity - being a human being
Social identity - self image emerging from social categories
Personal identity - personal attitutedes, behaviour
Social identity theory
Human interaction is only interpersonal/ intergroup.
When positive attitude towards group -> strong polarisation “us and them”
When negative - leaving the group, overturning the hierarchy.
Social categorisation theory is….
When is it prominant?
Interaction within the group => social identity more important than personal
Prominant when intragroup similartities, intergroup differences; social behaviour of group in line with stereotypical expectations.
Depersonalization
Loss of individuality -> becoming the prototype of group -> intragroup uniformity + bias, because of believing ingroup no matter if they are R or W, so possibility of loss of personality.
The Thomas Theorem
Connection of group as prominent as the individual perceives it to be
Permeable self - when and what is it?
Middle ages
Defined by external authority, controlled by powers outside of human understanding (universe, God).
Doubting self
Age of Reason (Enlightenment)
R. Descartes - everything is dubious.
Defined by an individual, not external authority.
Modernist self
Natural organisms act “as if” they were systems.
Systems are predictive.
Human beings = natural organisms, act like systems, but are NOT systems, because they are rational autonomous beings.
Expressivist self
Influence of Kant.
Coming back to nature and spirituality.
Individual - rational and thinking being, who has a deeper understanding of self.
Organizations - dehumanizing.
Hegelian traditions
Organizations = emergent social processes, dependent on patterns of power.
Identity emerges through mutual recognition and social interaction.
