social identity theory

Question 1

define social identity

Answer 1

ideology that your behaviour is motivated by your social identity

broken down into 2 components
= personal identity on your characteristics and achievements
social identity is determined by the various groups you’re in

Question 2

define prejudice

Answer 2

pre-judgement
three components
A, B , C
A affect - it is experienced as an emotions
B resulting behaviour
which is the discrimination
C - cognitive
prejudice is a biased belief about an individual or group or prior experience of those people or person , based on serotypes.

Question 3

the self and the group

Answer 3

turner and Tajfel 1986
self concept is made up of differing socials identities
the theory sates that humans tend to want to belong to a certain group.

Question 4

social categorisation

Answer 4

the in group- the group we feel we belong to
the out group- anyone who is not apart of the our ingroup.
we don’t have much control over this automatic sorting process
the mere existence of of an outgroup and ingroup is enough to bring about prejudice

Question 5

social identification

Answer 5

involves the individual adopting beliefs and characteristics , and values of the group they feel they belong to - ingroup

Question 6

social comparison

Answer 6

ingroups perceive themselves to be superiors and better deceiving their achievements to be higher and at greater value in comparison to the outgroup it is a social comparison which can lead to prejudice.

Question 7

Minimal group experiment

Answer 7

Tajfel 1970 worked with 16y old Bristol schoolboys ingroups and outgroups were created by telling each boy which other boys behaved like them or not and then told to allocate points for the boys that would be in exchange for cash more points were allocated to ingroup memebers rather than outgroup memevbrs

Question 8

evaluate the minimal group experiment

Answer 8

androcentric
ethnocentric
doesn’t have ecological validity
discrimination always tends to be covert not overt