Sociology 2266A/B Study Guide - Quiz Guide: Ingroups And Outgroups, Social Cognition, Response Bias
26 Jul 2020
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Dividing the social world into a manageable number of categories is indispensable to be able to simplify and make sense of it. But, of course, it is not just others who are so classified; we also allocate ourselves in some groups and not in others. It is this act of self-categorization that forms the basis for all of our many social identities. We invoke a part of our social identity whenever we think of ourselves as belonging to one gender/ethnicity/ social class rather than another. It was not until the 1970s that it was realized that social identity processes might have implications for intergroup behaviour. The pivotal role of social categorisation in intergroup behaviour, led to the development by tajfel and turner of the concept of social identity (1986). Self-categorisation theory argues that the self falls on a dimension between an individual identity (self as self) and group identity (self as group member).
