Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Social Identity Theory Evaluation
- The theory has evidence from
minimal group studies such as
Tajfel (1970)
- Which demonstrate that being part of
a group is sufficient to lead to
prejudice against people not within
that group
- Tajfel is a lab based
experiment which suffers
from low ecological validity
as it is carried out in an
artificial setting
- It understimates the importance of
individual differences, some people
have a much greater tendency than
others to favour in group over out
group
- depending on thier personality
- The theory can explain wide ranges of real
life phenomena ranging from support for
football teams to racism
- and can be applied to a
wide range of social
situations
- e.g. football violence occurs
because fans compare with
other fans ( of other teams)
to raise their own self esteem
- Sherif's Robbers Cave
study provides further
evidence for SIT
- In that 2 groups showed
prejudice before
competition was
introduced and showed in
group favouritsm