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| SOCIAL IDENTITY THEORY | Tajfel's theory, divides identity into different groups:the Personal e.g being a parent, andthe Social e.g being BritishThese different groups to which we belong are our ingroups: our sense of belonging to these groups is important.Self esteem is boosted by having a positive view of these groups, and exaggerating the differences between our ingroups and those groups to which we do not belong, aka outgroups more negatively. See minimal group for experimental evidence.Tajfel believed that simply categorising people into random groups is sufficient to create prejudices against groups that we don't belong to.Social mobility can improve the status of a group by adjusting the power differences between groups or working for social change either through:social creativity (redefine a devalued group, e.g. "Black is beautiful" campaign) orsocial competition (advance a group through getting people to change how they think about it, e.g. Ghandi's passive resistance). |
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