Group Processes SIT Flashcards
What crucial connections were shown from Tajfel and Turner’s research?
Connections between group membership and self-esteem
Tajfel believes that individuals develop their identification with a group along a continuum, therefore the group’s depersonalisation of out-groups will move towards dehumanisation. What does Billig think Tajfel ignores?
How bigotry is shared stereotype formed in language
What concerns does Billig have about Tajfel’s paper?
Assumes categories are stable fixed universal and readily available
What is another concern of Billig’s, with regards to Tajfel’s assumption about people identifying with groups?
People identify with groups to build self-esteem
What approach did Billig take to SIT?
Discursive psychological analysis
What type of experiments were used by Tajfel and Turner to show easy it is to create inter-group behaviour?
Minimal group experiments
What did Tajfel argue about social psychology?
Not value free as all social psychology reflects the cultural climate in which it is produced
According to Billig what does SIT not provide adequate explanation for?
Extreme prejudice or bigotry (eg the holocaust)
What is Billig’s view of Tajfel’s categories?
We actively construct social categories in flexible and complex ways through language
What does Billig think it is important to include when thinking about bigotry and prejudice?
Ideological factors, wider social and power relations
What spectrum did Tajfel suggest social behaviour existed upon?
Purely interpersonal to purely inter-group
What approach was used by Tajfel and Turner?
Cognitive SIT
Tajfel was against individualistic explanations of group behaviour - who favoured individual explanations?
Allport
On what continuum did Tajfel argue that prejudice and bigotry would develop and intensify?
Depersonalisation towards dehumanisation
What 3 elements did Tajfel and Turner’s cognitive SIT comprise of?
Categorisation, identification and comparison
