Identity, Personality And Self

Question 0

Mainstream researchers have assumed the existence of an essential, inner core that can be identified and measured, while critical researchers are skeptical about the idea of static, enduring aspects of ____.

Answer 0

personality

Question 1

Mainstream and critical approaches differ markedly on the way in which they address questions of ____ and the extent to which they believe these questions are answerable.

Answer 1

identity

Question 2

Critical social psychologists hold that identity is more plural, shifting and ____-____.

Answer 2

context-dependent

Question 3

Critical social psychologist have sought to examine the ways in which issues of self and identity arise for participants as a topic of ___.

Answer 3

talk

Question 4

____ social psychology has offered two key approaches to the study of identity: social identity theory, and self categorisation theory.

Answer 4

Mainstream

Question 5

Social identity theorists hold that social identity comes about following the three interconnected processes of ____, ____ and ____.

Answer 5

categorisation, identification and comparison

Question 6

Social identity theory argues that personal identity is produced as a result of our memberships in various ____, coupled with our desire for positive ___-____.

Answer 6

groups : self-image

Question 7

For self-categorisation theorists, one of the key research questions has been how people ____ themselves.

Answer 7

categorise

Question 8

Critical approaches to the study of identity have been organised around understanding the ways in which identity comes up in ____, ____ and ____. This follows from the view that talk about the self is important in actually constructing that self.

Answer 8

conversations, stories and descriptions

Question 9

____ developed out of sociology and maybe regarded most simply as the study of people’s (ethno) methods (methodology).

Answer 9

Ethnomethodology

Question 10

The business of making sense of social life is regarded by ethnomethodologists as a joint accomplishment, achieved by members of ____.

Answer 10

communities

Question 11

The ways in which these achievements are jointly negotiated have become the focus for critical social psychologists, conversation analysts and discourse analysts who have adopted this framework in the study of ____.

Answer 11

identity

Question 12

Critical approaches resist the essentialist understanding of identity is something people have or are, and instead regard identity as something that is ____, ____ and ____ in and through the ways in which people talk about themselves and others.

Answer 12

achieved, negotiated and contested

Question 13

Sacks identified the work of ____ ____ devices, such that it is possible to have membership of a vast range of categories, bearing in mind that each category would imply a range of characteristics.

Answer 13

membership categorisation

Question 14

Membership categories are typically associated with a number of different features such as ____, ____, ____ and ____.

Answer 14

values, activities, entitlements and attributes

Question 15

Critical scholars challenge the view of identity as something that people have, and which causes them to act in particular ways. Rather, the suggestion is offered that identity becomes an important part of the business of ____ ourselves and others, and that these features maybe invoked at certain times for particular effects.

Answer 15

describing

Question 16

Identity is understood as something that people __ rather than something they ___.

Answer 16

do : are