language and social class

Question 1

Henry Tafjel’s Social identity theory

Answer 1

• tafjel said that the groups such as social class, family, football team etc. were an important part of self identity
• they allow us to divide the world into ‘them’ and ‘us’
• tafjel proposed that we tend to exaggerate
  1. the similarities between things in the same group
  2. the differences between groups