social identitiy theory Flashcards
what are the three elements of social identity theory
social identification
social comparision
social cataagorisation
what is social identifcation
where individual will attemt to emulate behaviour and adopt group identity to improve self-esteem
what is social catagorisation
where we catagorise ourselves and others into a particular group
what is social comparision
where we compare our group to other groups
what is research that support social identity theory
taijefel
what did tajifeal find
tested 64 school boys and found they would favour their ingroup and give them more points over the out group and give the out group the least number of points possible
what does taijfels research show about ingroup-outgroup
t/f showing how individuals within a group are prone to ingroup favouratism and social comparison
what else it a supporting research point
aronson and osherwon
what did aronson and osherwon find
conducted a study where she catagorised the two groups into blue eyes and brown eyes and treated the blue eyed group as ‘better’ wich lead to the blue eyed group mocking an degrading brown eyed group
what does aronson and osherwons research say about this theory
t/f can explain in-group and out-group hositility and compertiotion
what is a weakness of social identity theory
reductionist
why is social identification reductionist
only considers social factors influencing prejudice, but not everyone in a group will act in a prejudice way. or some people may be more prone to prejudice due to other factors such as an authoritarian personality.
t/f this suggests the social identity theory is too simplistic of an explanation for explaining prejudice and it is much more complex
what is anouther weakness of social indentity theory
cross curtural diferances
how is cross cultural differances a weakness
some cultures are more tolerant of discrimination than others and have a greater tendency to favour in-group and out group, as some cultures are more collectives than individulistic this may highten their in-group out-group prejudice.
t/f SIT does not account for these individual diferances and so can be considered too simplistic
