Unit 4: Self & Social Identity Flashcards
Self-Identity
How you define yourself based on your beliefs, values, and personal traits
Self-awareness
Recognizing and understanding your thoughts, feelings, and actions (comparing actual self vs. ideal self)
Private self
Internal thoughts and feelings
Public self
How we present ourselves to others
Self-comparison
Judging yourself by comparing to others to understand your abilities and status
Downward comparison
Comparison to someone worse to feel better
Upward comaparison
Comparison to someone better to inspire improvement
Personal Identity (Tajfel)
Unique traits and relationships that define you as an individual (separate from group membership)
Cognitive Social Identity
Knowing you belong to a group (self-categorization)
Evaluative Social Identity
Valuing your group membership (self-esteem; positive or negative)
Emotional Social Identity
An emotional connection to your group (effective commitment)
Social mobility
Changing social categories to improve your status or identity
Social change
Challenging the individual in the dominant position your group to improve you social identity
Social categorization
Sorting people into groups to simplify the world, though it can distort reality
Self-organization
A process where systems/individuals structure themselves without external control
