Rediscovering the Social Group

Turner, J. C., Hogg, Oakes, Reicher, & Wetherell, M. S. (1987). Rediscovering the Social Group: A Self-Categorization Theory. Blackwell.

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Book

Intellectual base

Review or monograph

Year

1987

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https://openlibrary.org/isbn/063114806Xverified

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psychology

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Primes

• In-Group / Out-Group
  • The prime underlies and connects Ethnocentrism, Stereotyping, and Social Identity Theory, supplying the common substrate those concepts elaborate.
• Social Identity Theory
  • Self-categorization theory, as formulated by Turner, Hogg, Oakes, Reicher, and Wetherell (1987), specifies that a category becomes salient (psychologically active, self-defining) when: (1) the Context makes the category comparatively relevant (a meeting where gender is not mentioned makes gender-identity less salient than a meeting explicitly organized by gender), (2) the fit between category membership and the perceived situation is high (if women are discussing workplace equity, gender is high-fit; if women are discussing software debugging, gender is lower-fit), and (3) comparative relevance of out-group members is high (if there are no out-group members present, the category may be accessible but not salient for identity purposes).

    This sourceCanonical statement of self-categorization theory: a category becomes salient when context, fit, and comparative relevance of out-group members align, making identity context-activated rather than fixed.

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