Social and Cognitive Bases of Ethnic Identity Constancy

Aboud, Frances E.

doi:10.1080/00221325.1984.10532269

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“…For example, prior to conducting empirical work, Aboud (1984), specified three criteria that she considered would be central in establishing that ethnic identification has taken place: (1) children should describe themselves in terms of attributes judged by group members to be definitional to the identity (e.g., ancestry or parentage, language, skin colour and the group's label);…”

Section: Children's Social Identities: a Brief Review Of The Literaturementioning

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The Internalisation of Group Identities in Childhood

Bennett

Sani

2011

Psychol Stud

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This paper provides an account of key findings from a decade-long programme of research on children's internalisation of social group identities. Our starting point is to note a pervasive failure of previous work to differentiate between categorisation of the self in group terms and subjective identification with a social group. Thus, previous research had sought to cast light on identification with groups but, owing to methodological weaknesses, typically examined only categorisation of the self in group terms. Following a review of relevant literature, we report the findings of our own research which has adapted methods drawn from cognitive social psychology. We conclude that even by the age of 5 years children are capable of subjectively identifying with collectivities. Directions for future research are discussed.

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Section: Children's Social Identities: a Brief Review Of The Literaturementioning

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The Internalisation of Group Identities in Childhood

Bennett

Sani

2011

Psychol Stud

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“…The traditional claim would be that young children do not associate deontic properties with social categories because they focus exclusively on physical and behavioral properties (Aboud, 1984;Emler & Dickinson, 1993;Hoffner & Cantor, 1985;Watson, 1984). More recent research on development of person perception suggests that young children do go beyond physical properties.…”

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Development of Social Category Representations: Early Appreciation of Roles and Deontic Relations

Kalish¹,

Lawson

2008

Child Development

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Three experiments explored the significance of deontic properties (involving rights and obligations) in representations of social categories. Preschool-aged children (M = 4.8), young school-aged children (M = 8.2), and adults judged the centrality of behavioral, psychological, and deontic properties for both familiar (Experiments 1 and 2, Ns = 50 and 52, respectively) and novel (Experiment 3, N = 64) social categories. Preschool-aged children were the most consistent in treating deontic properties as central: Knowing a person's social category membership was more informative about obligations than about behavioral frequencies or psychological preferences. Adults treated deontic properties as central to some categories but also recognized a set that was primarily predictive of psychological dispositions. The results argue for the significance of deontic properties in the development of social cognition.

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“…Initially however, the robot must seed its model space with a model of itself, its self model. The self model influences the robot's predictions about others in a manner that appears to be similar to the way children use the categorical self to determine similarity [16]. We argue that this process of adding partner models to the model space and learning categories over this space may relate to the experience gained over the course of human social development.…”

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“…Stereotyping in children appears to be related to child's developing sense of a categorical self [16]. This process begins with a preference for one's own category followed by judgments of similarity to that group [5,16]. Moreover, children tend to focus on the most salient and observable perceptual characteristics, such as hair color, when categorizing a person (e.g.…”

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