The Dynamics of Personal and Social Identity Formation

Postmes, Tom; Baray, Gamze; Haslam, S. Alexander; Morton, Thomas A.; Swaab, Roderick I.

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“…While higher education research has not used Tajfel and Turner's (1985) SIT as a theoretical lens in this context, numerous studies have used the theory to understand corporate organizations and the work identity of individuals within the organization, includ ing the strength of identification through shared values (Kreiner & Ashforth, 2004), the perceived characteristics of groups and the enactment of those values (Postmes, Baray, Haslam, Morton, & Swaab, 2006), and the presence of nested or combined identities (Crisp & Hewstone, 2006;Ashforth et al, 2008). These studies offer a foundation for questioning the influence of the cultural social identities of graduate students as they make decisions to join the academic organization.…”

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The Influence of Cultural Social Identity on Graduate Student Career Choice

Haley¹,

Jaeger²,

Levin³

2014

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This study examines and enriches understanding of the career choice process for graduate students of color. Social identity theory (SIT) is used as a framework to expand our understanding of how and why graduate students choose (or do not choose) faculty careers. Graduate students’ cultural social identities influenced their career choice beyond work–life balance as they sought an integrated life that included values, beliefs, and perspectives that represent their cultural community.

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The Influence of Cultural Social Identity on Graduate Student Career Choice

Haley¹,

Jaeger²,

Levin³

2014

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“…Being part of social groups allows the individual to construct his/her identity. Identity formation has been conceived as the more or less deterministic outcome of a series of cognitive, evaluative and categorization processes (Tajfel and Turner, 1979;Tajfel, 1986;Onorato and Turner, 2001;Postmes and Jetten, 2006;Postmes et al, 2006). Within this framework, experiences of society, group belonging and social identification are posited on the workings of inner psychological processes and in-group/out-group dynamics.…”

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The construction of ethnic minority identity: A discursive psychological approach to ethnic self-definition in action

Merino

Tileagă

2010

Discourse & Society

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The present article intends to examine how ethnic minority group members account for their ethnic identity as part of a series of interviews with young Mapuches on what it means to be Mapuche in contemporary Chilean society. The focus is on the actual accomplishment and display of ethnic self-definition and group identification. We draw on insights from discursive psychology to explore some features of common-sense practical reasoning that ethnic minority group members use to negotiate, self-ascribe or resist a particular sense of identity, and to produce observable and reportable identities. We have a particular interest in illustrating how ethnic self-definition can be seen as the contingent outcome of a practical and interpretive issue for members of society, with a special focus on how ethnic minority identity is constructed through the flexible use of group-defining attributes and characteristics, categories and common-sense categorial knowledge. We suggest that understanding the complex significance and meaning of ethnic self-definition for minority group members is dependent on engaging closely with its occasioned context of production and treating social identities as a feature of how people describe themselves. It is argued that this view of ethnic minority self-definition as a practical and interpretive issue and as a discursive product in action can provide a further contribution to literature of both discursive and intercultural studies of ethnic identification of minority groups, intercultural and interethnic relations.

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“…This is not inconsistent with our argument that interaction is a key process in the formation of norms that promote hostility. After all, these alternative ways of exerting social influence are not unrelated to the interactive processes in small dynamic groups, although the functional origins of the process must lie in the simple exchange of viewpoints within a group (see also Caporael, 2001;Postmes, Baray, Haslam, Morton, & Swaab, 2006;Richerson, 2004).…”

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Intra‐group interaction and the development of norms which promote inter‐group hostility

Smith

Postmes

2009

Euro J Social Psych

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Research suggests there is more inter-group discrimination when rewards rather than punishments are distributed between groups (the positive-negative asymmetry effect). This study investigated whether intra-group interaction and the obstruction of in-group advancement moderate this finding. Participants were twice asked to divide monetary resources-individually (pre-consensus) and in interactive groups (consensus). Results confirmed that there was more discrimination when rewards were allocated. Although this replicates the PNAE overall, there were two moderators. First, there was no asymmetry when the out-group obstructed in-group advancement: obstruction was sufficient to legitimise punishment. Second, after group interaction the PNAE reversed so that there was more discrimination when punishments were administered. The severity of discrimination was contingent upon group norms that endorsed inter-group hostility. It is argued that norms changed as a function of group interaction, and so did patterns of discrimination. The results suggest that the intra-and inter-group context combined to cause in-group favouritism to slide towards inter-group hostility.

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The Dynamics of Personal and Social Identity Formation

Cited by 60 publications

References 454 publications

The Influence of Cultural Social Identity on Graduate Student Career Choice

The Influence of Cultural Social Identity on Graduate Student Career Choice

The construction of ethnic minority identity: A discursive psychological approach to ethnic self-definition in action

Intra‐group interaction and the development of norms which promote inter‐group hostility

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