Henri Tajfel

it. There are many things that social identity theory relates to or includes the history, the communication, and personal experience. History First, everyone must know the history of social identity theory. This theory started with a man named Henri…

Tajfel (1979) states that due to reduced capacities in processing information we define categories and schemes to encode and decode messages. So if we see someone who dresses in a certain fashion and tend to be on skateboards we place those people into the “Skater” category because of their style and habits. Tajfel and Turner (1979) summarize: “Social categorizations are conceived here as cognitive tools that…

In our diverse society, there are many examples of intergroup conflict between individuals of different ethnic back grounds. According to the realistic group conflict theory, individuals who are competing for the same resources are going to exhibit increased levels of intergroup conflict. This intergroup conflict influences individuals to feel solidarity for members of their own group, but results with increasing negative attitudes towards individuals of other competing groups (Kenrick, Neuberg,…

Whether humans could be categorized into races or subspecies is still a huge controversy within the society. The biological definition of race is: “Race: In biological taxonomy, same thing as a subspecies: when applied to humans incorporates both cultural and biological factors.” (C.Stanford et al. 2013, p. 104) The term “race” has been popularly used to differentiate people with different skin colors and other physical traits. The overuse and misuse of the term has blurred the actual meaning of…

Psychological Factors That Influence Prejudice Prejudice is an unjustified reason to hate or have ill feelings towards someone or a group. It is a recurring problem all over the world. From South America to Europe, Asia to Alaska; it happens in the poorest places in the world as well as the more wealthy. It is also not only secluded to one race, one gender, or even one age group. All types of people are impacted by prejudice on a day to day basis and for decades this has been occurring. With so…

Introduced by Henri Tajfel as a theory of intergroup conflict, Social Identity Theory is defined as the part of an individual’s self-concept which derives from his knowledge of his membership of a social group together with the emotional significance attached to that membership…

Social Identity Theory (SIT) developed from Tajfel’s work on intergroup processes which focused on the genesis of conflict between social groups, and the factors which influence support for, or attempts to change, established social hierarchies (Tajfel, Henri., & Turner, John C. 1979). In Social Identity Theory the self is reflexive in that I can take itself as an object and can categorize, classify, or name itself in particular ways in relation to other social categories or classifications.…

“Us and Them” is a critique of the social control that the medical model places upon non-European cultures. The theory of ‘Us and Them’ is derived from the psychologist Henri Tajfel, as a process of social identifiers, in which society categorizes people as strictly one way or the other. The most compelling example and that the comic intends to portray is, colonialism. European settlers invaded societies with the pretense that they were aiding the ‘savages’ native to the land. One can argue that…

Discriminatory/prejudicial behaviour can be further broken down into direct and indirect discrimination against a particular group. The three most notable prejudices and associated behaviours within Remember the Titans are racism, sexism and homophobia and harassment, name calling and gender stereotyping. An example of racism and harassment from the film comes in the scene where Coach Boones house gets damaged by a brick thrown by a passer-by as they call out “Coach Coon”. This direct…

Speaker Alexandra Robbins is a New York Times bestselling author of Pledged and The Overachievers. She’s spent over a decade “examining… various microcosms in U.S schools” and is the 2007 recipient of the Heartsongs award for her contributions to the mental health of children and young adults (Robbins, 6). Robbins immediately establishes credibility by featuring her credentials in her About the Author section and mentioning her experience in U.S schools early on in the book. In The Geeks Shall…