Social identity

As I analyze my development from ages sixteen to twenty-two, I realized that Henri Tajfel’s Social Identity theory can be applied to the significant events that has affected my development. It is a stage theory that expresses the process by which individuals formulate their identity based upon a group that they interact with (Hutchinson, 2015). One’s social identity refers to an individual’s sense of who they are based on a group membership. The groups that people belong to are an important…

Social Identity Theory, known otherwise as SIT, is a principle proposed by Tajfel and Turner in the 1970s. The study aimed to explain intergroup behaviour and the situational factors within a model of behaviour. At its core, the theory consists of four interrelated concepts: social categorization, the tendency to categorize individuals into in-groups (we/us) and out-groups (they/them); category accentuation (social comparison), the exaggeration of intergroup differences and intragroup…

In life, who a person is defines them. One must first discover their social identity in order to understand who they are as a person. Some college students determine their own identity because they have their own views on who they want to be and can make their own decisions. However, Students’ environment plays a bigger role because they influence a student on who they should be. In Accidental Billionaire written by Ben Mezrich, he tells the story of the creation of Facebook through the eyes of…

Social Identity Theory In life we are categorized into many groups (whether it be based on our skin color, our culture, our type of music, the way we dress, and everything else about our lives) we cannot escape from it. We all put people into categories to help us simplify the information about people and be able to associate that information with people who would usually fit into that group, which now would even be called stereotyping. Both stereotyping and categorization are parts of a bigger…

whole life trying to find their true identity, but what if this identity they have been trying to obtain isn’t actually their own? Issues with identity appear at birth when society labels children as either male or female. Before even beginning to learn how to walk or talk half of their life has been planned out based off of their gender. It is from this point that society begins to shape these children in order to fit a certain identity. Issues with identity stem from society, and beliefs that…

are currently 3 billion internet users in the world. That is forty-two percent of the world’s population. Those 3 billion users are in some way affected by social media, positively or negatively. It’s been reported that forty-two percent of generation z has said that social media had a direct relation to their identity and self esteem. An identity is made over time mostly in young adolescents, that is currently generation Z. It’s a generation that has widely been stereotyped as a generation that…

Assess aspects of you Identity (i.e. cultural, values) and their implications for your development as a professional. Becoming a social worker takes professionalism. Professionalism is defined as person qualified for a position. In social work you have to be qualified to help people (Competence: social workers practice within their area of competence and develop and enhance their professional expertise) therefore you have to be a professional. Social Workers have to know that they are doing in…

Value systems construct social worker’s identity. It guides practice, social policy and establishes purpose in the field of social work. As a critical social worker, I will operate on the core value of non-judgment which is align with the social work Code of Ethics. This value will help determine use of theories, practice models and direct practice skills to address problems at micro-macro levels to avoid a dichotomous practice. The use of theories sort emotions from logic to help practitioners…

These Achillean Men: How Sexual Identity is connected with Social Hierarchy Modern society has a nuanced view of sexuality. The growing visibility and awareness of the LGBT community in modern culture has shaped opinions on sex and sexual identity, as well as gender. Most Americans subscribe to the idea that gender is a binary, and one can be attracted to one or the other. The idea that one can experience attraction to either genders or no gender is a fairly radical idea in American culture,…

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.…