IDENTIFICATION WITH LARGE SCALE SOCIAL CATEGORIES: A SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY PERSPECTIVE

• Authors: Lasticova B.
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

This paper reviews social psychology approach to the study of the group identities based on social identity and the self-categorization theories. These are discussed with respect to multiple category memberships and identification with the large scale social categories such as nation and Europe. The assumption about hierarchical relations between the nested categories is criticised and it is argued that the perceptualist approach to social categorization should be combined with the approaches taking into account the role of language and discourse in the processes of identification. Finally, some methodological implications are outlined.

Keywords

EN

GROUP IDENTITY; NATIONAL IDENTITY; SOCIAL CATEGORIES; SOCIAL PYCHOLOGY APPROACH

Discipline

• SOCIOLOGY: SOCIOLOGY

• Publisher: Institute of Sociology, Slovak Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Sociológia (Sociology)
• Year: 2006
• Volume: 38
• Issue: 6
• Pages: 546-561
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Lasticova B.

• B. Lasticova, Kabinet socialnej a biologickej komunikacie SAV, Klemensova 19, 813 64 Bratislava, Slovak Republic

Identifiers

CEJSH db identifier

07SKAAAA02074411