Social Identity

PART ONE: REPRESENTATIONS OF SELF AND GROUP/Regarding the Relationship between Social Identity and Personal Identity/Social Representations in Personal Identity/The Personal-Social Interplay/Social-Cognitive Prospects on Identity and Self-Others Comparison/Self-We-Others Schemata and Social Identifications/PART TWO: ESTABLISHING GROUP IDENTITY/A Developmental View of the Search for Group Identity/The Role of Prototypicality in Group Influence and Cohesion/Contextual Variation in the Graded Structure of Social Categories/Group Beliefs as an Expression of Social Identity/Social Identity and National Identity/PART THREE: IDENTITY AND GROUP/INTERGROUP PROCESS/Social Identity and Intragroup Differentiation as Subjective Social Control/Categorization and Social Influence/Social Identity and Interpersonal Relationships/Social Identity and Aspects of Social Creativity/Shifting to New Dimensions of Intergroup Comparison/Mere Categorization and Competition/A Closer Look at Social Identity Theory and the Discontinuity Effect/PART FOUR: THE IMPACT OF CULTURE ON IDENTITY AND CATEGORIZATION/Discrimination and Beliefs on Discrimination in Individualists and Collectivists/Constructing Social Identity/The Role of Status Collective Values Collective Self-Esteem Perception and Social Behaviour