Affiliation with a group confers self-esteem, which helps to sustain the social identity. Social identities are most influential when individuals consider membership in a particular group to be central to their self-concept and they feel strong emotional ties to the group. (As discussed earlier in the chapter, psychologists’ identification with a particular theoretical approach can also constitute a social identity.) Social identity theory addresses the ways that social identities affect people's attitudes and behaviors regarding their ingroup and the outgroup. Examples include sports teams, religions, nationalities, occupations, sexual orientation, ethnic groups, and gender. Social identity refers to the ways that people's self-concepts are based on their membership in social groups. Social identity theory was proposed in social psychology by Tajfel and his colleagues ( Tajfel, 1978 Tajfel & Turner, 1979). Campbell Leaper, in Advances in Child Development and Behavior, 2011 5 Self-Categorization (and Social Identity) Theory
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