Advances in Group Processes publishes theoretical analyses, reviews
and theory based empirical chapters on group phenomena. Volume 22,
the fourth volume of a 5-series set, includes papers that address
fundamental issues of Social Identification in Groups. Chapter one
examines how group identities can have beneficial and detrimental
effects on workplace commitment. The second chapter examines the
emotional reactions that emerge when transient meanings do not
match the meaning of one??'s identity standard. The third chapter
uses identity theories to understand how performance on an academic
test is impaired when scoring well on the test is not consistent
with the identity. As a group, these three chapters address new
empirical and theoretical problems at the cutting edge of identity
theory and research.
The next three chapters take on issues of identity and social
structure. Chapter four theorizes and tests a core idea in identity
theory, that structural constraints and opportunities shape the
development of commitments to social relations. The authors conduct
a test of this claim using survey data from a five county region of
southern California. The next chapter integrates status
characteristics theory with principles from social identity theory
to show how status structures and group membership combine to
produce influence in task settings. Chapter six puts forward a
theory of collective identity that addresses whether collective
identities cause or are caused by participation in a social
movements, and whether subgroup identities are inversely or
positively related to larger group identities.
The next two papers address issues of social identity and
uncertainty. Chapterseven tests and supports the claim that people
take longer to define the identity of androgynous looking
individuals, and that their presence will slow performance on a
cognitive task. Chapter eight examines the emergence of ideology in
the context of theory and research on uncertainty, group
identification, group prototypes and entitativity.
The final chapter in the volume seeks to understand how multiple
identity standards can be activated simultaneously, and how
identity perceptions shift from members of separate groups to
members of a single, more inclusive group. Overall, the volume
includes papers that reflect a wide range of theoretical approaches
to social identity and contributions by major scholars that work in
the general area of group processes.
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