ABSTRACT
Leading theoreticians and researchers present current thinking about the role played by group memberships in people's sense of who they are and what they are worth. The chapters build on the assumption, developed out of social identity theory, that people create a social self that both defines them and shapes their attitudes and behaviors. The authors address new developments in the theoretical frameworks through which we understand the social self, recent research on the nature of the social self, and recent findings about the influence of social context upon the development and maintenance of the social self.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter |7 pages
Introduction
part I|79 pages
Theoretical Perspectives
part II|80 pages
The Nature of the Social Self
part III|96 pages
Social Context and the Social Self