Wir untersuchen die Rolle zweier unterschiedlicher Formen sozialer Orientierung für die Integration in soziale Netzwerke. Zum einen ist die Identifikation mit dem Deutschsein ein Aspekt sozialer ...Identität, der im Sinne der Homophilie die Chance auf Netzwerkkontakte beeinflussen könnte. Zum anderen betrachten wir den Multikulturalismus als eine politische Orientierung, die durch Netzwerke diffundiert. Ausgehend von Argumenten aus der Social Identity Theory und der Theorie der Informationsdiffusion prüfen wir erstens, ob im Sinne der Homophilie die Ähnlichkeit zweier Personen hinsichtlich dieser Orientierungen Einfluss auf soziale Kontakte hat, und zweitens, ob diese Orientierungen unter anderem aus sozialem Einfluss resultieren, die Kontaktpersonen im sozialen Netzwerk ausüben. Wir verwenden für unsere empirische Analyse Daten des CILS4EU Projektes, von denen wir bis zu 40 Schulklassennetzwerke von maximal 875 Schülerinnen und Schülern für die Schätzung von Ko-Evolutionsmodellen für Netzwerke und Personenmerkmale nutzen können. Die Ergebnisse zeigen, dass bei der Identifikation mit dem Deutschsein sowohl Mechanismen der Selektion als auch des Einflusses wirken. So erhöht einerseits eine geteilte soziale Identität die Kontaktchancen, andererseits neigen die Jugendlichen dazu, ihre soziale Identität an ihre Freunde anzupassen. Für multikulturelle Einstellungen finden wir nur den Mechanismus des Einflusses – hinsichtlich dieser Einstellungen ist keine Homophilie festzustellen. Hier wirkt im Wesentlichen nur die Diffusion über sozialen Einfluss. Wir schließen daraus, dass die multikulturellen Einstellungen im Gegensatz zur Identifikation mit dem Deutschsein kein salientes Merkmal für Gruppenidentitäten darstellen.
In recent years, the construct of social identity has assumed an increasing role in scientific research. However, despite this attention, evidenced by the large number of publications, some questions ...related to the conceptualization of this construct still remain unexplained. Thus, the most pressing question is precisely related to the structure of social identity and the tendency to consider it as one-dimensional rather than a construct composed of different components. Therefore, the research focuses on the multicomponent nature of social identity and the connections of its components, which tend to vary in intensity and fimetion, according to different theoretical approaches.
The author contends that the terms “job” and “role” are often used interchangeably, but these “are not simple synonyms. While a job consists of one or more tasks for which its holder accepts ...responsibility, a role goes further to encompass the broader context.” He discusses the recent ramifications of the term “stakeholder,” and how it has profound effects about how organizations are operated. This includes the Business Roundtable “Statement on the Purpose of a Corporation” in 2019. In considering your roles and role responsibilities, he asks questions such as “To whom you are obligated?” and “whose interests must you represent?” For understanding your core social identity, “How would you describe yourself to someone who didn’t know you?” and “What categories, communities, groups, social classes, do you see yourself as a part of?” In considering your role, some questions include “Are we part of the same social identity group?” and “Do your decisions reflect the integrity of what you have told or shown me about who you are?” Pliner concludes that “developing a deep understanding of your roles in all their complexity will help you to better align to – or frame misalignment with – your moral code and ethical context.”
Live video streaming has been a global economic and social phenomenon in recent years. Many streaming platforms such as Twitch and YouTube Live have been founded and demonstrated unprecedented growth ...across the world. Yet, researchers have paid insufficient attention to understanding the massive participation behavior exhibited by live video streaming audiences. Based on social identity theory, this paper aims to explain audiences' continuous watching behavior intention via a dual identification framework including identifications with streaming broadcasters and audience groups. Analysis of data collected from two live streaming platforms in mainland China indicates that audiences’ identification with broadcasters and audience groups are positively associated with their continuous watching intention. Broadcaster identification is driven by individual experience including experience of parasocial interaction, actual and ideal self-congruity, whereas group identification is enhanced by co-experience consisting of participation, cognitive communion, and resonant contagion. In addition, live streaming genres partially moderate the impact of identification on continuous watching intention. Theoretical and practical implications as well as limitations and suggestions for future research are provided.
•We studied users' continuance intention on live streaming platforms.•Broadcaster identification and group identification increase continuance intention.•Parasocial interaction and self-congruity increase broadcaster identification.•Co-experience among audiences increases group identification.•Streaming genres moderate the effects of identifications on continuance intention.
Depression and Social Identity Cruwys, Tegan; Haslam, S. Alexander; Dingle, Genevieve A. ...
Personality and social psychology review,
08/2014, Letnik:
18, Številka:
3
Journal Article
Social relationships play a key role in depression. This is apparent in its etiology, symptomatology, and effective treatment. However, there has been little consensus about the best way to ...conceptualize the link between depression and social relationships. Furthermore, the extensive social-psychological literature on the nature of social relationships, and in particular, research on social identity, has not been integrated with depression research. This review presents evidence that social connectedness is key to understanding the development and resolution of clinical depression. The social identity approach is then used as a basis for conceptualizing the role of social relationships in depression, operationalized in terms of six central hypotheses. Research relevant to these hypotheses is then reviewed. Finally, we present an agenda for future research to advance theoretical and empirical understanding of the link between social identity and depression, and to translate the insights of this approach into clinical practice.
This study aims to investigate the relationships between citizens’ populist attitudes, perceptions of public opinion, and perceptions of mainstream news media. Relying on social identity theory as an ...explanatory framework, this article argues that populist citizens assume that public opinion is congruent with their own opinion and that mainstream media reporting is hostile toward their own views. To date, only anecdotal evidence suggests that both assumptions are true. The relationships are investigated in a cross-sectional survey with samples drawn from four Western European countries (N = 3,354). Multigroup regression analysis supports our hypotheses: False consensus and hostile media perceptions can clearly be linked to populist attitudes in all four regions under investigation. Moreover, our findings show a gap between hostile media perceptions and congruent public opinion perceptions, which increases with increasing populist attitudes to the point that the persuasive press inference mechanism is annulled.
This contribution reviews work on the queen bee phenomenon whereby women leaders assimilate into male-dominated organizations (i.e., organizations in which most executive positions are held by men) ...by distancing themselves from junior women and legitimizing gender inequality in their organization. We propose that rather than being a source of gender inequality, the queen bee phenomenon is itself a consequence of the gender discrimination that women experience at work. We substantiate this argument with research showing that (1) queen bee behavior is a response to the discrimination and social identity threat that women may experience in male-dominated organizations, and (2) queen bee behavior is not a typically feminine response but part of a general self-group distancing response that is also found in other marginalized groups. We discuss consequences of the queen bee phenomenon for women leaders, junior women, organizations and society more generally, and propose ways to combat this phenomenon.
We draw from socioemotional wealth and social identity research to develop a theory on reputational differences among family and non‐family firms. We propose that family members identify more ...strongly with their family firm than non‐family members do with either a family or non‐family firm. Heightened identification motivates family members to pursue a favourable reputation because it allows them to feel good about themselves, thus contributing to their socioemotional wealth. We hypothesize that when the family's name is part of the firm's name, the firm's reputation is higher because family members are particularly motivated for their firm to have a better reputation. Family members also need organizational power to pursue a favourable reputation; thus, we hypothesize that the level of family ownership and family board presence should be associated with more favourable reputations. We find support for our theory in a sample of large firms from eight countries with disparate governance systems and cultures.
This study employs the Computers are Social Actors (CASA) paradigm to extend the predictions of Social Identity Theory (SIT) to human-robot interaction (HRI) in the context of instructional ...communication. SIT posits that individuals gain a sense of personal worth from the groups with which they identify. Previous research has demonstrated that age group identification is meaningful to individuals’ self-concepts. Results demonstrated that higher age identified students rated the older A.I. voice instructor (representing an out-group member) higher for credibility and social presence and reported more motivation to learn than those students with low age identification. Implications are discussed for SIT and design features of computerized voices.
•Age identity matters for evaluations of A.I. voice.•Higher age identified students rated the older A.I. voice higher for credibility.•Higher age identified students rated the A.I. voice higher for social presence and reported more motivation to learn.•Implications are discussed for Human-Robot interaction and design.
Social Identity Theory (SIT) is commonly applied to explain social change. We aim to revive interest in the concept of social creativity in order to provide a SIT perspective on bolstering and ...challenging social stability. Social creativity allows people to maintain or achieve a positive social identity through re‐interpreting intergroup relations. Despite this crucial role in shaping intergroup comparisons, the causes and effects of social creativity are largely unknown. To understand how social creativity can contribute to social stability, we argue for a return to SIT's dynamic nature of constantly renegotiating intergroup relations, involving both higher‐ and lower‐status groups. Within these dynamics, we propose that social creativity can play the roles of coping with, promoting, and questioning social stability. Additionally, we outline a research agenda for future research on social creativity and discuss the impact that social stability can have in societies.
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