Rediscovering the Social Group

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Turner has in the past contributed significantly to promoting the study of intergroup behaviour and the development of theory within it. He and his associates have now formulated a theory integrating hitherto seemingly disparate phenomena thereby piacing it at the core of the discipline. As such, self-categorization will surely rank alongside dissonance, equity, social comparison and so forth as one of the most influential theories in social psychology. It is not only one of the most important books to emerge from the European school for somé time, it will, undoubtedly, become a classic.' Howard Giles, University of California, Santa Barbara A signal achievement - a theory of the humán self that sheds light on the nature of social groups.' Róbert M. Farr, London School of Economics This book presents a new theory of the social group which seeks to explain how individuals become unified into a group and capable of collective behaviour. It represents an important step forward in the... Tovább

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Turner has in the past contributed significantly to promoting the study of intergroup behaviour and the development of theory within it. He and his associates have now formulated a theory integrating hitherto seemingly disparate phenomena thereby piacing it at the core of the discipline. As such, self-categorization will surely rank alongside dissonance, equity, social comparison and so forth as one of the most influential theories in social psychology. It is not only one of the most important books to emerge from the European school for somé time, it will, undoubtedly, become a classic.' Howard Giles, University of California, Santa Barbara A signal achievement - a theory of the humán self that sheds light on the nature of social groups.' Róbert M. Farr, London School of Economics This book presents a new theory of the social group which seeks to explain how individuals become unified into a group and capable of collective behaviour. It represents an important step forward in the seminal programme of research on social categorization and social identity carried out by John Turner and his colleagues with the late Henri Tajfel. The book challenges the dominant theory of the social group in psychology, that of'social interdependence'. It argues that individuals become a group not in so far as they develop personal relationships based on the mutual satisfaction of their needs, but by developing a shared social categorization of themselves in contrast to others, a shared perception of 'us' in contrast to 'them'. John C. Turner is Associate Professor of Psychology at Macquarie University. He is the editor (with Howard Giles) of Intergroup Behaviour (Basil Blackwell, 1981). Vissza