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Social Identification (social + identification)
Selected AbstractsSocial Identification and Interpersonal Communication in Computer-Mediated Communication: What You Do Versus Who You Are in Virtual GroupsHUMAN COMMUNICATION RESEARCH, Issue 1 2009Zuoming Wang This study investigates the influence of interpersonal communication and intergroup identification on members' evaluations of computer-mediated groups. Participants (N= 256) in 64 four-person groups interacted through synchronous computer chat. Subgroup assignments to minimal groups instilled significantly greater in-group versus out-group identification. One member in each group was instructed to exhibit interpersonally likable or dislikable behavior. Analysis revealed that confederates acting likably were more attractive than those acting dislikably regardless of their in-group or out-group status. Further results indicated that interpersonal behavior interacted with subgroup membership on identification shifts following online discussions. Interpersonal dynamics generally provided stronger effects on members in virtual groups than did intergroup dynamics, in contrast to predictions from previous applications of social identification to computer-mediated communication. Résumé L,identification sociale et la communication interpersonnelle dans la communication par ordinateur : Ce que vous faites et qui vous êtes dans les groupes virtuels Cette étude examine l'influence de la communication interpersonnelle et de l,identification intergroupe sur les évaluations que font les membres des groupes électroniques. Les participants (N= 256), divisés en 64 groupes de quatre personnes, ont interagi par le biais de clavardage (conversation électronique) en temps réel. L'assignation à des sous-groupes a produit une identification intragroupe beaucoup plus grande qu,une identification hors-groupe. Des instructions furent données à un membre de chaque groupe d'afficher des comportements interpersonnels agréables ou désagréables. L,analyse révèle que les collaborateurs agissant de façon agréable étaient plus attrayants que ceux agissant de façon désagréable et ce, indépendamment de leur statut intragroupe ou hors-groupe. Des résultats supplémentaires indiquent que le comportement interpersonnel et l'appartenance au sous-groupe ont joué sur les changements d,identification qui ont suivi les discussions en ligne. La dynamique interpersonnelle a généralement eu des effets plus forts sur les membres des groupes virtuels que la dynamique intergroupe, contrairement aux prédictions des applications précédentes de l'identification sociale à la communication par ordinateur. Abstract Soziale Identifikation und interpersonale Kommunikation in computervermittelter Kommunikation: Was du machst vs. Wer du bist in virtuellen Gruppen Diese Studie untersucht den Einfluss von interpersonaler Kommunikation und Gruppenidentifikation auf die Bewertung von computervermittelten Gruppen durch ihre Mitglieder. Die Teilnehmer (N= 256) in 64 4-Personen Gruppen interagierten in synchronen Computer-Chats. Gruppenaufgaben für Untergruppen bewirkte signifikant stärkere Identifikation in der Gruppe und nach außen. In jeder Gruppe wurde ein Teilnehmer instruiert, interpersonal angenehmes oder unangenehmes Verhalten an den Tag zu legen. Die Analyse zeigte, dass die instruierten Teilnehmer, die angenehm agierten, attraktiver wahrgenommen wurden, als die, die die unangenehm agierten, unabhängig von ihrem Status in oder außerhalb der Gruppe. Weitere Ergebnisse zeigen, dass interpersonales Verhaltes mit der Mitgliedschaft in Untergruppen bezüglich der Identifikationsverschiebung auf Online-Diskussionen folgend interagierte. Im Gegensatz zu Annahmen aus früheren Anwendungen sozialer Identifikation auf computervermittelte Kommunikation, zeigten interpersonale Dynamiken allgemein stärkere Effekte auf die Mitglieder in virtuellen Gruppen als auf die Gruppendynamik. Resumen La identificación Social y la Comunicación Interpersonal en la Comunicación Mediada por la Computadora: Lo Que Haces Versus Quién Eres en los Grupos Virtuales Este estudio investiga la influencia de la comunicación interpersonal y la identificación intergrupal en las evaluaciones de los miembros de grupos mediados por la computadora. Los participantes (N= 256) en 64 grupos de 4 personas interactuaron asincrónicamente a través de la computadora en un salón de charla. Las tareas de subgrupos para grupos mínimos inculcaron una identificación significativamente mayor con el grupo de pertenencia versus el grupo excluyente. Un miembro de cada grupo fue instruido para exhibir comportamientos interpersonales agradables y desagradables. El análisis reveló que los miembros de los grupos que actuaban en forma agradable fueron más atractivos que los que actuaban en forma desagradable a pesar de su estatus de grupo de pertenencia o excluyente. Más resultados indicaron que el comportamiento interpersonal interactuó con la membrecía del subgrupo en los cambios de identificación que siguieron a las discusiones online. Las dinámicas interpersonales proveyeron generalmente de efectos más fuertes sobre los miembros de grupos virtuales que sobre las dinámicas intergrupales, en contraste con las predicciones de previas aplicaciones de la identificación social de la comunicación mediada por la computadora. ZhaiYao Yo yak [source] Emerging Patterns of Social Identification in Postapartheid South AfricaJOURNAL OF SOCIAL ISSUES, Issue 2 2010Elirea Bornman Theorists acknowledge the possibility of multiple group identification where groups are imbedded in hierarchical structures that can change as the environment changes. This article investigates national, subnational, and supranational identification and the possible impact of social and political change on identity structures in South Africa. The results of three surveys conducted in 1994, 1998, and 2001 are discussed. While national and African identities have apparently strengthened among Blacks since 1994, national identification seems to have diminished among Afrikaans-speaking Whites in favor of ethnic identification. Some potential consequences of and directions for future research are discussed. [source] From Good Student to Outcast: The Emergence of a Classroom IdentityETHOS, Issue 2 2004Stanton Wortham The process of social identification draws on heterogeneous resources from several levels of explanation. This article illustrates how, by describing the identity development of one student across an academic year in a ninth-grade classroom. Analyses of transcribed classroom conversations show teachers and students drawing on multiple resources as this student goes from being identified as one of many good students to being identified as a disruptive outcast. This case provides a counterexample to simple theories of identity development that do not recognize the multiple, heterogeneous resources involved in social identification. [source] The impact of exchange programs on the integration of the hostgroup into the self-conceptEUROPEAN JOURNAL OF SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY, Issue 1 2010Kai Sassenberg Two studies analyzed the impact of international exchange programs on students' identity development. More precisely, the authors predict that exchange students integrate the host society (hostgroup) into their self-concept during an exchange year. Study 1 found a stronger social identification with the hostgroup and higher commitment for former exchange students than for future exchange students. Study 2 replicated the difference between former and future exchange students and found in addition that both former and future exchange students had a stronger identification and commitment in comparison to a control group that did neither take part in nor apply for an exchange program. Moreover, in this study the inclusion of the hostgroup into the self-concept was assessed via a response time paradigm. The results indicate that former and future exchange students have a stronger association between the self and the hostgroup than the control sample, but no difference between former and future exchange students was found. The results provide evidence for the impact of interest in and actual intensive intergroup contact on students' self-concept. Copyright © 2009 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. [source] Opinion-based group membership as a predictor of commitment to political actionEUROPEAN JOURNAL OF SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY, Issue 1 2007Ana-Maria Bliuc Research on group identification has shown it to be a surprisingly weak predictor of intentions to take large-scale social action. The weak links may exist because researchers have not always examined identification with the type of group that is most relevant for predicting action. Our focus in two studies (one in Romania and one in Australia, both Ns,=,101) was on opinion-based groups (i.e. groups formed around shared opinions). We found that social identification with opinion-based groups was an excellent predictor of political behavioural intentions, particularly when items measuring identity certainty were included. The results provide clear evidence of the role of social identity constructs for predicting commitment to social action and complement analyses of politicised collective identity and crowd behaviour. Copyright © 2006 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. [source] We are one and I like it: The impact of ingroup entitativity on ingroup identificationEUROPEAN JOURNAL OF SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY, Issue 6 2003Emanuele Castano It is argued that the entitativity of the ingroup moderates the level of identification with the ingroup. Specifically, that high levels of entitativity are conducive to strong identification, whereas low levels of entitativity reduce identification with the ingroup. These hypotheses were tested across four studies using the European Union (EU) as the reference group. The four studies manipulated four different factors that, according to Campbell (1958), impact on group entitativity: common fate (Study 1), similarity (Study 2), salience (Study 3), and boundedness (Study 4). Across the four studies, we found evidence for the impact of these factors on the level of identification with the EU among European citizens holding moderate attitudes toward the EU but not (or much less) for citizens holding more extreme attitudes towards the EU. Mediational analyses further confirmed the viability of an entitativity-based interpretation of the impact of the manipulations on the level of identification. The findings are discussed in light of the current debate on the concept of entitativity, the motives for social identification, and the reduction of ingroup bias. Copyright © 2003 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. [source] Social Identification and Interpersonal Communication in Computer-Mediated Communication: What You Do Versus Who You Are in Virtual GroupsHUMAN COMMUNICATION RESEARCH, Issue 1 2009Zuoming Wang This study investigates the influence of interpersonal communication and intergroup identification on members' evaluations of computer-mediated groups. Participants (N= 256) in 64 four-person groups interacted through synchronous computer chat. Subgroup assignments to minimal groups instilled significantly greater in-group versus out-group identification. One member in each group was instructed to exhibit interpersonally likable or dislikable behavior. Analysis revealed that confederates acting likably were more attractive than those acting dislikably regardless of their in-group or out-group status. Further results indicated that interpersonal behavior interacted with subgroup membership on identification shifts following online discussions. Interpersonal dynamics generally provided stronger effects on members in virtual groups than did intergroup dynamics, in contrast to predictions from previous applications of social identification to computer-mediated communication. Résumé L,identification sociale et la communication interpersonnelle dans la communication par ordinateur : Ce que vous faites et qui vous êtes dans les groupes virtuels Cette étude examine l'influence de la communication interpersonnelle et de l,identification intergroupe sur les évaluations que font les membres des groupes électroniques. Les participants (N= 256), divisés en 64 groupes de quatre personnes, ont interagi par le biais de clavardage (conversation électronique) en temps réel. L'assignation à des sous-groupes a produit une identification intragroupe beaucoup plus grande qu,une identification hors-groupe. Des instructions furent données à un membre de chaque groupe d'afficher des comportements interpersonnels agréables ou désagréables. L,analyse révèle que les collaborateurs agissant de façon agréable étaient plus attrayants que ceux agissant de façon désagréable et ce, indépendamment de leur statut intragroupe ou hors-groupe. Des résultats supplémentaires indiquent que le comportement interpersonnel et l'appartenance au sous-groupe ont joué sur les changements d,identification qui ont suivi les discussions en ligne. La dynamique interpersonnelle a généralement eu des effets plus forts sur les membres des groupes virtuels que la dynamique intergroupe, contrairement aux prédictions des applications précédentes de l'identification sociale à la communication par ordinateur. Abstract Soziale Identifikation und interpersonale Kommunikation in computervermittelter Kommunikation: Was du machst vs. Wer du bist in virtuellen Gruppen Diese Studie untersucht den Einfluss von interpersonaler Kommunikation und Gruppenidentifikation auf die Bewertung von computervermittelten Gruppen durch ihre Mitglieder. Die Teilnehmer (N= 256) in 64 4-Personen Gruppen interagierten in synchronen Computer-Chats. Gruppenaufgaben für Untergruppen bewirkte signifikant stärkere Identifikation in der Gruppe und nach außen. In jeder Gruppe wurde ein Teilnehmer instruiert, interpersonal angenehmes oder unangenehmes Verhalten an den Tag zu legen. Die Analyse zeigte, dass die instruierten Teilnehmer, die angenehm agierten, attraktiver wahrgenommen wurden, als die, die die unangenehm agierten, unabhängig von ihrem Status in oder außerhalb der Gruppe. Weitere Ergebnisse zeigen, dass interpersonales Verhaltes mit der Mitgliedschaft in Untergruppen bezüglich der Identifikationsverschiebung auf Online-Diskussionen folgend interagierte. Im Gegensatz zu Annahmen aus früheren Anwendungen sozialer Identifikation auf computervermittelte Kommunikation, zeigten interpersonale Dynamiken allgemein stärkere Effekte auf die Mitglieder in virtuellen Gruppen als auf die Gruppendynamik. Resumen La identificación Social y la Comunicación Interpersonal en la Comunicación Mediada por la Computadora: Lo Que Haces Versus Quién Eres en los Grupos Virtuales Este estudio investiga la influencia de la comunicación interpersonal y la identificación intergrupal en las evaluaciones de los miembros de grupos mediados por la computadora. Los participantes (N= 256) en 64 grupos de 4 personas interactuaron asincrónicamente a través de la computadora en un salón de charla. Las tareas de subgrupos para grupos mínimos inculcaron una identificación significativamente mayor con el grupo de pertenencia versus el grupo excluyente. Un miembro de cada grupo fue instruido para exhibir comportamientos interpersonales agradables y desagradables. El análisis reveló que los miembros de los grupos que actuaban en forma agradable fueron más atractivos que los que actuaban en forma desagradable a pesar de su estatus de grupo de pertenencia o excluyente. Más resultados indicaron que el comportamiento interpersonal interactuó con la membrecía del subgrupo en los cambios de identificación que siguieron a las discusiones online. Las dinámicas interpersonales proveyeron generalmente de efectos más fuertes sobre los miembros de grupos virtuales que sobre las dinámicas intergrupales, en contraste con las predicciones de previas aplicaciones de la identificación social de la comunicación mediada por la computadora. ZhaiYao Yo yak [source] Accomplishing Identity in Participant-Denoting DiscourseJOURNAL OF LINGUISTIC ANTHROPOLOGY, Issue 2 2003Stanton Wortham Individuals become socially identified when categories of identity are used repeatedly to characterize them. Speech that denotes participants and involves parallelism between descriptions of participants and the events that they enact in the event of speaking can be a powerful mechanism for accomplishing consistent social identification. This article describes how two different types of participant-denoting speech events,participant examples and autobiographical narratives,can involve such parallelism, in which speakers simultaneously represent and enact analogous social positions and thereby strengthen social identification. [source] Social Indentity And The Problem of Loyalty In Knowledge-Intensive CompaniesJOURNAL OF MANAGEMENT STUDIES, Issue 8 2000Mats Alvesson This paper treats the significance of organization-based social identity for loyalty versus exit reactions with special reference to knowledge-intensive companies. The centrality of network relations and close contact with clients in combination with the sometimes drastic consequences of knowledge workers defecting in many knowledge-intensive companies makes social identification and loyalty crucial themes for management. The paper discusses different kinds of and modes of accomplishing loyalty and also addresses post-exit management, how companies may deal with employees that have left the company. [source] The social construction of fairness: social influence and sense making in organizationsJOURNAL OF ORGANIZATIONAL BEHAVIOR, Issue 1 2002Kai Lamertz This paper explores how the social relationships employees have with peers and managers are associated with perceptions of organizational justice. These relationships are theoretically modelled as the conduits for social comparison, social cues, and social identification, which are sources of sense making about fairness ,in the eyes of the beholder.' It is argued that perceptions of procedural and interactional justice are affected by this type of social information processing because: (1) uncertainty exists about organizational procedures; (2) norms of interpersonal treatment vary between organizational cultures; and (3) interpersonal relationships symbolize membership in the organization. A structural equations model of data from workers in a telecommunications company showed that an employee's perceptions of both procedural and interactional fairness were significantly associated with the interactional fairness perceptions of a peer. In addition, employees' social capital, conceived as the number of relationships with managers, was positively associated with perceptions of interactional fairness. In the structural model, both procedural and interactional justice were themselves significant predictors of satisfaction with managerial maintenance of the employment relationship. The discussion highlights the key role which the fairness of interpersonal treatment appears to play in the formation of justice judgements. Copyright © 2001 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. [source] Semiosis, interaction and ethnicity in urban Java1JOURNAL OF SOCIOLINGUISTICS, Issue 4 2009Zane Goebel This paper teases out the interdiscursive relations between local and perduring signs of personhood and their recontextualization in situated talk. In doing so, I aim to provide further evidence of the utility of incorporating ethnography, linguistic anthropological work on semiotics and work on face-to-face interaction. My empirical focus is on two consecutive men's meetings that occurred in an urban Indonesian milieu. In particular, I draw upon work on semiotic register formation and processes of social identification to flesh out how signs from different temporal-spatial scales figure in the social identification of a non-present neighbor as deviant and Chinese. By taking an interactional view I also attempt to fill a gap in the scholarship on such inter-ethnic relations in Indonesia, which has hitherto primarily been historical in nature. [source] Political Competition and Ethnic Identification in AfricaAMERICAN JOURNAL OF POLITICAL SCIENCE, Issue 2 2010Benn Eifert This article draws on data from over 35,000 respondents in 22 public opinion surveys in 10 countries and finds strong evidence that ethnic identities in Africa are strengthened by exposure to political competition. In particular, for every month closer their country is to a competitive presidential election, survey respondents are 1.8 percentage points more likely to identify in ethnic terms. Using an innovative multinomial logit empirical methodology, we find that these shifts are accompanied by a corresponding reduction in the salience of occupational and class identities. Our findings lend support to situational theories of social identification and are consistent with the view that ethnic identities matter in Africa for instrumental reasons: because they are useful in the competition for political power. [source] Mexicans as Model Minorities in the New Latino DiasporaANTHROPOLOGY & EDUCATION QUARTERLY, Issue 4 2009Stanton Wortham Rapid Mexican immigration has challenged host communities to make sense of immigrants' place in New Latino Diaspora towns. We describe one town in which residents often characterize Mexican immigrants as model minorities with respect to work and civic life but not with respect to education. We trace how this stereotype is deployed, accepted, and rejected both by long-standing residents and by Mexican newcomers themselves.,[Mexican immigration, social identification, ethnic contrasts, minority students] [source] Cultural similarities and differences in social identification in Japan and AustraliaASIAN JOURNAL OF SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY, Issue 2 2009Emiko S. Kashima A comparison of social identification processes in Australia and Japan found some similarities and differences. In both countries, identification with smaller face-to-face groups was found to be stronger than identification with larger social categories; however, Australians scored higher on the affective dimension of social identification, whereas Japanese scored higher on the cognitive dimension. Moreover, positive situations from Australia and negative situations from Japan were estimated by respondents from both cultures to be more influential in determining how much they identify with their ingroups, showing a cultural situation-bias effect. Situational affordances of social identification across cultures are discussed. [source] Self-Interest, Symbolic Attitudes, and Support for Public Policy: A Multilevel AnalysisPOLITICAL PSYCHOLOGY, Issue 4 2009Richard R. Lau This paper examines the role of self-interest and symbolic attitudes as predictors of support for two domestic policy issues,guaranteed jobs and incomes and national health insurance,in the American National Election Survey (ANES) between 1972 and 2004. As was the case in 1976 when Sears, Lau, Tyler, and Allen (1980) first explored this topic, symbolic attitudes continue to be much more important predictors of policy attitudes than various indicators of self-interest over the 30 years we analyze. We explore this finding further to determine whether any individual/internal and external/contextual variables affect the magnitude of self-interest effects on policy support. Five possible internal moderators of self-interest effects are examined: (1) political knowledge, (2) issue publics, (3) political values, (4) social identifications, and (5) emotions, but none are found to boost the magnitude of the self-interest effect. However, we do find some evidence that contextual variables representing the social/information environment moderate the impact of self-interest on public opinion. [source] Dynamics of Interpersonal Political Environment and Party Identification: Longitudinal Studies of Voting in Japan and New ZealandPOLITICAL PSYCHOLOGY, Issue 4 2005Ken'ichi Ikeda The dynamical systems theory of groups claims that interpersonal political environment and party identification are dynamically interrelated to provide heuristics under uncertainty. Panel data over the course of a year examined the longitudinal dynamics between social networks, social identifications, and voting behavior among a national sample of registered voters in Japan and a regional sample in Wellington, New Zealand. Respondents with more stable party identification had greater stability in the political preferences of their interpersonal network in both countries; moreover, stability in party identification was predicted by interpersonal political environment and older age in both countries. Stability of party identification predicted voting consistency in both countries, whereas stability of interpersonal political environment made an independent contribution to voting consistency in Japan only. There were cultural differences in levels of interpersonal political environment stability, but the amount of political discussion and ideological stability did not make independent contributions to any of the three main variables. 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