‘We are a tight community’: social groups and social identity in medical undergraduates

2015 ◽  
Vol 49 (10) ◽  
pp. 1016-1027 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ben Lovell
Keyword(s):  
Social Identity ◽  
Social Groups ◽  
Medical Undergraduates

scholarly journals The role of integrated offline/online social activity and social identification in Facebook citizenship behaviour formation

2020 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Zeeshan Ahmed Bhatti ◽  
Ghulam Ali Arain ◽  
Hina Mahboob Yasin ◽  
Muhammad Asif Khan ◽  
Muhammad Shakaib Akram
Keyword(s):  
Social Identity ◽  
Social Identity Theory ◽  
Identity Theory ◽  
Theoretical Perspective ◽  
Social Groups ◽  
Social Activity ◽  
Past Research ◽  
Social Identification ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Activity Integration

PurposeDrawing on social identity theory and prosocial behaviour research, this study explores how people's integration of their offline and online social activities through Facebook cultivates their Facebook citizenship behaviour (FCB). It also offers further insight into the underlying mechanism of offline and online social activity integration - FCB relation by investigating people's social identification with their offline and online social groups as possible mediators.Design/methodology/approachBased on social identity theory (SIT) literature, community citizenship behaviour and offline-online social activity integration through Facebook, we developed a conceptual model, which was empirically tested using data from 308 Facebook usersFindingsThe results confirm that the participants' offline-online social activity integration via Facebook is positively linked to their FCB. Further, the integration of offline and online social activity through Facebook positively affects how a person identifies with their offline and online social groups, which in turn causes them to display FCB. In addition, offline/online social identification mediates the integration – FCB relation.Practical implicationsIn practice, it is interesting to see people's tendency towards altruistic behaviours within groups they like to associate themselves with. Those who share their Facebook network with their offline friends can use such network to seek help and support.Originality/valueFrom a theoretical perspective, unlike past research, this study examines how individuals' offline-online social activity integration via Facebook helps them associate with groups. In addition, this study investigates social identification from an offline and online perspective.

Status and Identity

2019 ◽  
pp. 1-21
Author(s):  
Deborah Welch Larson ◽  
Alexei Shevchenko
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Policy ◽  
Social Identity ◽  
Social Mobility ◽  
Social Identity Theory ◽  
Identity Management ◽  
Management Strategies ◽  
Social Groups ◽  
Social Competition ◽  
Russian Foreign Policy ◽  
International Standing

This chapter provides an overview of the book's main themes. This book draws on social identity theory (SIT) for insights into how status concerns and social identity shape Chinese and Russian foreign policy. SIT argues that social groups strive to achieve a positively distinctive identity. When a group's identity is threatened, it may pursue one of several identity management strategies: social mobility, social competition, or social creativity. Using SIT as a framework, the book addresses several questions. First, how important were status considerations in shaping Chinese and Russian foreign policy? Second, why did China and Russia choose a particular strategy in a given context for improving their state's international standing? Third, how effective were their chosen strategies as measured by the perceptions and beliefs of the leading states.

Social Groups Prioritize Selective Attention to Faces: How Social Identity Shapes Distractor Interference

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gewnhi Park ◽  
Jay J Van Bavel ◽  
LaBarron K. Hill ◽  
DeWayne P. Williams ◽  
Julian Thayer
Keyword(s):  
Social Identity ◽  
Selective Attention ◽  
Social Groups ◽  
Distractor Interference

INTOXICANTS AND SOCIETY IN EARLY MODERN ENGLAND

2011 ◽  
Vol 54 (3) ◽  
pp. 631-657 ◽  
Author(s):  
PHIL WITHINGTON
Keyword(s):  
Social Change ◽  
Social Identity ◽  
Early Modern ◽  
Social Groups ◽  
Early Modern England ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Cultural Contexts ◽  
Civilizing Process ◽  
The Poor

ABSTRACTThe article considers the rapid increase in the English market for alcohol and tobacco in the 1620s and the set of concurrent influences shaping their consumption. It suggests that intoxicants were not merely a source of solace for ‘the poor’ or the lubricant of traditional community, as historians often imply. Rather, the growth in the market for beer, wine, and tobacco was driven by those affluent social groups regarded as the legitimate governors of the English commonwealth. For men of a certain disposition and means, the consumption of intoxicants became a legitimate – indeed valorized and artful – aspect of their social identity: an identity encapsulated by the Renaissance concept of ‘wit’. These new styles of drinking were also implicated in the proliferation (in theory and practice) of ‘societies’ and ‘companies’, by which contemporaries meant voluntary and purposeful association. These arguments are made by unpacking the economic, social, and cultural contexts informing the humorous dialogue Wine, beere, ale and tobacco. Contending for superiority. What follows demonstrates that the ostensibly frivolous subject of male drinking casts new light on the nature of early modern social change, in particular the nature of the ‘civilizing process’.

scholarly journals Correction: Social Groups Prioritize Selective Attention to Faces: How Social Identity Shapes Distractor Interference

PLoS ONE ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 11 (10) ◽  
pp. e0164909 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gewnhi Park ◽  
Jay J. Van Bavel ◽  
LaBarron K. Hill ◽  
DeWayne P. Williams ◽  
Julian F. Thayer
Keyword(s):  
Social Identity ◽  
Selective Attention ◽  
Social Groups ◽  
Distractor Interference

scholarly journals The Importance of Social Groups for Retirement Adjustment: Evidence, Application, and Policy Implications of the Social Identity Model of Identity Change

2018 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 93-124 ◽  
Author(s):  
Catherine Haslam ◽  
Niklas K. Steffens ◽  
Nyla R. Branscombe ◽  
S. Alexander Haslam ◽  
Tegan Cruwys ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Social Identity ◽  
Social Groups ◽  
Policy Implications ◽  
Identity Change ◽  
The Social ◽  
Identity Model

Mémoire des conflits, conflits de mémoires: une approche psychosociale et philosophique du rôle de la mémoire collective dans les processus de réconciliation intergroupe

2007 ◽  
Vol 46 (4) ◽  
pp. 563-589 ◽  
Author(s):  
Laurent Licata ◽  
Olivier Klein ◽  
Raphaël Gély
Keyword(s):  
Social Psychology ◽  
Social Identity ◽  
Collective Memory ◽  
Social Groups ◽  
Great Part ◽  
Social Identities ◽  
The Past ◽  
Memoire Collective ◽  
Crucial Part

Reconstructing the past is a crucial part of intergroup reconciliation processes because, after a conflict, collective memory undermines a great part of animosity, hatred, and distrust between groups. The di ficulty of managing memories rests on the triple challenge it has to face: allowing the recognition and healing of individual su ferings; preserving social identities of both groups; while allowing them to live together in peace. Hence, an improper management of collective memory could lead to the resurgence of conflict, or even to a cycle of revenge wherein past wounds justify present violence. In this paper, which will draw both from social psychology and from philosophy, we start by delineating the concept of collective memory and its relationships with social identity. Then we identify the processes through which collective memory of past conflicts is likely to impede reconciliation. Finally, we attempt to envision solutions through processes of transmission of memories both within and between social groups.

Social Identity and Patterns of Interaction in the Sharia Court of Kastamonu (1740-44)

2008 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 20-54 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bogaç Ergene
Keyword(s):  
Social Identity ◽  
18Th Century ◽  
Social Groups ◽  
Social Hierarchy ◽  
The Social ◽  
Group Identities ◽  
Patterns Of Interaction ◽  
Court Process

AbstractIn this article I introduce quantitative techniques and procedures to analyze how various social groups in mid-18th-century Ottoman Kastamonu experienced the court process. By processing the information found in three Kastamonu court registers, I attempt to determine the group identities of court clients and to compare the choices made by different groups in various legal circumstances. I will identify the kinds of issues brought to court by different segments of the social hierarchy, and the legal adversaries and/or contracting parties brought to court by these court clients; and I will assess how these groups fared in their disputes. My analysis confirms the existence of diverse patterns of court use by various groups in 18th-century Kastamonu and the differential use of the court's services by clients with different social and economic backgrounds.

scholarly journals Social identity and value orientations of adoptive parents with different numbers of children

2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. 137-156
Author(s):  
A.A. Aldasheva ◽  
M.E. Zelenova ◽  
O.N. Sivash
Keyword(s):  
Social Network ◽  
Social Identity ◽  
Social Groups ◽  
Value Orientation ◽  
Adoptive Parents ◽  
Value Orientations ◽  
Adopted Children ◽  
Identification Process ◽  
Number Of Children ◽  
Social Marginality

The article is devoted to the study of social identity and value orientation characteristics of professional adoptive parents. The results of the empirical study have demonstrated a positive correlation between the number of orphans adopted into a family, the structure of a positive social identity and value orientations of adoptive parents. The study has established that with an increase in the number of children in a family there is a tendency towards social marginality, lowered structuredness and coherence of adoptive parents’ social identity, difficulties in identifying benchmark social groups. It has been shown that in their identification process the adoptive parents with many adopted children are more likely to choose a group based on the criteria related to their profession and to a lesser extent opt for their immediate social network groups. The study has established that the hierarchy of values of adoptive parents with many adopted children significantly differs from the values profile of adoptive parents with one or two adopted children.

scholarly journals Investigating the science of mind: How does neuroscience fit into society and law?

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chetan Sinha
Keyword(s):  
Social Identity ◽  
Common Sense ◽  
Social Groups ◽  
Human Mind ◽  
Social Implications ◽  
Group Behaviour ◽  
Science Of Mind ◽  
Legal Domain ◽  
The Brain

This article interrogates the limits of integration of neuroscience and law. Brain studies offer substantial support to series of human experiences and behaviour. The intervention based on the understanding of the brain offered an explanation to the concept of mind, individual and group behaviour in society, and offering neurological explanations to the legal domain about the defendant. The brain studies offering technical explanations to the human mind and behaviour may further be used to attribute people from different social groups in a stereotypical way. Neuroscience is not limited to the laboratory and neuroimages but it has wider social implications. Discussing brain and law through the sociocultural and social identity perspective gives better understanding of mind, society and law. Keywords: Brain, common sense, image, social groups, behaviour, society, law

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