Tajfel, H. & Turner, J. C. (1979). In W. G. Austin & S. Worchel (Eds.), The Social Psychology of Intergroup Relations (pp. 33–47). Monterey, CA: Brooks/Cole.
Not read. The summary is drawn from the abstract or from what the work is standardly cited for. A reading should check it first.
Why this is here
The theory Hornsey (NOTE-1253) separates from self-categorization theory, and the frame of Berendt & Uhrich (NOTE-1303) and Čater et al. (LIT-1138). The record holds nothing else by Tajfel.
Read in its place
The work cannot be read here, so the record holds it at second hand.
Scheepers and Ellemers (2019) give the theory of Tajfel and Turner 1979 as it is now taught. Social categorization is always self-relevant. A motive for a positive social identity drives comparison with relevant out-groups. Context decides which identity is salient. Members of low-status groups choose individual mobility, collective action or social creativity, depending on the permeability of boundaries and the legitimacy and stability of status. Missing still: the 1979 text and its argument; its interpersonal–intergroup continuum; its own names for the strategies (“collective action” here, where the record’s summary has competition); its treatment of realistic conflict theory and of the minimal-group results; and any evidence it offered.