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LIT-1742: Social Identity Theory and Self-categorization Theory: A Historical Review

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StatusActive — read in full 2026-10-28 (NOTE-1253) from a copy of the published article supplied by the owner; worth reading as a map that tells social identity theory (intergroup relations, positive distinctiveness, status and legitimacy) apart from self-categorization theory (levels of self-categorization, fit, depersonalization), and records the strands later dropped or softened: identification as a predictor of bias, the self-esteem hypotheses, and strict functional antagonism. An insider's review that lists the critiques and declines to answer them. Co-source of THEORY-1114.
Tagssocial-identity, social-science
Cited as “paper” byNOTE-1253 — Social Identity Theory and Self-categorization Theory: A Historical Review
Cited as “source” byTHEORY-1114 — Which self-category a person uses, what it means and who in it is most typical vary lawfully with the comparative frame of reference: a grouping of self with others becomes salient as the differences within it shrink relative to the differences between it and the rest of the frame (metacontrast) and as those differences match expectations about the category, and as it does, self-perception is depersonalized

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Hornsey, M. J. (2008). Social identity theory and self-categorization theory: A historical review. Social and Personality Psychology Compass, 2(1), 204–222. doi:10.1111/j.1751-9004.2007.00066.x.

Read in full in NOTE-1253, from a copy of the published article supplied by the owner.

Why this is here

A map of the approach, filed beside its sources (LIT-1723, LIT-1794) so that a reading can tell social identity theory’s claims from self-categorization theory’s, which the fandom papers the record holds (LIT-1138, LIT-1133, LIT-1147) cite under one name.

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