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LIT-1790: Self-categorization and social identification: Making sense of us and them

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StatusActive — read in full 2026-10-28 (NOTE-1251) from the authors' PsyArXiv preprint of a textbook chapter; worth reading as a plain, current exposition of the social identity perspective: self-categorization (accessibility, comparative and normative fit, depersonalization), Ashmore et al.'s seven dimensions of social identification, social identity theory's minimal-group and status findings, and the multiple categorization models (crossed categorization, common in-group, dual identity, in-group projection, social identity complexity). A secondary source; its account of self-categorization theory is two pages.
Tagssocial-identity, social-science
Cited as “paper” byNOTE-1251 — Self-categorization and social identification: Making sense of us and them

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Reimer, N. K., Schmid, K., Hewstone, M. & Al Ramiah, A. (2020). Self-categorization and social identification: Making sense of us and them. PsyArXiv preprint of a chapter in D. Chadee (Ed.), Theories in Social Psychology (2nd ed.). Wiley-Blackwell. doi:10.31234/osf.io/gub8a.

Read in full in NOTE-1251.

Why this is here

An open, current textbook account of the social identity perspective, filed as a stand-in for the exposition in Turner et al. 1987 (LIT-1723), which cannot be read. It is thin on the book itself, but its multiple-categorization section explains the common in-group identity model that Biel (LIT-1133) uses, and the recategorization that Pettigrew (LIT-1408) names.

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