Reconstructing Social Identity
- 1 February 1993
- journal article
- other
- Published by SAGE Publications in Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin
- Vol. 19 (1) , 4-12
- https://doi.org/10.1177/0146167293191001
Abstract
As a concept with a tradition in both social and personality psychology, identity lends itself to a variety of interpretations. In the present analysis, identity refers to social categories in which an individual claims membership as well as the personal meaning associated with those categories. Four key issues for research are discussed: (a) the structure and interrelationships among multiple identities, (b) the several functions that identities serve, (c) the importance of context to the development and enactment of identities, and (d) the need for longitudinal studies of identity change.Keywords
This publication has 19 references indexed in Scilit:
- A Collective Self-Esteem Scale: Self-Evaluation of One's Social IdentityPersonality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 1992
- The Social Self: On Being the Same and Different at the Same TimePersonality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 1991
- Some tests of the distinction between the private self and the collective self.Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 1991
- The Primacy of Age and Sex in the Structure of Person CategoriesSocial Cognition, 1989
- Possible selves.American Psychologist, 1986
- The social constructionist movement in modern psychology.American Psychologist, 1985
- Identifying Identity: A Semantic HistoryJournal of American History, 1983
- The City and Self-IdentityEnvironment and Behavior, 1978
- Ego identity status: relationship to change in self-esteem, "general maladjustment," and authoritarianism1Journal of Personality, 1967
- A Theory of Social Comparison ProcessesHuman Relations, 1954