Identity Process Theory: Identity, Social Action and Social Change

Cambridge University Press
Edition: Illustrated, 4/17/2014
EAN 9781107022706, ISBN10: 1107022703

Hardcover, 420 pages, 22.9 x 15.2 x 2.4 cm
Language: English

We live in an ever-changing social world, which constantly demands adjustment to our identities and actions. Advances in science, technology and medicine, political upheaval, and economic development are just some examples of social change that can impact upon how we live our lives, how we view ourselves and each other, and how we communicate. Three decades after its first appearance, identity process theory remains a vibrant and useful integrative framework in which identity, social action and social change can be collectively examined. This book presents some of the key developments in this area. In eighteen chapters by world-renowned social psychologists, the reader is introduced to the major social psychological debates about the construction and protection of identity in face of social change. Contributors address a wide range of contemporary topics - national identity, risk, prejudice, intractable conflict and ageing - which are examined from the perspective of identity process theory.

Foreword Kay Deaux
Part I. Introduction
1. Social psychological debates about identity Rusi Jaspal
2. Identity process theory
clarifications and elaborations Glynis M. Breakwell
Part II. Methodological Issues in Identity Process Theory Research
3. Qualitative approaches to research using identity process theory Adrian Coyle and Niamh Murtagh
4. Quantitative approaches to researching identity processes and motivational principles Vivian L. Vignoles
Part III. Integrating Theoretical Frameworks
5. On the meaning, validity and importance of the distinction between personal and social identity
a social identity perspective on identity process theory Samuel Pehrson and Stephen Reicher
6. Identity and social representations Glynis M. Breakwell
7. Identity processes in culturally diverse societies
how is cultural diversity reflected in the self? Xenia Chryssochoou
8. Identity integration, psychological coherence and identity threat
linking identity process theory and notions of integration Catherine E. Amiot and Rusi Jaspal
9. Values and identity process theory
theoretical integration and empirical interactions Anat Bardi, Rusi Jaspal, Ela Polek and Shalom Schwartz
Part IV. Identity Process Theory and Social Change
10. Toward a social psychology of social change
insights from identity process theory Roxane de la Sablonnière and Esther Usborne
11. Collective identity and intractable conflict Neta Oren and Daniel Bar-Tal
12. The role of perceived threat and identity in Islamophobic prejudice Marco Cinnirella
13. Places, identities and geopolitical change
exploring the strengths and limits of identity process theory John Dixon, Kevin Durrheim and Andrés Di Masso
14. Old age and its challenges to identity Dario Spini and Daniela Jopp
15. Religion, identity and mental health Kate Miriam Loewenthal
16. Identity threat and resistance to change
evidence and implications from transport-related behaviour Niamh Murtagh, Birgitta Gatersleben and David Uzzell
17. Making sense of risk
the role of social representations and identity Julie Barnett and Konstantina Vasileiou
Next steps
18. Epilogue Glynis M. Breakwell.