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A 5 page discussion of the factors that influence identity. The social identity theory is defined and an explanation provided as to the importance of group membership in identity formation. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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social identity theory defines the impact of one of the more important societal factors on our identities. That factor is the groups to which we belong. Costarelli and
Colloca (2004, p. 181) clarify that the groups to which we belong play an instrumental role in the development of our self concept and social identity and, even more interestingly,
that we attempt to gain or maintain positive social identities by: "establishing the in-groups positive
distinctiveness, relative to relevant out-groups, through evaluative or behavioral intergroup differentiation" A necessary correlation to
this fact is the fact that our cultures are more characterized by segregation than by integration in their natural state. It is only when we introduce the artificial constraints
of the workplace and school and when we have governmental intervention that we see any great degree of integration of cultures. In their
work delineating the importance of group identification in negotiating international agreements, Rao and Schmidt (1998) note that psychological groups are formed on the basis of obvious characteristics such as race.
Interaction with other groups is not even a prerequisite for such categorization (Rao and Schmidt, 1998). Typically our cultures are divided into two distinctive categorizations separating those that
are from our own cultural and ethnic background and those that are not (Little, Sterling, and Tingstrom, 1996). This tendency for categorization results in the outlook of "us" verses
"them" (Little, Sterling, and Tingstrom, 1996). Our "in-group" contains those individuals who are similar in cultural identity to us while our
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