Identity Process Theory

Identity, Social Action and Social Change

Rusi Jaspal, Glynis M. Breakwell

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Year: 2014
• Print ISBN:
  9781107022706
• eBook ISBN:
  9781107776920
• Topic: Psychology
• Subtopic: Social Psychology
• Index: Psychology

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.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half-title
• Title
• Copyright
• Dedication
• Contents
• Figures
• Tables
• Contributors
• Foreword
• Acknowledgments
• Part I Introduction
• 2 Identity Process Theory: clarifications and elaborations
• Part II Methodological issues in Identity Process Theory research
• 4 Quantitative approaches to researching identity processes and motivational principles
• Part III Integrating theoretical frameworks
• 6 Identity and social representations
• 7 Identity processes in culturally diverse societies: how is cultural diversity reflected in the self?
• 8 Identity integration, psychological coherence and identity threat: linking Identity Process Theory and notions of integration
• 9 Values and Identity Process Theory: theoretical integration and empirical interactions
• Part IV Identity Process Theory and social change
• 11 Collective identity and intractable conflict
• 12 The role of perceived threat and identity in Islamophobic prejudice
• 13 Places, identities and geopolitical change: exploring the strengths and limits of Identity Process Theory
• 14 Old age and its challenges to identity
• 15 Religion, identity and mental health
• 16 Identity threat and resistance to change: evidence and implications from transport-related behavior
• 17 Making sense of risk: the role of social representations and identity
• Next steps
• Index