N Hopkins
Biographic Data
| ID | 10019 |
|---|---|
| NAME | N Hopkins |
| GIVEN NAMES | N |
| FAMILY NAME | Hopkins |
| SIGNATURE | HOPKINS N |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Dundee |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3052-1854 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 62 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 659 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 62 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1974 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 15 |
Perceiving People as a Group: Diversity and Its Interpretation at the Muslim Pilgrimage of the Hajj
Group behaviour depends on people categorising themselves and others in terms of a shared social identity. Experimental research addressing perceptions of entitativity (i.e., seeing people as a unified entity) highlights the importance of judgements concerning people's behavioural (dis)similarities. We complement such experimental research with an analysis of interview data in which we explore how participants ( N = 40) attending a culturally div…
Organisational practices and social inclusion: Inclusionary place‐making in the library
Social psychology has long been concerned with social exclusion. Much of this interest has focused on people's negative intergroup attitudes and how these may be changed through individual‐level interventions. In this paper we explore a different level of intervention – one that targets the routine organisational practices that communicate who is welcome and able to draw on the organisation's services. Specifically, we investigate how a public‐fa…
We're still here’: Misrecognition and the quest for dual identification of Roma people
Misrecognition describes everyday practices that deny the autonomy of minority members to define who they are and instead impose identities that may diverge from their own sense of self. Being misrecognized is particularly relevant for the historically marginalized Roma people, whose national belonging is repeatedly questioned despite centuries of co‐existence and citizenship. Our aim was to understand whether the experience of misrecognition, al…
Antecedents and consequences of perceived misrecognition and perceived discrimination in ethnic minorities
On the Misrecognition of Identity: Muslims' Everyday Experiences in Scotland
Political theory is interested in the misrecognition of identity because it impacts individuals' autonomy in their self‐definition and thus their ability to articulate and pursue identity‐related interests. Here, we explore minority group members' experiences of being seen in terms that do not accord with their self‐definition. Our data are qualitative, gathered through walking interviews with 24 Muslims in Scotland. Focusing on interactions in w…
Identity Matters: A Social Psychology of Everyday Citizenship
This paper takes as its focus the need for psychologists to take issues of culture seriously. In doing so, it is important that psychologists adopt a critical approach to many widely held and taken-for-granted assumptions about culture and cultural processes. In particular, there is a pressing need to explore the ways in which constructions of culture routinely feature in the marginalisation of minority group members. Using examples drawn from th…
Mass Gatherings, Health, and Well‐Being: From Risk Mitigation to Health Promotion
Mass gatherings are routinely viewed as posing risks to physical health. However, social psychological research shows mass gathering participation can also bring benefits to psychological well‐being. We describe how both sets of outcomes can be understood as arising from the distinctive forms of behavior that may be found when people—even strangers—come to define themselves and each other in terms of a shared social identity. We show that many of…
Humour is serious: Minority group members’ use of humour in their encounters with majority group members
This article adds to the social psychological literature on how minority group members seek to manage their interactions with majority group members. Specifically, it focuses on minority group members’ use of humour in interactions where they anticipate or actually experience prejudice. The data on which our analysis is based originate from interviews conducted with Roma in Hungary ( N = 30). Asked about their interactions with majority group mem…
Social relations in crowds: Recognition, validation and solidarity
Social identity research on crowds demonstrates how cognitive self‐definition as a crowd member results in conformity to identity‐relevant norms. Rather less research has addressed the social‐relational changes within a crowd and how these impact collective experience positively. The present study investigates these processes at a month‐long mass gathering in India. Analysis of 37 interviews with participants attending the annual Magh Mela pilgri…
Social identity and health at mass gatherings
Identifying with a group can bring benefits to physical and psychological health. These benefits can be found with both small‐scale and large‐scale social groups. However, groups can also be associated with health risks: A distinct branch of medicine (‘Mass Gathering Medicine’) has evolved to address the health risks posed by participating in events characterised by large crowds. We argue that emphasising either the positive or the negative healt…
The Nation and the Family: The Impact of National Identification and Perceived Importance of Family Values on Homophobic Attitudes in Lithuania and Scotland
The meanings attached to the nation can be consequential for group members' attitudes and beliefs. We examined how national identity definition can influence the extent of individuals' homophobia with 159 Lithuanian and 176 Scottish university students who completed a questionnaire which measured their national identification, homophobia, and the extent to which they felt traditional family values were central to their nation's identity. Consiste…
How Collective Participation Impacts Social Identity: A Longitudinal Study from India
A key issue for political psychology concerns the processes whereby people come to invest psychologically in socially and politically significant group identities. Since Durkheim, it has been assumed that participation in group‐relevant collective events increases one's investment in such group identities. However, little empirical research explicitly addresses this or the processes involved. We investigated these issues in a longitudinal questio…
From Theorizing Radicalization to Surveillance Practices: Muslims in the Cross Hairs of Scrutiny
There are several psychological analyses of the processes of radicalization resulting in terrorism. However, we know little about how those in authority (e.g., the police) conceptualize the psychological dynamics to radicalization. Accordingly, we present a detailed account of an official U.K. counterterrorism intervention, the Workshop to Raise Awareness of Prevent, designed to enlist frontline professionals in identifying and referring those at…
Identity and Identification, Social Psychology of
Psychology and Culture: Back to the Future
Flying While Muslim’: Citizenship and Misrecognition in the Airport
Contemporary analyses of citizenship emphasise the importance of being able to occupy public space in a manner that does not compromise one’s sense of self. Moreover, they foreground individuals’ active engagement with others (e.g., being concerned about others) and the active exercise of one’s rights. We explore such issues through considering the psychological and social significance of having one’s various self-definitions mis-recognised in ev…
Everyday Citizenship: Identity Claims and Their Reception
Citizenship involves being able to speak and be heard as a member of the community. This can be a formal right (e.g., a right to vote). It can also be something experienced in everyday life. However, the criteria for being judged a fellow member of the community are multiple and accorded different weights by different people. Thus, although one may self-define alongside one’s fellows, the degree to which these others reciprocate depends on the we…
The Social Psychology of Citizenship: Engagement With Citizenship Studies and Future Research
In this article we review the argument outlined in the opening article in this special thematic section: that the current social psychology of citizenship can be understood as the development of longstanding conceptualisations of the concept within the discipline. These conceptualisations have contributed to the current social psychological study of the constructive, active and collective (but often exclusive) understandings of citizenship in peo…
The Social Psychology of Citizenship, Participation and Social Exclusion: Introduction to the Special Thematic Section
The aim of this special thematic section is to bring together recent social psychological research on the topic of citizenship with a view to discerning the emerging trends within the field and its potential contributions to the broader interdisciplinary area of citizenship studies. Eight papers spanning diverse theoretical traditions (including social identity, social representations and discursive approaches) apply an array of methods to consid…
Shared identity predicts enhanced health at a mass gathering
Identifying with a group can impact (positively) upon group members’ health. This can be explained (in part) through the social relations that a shared identity allows. We investigated the relationship between a shared identity and health in a longitudinal study of a month-long pilgrimage in north India. Questionnaire data ( N = 416) showed that self-reported health (measured before, during, and after the event) was better at the event than befor…
Efficacy and well‐being in rural north India: The role of social identification with a large‐scale community identity
Identifying with a group can contribute to a sense of well‐being. The mechanisms involved are diverse: social identification with a group can impact individuals' beliefs about issues such as their connections with others, the availability of social support, the meaningfulness of existence, and the continuity of their identity. Yet, there seems to be a common theme to these mechanisms: identification with a group encourages the belief that one can…
Hijab , visibility and the performance of identity
Theories concerning the relationship between social identification and behaviour are increasingly attentive to how group members emphasise or de‐emphasise identity‐related attributes before particular audiences. Most research on this issue is experimental and explores the expression of identity‐related attitudes as a function of participants' beliefs concerning their visibility to different audiences. We extend and complement such research with a…
A calming cacophony: Social identity can shape the experience of loud noise
I know who I am, but who do they think I am? Muslim perspectives on encounters with airport authorities
In this paper we report an analysis of individual and group interviews with thirty-eight Scottish Muslims concerning their encounters with authority - especially those at airports. Our analysis shows that a key theme in interviewees' talk of their experience in this context concerns the denial and misrecognition of valued identities such as being British, being respectable and being Muslim. One reason why such experiences are so problematic conce…
Meta‐stereotypes, Social Image and Help Seeking: Dependency‐Related Meta‐stereotypes Reduce Help‐Seeking Behaviour
People who need help can be reluctant to seek it. This can be due to social image concerns. Here, we investigate if these concerns may be prompted by a salient negative meta‐stereotype: the belief that one's group is judged negatively by another group. Specifically, we researched group members' help‐seeking behaviour in the context of a dependency‐related meta‐stereotype. In a two‐condition study ( N = 45), we manipulated participants' belief tha…
Psychology and the End of History: A Critique and a Proposal for the Psychology of Social Categorization
This paper suggests that self-categories provide the basis for political action, that those who wish to organize political activity do so through the ways in which they construct self-categories, and that political domination may be achieved through reifying social categories and therefore denying alternative ways of social being. Hence, the way in which social psychology approaches the matter of self-categorization provides a touchstone for its …
Dual Identities and Their Recognition: Minority Group Members' Perspectives
Minorities may define themselves at a superordinate (e.g., national) level and also at a subgroup (minority) level. However, others' recognition of such dual identifications cannot be guaranteed. This paper investigates how members of a minority (Muslims in the UK) constructed their superordinate and subgroup identities in such a way as to assert a commonality with British non‐Muslims whilst asserting their religious subgroup's distinctiveness. R…
Representing' British Muslims: The Strategic Dimension to Identity Construction
This article explores how Muslim identity is constructed in different ways by two groups of political activists in Britain. At the heart of our investigation is an interest in how these different definitions of Muslim identity are organized to promote different forms of political action. We pay particular attention to how these groups employ the same Islamic concept, da'wah (the injunction to invite people to Islam), and show that it only gains m…
I know who I am, but who do they think I am? Muslim perspectives on encounters with airport authorities
In this paper we report an analysis of individual and group interviews with thirty-eight Scottish Muslims concerning their encounters with authority - especially those at airports. Our analysis shows that a key theme in interviewees' talk of their experience in this context concerns the denial and misrecognition of valued identities such as being British, being respectable and being Muslim. One reason why such experiences are so problematic conce…
Space, Place, and Identity: Issues for Political Psychology
Everyday citizenship: Identity and recognition
Recent theorizing on citizenship encourages a broader consideration of the degree to which individuals are able to participate in social life without valued elements of their self‐definition being compromised. This paper seeks to illustrate how social psychology can contribute to such an approach through providing an analysis of British Muslims' accounts of how others orient to their religious and national identities. The data are qualitative and…
Saving Bulgaria's Jews: An analysis of social identity and the mobilisation of social solidarity
This paper investigates the arguments used in public documents to mobilise Bulgarians against the deportation of Jews in World War II. We focus on the key documents relating to the first wave of mobilisation in 1940–1941 as provided by Todorov in The Fragility of Goodness ( 2001 ). We demonstrate that these documents are based on three types of argument. The first, category inclusion, treats the Jews as part of a common ingroup rather than as con…
Flying While Muslim’: Citizenship and Misrecognition in the Airport
Contemporary analyses of citizenship emphasise the importance of being able to occupy public space in a manner that does not compromise one’s sense of self. Moreover, they foreground individuals’ active engagement with others (e.g., being concerned about others) and the active exercise of one’s rights. We explore such issues through considering the psychological and social significance of having one’s various self-definitions mis-recognised in ev…
Entrepreneurs of hate and entrepreneurs of solidarity: Social identity as a basis for mass communication
The authors draw upon the principles of the social identity tradition in order to elaborate a psychological model of mass communication. This centres on the way in which people construe their social identities and the meanings of events for these identities. They then go on to look at the ways in which these principles have been employed both to mobilize collective support for genocide and collective resistance to genocide. They conclude that it …
Hijab , visibility and the performance of identity
Theories concerning the relationship between social identification and behaviour are increasingly attentive to how group members emphasise or de‐emphasise identity‐related attributes before particular audiences. Most research on this issue is experimental and explores the expression of identity‐related attitudes as a function of participants' beliefs concerning their visibility to different audiences. We extend and complement such research with a…
Visualising abortion: Emotion Discourse and Fetal Imagery in a Contemporary Abortion Debate
How Collective Participation Impacts Social Identity: A Longitudinal Study from India
A key issue for political psychology concerns the processes whereby people come to invest psychologically in socially and politically significant group identities. Since Durkheim, it has been assumed that participation in group‐relevant collective events increases one's investment in such group identities. However, little empirical research explicitly addresses this or the processes involved. We investigated these issues in a longitudinal questio…
The Social Psychology of Citizenship, Participation and Social Exclusion: Introduction to the Special Thematic Section
The aim of this special thematic section is to bring together recent social psychological research on the topic of citizenship with a view to discerning the emerging trends within the field and its potential contributions to the broader interdisciplinary area of citizenship studies. Eight papers spanning diverse theoretical traditions (including social identity, social representations and discursive approaches) apply an array of methods to consid…
Shared identity predicts enhanced health at a mass gathering
Identifying with a group can impact (positively) upon group members’ health. This can be explained (in part) through the social relations that a shared identity allows. We investigated the relationship between a shared identity and health in a longitudinal study of a month-long pilgrimage in north India. Questionnaire data ( N = 416) showed that self-reported health (measured before, during, and after the event) was better at the event than befor…
Young People's Deliberations on Geographic Mobility: Identity and Cross‐Border Relocation
This paper considers how social identities may shape group members' spatial behaviour. Specifically, it reports a small‐scale interview study (n = 30) conducted with young people (17 years of age) living in a Scottish town close to a national border (with England). This border has very little physical presence. However, the psychological significance of a Scottish identification remains strong, and we investigate the ways in which national identi…
Social Movement Rhetoric and the Social Psychology of Collective Action: A Case Study of Anti-Abortion Mobilization
This paper seeks to contribute toward an integrated approach to social movement mobilization. It does so through considering how a social psychological account of the determination of collective behavior (self-categorization theory) may be applied to the mobilization rhetoric of social movements. More specifically it argues that as people may define themselves and act in terms of social categories, we may usefully conceive of social movement rhet…
A calming cacophony: Social identity can shape the experience of loud noise
Thanks, But No Thanks: Women’s Avoidance of Help-Seeking in the Context of a Dependency-Related Stereotype
The stereotype that women are dependent on men is a commonly verbalized, potentially damaging aspect of benevolent sexism. We investigated how women may use behavioral disconfirmation of the personal applicability of the stereotype to negotiate such sexism. In an experiment ( N = 86), we manipulated female college students’ awareness that women may be stereotyped by men as dependent. We then placed participants in a situation where they needed he…
Social Identity and Spatial Behaviour: The Relationship between National Category Salience, the Sense of Home, and Labour Mobility across National Boundaries
This study explores the impact of manipulating the salience of national categories upon the willingness of highly identifying Scots to take up either short‐term or long‐term jobs in Scotland as compared to England. The results support the hypotheses (a) that high‐identifying Scots increase preference for intra‐ over extranational locations when national categories are salient, (b) that this effect is fully mediated by “fitting in”—that is, the se…
On the Misrecognition of Identity: Muslims' Everyday Experiences in Scotland
Political theory is interested in the misrecognition of identity because it impacts individuals' autonomy in their self‐definition and thus their ability to articulate and pursue identity‐related interests. Here, we explore minority group members' experiences of being seen in terms that do not accord with their self‐definition. Our data are qualitative, gathered through walking interviews with 24 Muslims in Scotland. Focusing on interactions in w…
Meta‐stereotypes, Social Image and Help Seeking: Dependency‐Related Meta‐stereotypes Reduce Help‐Seeking Behaviour
People who need help can be reluctant to seek it. This can be due to social image concerns. Here, we investigate if these concerns may be prompted by a salient negative meta‐stereotype: the belief that one's group is judged negatively by another group. Specifically, we researched group members' help‐seeking behaviour in the context of a dependency‐related meta‐stereotype. In a two‐condition study ( N = 45), we manipulated participants' belief tha…
Minority Understandings of the Dynamics to Intergroup Contact Encounters: British Muslims' (Sometimes Ambivalent) Experiences of Representing Their Group to others
Much contact research overlooks how minorities understand and experience their interactions and encounters with majorities. However, there is good reason to believe that minority group members may have different understandings of such encounters. The present article seeks to address these understandings through considering the experiences of British Muslims. We explore the dynamics of Islamophobia and the potential role of contact in reducing ant…
From Theorizing Radicalization to Surveillance Practices: Muslims in the Cross Hairs of Scrutiny
There are several psychological analyses of the processes of radicalization resulting in terrorism. However, we know little about how those in authority (e.g., the police) conceptualize the psychological dynamics to radicalization. Accordingly, we present a detailed account of an official U.K. counterterrorism intervention, the Workshop to Raise Awareness of Prevent, designed to enlist frontline professionals in identifying and referring those at…
Religion and Social Capital: Identity Matters
This paper considers how our understanding of religious identifications may be enriched through social psychological theorizing on group identity. It reviews a range of work (for example, sociological and social psychological) concerning Islam and Muslim identities and develops the case for viewing religious identities as constructed in and through argument. It then seeks to draw out the implications of such an approach for understanding group re…
Police-Schools Liaison and young people's image of the police: An intervention evaluation
This paper evaluates the impact of Police-Schools Liaison on young people's views and attitudes about the police and offending. It reports the first, large-scale, independent evaluation of this social intervention. The evaluation (based on 1245 secondary-school pupils) compares views of the police in schools with (target) and without (control) a full-time Schools Liaison Officer (SLO). Although attitudes to the police are marginally positive, the…
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Memory for stereotype‐related material–a replication study with real‐life social groups
This paper reports a study comparing the memorability of information that either confirmed, disconfirmed, or was irrelevant to, particular real‐life social group stereotypes. Memory for both stereotype‐confirming and stereotype‐disconfirming material was enhanced relative to that for material which was stereotype‐irrelevant. Further, there were no differences between the memory for stereotype‐confirming and ‐disconfirming information. Implication…
Anti-abortion propaganda: A critical analysis
This paper presents a detailed examination of a speech made by the anti-abortion MP David Alton to a group of health-care workers in the period immediately before the parliamentary debates concerning the 1990 Warnock Embryology bill. It is intended to illustrate and examine some of the strategic subileties to anti-absortion propaganda and so contribute to strategies of resistance and counter argumentation
Police-Schools Liaison and young people's image of the police: An intervention evaluation
This paper evaluates the impact of Police-Schools Liaison on young people's views and attitudes about the police and offending. It reports the first, large-scale, independent evaluation of this social intervention. The evaluation (based on 1245 secondary-school pupils) compares views of the police in schools with (target) and without (control) a full-time Schools Liaison Officer (SLO). Although attitudes to the police are marginally positive, the…
Conceptual and methodological issues in care research
Reply to Ungerson
Measuring the impact of informal caring
A factor‐analysis of caregiving impact appraisals amongst a community‐derived sample of informal carers of elderly people revealed two negative (care work strain and relationship dissatisfaction) and two positive (care work satisfaction and care lifestyle satisfaction) scales. Validity was assessed by means of concurrent correlations with levels of assistance with daily living tasks provided by carers and levels of behaviour problems exhibited by…
Integrating sociological and psychological perspectives on informal care
In this response to Ungerson we present evidence to support the respresentativeness of the sample and argue that the exclusion of ‘minimal’ carers from caregiving research is not justified. Ungerson's arguments for the consideration of large scale social processes are addressed by examining the role of gender as a determinant or moderator of care outcomes. No support was found for a model in which care work satisfaction mediated associations betw…
HIV-1 infection at two public psychiatric hospitals in New York City
Seroprevalence for HIV-1 was anonymously evaluated between November 1989 and July 1991 among severely mentally ill patients at two public psychiatric hospitals in New York City. The study population consisted of new admissions and long-stay patients aged 18-59. Of 1116 eligible patients, usable samples were obtained from routine blood drawings on 971 (87%). Seroprevalence was comparable among men (5.2%) and women (5.3%). Age did not predict serop…
Peer group processes and adolescent health‐related behaviour: More than ‘peer group pressure’
This paper argues that ‘peer group pressure’ conveys an individualistic and hence inadequate account of the group processes involved in adolescents' adoption of health‐related behaviours such as smoking and drinking. We describe traditional analyses of adolescent peer processes, illustrate how these contain a series of individualistic assumptions about peer interactions/social influence processes, and describe how these structure the analysis of …
School pupils' perceptions of the police that visit schools: Not all police are ‘pigs’
This paper presents data concerning young people's perceptions of the police taking part in a police—schools liaison programme. Eighty‐one 14‐year‐old school pupils took part in 28 semi‐structured group discussions concerning their perceptions of the ‘typicality’ of police officers working in their schools. Pupils clearly differentiated between these and those ‘on the street’. Central to this differentiation was the issue of police power; the per…
Young People Arguing and Thinking About the Police; Qualitative Data Concerning the Categorization of the Police in a Police-Youth Contact Program
Programs of intergroup contact frequently fail with the positive evaluation of the individual contact-partner being separated from the representation of the category as a whole. The paper reports qualitative data gathered from 81 pupils taking part in 28 group discussions concerning the police officers that they meet in a school-based police-youth “contact” program. These data address allow an exploration of the nature of the process of categoriz…
Leasehold Reform: Time to Abandon Implied Surrender
Constructing Women's Psychological Health in Anti-Abortion Rhetoric
This paper considers the ways in which anti-abortion activists construct women's psychological experience of abortion and explores the rhetorical significance of this discourse in advancing the anti-abortion project. In particular we examine how the psychological concept of 'denial' contained in the (proposed) diagnostic category of 'Post-Abortion Syndrome' allows anti-abortionists to 'psychologise' and therefore undermine alternative constructio…
Social Movement Rhetoric and the Social Psychology of Collective Action: A Case Study of Anti-Abortion Mobilization
This paper seeks to contribute toward an integrated approach to social movement mobilization. It does so through considering how a social psychological account of the determination of collective behavior (self-categorization theory) may be applied to the mobilization rhetoric of social movements. More specifically it argues that as people may define themselves and act in terms of social categories, we may usefully conceive of social movement rhet…
Competition and Area Selection in Scotland's New Urban Policy
Competition has become increasingly important as a method of allocating resources in urban policy, particularly with the shift towards decentralised, area-based strategies. This has created uncertainty about the rules of the game and aroused suspicions of arbitrary manipulation of area selection. In this paper, we investigate how area regeneration bids are assessed. We examine the reshaping of the Scottish Urban Programme under Programme for Part…
The role of the ‘other’ in national identity: Exploring the context‐dependence of the national ingroup stereotype
Analysts from a range of disciplines (especially sociology and social anthropology) highlight the role of the ‘other’ in the construction and definition of national identity. Recently some social psychologists have come to emphasize the inherently relational nature of identity. Drawing upon these recent investigations, the present paper reports a field study investigating the context-dependent nature of group identity. Using a modified version of…
Self and Nation: Categorization, Contestation and Mobilization
The National Question Psychology and Nationhood Nation and Mobilization National Identity and International Relations In Quest of National Character Lessons in National History Representing the National Community Changing Categories and Changing Contexts Nationalist Psychology and the Psychology of Nationhood
Categorizing the Neighbors: Identity, Distance, and Stereotyping
This paper reports a field study conducted in Scotland. Participants from one Scottish town stereotyped those from their own town and from another 30 miles away in England. These stereotypes were elicited in three conditions: after stereotyping the English and the Scottish; after stereotyping the Germans and the British; without any explicit reference to national categories We predicted that the act of national stereotyping would have implication…
Psychology and the End of History: A Critique and a Proposal for the Psychology of Social Categorization
This paper suggests that self-categories provide the basis for political action, that those who wish to organize political activity do so through the ways in which they construct self-categories, and that political domination may be achieved through reifying social categories and therefore denying alternative ways of social being. Hence, the way in which social psychology approaches the matter of self-categorization provides a touchstone for its …
Representing' British Muslims: The Strategic Dimension to Identity Construction
This article explores how Muslim identity is constructed in different ways by two groups of political activists in Britain. At the heart of our investigation is an interest in how these different definitions of Muslim identity are organized to promote different forms of political action. We pay particular attention to how these groups employ the same Islamic concept, da'wah (the injunction to invite people to Islam), and show that it only gains m…
Entrepreneurs of hate and entrepreneurs of solidarity: Social identity as a basis for mass communication
The authors draw upon the principles of the social identity tradition in order to elaborate a psychological model of mass communication. This centres on the way in which people construe their social identities and the meanings of events for these identities. They then go on to look at the ways in which these principles have been employed both to mobilize collective support for genocide and collective resistance to genocide. They conclude that it …
VI. Identity and Social Change: Contextualizing Agency
The term ‘politics’ has wide-ranging referents. However, broadly construed it refers to processes whereby the social relations that determine our conditions of existence are produced, reproduced, and transformed. These processes operate at any number of levels from the (very) local to the global. A fully explicated analysis requires several levels of explanation and it would be folly for psychology to seek to supplant other disciplines’ investiga…
Visualising abortion: Emotion Discourse and Fetal Imagery in a Contemporary Abortion Debate
Saving Bulgaria's Jews: An analysis of social identity and the mobilisation of social solidarity
This paper investigates the arguments used in public documents to mobilise Bulgarians against the deportation of Jews in World War II. We focus on the key documents relating to the first wave of mobilisation in 1940–1941 as provided by Todorov in The Fragility of Goodness ( 2001 ). We demonstrate that these documents are based on three types of argument. The first, category inclusion, treats the Jews as part of a common ingroup rather than as con…
Space, Place, and Identity: Issues for Political Psychology
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