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Social Diversity and Bridging Identity [PDF]
Abstract We investigate within a model of cultural transmission how policies or shocks that affect social diversity within a population affect social cohesion and segregation. We develop the concept of ‘bridging identity’, an individual trait that (i) positively affects utility in culturally diverse social groups but is immaterial in ...
María D.C. García-Alonso+2 more
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Social Identity Mapping Online [PDF]
Social identities play an important role in many aspects of life, not least in those pertaining to health and well-being. Decades of research shows that these relationships are driven by a range of social identity processes, including identification with groups, social support received from groups, and multiple group memberships.
Sarah Bentley+6 more
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Identity on Social Media [PDF]
The Journal of Social Media for Learning, Vol 3 No 1 (2022): Special Conference ...
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Political psychology focuses upon a diverse range of contexts, including leadership, policy making, nationalism, racism, political extremism, war, genocide, voting, group mobilization, and many others. Given the centrality of the social political group in many of these contexts, theories of intergroup relations have proven to be very useful in ...
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Identity and Search in Social Networks [PDF]
Social networks have the surprising property of being “searchable”: Ordinary people are capable of directing messages through their network of acquaintances to reach a specific but distant target person in only a few steps. We present a model that offers an explanation of social network searchability in terms of recognizable personal identities: sets ...
Peter Sheridan Dodds+3 more
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Identity and Social Innovation [PDF]
Foundational to this discussion are two papers on identity by George A. Akerlof and Rachel Kranton [2000, 2005]. We contribute to their development of this issue with additional factors that are arguably essential to the analysis of identity formation.
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Abstract The chapter first argues that there is no problem about how to justify partialities (though there is a difficulty in justifying impartialities). Then it considers the role of consent in justifying rights and duties, using voluntary associations as a case in which consent has an important but limited role in doing so, a role ...
Joseph Raz, Joseph Raz, Joseph Raz
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Practical Identity, Obligation, and Sociality
By characterizing obligation as a reflective rejection of what threatens one’s identity, Christine Korsgaard introduces a suggestive approach to this normative concept. This approach is mediated by the notion of “practical identity,” which she first characterized in Sources of Normativity as “a description under which you value yourself, a description ...
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Italian Sociological Review, Vol 5, No 1 (2015)
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Social identity and social value orientations
This study provides an extension of the social value orientation model and a tool, other-other Decomposed Games, to quantify the influence of social identity on social value orientations. Social identity is induced experimentally using the minimal group paradigm.
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