Exam 7: Self and Identity

What is the role-person merger? What kind of behavior can be taken as evidence of this synthesis? Give an example of the role-person merger not included in Chapter 7 of your textbook.

Research based on nationally representative samples suggests that adolescents today have different personality characteristics than prior generations of youths.

When were White college students most likely to opt to view films focusing on people who exhibited racial prejudice versus other topics?

The belief that one will be evaluated based upon one's status characteristics, including race and gender, appears to have a bigger impact on self-esteem than the status characteristics themselves.

What characteristic influences how members of-dominant groups (e.g., racial/ethnic minorities) are likely to respond to identity threat (e.g., with psychological disengagement vs. perceptions of in-group variability)?

What is the looking-glass self? Discuss the relevance of this concept to people's everyday experiences.

Research suggests that self-esteem is associated with happiness, educational attainment, and the acquisition of wealth.

Which of the following factors has had a substantial impact on both the self and society, according to postmodern social theorists?

How does identity theory link the content of people's self-concepts to broader social structures? In responding to this question, please define concepts central to this model (identity, commitment, and salience/importance) and describe the proposed nature of the relationship between prior patterns of interaction, self-structure, and behavior.

It is fairly safe to assume that an identity is really important to someone when:

The readiness with which people enact the roles associated with a particular status is called:

Sociological social psychologists who study the effects of gender, class, and race/ethnicity on self-esteem are working within the _____________________ face of sociological social psychology.

What is the self-fulfilling prophecy? Describe a situation in which you witnessed, or experienced firsthand, the effects of this process. What was, or could have been done, to disrupt this cycle?

Describe and the shift in locus of self, identified by Turner. Discuss potential sources of this change in how people tend to define their real selves.

Studies of the transition to college within the Iowa/Indiana school of symbolic interactionism are:

Research suggests that men are more prone than women to the role-person merger.

Do you locate your real self in impulse or institutions? How might this tendency affect the ways in which you interpret your emotions and your behaviors?

Define and distinguish between the terms "self" and "identity." How are these concepts used by sociological social psychologists to enhance our understanding of people's social experiences?

Self and identity are important concepts because they enable researchers to predict and explain people's perceptions and behaviors.

Within the group processes and structures face of social psychology, social identity theorists have studied: