Question

In psychology use the term Social Identity Theory to answer these questions and put into a paragraph response! a) describe the media example in enough detail so that I can understand it; b) to define the psychological principles or ideas that are related to the example; and c) to explicitly tie the example to the psychological principle. You may need to write more than the examples below in order to get these points across. In my experience, parts b) and c) give students the most problems. One thing to note about these examples is that in them I: 1) refer to the chapter in which the relevant principles are discussed; and 2) if necessary, provide quotations to help me define terms. If quotations are used, cite the section in which the words appear in the book.

Answer 1

Acording to Tajfel and Turner (1979) The central hypothesis of social identity theory is that group members of an in-group will seek to find negative aspects of an out-group, thus enhancing their self-image.

so if we take a example of the media say people who watch fox news see themselves as a group and identify with that group and people who watch CNN as another group that is in direct conflict with them over the basic ideas and ideologies.

In this case the people who watch fox news are the in-group and people who watch cnn the out-group.

Social identity theory states that the in-group will discriminate against the out-group to enhance their self-image. More mildly as stated above the in-group will find negatives about the out groupto enhance their own self img eas being superior.

say the fox news people say that social wlefare is reinforcing the the poor to net workand you see not working as a negative you take that example to fell suerior about onesself in the group by degrading the out group which here is cnn which tends to support social welfare in this hypothetical situaton.