Understanding gang membership: The significance of group processes
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...Violence is often a central characteristic of 27 gang members, and is regularly employed; therefore, it is considered an essential tool because it enhances members’ ability to obtain material assets, an affluent life style, and status (Wood, 2014)....
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...From an early age, they mimic and adopt the group’s norms in order to be accepted (Wood, 2014; Alleyne & Wood, 2010)....
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...gang members, and is regularly employed; therefore, it is considered an essential tool because it enhances members’ ability to obtain material assets, an affluent life style, and status (Wood, 2014)....
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...Social identity approaches, including social identity theory (Tajfel & Turner, 1986) and selfcategorization theory (Turner, Hogg, Oakes, Reicher, & Wetherell, 1987) maintain that once people identify with a group they experience further shaping of their self-view (see also Goldman, Giles, & Hogg,…...
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...…arbitrarily (e.g., grouped according to people’s over- or underestimation of total dots on a piece of paper), with no history of conflict and no potential for future conflict, can lead to ingroup favoritism when allocating money to anonymous ingroup or outgroup others (Tajfel & Turner, 1986)....
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...Social categorization processes facilitate a clear-cut picture of one’s own and others’ social group membership and enables emotional values to be attached to those groups (Tajfel & Turner, 1986)....
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...…uncertain about personal identity motivates people to identify with a group and, in line with social categorization tenets (Abrams & Hogg, 2010; Tajfel & Turner, 1986) use their group membership to categorize themselves and others according to sets of attitudes and behaviors that epitomize…...
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