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Social psychology (sociology)

About: Social psychology (sociology) is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 18151 publications have been published within this topic receiving 907731 citations. The topic is also known as: Social psychology & sociological social psychology.


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01 Jan 1978

355 citations

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TL;DR: In this paper, a generic definition of "stereotype" is proposed: the structured sets of beliefs about the personal attributes of women and men, which are linked to the social categories female and male.
Abstract: Progress in understanding sex stereotypes has been impeded by the failure of researchers to address two critical conceptual questions: What is a sex stereotype? How do sex stereotypes function in social cognition and behavior? As a step toward answering the first question, the meaning of the term “sex stereotype” was considered. On the basis of points of agreement among extant conceptual definitions of the construct “stereotype” (in both the female-male and ethnic relations literatures), a generic definition of “sex stereotypes” is proposed: the structured sets of beliefs about the personal attributes of women and of men. In order to relate sex stereotypes more closely to research and theory on “normal” psychological processes, this basic definition is recast in terms of the person perception construct, “implicit personality theory”: the structured sets of inferential relations that link personal attributes to the social categories female and male. Two studies are presented to illustrate the utility of this translation. The remainder of the article addresses the second question. Here we offer preliminary ideas regarding a more general cognitive—social psychological framework for the study of sex stereotypes. Stereotype and stereotyping are distinguished, and each is discussed in light of relevant research in cognitive and social psychology.

354 citations

Book
01 Jan 1949

353 citations

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TL;DR: A critical and historical overview of the social identity analysis of leadership can be found in this article, where the authors describe the ways that prototypical leaders can protect their tenure through manipulation and control of the group's prototype.
Abstract: Publisher Summary This chapter provides a critical and historical overview of the leadership research, and an overview of key components of the social identity perspective. It discusses the ways in which a focus on group membership, framed by the social identity perspective, can explain important aspects of leadership. The chapter describes the social identity analysis of leadership, including a description of the ways that prototypical leaders can protect their tenure through manipulation and control of the group's prototype. It discusses key empirical tests of the social identity analysis—these tests necessarily hinge on a demonstration that leadership processes become more prototype based with increasing group salience. Several direct and indirect tests from a number of laboratories and research groups around the world that provide support for the social identity analysis have been dealt in the chapter. It presents the results of about 25 independent samples from 16 different studies, and explores implications and extensions of the analysis in the context of the study of leadership.

352 citations

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11 Jan 2006
TL;DR: Haslam, van Knippenberg, Platow, and Ellemers as mentioned in this paper reviewed the status of social identity in industrial and organizational fields and pointed out the potential value of using this theory to enhance researchers' understanding of organizational life.
Abstract: It is now 25 years since the publication of Tajfel and Turner’s (1979) seminal statement on social identity theory and 15 years since Ashforth and Mael (1989) published their classic Academy of Management Review article pointing to the potential value of using this theory to enhance researchers’ understanding of organizational life. Whatever else the latter article may have achieved, it is clear that it was highly prophetic, as, over the intervening period, industrial and organizational psychologists’ interest in social identity and related concepts has increased at a phenomenal rate. On top of nearly 300 citations of the Ashforth and Mael paper, this is indicated, among other developments, by the publication of several key books and journal special issues devoted to research in this area (e.g., Albert, Ashforth, & Dutton, 2000; Haslam, 2001, 2004; Haslam, van Knippenberg, Platow, & Ellemers, 2003; Hogg & Terry, 2001; Tyler & Blader, 2000; van Knippenberg & Hogg, 2001) and the exponential rise in articles that make reference to the terms ‘social’ and/or ‘organizational’ identity (for details see Haslam, 2004, p. xxv; Haslam, Postmes, & Ellemers, 2003). As the range of journals listed in Table 2.1 indicates, it is also apparent that this research has had a broad as well as a deep impact on the field. These trends indicate that a thoroughgoing review of the status of social identity in industrial and organizational fields is very timely (see also

349 citations


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No. of papers in the topic in previous years
YearPapers
20224
2021273
2020309
2019356
2018374
2017534