SOCIAL IDENTITY THEORY

The social identity theory was proposed by the renowned psychologist Henri Tajfel's. the
theory tells how people define themselves based on their group membership(s). This theory
enables to predict situation under which how individual define their own position in different
social situations and how that affects their perceptions of others as well as their own group
behavior.
Initially, social identity theory aims to study the intergroup conflicts due to which it was
formerly known as integrated theory.
Later, John Turner identified cognitive factors related to SIT. According to theory we
classify people based on similarities as ingroup and others as outgroup. In this regard there
are three mental processes crucial such as
social categorization, social comparison, and social identity.
The way of putting individual in different social groups is known as social categorization.
After that, people take on the identity of the social group to which they have find themselves.
This is known as social identification.
According to theory, group member gives a sense of social identity: a sense of belonging to
the social world, people acquire the identity of the group to which to which they belong
themselves.

References
Tajfel, H., Turner, J. C., Austin, W. G., & Worchel, S. (1979). An integrative theory of
intergroup conflict. Organizational identity: A reader, 56-65.
Ellemers, N. (2020, November 16). Social identity theory. Encyclopedia Britannica.
https://www.britannica.com/topic/social-identity-theory