Uncertainty, Social Identity, and Ideology
Social Identification in Groups
ISBN: 978-0-76231-223-8, eISBN: 978-1-84950-352-5
Publication date: 6 July 2005
Abstract
A social identity analysis, based on Hogg's (2000) uncertainty reduction theory, of the emergence and maintenance of ideological belief systems is presented. Uncertainty, particularly self-uncertainty, motivates identification with high-entitativity groups and behaviors that promote entitativity. Under more extreme uncertainty, identification is more pronounced and entitativity can be associated with orthodoxy, hierarchy and extremism, and with ideological belief systems. I develop and describe a social identity and uncertainty reduction analysis of ideology, and contextualize this in a brief discussion of the concept of ideology and in coverage of other contemporary social psychological treatments of ideology, such as social dominance theory, system justification theory, right-wing authoritarianism, belief in a just world, and the protestant work ethic.
Citation
Hogg, M.A. (2005), "Uncertainty, Social Identity, and Ideology", Thye, S.R. and Lawler, E.J. (Ed.) Social Identification in Groups (Advances in Group Processes, Vol. 22), Emerald Group Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. 203-229. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0882-6145(05)22008-8
Publisher
:Emerald Group Publishing Limited
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