Social Identity Theory

The Social Identity Theory is very important to a persons life, and shapes one to be who they are. A great example of this theory is the video we watch of the Baptists church. The wife of the family had 11 kids. Each kid is getting brought up to just like their mother. a "fag" hater and so on. They know of everything else as being bad, and a sin, even if it isn't they are told pretty much that anything the family doesn't do is bad, and your not allowed to do anything that you want if it is against what they believe in. These kids have only one social example to live by and to shape their identity. Unfortunately they can't even choose which social groups they want to identify with, only their families and church.

Social Identify Theory is a very important role for a person to adapt to. Most people will adapt to a group that they can identify with and they will pick up the traits and beliefs as the group shows, and follows. Like I have stated this is very important to shape a persons life.

Here is a video showing how kids use Social Identity theory to identify themselves. I think this is a way for them to choose a group they want to identify with and then start doing what the group norm is to do. This is a great example. Also it shows all the different types of groups and how they identify each group as different because they do not have the same norms.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ga4Zr7P25o0