Social Identity

Roles: in-group, out-group, conformity, deviance, status, belonging

The ways individuals define themselves and are defined by others through group membership, social categories, and relational positioning. Includes the mechanisms of inclusion and exclusion, the costs of nonconformity, and the formation of identity through contrast with out-groups. A target domain for metaphors from animal husbandry (black sheep, pecking order), theater (playing a role), and spatial metaphors (insider/outsider, marginal).

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