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Interest in the concept of identity has grown exponentially within both the humanities and social sciences, but the discussion of identity has had less impact than might be expected on the quantitative study of political behavior in general and on political psychology more specifically. One of the approaches that holds the most promise for political psychologists is social identity theory, as reflected in the thinking of Henri Tajfel, John Turner, and colleagues. Although the theory addresses the kinds of problems of interest to political psychologists, it has had limited impact on political psychology because of social identity theorists' disinclination to examine the sources of social identity in a real world complicated by history and culture. In this review, four key issues are examined that hinder the successful application of social identity theory to political phenomena. These key issues are the existence of identity choice, the subjective meaning of identities, gradations in identity strength, and the considerable stability of many social and political identities.

Purpose
– The purpose of this paper is to explore what individuals perceive as social identity threats, the sources of the threat, individuals' responses, and the consequences of the threat.


Design/methodology/approach
– Narratives from 224 individuals were collected. A sample of 84 narratives were analyzed in depth using a qualitative content analysis approach.


Findings
– Initial support for identity threat response theory was found. Three new distinct threat responses – constructive action, ignore, and seek assistance – were uncovered. Additionally, harm/loss appraisals were found to be perceived and reacted to similarly to Petriglieri-defined identity threats.


Originality/value
– This study contributes to identity scholarship by shedding further light on the "theoretical black box" associated with identity threat. Such insight is necessary in further enhancing our understanding of the impact that identity threat has at the individual and organizational level.

Dziekanowice is a village in Wielkopolska (Poznania) in Poland that has undergone several changes caused by the introduction of free market principles affecting interconnected social, labour and property relations. The latter have become one of the major anthropological topics studied by western anthropologists in the region after 1989. However, in the case of Poland this issue has been rarely explored. Also, relatively few scholars have closely and clearly put the three mentioned aspects together. In Dziekanowice under communism, state and private agricultural land coexisted. The dissolution of the local state farm has opened a possibility for a much more intense flow of capital within agriculture, especially with respect to land property. New means of class differentiation have opened and former class distinctions have acquired new meanings. Alongside property, one of the factors that has redefined social relationships and helped to conceptualise them is 'work'. By using combined criteria of economic, social and cultural capitals, all organised around property, social transformations in Poland, based on the example of this countryside community, are rendered.

The Israeli-Palestinian conflict has always been one of the most debated political cases. However, usually the focus is on the physical, political and economic views of the conflict. This research focuses on the psychosocial analysis of the Palestinian social identity in Jerusalem. It explores the reasons behind the Islamization of social identity among Palestinian Jerusalemites. It does so through the eyes of Palestinian females who live in East Jerusalem. The study seeks to understand how the Palestinian participants from East Jerusalem define their social identity. The definition was categorized into three groups: Islamic, Arabic and Palestinian. In addition to that, the study investigated the perceived threats posed on the participant's social identity. These threats are categorized into: threats from the Israeli occupation, the Palestinian society itself, and the corruption of the Palestinian authority. Moreover, this research compares the role of religion in the lives of Palestinian Jerusalemites now and twenty years ago. Therefore, it shows how and when the Islamization of social identity started. The results of this research are based on primary and secondary resources. I have conducted 25 individual interviews and a process of participant observation. The argument of this paper is that the Islamization of social identity in Jerusalem is a process with two main reasons behind it. First, the fall of Palestinian nationalism after the Oslo Accords and the Palestinian civil war. This led into identity crisis and created an identity vacuity which needed to be filled. Second the direct threat posed on the Palestinian Islamic identity during the Second Intifada and until now. This made the Islamic identity the salient one. The Islamic identity needed to be defended, therefore, it was prioritized and used to demonstrate the urgency of staying in Jerusalem. ; M-DS

This is a book about social differentiation and distinction in one of the ethnically and politically most complex regions of the world, dealing with crucial issues in currently renewed debates on cultural pluralism, nationalism, irredentism and ethnic dispersal. The themes are given a regional and historical focus by treating peoples within the Tai-speaking regions of mainland South East Asia, namely the two basically Tai states, Thailand and Laos, and Tai areas in Burma, China, Vietnam and Malaysia. The book examines representations of non-Tai peoples by various Tai, and representations of Ta

Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- How ethics, morality and identity are treated in this book -- Evolutionary motivations towards pro-social moral norms -- The social brain and moral self-identity -- Situation and transformation in the resolution of social dilemmas -- Intrapersonal identity positivity -- Positive social identity -- A situational model of positive social identity -- A situational analysis of positive social identity -- Conclusion: the distinct importance of positive social identity -- Bibliography -- Appendix 1: Data collected -- Appendix 2: Correlation between indicators of psid pro-social behviour and social resources -- Appendix 3: Equatio.