Sentences with phrase «group social identity»

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«Based on evidence gathered from focus groups and interviews conducted in U.S. coal communities, we argue that coal communities that have experienced mine closures have already begun an economic and social transition, one that is based on reshaping their culture and sense of identity,» wrote professors of Indiana University in a paper published in the March issue of Energy Research and Social Scsocial transition, one that is based on reshaping their culture and sense of identity,» wrote professors of Indiana University in a paper published in the March issue of Energy Research and Social ScSocial Science.

Our identities are more fluid today as we belong to more and varied groups, thanks in part to technology and social networks that enable geographically diverse by ideologically similar friendships.

According to Mueller's indictment, the Russia - backed operators of social media groups and accounts posed as Americans, including by using «the stolen identities of real U.S. persons» and servers and computing infrastructure located in the United States.

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«Tribalism,» as he defines it, is «the commitment of individuals and groups to their own history, culture, and identity, and this commitment (though not any particular version of it) is a permanent feature of human social life.»

Evangelicals for Social Action, a group that has struggled for traction and identity since it framed the Thanksgiving Declaration of 1973, has regathered its strength around a new board of directors representing many sectors of the evangelical movement.

To tell the story, and for later generations to interpret it, is to constitute (or reconstitute) the world view of the group, to renew its sense of identity and purpose, to reinforce its pattern of social life.

Belonging in a group always involves a tension between our personal identity, our own sense of self, and our social identity which reflects the claims of our family or community through prescribed roles and behaviors.

«They have the right to live at home, where they've lived for 1,700 years, since before the arrival of Islam, so that they can continue not only because it is their natural right, but also because they are a presence that is a benefit to the Islamic community and which helps diversify the social context which can slowly favour a democracy that respects the identity of every person and each group.»

These are identity - forming narratives, and they can easily be mapped onto a social landscape of us versus them, the in - group and the out - group.

Social change often involves conflicts and communication problems between various groups, each with its own identity, values, commitments, goals, and power dynamics.

If our people can develop a strong sense of identity with their support groups, with their theological past, and with the movement itself, they will be able to go into most jobs with the social gospel as their chief and not - so - hidden agenda.

First, a person leaves behind one social group and its social identity; second, she passes through a stage of no identity or affiliation, before, third, becoming admitted into a new social group that confers a new identity.

Yet, each newcomer presents a problem as well as a growth opportunity — e.g., dealing with the anxiety / resentment aroused by his «invading» a comfortable social organism; encountering a new personality; experiencing the process of integrating him into the group identity.

These experiences, which are common to almost all groups which develop strong social ties, religious or not, are: the sense of belonging to a group, the experience of power, and the creation of a new identity.

Furthermore, other forms of identity, empowered by the clustering of social groups brought on by suburbanization, appear to have filled the void — civic societies, churches, even allegiances to sports teams.

This project will explore how the Commons select committees fulfil their task of holding the government to account, and will do so by utilising the insights of social psychology and group processes in order to understand how MPs manage their party identities and regulate partisan conflict in an «all - party» institutional environment.

The study, funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC), supports other findings that interventions aimed at improving individuals» wellbeing and quality of life can be far more effective if they are carried out among groups of people in ways that generate a strong sense of group identity.

This release is based on the findings from «The Individual in the Group: Social Identity and the Dynamics of Change» funded by the Economic and Social Research Council.

While the city requires social service arms of religious groups that receive government contracts to pledge not to discriminate on any prohibited basis including sexual orientation and gender identity, no such restriction was placed on this funding.

«Individuals in social networks are endowed not only with network ties, but identities: sets of characteristics that they attribute to themselves and others by virtue of their association with, and participation in, social groups.»

According to psychological theory, every person has a social identity, which depends on being a member of various groups.

Leidner and colleagues recall how political and social psychology researchers have in recent decades steadily gained more understanding, through research, of such psychological factors as intergroup threat, uncertainty, group identity, emotions, moral beliefs and how intergroup conflict affects views of the world and of oneself.

Groups that rally around radical beliefs may provide a searching person with the sense of self and social identity they are lacking.

«When people form a psychological group, what happens isn't that they lose a sense of identity but that they think of themselves in terms of group membership,» explains social psychologist Stephen Reicher of the University of Saint Andrews in Scotland.

This behavior is not irrational, Stott says, and «is consistent with how the social identity of the group is defined.»

Critcher, a member of the Haas Marketing Group, conducts research on consumer behavior and social psychology, including questions of self and identity.

«Even before infants appear to make smart choices about what substances to ingest, they form nuanced expectations that food preferences are fundamentally linked to social groups and social identity,» said Zoe Liberman, a University of California, Santa Barbara assistant professor who completed the research while a UChicago doctoral student.

«However, connecting with these groups for social support could inhibit recovery because of the desire to continue being a part of the shared identity such social media groups foster.»

Heineman: Several members of the group had their identities already out there but as we said in the film, they felt that they no longer wanted to hide behind the veneer of social media.

Or the identity - group politics that lead to an overstuffed social studies curriculum.

Stereotype threat, a term coined by social psychologists Claude M. Steele and Joshua Aronson, refers to the risk of confirming negative stereotypes about one's own identity group.

Reducingstereotype.org concludes, «This re-analysis suggests that soliciting social - identity information prior to test taking does produce small differences in performance consistent with previous findings in the stereotype - threat literature that, when generalized to the population of test takers, can produce profound differences in outcomes for members of different groups.»

In the past, psychologists such as Erik Erikson have noted the innate desire among adolescents for identity within social groups.

«In this timely, engaging, and needed book, Steele and Cohn - Vargas describe creative and captivating ways in which teachers can construct identity safe classrooms in which students from diverse racial, social, economic, and linguistic groups can learn and flourish.

«In this timely, engaging, and needed book, Steele and Cohn - Vargas describe creative and captivating ways in which teachers can construct identity safe classrooms where students from diverse racial, social, economic, and linguistic groups can learn and flourish.»

Students will develop positive social identities based on their membership in multiple groups in society.

However, student achievement is an imperfect proxy for general social benefits of schooling, which could be independent of the private gains of religious education or group identity.

Schools are significant sites where children from diverse ethnic and social groups learn to interact, adopt civic identities, and acquire intercultural skills that are essential to good citizenship.

Understanding the concept of identity is not only valuable for students» own social, moral, and intellectual development, but it is also critical to understanding the choices made by individuals and groups living in Germany during the 1920s and 1930s (as well as during other historical moments).

This question becomes especially critical for traditionally marginalized student groups, such as English learners who already face the challenges of finding their social identity and learning a new language while discovering their academic identity as well.

Through encouraging the development of more in - depth relationships between preservice teachers and host students in mentoring relationships, the hope was that the complexities of social group identities and life circumstance that at first might seem unrelated to schooling might more easily come to the surface.

Her research employs social psychological interventions and social network analysis to understand and address real - world problems related to group identity, stigma, and psychological threat in educational settings and beyond.

Groups of students from the two schools met throughout the year, sharing aspects of their identity and experiences while engaging in conversations about social justice and what it means to be an upstander.

He's interested in the nature of social groups, personal identity, freedom, and the nature of the mind.

Is this age group more susceptible because they are less likely to regularly track bank account and credit card activity, pay for identity theft monitoring services, and use discretion when sharing information on social media?

-LSB-...] such platforms where bare bone discussion groups formed around common interest topic areas or social objects where you could make yourself heard without worrying too much about identity, reputation, -LSB-...]

By re-appropriating American culture through found objects, she questions social, political and cultural issues about sex, gender identity and marginalized groups.

Katy Siegel, BMA Senior Programming & Research Curator and Thaw Chair in Modern American Art at Stony Brook University added: «As the exhibition title suggests (in Édouard Glissant's powerful, poetic phrasing), these artists confront with bravery and creativity a tension we all feel, most especially African Americans, between the «solitary» — being specifically, uniquely and only oneself — and the «solidary» of a group's collective social identity.

Korea - born New York artist Nikki S. Lee was far more than a stand - in when, between 1998 and 2001, she had onlookers snap her picture to mark her infiltration of clannish social groups — sex workers, hip - hop kids, seniors — to which she would not ordinarily gain entrance, relinquishing her natural identity while firmly remaining in her role as an artist.