Social Identity: International Perspectives

Corporate Social Responsibility: International Perspectives

Social Identity

Intersectionality The condition in which a person simultaneously belongs to two or more social categories or social statuses and the unique consequences that result from that combination Minimal group paradigm An experimental procedure for creating social identity conditions in which participants are arbitrarily assigned to one group or another. Social representations Commonly shared and collec...

Social identity change: shifts in social identity during adolescence.

This study investigated the proposition that adolescence involves significant shifts in social identity as a function of changes in social context and cognitive style. Using an experimental design, we primed either peer or gender identity with a sample of 380 early- (12-13 years), mid- (15-16 years), and late-adolescents (18-20 years) and then measured the effect of the prime on self-stereotypi...

International perspectives and initiatives.

This article introduces a new column which will explore the way different regions and nation states are dealing with the challenges of managing health information. The intention is to draw together trends which are relevant to both health science librarians and health informatics professionals. This inaugural piece maps out the territory. It provides a rationale for the column, along with evide...

International perspectives on caregiving.

Every year, millions of people around the world suffer spinal cord injuries, traumatic brain injuries, and strokes. Spinal cord injury (SCI) often strikes young and healthy individuals and is estimated to affect between 11.5 and 57.8 individuals per million around the world, causing death, paralysis, and serious secondary medical complications [1]. Costs associated with SCI have been estimated ...