Identity psychology 2404-P-4-PPSS-PT

Classes 1. Identity - definitional distinctions. Who am I - collecting statements from students, familiarizing them with various techniques of measuring identity. Joint reflection on what they measure.
Classes 2. Human identity from a developmental perspective. Phases of identity development (Erikson, Marcia). Identity crises. Mature and immature ways of solving crises. Identity in the service of subsequent generations (generative phase of identity)
Classes 3. Autobiographical memory in the service of human identity. Identity Scripts: Redemption and Fall (McAdams). Community and fitness content in identity. What happens when a person loses his memory? Building identity through family narratives (Fivush)
Classes 4-5. Social identity. What is group identity? Premises of group identity. The concept of essentialism and group existence. When is a group perceived as a group? Where does group identity come from? Processes of categorization of social groups. Constructivism and realism in the understanding of identity. Sociological approaches to identity. Is essentialism always bad?
Classes 6. Identity themes (Breakwell, Vignoles): distinctiveness, continuity, self-esteem, effectiveness, belonging, meaning.
Classes 7. Identity as distinctiveness. Tajfel's SIT theory. Accentuation processes in the perception of the in-group and out-group. Tajfel matrices. Can you identify with every group - optimal distinctiveness theory by Marilyn Brewer.
Class 8. Identity as continuity. Functions of perceived individual and group continuity (Sani). Types of group continuity (essentialist and narrative continuity). Group memory in the service of continuity. Myths of the beginning. Memory patterns. Nostalgia and its identity functions.
Classes 9-10. National identity – psychological and non-psychological approaches. The formation of national identities in Europe (M. Hroch). Is national identity a uniform construct? Patriotism and nationalism. Ethnic identity vs. civic. Does the east of Europe have an ethnic identity and the west a civic one? Type of identity and reactions to identity threat and openness to the other.
Class 11. National identity and social memory. Group identity projects (group charters). Examples of memory distortions in the service of identity.
Class 12. Identity of place. Local identity. Factors influencing identification with a place. Attachment to place and its types. Transnational (European) identity. Globalization processes and territorial identities (Inglehart, Norris)
Class 13. Other identities. Gender identity, professional identity, religious identity, generational identity.
Class 14. Identity structure. Complexity of identity (Roccas, Brewer). Hybrid identities. Identity conflicts. Identity profiles. Integrated identity theory.
Classes 15. Summary of classes