Identity Process Theory: Identity, Social Action and Social Change - Hardcover

Edited By Rusi Jaspal , Glynis M. Breakwell

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1107022703 ISBN 13: 9781107022706

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2014

Synopsis

World-renowned social psychologists present some of the key developments in identity process theory, examining identity, social action and social change.

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About the Authors

Dr Rusi Jaspal is Lecturer in Psychology and convenor of the Self and Identity Research Group at De Montfort University, Leicester. He has published widely on identity process theory, intergroup relations, and the media. His research spans across multiple cultural and geographical contexts, including the UK, India and Israel. Dr Jaspal is the author of Anti-Semitism and Anti-Zionism: Representation, Cognition and Everyday Talk (2013).

Professor Dame Glynis M. Breakwell has been Vice-Chancellor of the University of Bath since 2001. In the 2012 New Year Honours List she was appointed Dame Commander of the British Empire for her work in higher education. She is a member of the Council of the Economic and Social Research Council and chairs its Research Committee. Her research has focused on leadership, identity processes and risk management and she has published more than twenty books, including The Psychology of Risk (2007). She is the originator of identity process theory.

Edition details

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2014
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1107022703
• ISBN 13: 9781107022706
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 420