- Title
- The choice of idols from a social psychological perspective
- Creator
- Lupke, Lynette M
- Subject
- Identity (Psychology)
- Subject
- Idols and images
- Subject
- Social interaction
- Date
- 2009
- Type
- Thesis
- Type
- Masters
- Type
- M Soc Sc (Psych)
- Identifier
- vital:11606
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10353/132
- Identifier
- Identity (Psychology)
- Identifier
- Idols and images
- Identifier
- Social interaction
- Description
- The study of adolescents’ idols has an over 100-year tradition. The meta-analysis of Teigen, Normann, Bjorkheim and Helland (2000) showed that idols, which are commonly understood as role models, changed over the last century which is attributed to changes in the social context. The present paper argues that Social Identity Theory (Tajfel & Turner, 1979, 1986) offers an appropriate theoretical framework to conceptualize social context by hypothesising a functional relationship between idols and identity management strategies moderated by the status position of the adolescent’s group s/he belongs to. The hypothesised functional relationship was tested in two studies with white and black adolescent South Africans. The results of the two studies supported our assumptions that the functional relationship between idols and identity management strategies is indeed moderated by status position. The results also indicate that Social Identity Theory seems to be an appropriate theoretical framework when social context is particularly conceptualised as social change.
- Format
- 71 leaves; 30 cm
- Format
- Publisher
- University of Fort Hare
- Publisher
- Faculty of Social Sciences & Humanities
- Language
- English
- Rights
- University of Fort Hare
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