Tag: intolerance

  • THE DRIVING FORCES BEHIND SOCIAL IDENTITY

    THE DRIVING FORCES BEHIND SOCIAL IDENTITY

    Social identity or in-group identification is motivated by two forces; one is death anxiety, and the other is self-esteem. Death anxiety is an unconscious force that arises from the awareness of our mortality, while self-esteem functions as a mediator between death anxiety and in-group identification. More particularly, social identity allows the individual to achieve symbolic…