... essay will put forward Tajfel and Turner's social identity theory giving their arguments for a cognitive social theory and how it originated. Discussion will then look at Billig's (2002 cited in Brown 2007) critique of the theory and his suggestions to improve it by looking at group conflict and identity from a discursive psychological point of view which would incorporate extreme motivational prejudice ... a negative force which affected otherwise rational individual behaviour which ultimately lead to conflict. This was the common belief at this time "research such as Lorenz" (1974 cite...

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... of everyone around us is whether we are male or female, before the birth older siblings may be asked whether they want a brother or sister, there are either boy or girl birth cards, many people delay buying many clothes until they know the sex or buy and make clothes they feel neutral and can be worn by a boy or ... girl, so the issue of sex is seen to be a very important issue for all concerned. If a girl is born she gets inundated with pink clothes and for a boy, blue. Toys tend to be seen as either boys" or girls ... ...

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... the end of the first year cried relatively little and were securely attached." (Ainsworth & Bowlby, 1991). Mothers who rejected their infants led to infants developing avoidant-insecure behaviours. Ainsworth's notes recorded several mothers as "disliking tactual contact or finding it aversive." (Ainsworth, 1971, cited in Main, 1995). Mothers who were inconsistent towards their infants led to resistant-insecure ... ...

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