A Brief Examination of Two Research Studies Concerning Social Identity
This 3-page undergraduate paper examines two research articles - Nedd and Marsh’s “Social Traditionalism and Personality: An Empirical Investigation of the Interrelationships between Social Values and Personality Attributes” (1979) and Guimond’s “Group Socialization and Prejudice: The Social Transmission of Intergroup Attitudes and Beliefs” (2000). For each research study, this paper examines key information for an empirical groups study, including the number of groups studied, the size of the groups and the composition of these groups. This paper determines whether the authors of each study made use of “ad hoc” or existing groups. Further, this paper examines the methodology, primary theory, and main findings of each study, providing the main points of the research. This paper explores the sorts of groups the studies’ theories are meant to address and concludes with an evaluation of the strengths and weaknesses of the research presented.
