Perceptions on what is accomplished or the actual are perceptions that arise from three distinct processes related to role performance within these groups:
reflected appraisals, social comparisons, self-attributions.
When individuals reflect on their behavior and observe that they have been sucessful at maintaining
a match between situational meanings and identity standards, efficacy-based self-esteem results
from such "sucessful behavior".
When distubances to self-verification are at large, or more persistent, people may extricate themselves
from the situation or shed the identity in order to avoid the negative feelings that arise
from persistent discrepencies between situational meanings and identity standards. In the
interest of maintaining the social structure, the interpersonal relationships, however, this possibility
must be minimized. Therefore, people must have resources that can support them through these
periods ensuring that negative emotions do not become too overwhelming. Self-esteem seems to be
one such resource that functions to maintain individuals and social relationships.
The less the self-verification, the greater the distress. The higher an individual's self-esteem, the
less the distress. The higher an individual's self-esteem, the less impact a lack of
self-verification will have on levels of distress. The more persistent the lack of self-verification, the greater the loss of self-esteem.
Bases for social identities are where structure and agency collide.
people persist in seeking essentialized groudinings for the selves they encounter and those they offer
Seeks attachment to others , the pursuit of recognition and dignity; feelings of agency and empowerment,
avoiding fear and anxiety
People in subordinate positions attempt in a sort of relaity-construction process to translate coercive
relationships into dependency relationships, through maneuvering their oppressors into accepting
obligations toward them.
This identity requires a perception of membership to a bounded group, consciousness aboutthat
group's ideologies, and direct opposition to a dominant rule.
