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However, to argue that SCT provides a basis for understanding the quality of group interactions, the nature of lived experience in the group and the emotional intensity of collective life is not the same as saying that it has actually travelled very far down this road. What this means, however, is not that the one replaces the other, but rather, only if we start with an analysis of the group in the individual can we then understand the individual in the group. To reframe the same point, self-categorisation theorists sometimes talk of a turn from ‘the individual in the group’ to ‘the group in the individual’. Equally, group psychology must not only deal with the way we represent categories internally but also the way in which we relate to others and interact with them as a function of whether or not we categorise them as fellow group members.
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Clearly a full understanding of the group must account for the importance that groups have for us and the passions that they invoke. While SCT makes the cognitive act of self-categorization the starting point for understanding group process it certainly does not suggest that cognition is all there is. It thereby forms the basis for a non-reductionist account of group psychology that covers intra- as well as inter-group phenomena. It explicates the processes that underlie social identification and examines the consequences for a broad range of group phenomena such as stereotyping, group judgment, group cohesion and social influence. While SIT introduces the concept of social identity in the context of an analysis of intergroup relations, SCT clarifies the concept and its relationship to other levels of identity. Indeed, one of the achievements of SCT is to develop the incipient logic of SIT. So, although SCT may have different emphases to SIT, the fundamental relationship between the two is harmonious. It also provides a basis for understanding how the belief systems associated with these categories are defined, elaborated and come to shape action. It provides a basis for understanding how and when specific social categories are introjected into the individual (or, to put it the other way round, how and when the individual is interpellated by specific social categories). This starting point – underpinning group psychology with a cognitive act of self-categorisation which, in turn, derives from the organisation of social reality – is, in fact, critical to the advances of SCT. However, as with SIT, the criticisms confuse the starting point of SCT with its end point. There are those who posit a rupture between SIT and SCT, criticising the latter as being more mechanical, abstracted and cognitivist than the former. These pages will push me forward, show me where I’ve come from and help me continue to grow.Achievements and limitations of Self-Categorization Theory As I write and refine and reflect on each goal I include I hope it will encourage me to push for a life that one day I’ll look back on with love and memories I almost could have dreamed. Unlike a bucket list, Sage Life List isn’t about checking things off before I die. Some may be big, life changing experiences and others may bring small moments of joy. An ever evolving, ever growing, ever changing list of the things I hope to achieve in life. Sage Life Lists act as a sort of bucket list for me. His determination inspired the creation of this section of Sage Adventures. All in all I thought it was pretty impressive to know what you want and to single-mindedly go for it. Given how much he might of changed from age 11 to the day of his death I reckon he might not have even wanted to achieve those 7 other things. A dedicated life led him to check 94 of those things off his list. This explorer, at the age of only 11, wrote a list of 100 things he wanted to achieve in his lifetime. For once, it wasn’t the tales of adventure I remembered but youthful determination seen through into old age. Some time ago now I listened to a Podcast talking about a great explorer.