Communal Functions of Social Comparison (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Krizan, Zlatan

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The extent to which we see ourselves as similar or different from others in our lives plays a key role in getting along and participating in social life. This volume identifies research relevant to such communal functions of social comparisons and summarizes and organizes this research within a single, coherent conceptual framework. The volume provides an important addition to current thinking about social comparison, which has often neglected communal and affiliative functions. Whereas human desire to compare with others has traditionally been viewed as motivated by self-centered needs such as self-evaluation, self-enhancement, and self-improvement, this book presents an eclectic cross-section of research that illuminates connective, cooperative, and participatory functions of social comparisons. In this vein, the book aims both to expose research on currently neglected functions of social comparisons and to motivate a broader theoretical integration of social comparison processes.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. März 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781107720152
• Artikelnr.: 52857255

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction. Communion in social comparison - back to the roots Zlatan
Krian and Frederick X. Gibbons; Part I. Core Considerations: 1. Agency and
communion in social comparisons Kenneth D. Locke; 2. Social comparison in
identity theory Jan E. Stets and Peter J. Burke; 3. When comparisons
divide: invidious emotions and their social control Zlatan Krian and
Richard H. Smith; Part II. Individual Level: 4. Sparing others through
social comparison Anne L. Zell and Julie Juola Exline; 5. Social
comparisons within romantic relationships Penelope Lockwood and Rebecca T.
Pinkus; Part III. Group Level: 6. Prototype-based social comparison within
groups: constructing social identity to reduce self-uncertainty Michael A.
Hogg and Amber M. Gaffney; 7. Bonding, hiding and promoting: three
reactions to shared threat Hart Blanton, Melissa Burkley and Edward
Burkley; Part IV. Sociocultural Level: 8. Basic principles of social
comparison: does gender matter? Serge Guimond and Armand Chatard; 9.
Culture and self-worth: implications for social comparison processes and
coping with threats to self-worth Joni Y. Sasaki, Deborah M. Ko and Heejung
S. Kim.