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Societal security and social psychology
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Abstract The concept of societal security as developed by the Copenhagen school has three underlying weaknesses: a tendency to reify societies as independent social agents, a use of too vague a definition of 'identity', and a failure to demonstrate sufficiently that social security matters to individuals. Th... mehr
The concept of societal security as developed by the Copenhagen school has three underlying weaknesses: a tendency to reify societies as independent social agents, a use of too vague a definition of 'identity', and a failure to demonstrate sufficiently that social security matters to individuals. This article shows that applying social identity theory to the societal
security concept helps remedy these weaknesses and closes the theoretical gaps that the Copenhagen school has left open. It enables us to treat 'society' as an independent variable without reifying it as an independent agent. It also suggests a much sharper definition of identity, and a rationale for the Copenhagen school's claim that individuals have a psychological need to achieve societal security by protecting their group boundaries. Social identity theory thus supports the societal security concept in its central assumptions while
giving it stronger theoretical foundations and greater analytical clout.... weniger
Klassifikation
Sozialpsychologie
internationale Beziehungen, Entwicklungspolitik
Freie Schlagwörter
Societal Security; Copenhagen School; Social Identity Theory
Sprache Dokument
Englisch
Publikationsjahr
2003
Seitenangabe
S. 249-268
Zeitschriftentitel
Review of International Studies, 29 (2003) 2
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1017/S0260210503002493
ISSN
1469-9044
Status
Veröffentlichungsversion; begutachtet (peer reviewed)