The history of Social Identity Theory applied to economics traces back to the seminal work of Akerlof and Kranton, 2000. Since that time, many papers have explored the importance of this theory in experimental and theoretical settings. In this thesis I explain the need for a new…
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Atheists are underrepresented in political office compared to their numbers in the general population. In the United States, anti-atheist prejudice is prevalent, likely contributing to the disparity in atheist representation. Informed by social identity theory and the sociofunct…
Numerous studies show that religion predicts an individual’s likelihood of owning a gun, but the role of religious tradition in shaping attitudes and outcomes about guns and gun policy in the United States is undertheorized. This dissertation explores the entanglement between re…
In the age of “Make America Great Again” and “Build that wall,” there have been many voices contributing to the discussion of what it means to be American. The process for becoming a U.S. citizen provides an interesting checkpoint for exploring messages regarding Americanism. Bu…
Identity is a complex phenomenon studied throughout the social sciences but has attracted particular attention in STEM education settings as a strategy to boost interest, belonging, and persistence (Blackburn, 2007; Cuddy et al., 2008; MacLachlan, 2006; Settles et al., 2016). Ho…
Media messages help construct and express intergroup perceptions, define boundaries between ingroups and outgroups, and shape a sense of belonging to social groups. Drawing upon social psychology, intergroup and mass communication, this study focuses on Muslims, a group that has…
This study of a multi-district superintendency in rural Minnesota reveals how schools act as spaces where community boundaries expand as a result of partnership and collaboration. The project, informed by grounded theory, seeks to fill a key gap in understanding the experiences …
Given the patriarchal society of the Italian Renaissance, a female’s life was characterized by the male perspective. A woman’s life was tightly divided into four phases: adolescence, marriage, motherhood, and widowhood. Little opportunity existed for women beyond these expected …
The internet has quickly made the world a smaller place, forming networks that spread media and make connections farther than ever at our fingertips. This globalization exacerbates social pressures and strains individuals’ subjectivity by limiting access to space needed to form …
This dissertation is founded on the idea that the formation and maintenance of a community run parallel to the formation and maintenance of memories for shared experiences of public events. A series of studies examined the unique relations of various social identity constructs w…
This study examines identity formation in the Nehemiah memoir. The account of Nehemiah’s mission to rebuild the wall in Jerusalem amid conflict with the inhabitants of the land exemplifies the polemic between the golah and those who did not experience exile. However, this tradit…
The unifying theme of the chapters presented in this thesis is how people who are not in paid work respond to the stigma of unemployment or the possibility of being regarded as (similar to the) unemployed. Although unemployment is a topic of continuing interdisciplinary interest…
The central thesis of this study is that the narrative of Acts attempts the recategorization of Judean and non-Judean Christ followers, as well as those on either side of the debate over non-Judean inclusion in the Christ movement, into a common ingroup with a superordinate iden…
This research explores two polarised occupations; entrepreneurs and PhD research students. It exposes similarities and differences between them which specifically defuse the species premise that all entrepreneurs are different and often portrayed as superior to the rest of socie…
This dissertation investigates the relationship between the Holy Spirit, ethnic identity and the ‘other’ in Luke-Acts. I argue that the Spirit is the central figure in the formation of a new social identity that affirms, yet chastens and transcends ethnic identity. The investiga…
This Ph.D. thesis is based on ethnographic fieldwork carried out amongst Muslims of Malian origin in Bouaké, Côte d'lvoire, between February 1993 and June 1995. The dissertation is concerned with the description of processes of identification in the context of urban life and int…
Conversations concerning the missional posture of 1 Peter have been dictated largely by the now (in)famous debate between David Balch’s assimilationist position over and against John Elliott’s more sectarian position. More recent work has sought to bridge the gap between Balch a…
In response to the scarcity of biblical scholarship analysing the function of the Hebrew Bible’s exodus stories as persuasive communication, this dissertation investigates how these mnemonically dense stories were capable of creating and maintaining a long-term collective identi…