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Familiarity, Legitimation, and Frequency: The Influence of Others on the Criminal Self‐view *
Author(s) -
Asencio Emily K.
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
sociological inquiry
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.446
H-Index - 51
eISSN - 1475-682X
pISSN - 0038-0245
DOI - 10.1111/j.1475-682x.2010.00352.x
Subject(s) - legitimation , identity (music) , perspective (graphical) , social psychology , congruence (geometry) , social identity theory , sociology , psychology , epistemology , criminology , social group , political science , mathematics , law , aesthetics , philosophy , geometry , politics
From an identity theory perspective, reflected appraisals from others are relevant for social behavior, because behavior is motivated by the desire to achieve congruence between reflected appraisals and the self‐view for a particular identity. This study extends prior identity theory work from the laboratory setting by examining identity processes with respect to the criminal identity in the unique “natural” setting of a total institution. The findings build on prior work which finds that reflected appraisals do have an influence on identities and behavior by demonstrating that the relationship one has to the source of reflected appraisals is important for the way in which reflected appraisals influence the criminal self‐view for an incarcerated population.