Sentence examples for social categorisation from inspiring English sources

"Accent can trigger social categorisation in a prompt, automatic, and occasionally unconscious manner," says Ze Wang of the University of Central Florida.

In the wake of a survey suggesting that 71 per cent of the UK population believes itself to be "middle class", and talk of a Budget-enhanced squeeze on the bourgeoisie, social categorisation appears to be as hot a topic as the Libyan air strikes.

So it was a delightful surprise when researchers from one of the world centres for evolutionary psychology intervened in the debate on social categorisation, by conducting an experiment they claimed showed that labelling people by race was far less automatic and inevitable than all previous research seemed to show.

Why, when and how is social categorisation salient or not salient?

Alternatively, it may be that there is no direct causal effect of experience on holistic processing, but that the relationship may arise indirectly via the correlation between experience and social categorisation, social interest, and/or attention given to difference face types.

bThe Social Identity Approach was a term coined to describe social identity theory and social categorisation theory and the bank of empirical work and evidence-based practices that have been developed through the 30 or so years of the approach's development [ 34]. cNB: The results are presented with direct illustrative quotes from respondents.

Also, it relaxed the rigid racial and social categorisations of colonial Indonesia.

Face memory has been shown to be reduced by social outgroup categorisation [32] and, in the race field, it has been shown that strength of holistic processing can be altered merely by changing the perceived race group of an ambiguous-race face stimulus (an Asian-Caucasian morph; [33]).

The social and political categorisation of an area reflects the needs of a changing society.

"Public opinion on social issues defies binary categorisation, it is more accurately understood in terms of a continuum, with a middle ground on may issues that comprises more than half the sample.

The current result opens the possibility of understanding homophily from an evolutionary perspective, as a phenomenon that relates to our inherent tendencies towards social behaviour and group categorisation, and moves away from the proximal explanations that have been used to explain homophily in the past.