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https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1032-9542

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Article

Publication Title

Southern Journal of Philosophy

Abstract

This article proposes that social identities are best understood as a kind of affordance, a “social identity affordance.” Social identity affordances are possibilities for action and interaction between persons, within a social niche, based on perceived and self-perceived social group identification. First, the view presented captures and articulates the basic structure of social identities. Second, it explains the multifaceted interplay of such an item in the social field, including not only the complexity of the interpersonal dimensions, but also the multiplicity of registers in which social identities vibrate (ethical, political, psychological, geographical, affective, epistemic). Third, by doing good on (i) and (ii), the view makes social identities intelligible, helping preclude reductive misinterpretations of social identities, either subjective-only or public-only. The view has robust descriptive and explanatory power in concrete social contexts and retains the openness of a historically bound type of formation whose specific meanings change over time.

Pages

162-177

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DOI

https://doi.org/10.1111/sjp.12542

Volume

62

Publication Date

10-2-2023

Disciplines

Philosophy

Comments

This is the peer reviewed version of the following article: Arango, A. and Burgos, A. (2024), The social identity affordance view: A theory of social identities. South J Philos, 62: 162-177, which has been published in final form at https://doi.org/10.1111/sjp.12542. This article may be used for non-commercial purposes in accordance with Wiley Terms and Conditions for Use of Self-Archived Versions. This article may not be enhanced, enriched or otherwise transformed into a derivative work, without express permission from Wiley or by statutory rights under applicable legislation. Copyright notices must not be removed, obscured or modified. The article must be linked to Wiley’s version of record on Wiley Online Library and any embedding, framing or otherwise making available the article or pages thereof by third parties from platforms, services and websites other than Wiley Online Library must be prohibited.

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2041-6962

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