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<br />Identity Control Theory, created by Peter Burke, focuses on the nature of peoples’ identities and the relationship between the identities and the behavior of that person within the realm of their social structure. The identities of the individual are embedded in their social structure. Identity Control Theory was created based on traditional symbolic interaction views where people choose their own behaviors and their behaviors correspond to the meanings in their identity. | |||
==Identity Control Theory Concepts== | ==Identity Control Theory Concepts== | ||
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Introduction
Identity Control Theory, created by Peter Burke, focuses on the nature of peoples’ identities and the relationship between the identities and the behavior of that person within the realm of their social structure. The identities of the individual are embedded in their social structure. Identity Control Theory was created based on traditional symbolic interaction views where people choose their own behaviors and their behaviors correspond to the meanings in their identity.
Identity Control Theory Concepts
There are four main concepts of the identity control theory being identity standard, input, comparator, output.Each identity is viewed as a control system with these four components(Burke,2007)
Identity standard is the first of the four components. Identity standard defines what it means to be who one is in a situation. The standard stores the self-meanings tied to social roles and membership in groups. This is the set of meanings for a given identity.
The next of the four components is input or also called perceptions. Input is the meanings of how one sees oneself in a situation. These self-meanings often are derived from the way in which others see the self.
The third component of the identity control theory is comparator. The comparator compares the meanings from the input with those from the standard and registers the difference between them. This compares the perceived meanings with the meanings in the identity standard.
The final component of the theory is output or somtimes called an error or discrepancy. Output is the differences that result from the perceptinos and the identity standard. Then as a function of the output, there is meaningful behavior enacted in the situation that converys meanings about our identity. If in a setting people percieve their identity relevant meanings to be congruent with the meansing in their identity standard, that is the discrepancy is zero, people continue to do what they have been doing. If the discrepancy is not zero, people change their behavior in such a way as to counteract the disturbance and reduce the discrepancy back toward zero(Burke,2007).