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Social Categories

Social Categories is a theoretical construct within the study of social knowledge structures that denotes the classification of individuals into groups based on shared social attributes—such as race, gender, class, or sexuality—through which systems of power, identity, and inequality are culturally constructed, institutionally maintained, and intersectionally experienced.

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Conceptualizing Stigma

Bruce G. Link, Jo C. Phelan · Annual Review of Sociology · 2001 · 8.5K citations

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Rediscovering the Social Group: A Self‐Categorization Theory

Fraser Reid · British Journal of Social Psychology · 1987 · 8.2K citations

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Rediscovering the Social Group: A Self-Categorization Theory.

David Willer, John Turner, Michael A. Hogg et al. · Contemporary Sociology A Journal of Reviews · 1989 · 7.2K citations

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Economics and Identity*

George A. Akerlof, Rachel Kranton · The Quarterly Journal of Economics · 2000 · 5.6K citations · Full text

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Human Groups and Social Categories: Studies in Social Psychology.

Alvin W. Rose, Henri Tajfel · Contemporary Sociology A Journal of Reviews · 1983 · 4.2K citations

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  1. MR
    Marjorie Rhodes

    New York University, United States

    19 publications · 1.7K citations

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    Mahzarin R. Banaji

    Harvard University, United States

    12 publications · 1.7K citations

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  3. DL
    David L. Sills

    Social Science Research Council, United States

    9 publications · 6.2K citations

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    Jonathan B. Freeman

    New York University, United States

    9 publications · 1.7K citations

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    Nalini Ambady

    Tufts University, United States

    8 publications · 1.4K citations

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  1. New York University

    New York, United States

    24 h-index

    49 publications

    4.2K citations

  2. Stanford University

    Stanford, United States

    23 h-index

    27 publications

    6.9K citations

  3. University of Michigan

    Ann Arbor, United States

    19 h-index

    31 publications

    4K citations

  4. Princeton University

    Princeton, United States

    19 h-index

    22 publications

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  5. University of Toronto

    Toronto, Canada

    18 h-index

    44 publications

    2K citations

  6. University of California, Berkeley

    Berkeley, United States

    17 h-index

    21 publications

    2K citations

  7. Harvard University Press

    Cambridge, United States

    16 h-index

    25 publications

    5.4K citations

  8. University of California, Los Angeles

    Los Angeles, United States

    16 h-index

    23 publications

    1.7K citations

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  1. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology

    49 publications · 7.6K citations

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  2. Choice Reviews Online

    CRO · 32 publications · 4.9K citations

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  3. European Journal of Social Psychology

    EJSP · 35 publications · 4.1K citations

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  4. British Journal of Social Psychology

    27 publications · 11.6K citations

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  5. American Sociological Review

    ASR · 21 publications · 7.3K citations

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