Editing Sidanius Pratto 1999 (section)

====Social Identity Theory (SIT)====
*Humans have a desire for positive social identity. Even if it unclear what membership means or what the group is (such as the imagined groupings in Tafjel’s lab experiments), people will make up meanings to signal their group’s superiority (and therefore, their superiority). They allocate more to people in their groups than outgroups.
*The more stable boundaries between groups are, the more discrimination happens between groups.
*'''Four problems with SIT'''
**'''Views social identity as the motivator for intergroup discrimination'''
***'''Implies those who strongly identify with their ingroup are most likely to discriminate in favor of their group (contested findings in the literature)'''
**'''Does not address differential social power between groups'''
**'''Does not address outgroup favoritism'''
***'''Members of low-status groups sometimes prefer high-status outgroups'''
**'''Primarily focuses on preference towards the ingroup rather than denigration of the outgroup, even though many historical examples focus on harming other groups as opposed to lifting up one’s own.'''