Social Identity Theory. This theory addresses the ways in which people perceive and categorize themselves. According to social identity theory, individuals form self-conceptions that are based on two parts: 1) personal or self identity, and 2) collective identity. Personal or self identity refers to our unique, personal qualities such as our beliefs, our abilities and skills, etc.
Origins: On 25. April 2002, Lisa âLeft Eyeâ Lopes of the rhythm-and-blues group TLC died in a car crash in Honduras. Her sudden and unexpected departure at the age of 30.
Lopes emphasized her nickname by wearing a pair of glasses with the left lens covered with a condom, in keeping with the group's promotion of safe sex, wearing a black stripe under her left eye, and eventually getting her left eyebrow pierced.