Social Identity in Question reviews the ways in which the social identity tradition has previously been critiqued by social psychologists who view human relations as conditioned by historical context, culture and language.

Parisa Dashtipour currently teaches in the School of Social Sciences at Cardiff University.

1. Introduction. 2. The social identity tradition and its critics. 3. The category, not the self. 4. What ever happened to '"hot" aspects of the group'? 5. Another story of the minimal group paradigm. 6. Social change or socio-symbolic symptom? 7. Gringo: a case study. 8. Conclusions. References.