Br J Soc Psychol. 2012 Jun;51(2):201-18. doi: 10.1111/j.2044-8309.2011.02091.x. Epub 2012 Mar 5.
John Turner, whose pioneering work on social identity and self-categorization theories changed the face of modern social psychology, died in July 2011. This unique virtual special issue celebrates Turner's life and work by reproducing a number of key articles that were published in the British Journal of Social Psychology and the European Journal of Social Psychology over the course of his career. These articles are of three types: first, key position papers, on which Turner was the leading or sole author; second, papers that he published with collaborators (typically PhD students) that explored key theoretical propositions; third, short commentary papers, in which Turner engaged in debate around key issues within social psychology. Together, these papers map out a clear and compelling vision. This seeks to explain the distinctly social nature of the human mind by showing how all important forms of social behaviour - and in particular, the propensity for social influence and social change -are grounded in the sense of social identity that people derive from their group memberships. As we discuss in this editorial, Turner's great contribution was to formalize this understanding in terms of testable hypotheses and generative theory and then to work intensively but imaginatively with others to take this vision forward.
约翰·特纳（John Turner）的开创性社会认同和自我分类理论改变了现代社会心理学的面貌，他于 2011 年 7 月去世。本虚拟特刊通过复制他在职业生涯中发表在《英国社会心理学杂志》和《欧洲社会心理学杂志》上的一些重要文章，来纪念特纳的一生和工作。这些文章有三种类型：第一，主要的专题论文，特纳是这些论文的主要或唯一作者；第二，他与合作者（通常是博士生）发表的探索关键理论命题的论文；第三，简短的评论论文，特纳在这些论文中围绕社会心理学中的关键问题进行辩论。这些论文共同描绘了一个清晰而引人注目的愿景。它试图通过展示所有重要形式的社会行为——尤其是社会影响和社会变革的倾向——如何根植于人们从群体成员身份中获得的社会认同感，来解释人类思维的明显社会性。正如我们在社论中讨论的那样，特纳的巨大贡献是用可测试的假设和生成理论来形式化这种理解，然后与他人一起积极但富有想象力地合作，推动这一愿景的发展。
