The Return of the “Soviet” through the “National” in Post-Soviet Russia

2020 ◽  
pp. 3-29
Author(s):  
Gulnaz Sharafutdinova
Keyword(s):  
Collective Identity ◽  
Social Identity Theory ◽  
Analytical Approach ◽  
Public Support ◽  
Culturally Based ◽  
Central Argument ◽  
Significant Achievement ◽  
Recent Trends ◽  
Soviet Russia ◽  
Homo Sovieticus

The first chapter examines the phenomenon of a visible return of Soviet practices and institutions in “post-Crimea” Russia, along with the rising public support and approval for Joseph Stalin. Arguing against culturally based explanations that focus on the legacy of the Soviet man (homo sovieticus), it views these recent trends as a sign of strengthening of the Russian nationals’ sense of collective identity that is argued to be the most socially and politically significant achievement of Vladimir Putin’s leadership. This chapter presents the central argument of the book and the analytical approach that builds on social identity theory to explain “mature Putinism.”

Intersectionality, Social Identity Theory, and Explorations of Hybridity

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lucy Taksa ◽  
Glen Powell ◽  
Laknath Jayasinghe
Keyword(s):  
Social Identity ◽  
Cognitive Processes ◽  
Collective Identity ◽  
Social Identity Theory ◽  
Identity Theory ◽  
Group Processes ◽  
Multiple Identities ◽  
Close Attention ◽  
Identity Negotiations ◽  
Bodily Experiences

The fundamental difference in focus between the fields of sociology and psychology, notably between discriminatory processes and cognitive processes, has limited attempts to consider intersectionality and Social Identity Theory (SIT) together. The aim of this chapter is to address this gap by combining intersectional and SIT approaches, recognizing their contributions and identifying issues and gaps. The chapter provides an overview of the epistemological and ontological differences between the two fields and the divergent ways intersectional and SIT scholars conceptualise individual and collective identity/ies. Close attention is given to the way multiple identities and groups are construed and interpreted. The chapter highlights the significance of conceptualizations of emergent identities, hybridity, practices and space for the study of identity. On this basis, itr examines how studies on spatial contexts of racialised masculinity and the bodily experiences of racialised men can enhance understandings of individual identity negotiations and group processes in specific locations.

Not in our name: collective identity of the Serbian Women in Black

2012 ◽  
Vol 40 (04) ◽  
pp. 607-623 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bojan Bilić
Keyword(s):  
Collective Identity ◽  
Life Story ◽  
Participant Observation ◽  
Political Climate ◽  
Activist Group ◽  
Documentary Analysis ◽  
Central Argument ◽  
Strategic Options ◽  
Life Story Interviews ◽  
Cross Fertilization

The Belgrade-based activist groupWomen in Blackhas been for twenty years now articulating a feminist anti-war stance in an inimical socio-political climate. The operation of this anti-patriarchal and anti-militarist organization, which has resisted numerous instances of repression, has not been until now systematically approached from a social movement perspective. This paper draws upon a range of empirical methods, comprising life-story interviews, documentary analysis and participant observation, to address the question as to how it was possible for this small circle of activists to remain on the Serbian/post-Yugoslav civic scene for the last two decades. My central argument is that a consistent collective identity, which informs the group's resource mobilization and strategic options, holds the key to the surprising survival of this activist organization. I apply recent theoretical advances on collective identity to the case of the BelgradeWomen in Blackwith the view of promoting a potentially fruitful cross-fertilization between non-Western activism and the Western conceptual apparatus for studying civic engagement.

Collective Social Identity: Synthesizing Identity Theory and Social Identity Theory Using Digital Data

2019 ◽  
Vol 82 (3) ◽  
pp. 254-273 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jenny L. Davis ◽  
Tony P. Love ◽  
Phoenicia Fares
Keyword(s):  
Social Identity ◽  
Collective Identity ◽  
Social Identity Theory ◽  
Behavioral Response ◽  
Identity Theory ◽  
Negative Emotion ◽  
Theory Model ◽  
Digital Data ◽  
Identity Verification ◽  
Movement Data

Identity theory (IT) and social identity theory (SIT) are eminent research programs from sociology and psychology, respectively. We test collective identity as a point of convergence between the two programs. Collective identity is a subtheory of SIT that pertains to activist identification. Collective identity maps closely onto identity theory’s group/social identity, which refers to identification with socially situated identity categories. We propose conceptualizing collective identity as a type of group/social identity, integrating activist collectives into the identity theory model. We test this conceptualization by applying identity theory hypotheses to the “vegan” identity, which is both a social category and part of an active social movement. Data come from comments on two viral YouTube videos about veganism. One video negates prevailing meanings of the vegan identity. A response video brings shared vegan identity meanings back into focus. Identity theory predicts that nonverifying identity feedback elicits negative emotion and active behavioral response, while identity verification elicits positive emotion and an attenuated behavioral response. We test these tenets using sentiment analysis and word counts for comments across the two videos. Results show support for identity theory hypotheses as applied to a collective social identity. We supplement results with qualitative analysis of video comments. The findings position collective identity as a bridge between IT and SIT, demonstrate innovative digital methods, and provide theoretical scaffolding for mobilization research in light of emergent technologies and diverse modes of activist participation.

scholarly journals Post-Christian or Post-Atheistic Society? Some Characteristics of the Russian Regime of Secularity

2021 ◽  
Vol 39 (1) ◽  
pp. 245-266
Author(s):  
Vladimir Malakhov ◽  
◽  
Denis Letnyakov ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Transmission ◽  
Public Support ◽  
Modern Society ◽  
Negative Consequences ◽  
Religious Motivation ◽  
Social Fabric ◽  
Secular Culture ◽  
The Social ◽  
Soviet Russia ◽  
The Public Sphere

The authors argue that the specificity of the Russian case of secularity is generally underestimated. This leads to two negative consequences. First, it leads researchers to considering the regimes of secularity in Eastern Europe as variations of the “Soviet model,” which is false. Second, it entails inaccuracies in the analysis of the regime of secularity that has developed in post‑Soviet Russia that the authors propose to describe as “post‑atheistic.” The special Russian case implied the destruction of the very mechanism of religious and cultural transmission during the period of communist rule. This is where other features of the post‑atheistic society stem from: a relatively low relevance of religious symbols and narratives for the social fabric; the involvement of religious agency in the projects of nation‑building and, there‑ fore, a predominantly ideological, rather than religious, motivation of the subjects of such agency; a top‑down, rather than bottom‑up, dynamic of the post‑Soviet return of religion to the public sphere; the lack of a broad public support of the state activities in this field; wide‑ spread polarization of views on the role of public religion in modern society — either linking religion to cultural backwardness, or the total rejection of modernity and secular culture.

The White Knight and the Red Queen

2020 ◽  
pp. 30-50
Author(s):  
Gulnaz Sharafutdinova
Keyword(s):  
Collective Identity ◽  
Social Identity Theory ◽  
The Political ◽  
Political Implications ◽  
Leadership Process ◽  
Original Survey ◽  
Vladimir Putin ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The Red Queen

This chapter relies on the “new psychology of leadership”—an approach to analyzing leadership process relying on social identity theory—to explain the relationship between Vladimir Putin and the Russian people. The main insights of this theory highlight the key elements that make Putin’s leadership effective. These are the shared popular perceptions: (1) that Putin is “one of us”; (2) that he is “doing it for us”; (3) that he is “crafting a sense of us”; and (4) that he is “making us matter.” In this chapter I address each of these elements conceived as a glue that links the followers to the leader and discuss how these sentiments get manifested in people’s own articulations. This chapter also discusses the results of an original survey experiment that aimed at testing the political implications of prompting insecure collective identity.

Life Insurance Industry Agent’s Attrition: A Game Changer for Insurance Business

2020 ◽  
pp. 097215091986145
Author(s):  
Neha Chhabra Roy ◽  
N. G. Roy
Keyword(s):  
Life Insurance ◽  
Financial Risk ◽  
Insurance Industry ◽  
Extensive Literature ◽  
Insurance Sector ◽  
Life Insurance Industry ◽  
Central Argument ◽  
Recent Trends ◽  
Insurance Business ◽  
Game Changer

Insurance industry of any country acts as the backbone of its financial risk management system. Although two-thirds of the insurance business in India is carried out through individual agents, recent trends show significant attrition among them. The central argument in this article revolves around identifying the drivers responsible for individual agent’s attrition in India. The methodology used for this factor identification was based on extensive literature review and further validation through a primary survey of the stakeholders in the insurance sector. A conceptual model is also proposed for mitigation of agent’s attrition.

scholarly journals Collective identity and discourse practice in the followership of the Football Lads Alliance on Twitter

2019 ◽  
Vol 31 (3) ◽  
pp. 307-328 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mark McGlashan
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Identity Construction ◽  
Collective Identity ◽  
Analytical Approach ◽  
Language Use ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Radical Right ◽  
Right Wing ◽  
Protest Group ◽  
Discourse Practice

Previous studies of online (collective) identity have explored how social media–specific practices like hashtags can enable identity construction and affiliation with a wider community of users. Practices such as mentioning and retweeting have also been discussed in the literature but the practice of following as a discourse practice is underexplored. This article presents a corpus-based Critical Discourse Analytical approach to the study of collective identity on Twitter that focuses on the relationships between following and language use and details a study conducted on the language used by followers of the Football Lads Alliance – a protest group who say they are ‘against all extremism’. This approach was fruitful in identifying correlations between salient discourses in follower profile descriptions and their tweets and suggests that a portion of the followership constructs identity in relation to radical right-wing and populist discourse specifically concerning Islam/Muslims.

Recent trends in public support for unions in Canada

1989 ◽  
Vol 10 (4) ◽  
pp. 391-410 ◽  
Author(s):  
Graham S. Lowe ◽  
Harvey Krahn
Keyword(s):  
Public Support ◽  
Recent Trends

Conceptualising the opening phase of regional development as the enactment of a ‘collective identity’

2003 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 69-92 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel Hjorth ◽  
Bengt Johannison
Keyword(s):  
Regional Development ◽  
Collective Identity ◽  
Development Process ◽  
Public Support ◽  
Critical Discussion ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Constructionist Approach ◽  
Opening Phase

This paper argues that processes of regional development have to be conceptualised in a novel way. The dominant approach displays a bias towards a macro-perspective, often reproduces a centre — periphery model, and favours an economism that aims at the production of instruments for policy makers and academics alike, both enjoying the convenience of (bureaucratic and analytical) distance. Instead we propose a constructionist approach. This is developed through a critical discussion of the received view, and builds upon the central concepts of ‘enacted collective identity’, ‘articulation/translation’, and an upgrading of the importance of time in the sense of timing. We limit this study, which includes two empirical cases, to the ‘opening phase’ of a regional development process. We identify a new role for the researcher in articulating the need for and opportunities of a regional development, and we stress a more decentralised form of public support.

scholarly journals Post-Soviet Russian Identity Building and Politics of Memory: Scientific and Public Discourse

2021 ◽  
Vol 39 (69) ◽  
pp. 407-423
Author(s):  
Svetlana Akhundovna Tatunts ◽  
Anastasia Mikhailovna Ponamareva
Keyword(s):  
Soviet Union ◽  
Collective Identity ◽  
Public Discourse ◽  
Social Space ◽  
National Unity ◽  
Politics Of Memory ◽  
The Soviet Union ◽  
Building Process ◽  
Soviet Russia ◽  
Russian Identity

The aim of the study was to examine the positions of various social groups, reflecting the controversial and contradictory aspects of the process of identity construction in post-Soviet Russia and the factor of memory politics. The article reveals the characteristics of the post-Soviet identity-building process and the related politics of memory under the century-end systemic transformation that has launched a new existential project in Russia. Collective identity is formed in a new social space: the global dichotomy of globalization and localization. Methodologically, it is a documentary research close to the analysis of discourse. The process of transition from the Soviet Union to post-Soviet space and the construction of the new state on the ruins of the socialist empire will keep the problems of a new identity and the politics of memory relevant soon. It is concluded that thirty years after the liquidation of the socialist project, the crisis of collective identity in Russia and the "battle for history" and a new Russian national unity are not over. However, persistent social atomization and conflict-triggering narratives of various socio-cultural communities and ideological groups persist.

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