How Emotional Dynamics Maintain and Destroy White Supremacist Groups

2018 ◽  
Vol 42 (4) ◽  
pp. 480-501 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mehr Latif ◽  
Kathleen Blee ◽  
Matthew DeMichele ◽  
Pete Simi
Keyword(s):  
Group Structure ◽  
Group Processes ◽  
Emotional Experiences ◽  
Political Movement ◽  
White Supremacist ◽  
Movement Dynamics ◽  
White Supremacists ◽  
Relational Mechanism ◽  
The Stability ◽  
Emotional Dynamics

In this article, we explore emotions as a relational mechanism that affects the stability of political movement groups by activating or weakening identities, social ties, and movement boundaries. Our goal is to specify the dynamics by which personal emotional experiences are linked to wider group processes. In this way, emotion serves as an analytic bridge, connecting the micro levels to larger social structures. We draw on data from former violent white supremacists to understand the personal/interpersonal (micro) and group (meso) level emotional dynamics in this extremist movement, especially how emotional experiences affect social movement dynamics. We draw on our evidence to build models of how emotional dynamics create trajectories of development and decline in white supremacist group membership. To demonstrate the analytic leverage provided by a focus on emotional dynamics, we then examine three findings from our study that are difficult to explain through more common frameworks of individual cognitive processes or group structure.

scholarly journals The Communicative Constitution of Hate Organizations Online: A Semantic Network Analysis of “Make America Great Again”

2018 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
pp. 205630511879076 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sean M. Eddington
Keyword(s):  
Semantic Network ◽  
The United States ◽  
Political Organization ◽  
White Supremacist ◽  
Far Right ◽  
Network Analyses ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
White Supremacists ◽  
Media Systems ◽  
Communicative Constitution

In the context of the 2016 U.S. Presidential Election, President Donald Trump’s use of Twitter to connect with followers and supporters created unprecedented access to Trump’s online political campaign. In using the campaign slogan, “Make America Great Again” (or its acronym “MAGA”), Trump communicatively organized and controlled media systems by offering his followers an opportunity to connect with his campaign through the discursive hashtag. In effect, the strategic use of these networks over time communicatively constituted an effective and winning political organization; however, Trump’s political organization was not without connections to far-right and hate groups that coalesced in and around the hashtag. Semantic network analyses uncovered how the textual nature of #MAGA organized connections between hashtags, and, in doing so, exposed connections to overtly White supremacist groups within the United States and the United Kingdom throughout late November 2016. Cluster analyses further uncovered semantic connections to White supremacist and White nationalist groups throughout the hashtag networks connected to the central slogan of Trump’s presidential campaign. Theoretically, these findings contribute to the ways in which hashtag networks show how Trump’s support developed and united around particular organizing processes and White nationalist language, and provide insights into how these networks discursively create and connect White supremacists’ organizations to Trump’s campaign.

Zur Formalisierung gruppendynamischer Konzepte / Inquiries in formalizing group-dynamic concepts

1975 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Bruno Meile
Keyword(s):  
Set Theory ◽  
Group Structure ◽  
Frame Of Reference ◽  
Group Dynamic ◽  
Descriptive Model ◽  
Group Research ◽  
Basic Frame ◽  
The Stability

AbstractThe author tries to establish a formal-descriptive model for group-dynamic concepts in related logical terms and set theory. Cybernetics form the basic frame of reference. Herewith some fundamental principles such as ‘group’, ‘group structure’ and ‘change of group structure’ are defined exactly. - The consequences for empirical group research are shown by some examples: (1) a possible way out of the ‘methodological dilemma’ in sociometry,(2) a design for empirical description of the changes in group structure, (3) the formalization of a group-dynamic theorem, whereby groups of friends form according to the principle of individuals who share the same attributes. (4) The reshaping of the theorem allows the deduction of exact terminological hypotheses. New hypotheses, concerning the stability of group structure, can be gained through consideration of the cybernetic implications.

scholarly journals Analytic Jet Parametrization for CR Automorphisms of Some Essentially Finite CR Manifolds

2008 ◽  
Vol 189 ◽  
pp. 155-168
Author(s):  
Sung-Yeon Kim
Keyword(s):  
Uniform Convergence ◽  
Lie Group ◽  
Group Structure ◽  
Cr Manifolds ◽  
Real Analytic ◽  
The Stability

AbstractIn this paper we construct analytic jet parametrizations for the germs of real analytic CR automorphisms of some essentially finite CR manifolds on their finite jet at a point. As an application we show that the stability groups of such CR manifolds have Lie group structure under composition with the topology induced by uniform convergence on compacta.

scholarly journals Social Network Analysis of a Chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes) Group in Captivity Following the Integration of a New Adult Member

2020 ◽  
Vol 41 (5) ◽  
pp. 683-700
Author(s):  
Sergio Díaz ◽  
Lindsay Murray ◽  
Sam G. B. Roberts ◽  
Paul Rodway
Keyword(s):  
Social Network ◽  
Social Network Analysis ◽  
Network Analysis ◽  
Pan Troglodytes ◽  
Group Structure ◽  
First Year ◽  
Primate Behavior ◽  
Significant Difference ◽  
In Captivity ◽  
The Stability

AbstractManagement of primates in captivity often presents the challenge of introducing new individuals into a group, and research investigating the stability of the social network in the medium term after the introduction can help inform management decisions. We investigated the behavior of a group of chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) housed at Chester Zoo, UK over 12 months (divided into three periods of 4 months) following the introduction of a new adult female. We recorded grooming, proximity, other affiliative behaviors, and agonistic behaviors and used social network analysis to investigate the stability, reciprocity, and structure of the group, to examine the effect of rearing history on grooming network position and the role of sex in agonistic behavior. Both the grooming and agonistic networks correlated across all three periods, while affiliative networks correlated only between periods 2 and 3. Males had significantly higher out-degree centrality in agonistic behaviors than females, indicating that they carried out agonistic behaviors more often than females. There was no significant difference in centrality between hand-reared and mother-reared chimpanzees. Overall, the group structure was stable and cohesive during the first year after the introduction of the new female, suggesting that this change did not destabilize the group. Our findings highlight the utility of social network analysis in the study of primate sociality in captivity, and how it can be used to better understand primate behavior following the integration of new individuals.

Homoselenocysteine — An oxygen or selenium acid in the gas phase?

2010 ◽  
Vol 88 (8) ◽  
pp. 744-753 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marcela Hurtado ◽  
Otilia Mó ◽  
Manuel Yáñez
Keyword(s):  
Gas Phase ◽  
Global Minimum ◽  
Group Structure ◽  
Hydroxyl Group ◽  
Amino Group ◽  
Deprotonated Form ◽  
Protonated Amino Group ◽  
Stability Order ◽  
The Stability ◽  
Intramolecular Hydrogen

The potential energy surface of l-homoselenocysteine (HSEC) has been explored through the use of B3LYP/6-311+G(d,p) calculations. In this survey, seventy-seven different conformers have been located. These local minima can be classified in four groups, A–D. Structures A, B, and D are stabilized by intramolecular hydrogen bonds (IMHBs) with the amino group acting as the hydrogen bond (HB) donor and the carbonyl group (structures A and D) or the hydroxyl group (structure B) as HB acceptors. The structures in set C present an IMHB with the amino group acting as the HB acceptor and the hydroxyl group as the HB donor. The stability order decreases in the following order: A > B > C > D. From their relative stabilities it can be concluded that only three of these conformers, namely A1, A4, and A5, would exist in the gas phase at room temperature. The most stable deprotonated form corresponds to a Se-deprotated species stabilized by a strong IMHB between the hydroxyl group and the Se atom. However, a direct deprotonation of the most stable neutrals lead to O-deprotonated species, which eventually isomerize to yield the global minimum. Hence, we can conclude that, quite unexpectedly, HSEC behaves as a Se acid in the gas phase, its intrinsic acidity being 1374 kJ mol–1 at the B3LYP/6-311++G(3df,2p) level of theory. The most stable protonated forms are systematically the N-protonated ones, the global minimum being a structure stabilized through an IMHB involving the protonated amino group as the HB donor and the SeH group as the HB acceptor. The calculated gas-phase proton affinity (PA) at the B3LYP/6-311++G(3df,2p) level of theory is 930 kJ mol–1.

Team Attributes, Processes, and Values: a Pedagogical Framework

2008 ◽  
Vol 71 (4) ◽  
pp. 488-504 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joann Keyton ◽  
Stephenson J. Beck
Keyword(s):  
Group Process ◽  
Group Structure ◽  
Group Processes ◽  
Team Interaction ◽  
Team Interactions ◽  
Heuristic Device ◽  
Group Attributes ◽  
Team Attributes ◽  
Group Member ◽  
Pedagogical Framework

This article proposes a pedagogical framework to help students analyze their group and team interactions. Intersecting five fundamental group attributes (group size, group goal, group member interdependence, group structure, and group identity) with three overarching group processes (leadership, decision making, and conflict management) creates an analytical tool for the examination of team interaction. Furthermore, each group attribute/group process intersection encourages analytical questions targeting assumptions, values, and ethical positions embedded within the group. One advantage of this heuristic device is that it weds team member behaviors with the values members espouse and enact during team interactions. Pedagogical considerations are also discussed.

A Critique of Using Civil Litigation to Suppress White Supremacist Violence

2011 ◽  
Vol 36 (4) ◽  
pp. 498-512 ◽  
Author(s):  
Brett Garland ◽  
Pete Simi
Keyword(s):  
Collective Identity ◽  
Control Strategies ◽  
Modern Technology ◽  
Unintended Consequences ◽  
Academic Disciplines ◽  
White Supremacist ◽  
Civil Lawsuits ◽  
Organizational Consequences ◽  
White Supremacists ◽  
The Impact

The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) has employed a litigation strategy to dismantle White supremacist organizations and reduce racist violence. Like all social control strategies, lawsuits brought against these organizations can create unintended consequences that undermine intended goals. This article explores the assumptions underlying the litigation strategy and presents several arguments that question the utility of this approach. Utilizing theory and research from a variety of academic disciplines, both perceptual and organizational consequences of litigation are addressed, with an emphasis on potential violent outcomes. In particular, the article explores how civil lawsuits against White supremacists might influence organizational form and structure, and the effect on leadership in the movement is examined. The impact of litigation on feelings of injustice and the strength of collective identity is also investigated. In addition, potential impediments posed to the lawsuit strategy by the Internet and modern technology are explored.

scholarly journals Emotional Complexity In Daily Life: On The Role Of Emotional Dynamics, Age, & Culture

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (Supplement_1) ◽  
pp. 922-923
Author(s):  
Yoonseok Choi ◽  
Jennifer Lay ◽  
Minjie Lu ◽  
Helene Fung ◽  
Christiane Hoppmann
Keyword(s):  
Older Adults ◽  
Young Adults ◽  
Negative Emotions ◽  
Negative Relationship ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Community Dwelling ◽  
Emotional Experiences ◽  
Complexity Measures ◽  
Emotional Complexity ◽  
Emotional Dynamics

Abstract Emotional complexity is a construct that has attracted significant interest in the aging literature. It often refers to two aspects — the co-occurrence of positive and negative emotions and emotion differentiation (experiencing emotions with specificity). Emotional complexity is thought to increase with aging. However, recent research points to inconsistent results showing a positive relationship between age and emotional complexity, non-significant associations and even negative relationships. The present study seeks to address this inconsistency in findings by examining three possible sources: 1) different indicators of emotional complexity, 2) age differences in emotional dynamics (individual differences in means & variability of momentary positive & negative emotions), and 3) differences in cultural backgrounds. Community-dwelling adults from Vancouver (96 older adults, 51 young adults; 56% of Asian heritage, 30% of Caucasian heritage, and others 14%) and in Hong Kong (56 older adults, 59 young adults; 100% Asian heritage) completed approximately 30 ecological momentary assessments over a 10-day period assessing their current emotional experiences. When the mean and variability of emotional experiences were controlled for, most emotional complexity measures showed a negative relationship with age indicating that older adults displayed lower emotional complexity compared to young adults. This pattern was consistent across participants of Asian and Caucasian heritage. Additional analyses will explore the link between different emotional complexity measures and well-being indicators. Our findings point to the need to provide a more nuanced perspective on the correlates and consequences of emotional complexity in old age.

scholarly journals Emotions in Team Contact Sports: A Systematic Review

2012 ◽  
Vol 26 (1) ◽  
pp. 62-97 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mickaël Campo ◽  
Stephen Mellalieu ◽  
Claude Ferrand ◽  
Guillaume Martinent ◽  
Elisabeth Rosnet
Keyword(s):  
Emotional Experience ◽  
Group Processes ◽  
Relational Theory ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Emotional Experiences ◽  
Contact Sports ◽  
Emotional Processes ◽  
Electronic Search ◽  
Regulation Strategies ◽  
Specific Regulation

This study systematically reviewed the literature on the emotional processes associated with performance in team contact sports. To consider the entire emotional spectrum, Lazarus’s (1999) cognitive motivational relational theory was used as a guiding framework. An electronic search of the literature identified 48 of 5,079 papers as relevant. Anxiety and anger were found to be the most common emotions studied, potentially due to the combative nature of team contact sports. The influence of group processes on emotional experiences was also prominent. The findings highlight the need to increase awareness of the emotional experience in team contact sports and to develop emotion-specific regulation strategies. Recommendations for future research include exploring other emotions that might emerge from situations related to collisions (e.g., fright) and emotions related to relationships with teammates (e.g., guilt and compassion).

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