Four. The Assembly of the Mujahideen Council Common Group Identity Formation

Prehistoric cultural and sociopolitical development in the mountainous region of Lika, Croatia, is still poorly understood, despite over a century of archaeological excavations. Traditional cultural-historical narratives based on grave good typologies suggest that a unified regional culture, the Iapodes, emerged at the end of the Bronze Age and rapidly expanded across the area. This interpretation, however, has yet to be systematically tested. To better identify and understand to the potential processes of identity formation during this period, this article analyzes mortuary contexts and assemblages as proxies for changing relationships between communities and possible materialization of a shared group identity. Results suggest clear but uneven momentum toward standardized burial practice among groups in neighboring valleys, implying that the creation of a true Iapodian group identity likely took longer than previously thought. Unatoč više od stoljeća arheoloških iskopavanja, stupanj istraženosti kulturnog i društveno-političkog razvoja prapovijesnih zajednica u hrvatskoj planinskoj regiji Lici još uvijek je skroman. Po uvriježenom kulturno-povijesnom tumačenju, temeljenom na tipologijama nalaza iz grobova, Japodi su se, kao jedinstvena regionalna kulturna grupa, pojavili na kraju brončanog doba, te su se vrlo brzo proširili područjem Like. Ovakvu interpretaciju, međutim, tek treba sustavno preispitati. S ciljem boljeg utvrđivanja i razumijevanja potencijalnih procesa formiranja identiteta tijekom ovog razdoblja, u ovom su radu analizirani grobni konteksti i pripadajući skupovi nalaza koji su odraz promjenjivih odnosa među zajednicama, kao i moguće materijalizacije zajedničkog grupnog identiteta. Rezultati analize ukazuju na jasnu, premda neujednačenu težnju ka standardizaciji pogrebne prakse između zajednica susjednih dolina, što sugerira da je proces formiranja pravog japodskog grupnog identiteta vjerojatno trajao duže nego što se pretpostavljalo.

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Digital is Dead

Advances in Social Networking and Online Communities - Identity and Leadership in Virtual Communities ◽

10.4018/978-1-4666-5150-0.ch013 ◽

2014 ◽

pp. 220-236

Author(s):

Santos Felipe Ramos

Keyword(s):

Identity Formation ◽

Critical Analysis ◽

Public Discourse ◽

Group Identity ◽

Participant Observation ◽

Digital Age ◽

Occupy Wall Street ◽

Technological Determinism ◽

Wall Street

This chapter draws from a 6-month participant-observation with an Occupy Wall Street group in Richmond, Virginia—Occupy Richmond—to deliver an ethnography of public discourse in postcolonial, queer, and multimedia contexts, as part of a critical analysis of imperialism in the digital age. The author develops techno-seduction as a term to deconstruct the lure of technological determinism that promotes static interpretations of democracy, participation, and the digital, in addition to considering how these interpretations impact intrapersonal and group identity formation. Finally, the chapter asks that we suspend our conception of the digital/non-digital dichotomy by thinking of the digital as dead, as a force that guides and influences our sociopolitical interactions, rather than as an isolated concept wholly separable from the non-digital.

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Norm Enforcement in Markets: Group Identity and the Volunteering of Feedback

The Economic Journal ◽

10.1093/ej/uez056 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 130 (629) ◽

pp. 1248-1261

Author(s):

Gary E Bolton ◽

Johannes Mans ◽

Axel Ockenfels

Keyword(s):

United States ◽

Social Identity ◽

Group Identity ◽

The United States ◽

Home Market ◽

Feedback Information ◽

Norm Enforcement ◽

Common Group ◽

Market Experiment ◽

Market Identity

Abstract The provision of trader feedback is critical to the functioning of many markets. We examine the influence of group identity on the volunteering and informativeness of feedback. In a market experiment conducted simultaneously in Germany and the United States, we manipulate the interaction of traders based on natural social and induced home market identities. Traders are more likely to provide feedback information on a trader with whom they share a common group identity, and the effect is more pronounced for social identity than for home market identity. Both kinds of group identity promote rewarding good performance and punishing bad performance.

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The Ballad of Bourg-Madame: Memory, Exile, and the Spanish Republican Refugees of the Retirada of 1939

International Review of Social History ◽

10.1017/s0020859005002300 ◽

2006 ◽

Vol 51 (1) ◽

pp. 1-40 ◽

Cited By ~ 4

Author(s):

Sharif Gemie

Keyword(s):

Decision Making ◽

Political Culture ◽

Identity Formation ◽

Group Identity ◽

Decision Making Process ◽

Politics Of Memory ◽

The Road

This paper analyses the experience of the Spanish Republican refugees who left Catalonia in the Retirada of January and February 1939. The first section – “the Road to Bourg-Madame” – considers issues of interpretation raised by the refugees' texts: it discusses historiography, the politics of memory, and political culture. In “Bourg-Madame”, the second section, the essay considers the refugees' experiences. It discusses previous patterns of Spanish migration, the decision-making process that preceded the refugees' journey, group identity formation during the Retirada, the gendered dimension of their experiences, the despair felt by many on arrival in France and the reception that the refugees met. The paper ends by discussing the surprising resilience of the refugees.

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The Politics and Effects of Religious Grievance

Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Politics ◽

10.1093/acrefore/9780190228637.013.783 ◽

2019 ◽

Author(s):

David Muchlinski

Keyword(s):

Political Violence ◽

Religious Freedom ◽

Group Identity ◽

Religious Violence ◽

Social Stability ◽

Religious Groups ◽

Positive Correlation ◽

The World ◽

Common Group ◽

Religious Resources

Despite international guarantees to respect religious freedom, governments around the world often impose substantial restrictions on the abilities of some religious groups to openly practice their faith. These regulations on religious freedom are often justified to promote social stability. However, research has demonstrated a positive correlation between restrictions on religious freedom and religious violence. This violence is often thought to be a result of grievances arising from the denial of a religious group’s right to openly practice its faith. These grievances encourage violence by (a) encouraging a sense of common group identity, (b) encouraging feelings of hostility toward groups imposing those regulations, and (c) facilitating the mobilization of religious resources for political violence.

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DEFENDING WOMEN, NEGOTIATING MASCULINITY IN EARLY MODERN ITALY

The Historical Journal ◽

10.1017/s0018246x10000543 ◽

2011 ◽

Vol 54 (1) ◽

pp. 1-23 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

ANDRONIKI DIALETI

Keyword(s):

Early Modern ◽

Identity Formation ◽

Social Status ◽

Group Identity ◽

Social Groups ◽

Self And Other ◽

Early Modern Italy ◽

Crucial Feature

ABSTRACTThis article seeks to contribute to a better understanding of the formation of masculinity in early modern Italy, by focusing on literature defending women written by men. The article argues that defence of women emerged as a crucial feature in male self-fashioning and group identity formation in specific environments, such as the courts, the academies, and the Venetian socio-cultural scene of the 1540s and 1550s. By detecting how demarcations of self and other were shaped in the literature under examination, the article suggests that men defending women fashioned themselves both in regard to female ‘otherness’ and against other contemporary male identities. In this process of inclusion and exclusion both gender and social status came into play. Although defence of women initially emerged as a key determinant of elite masculinity, it gradually became the bone of contention among different social groups of men seeking to negotiate, redefine, and appropriate for themselves an idealized form of masculinity.

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The Potential of Social Identity for Equilibrium Selection

The American Economic Review ◽

10.1257/aer.101.6.2562 ◽

2011 ◽

Vol 101 (6) ◽

pp. 2562-2589 ◽

Cited By ~ 167

Author(s):

Roy Chen ◽

Yan Chen

Keyword(s):

Social Identity ◽

Group Identity ◽

Social Preference ◽

Equilibrium Selection ◽

Theoretical Framework ◽

Coordination Games ◽

Preference Model ◽

Common Group ◽

Identity Changes ◽

High Effort

When does a common group identity improve efficiency in coordination games? To answer this question, we propose a group-contingent social preference model and derive conditions under which social identity changes equilibrium selection. We test our predictions in the minimum-effort game in the laboratory under parameter configurations which lead to an inefficient low-effort equilibrium for subjects with no group identity. For those with a salient group identity, consistent with our theory, we find that learning leads to ingroup coordination to the efficient high-effort equilibrium. Additionally, our theoretical framework reconciles findings from a number of coordination game experiments. (JEL C71, C91, D71)

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