Collective and individualistic frames disagree about where agency fundamentally resides.

Evidence

Whereas a collective frame presents groups as organic entities, and indi­ viduals as simply parts of groups, an individualistic frame conceives of indi­ viduals as organic entities. That is, individuals are meaningful entities in themselves, and will or agency is located within individuals (Shweder, 1991). — Leonard S. Newman and Ralph Erber (eds.), Understanding Genocide, 1036

Categorization

• DEFINE: Clean contrast operationalizing both frames: groups as organic wholes versus persons as organic wholes.
• QUESTION: Does locating agency in the person versus the group change which outgroups read as threatening versus pitiable?
• XREF: connects to: Collectivist frames attribute causality to whole groups rather than individual actors — Leonard S. Newman and Ralph Erber (eds.), Understanding Genocide: The Social…, 1028; Human agency operates through individual, proxy, and collective modes — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement: How People Do Harm…, 126

Broader Connections

• Collectivist frames attribute causality to whole groups rather than individual actors #expands (0.85) — Leonard S. Newman and Ralph Erber (eds.), Understanding Genocide, 1028
• Human agency operates through individual, proxy, and collective modes #expands (0.80) — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement, 126