Disasters forge new social bonds via shared external threat.

Evidence

The relevance of this analysis for mass emergencies and disasters is that here too there emerges a shared relationship to an external force, group, or agent, within which members’ fortunes are experienced as one. As Clarke (2002) puts it, in disasters, the shared experience of an external threat creates a sense of ‘we-ness’ among those who are similarly threatened, according to which social bonds are created and strengthened (i.e. not simply reproduced). — John Drury and Chris Cocking and Steve Reicher, Everyone for themselves? A comparative…, 16

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to work on how crisis and emergency bring strangers together — the ‘disaster utopia’ phenomenon described by Rebecca Solnit. — connects to: Social support in disasters ranges from individual acts to collective cooperation. — John Drury and Rupert Brown and Roberto González and Daniel Miranda, Emergent social identity and observing…, 27; Emergency services overwhelmed after sudden disasters make mutual aid essential for survival. — John Drury and Rupert Brown and Roberto González and Daniel Miranda, Emergent social identity and observing…, 49; Post-disaster solidarity toward strangers stems from emergent shared social identity, not prior personal ties. — John Drury and Rupert Brown and Roberto González and Daniel Miranda, Emergent social identity and observing…, 118 (+15 more)
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — John Drury and Chris Cocking and Steve Reicher, Everyone for themselves? A comparative…, 16

Related

• Emergency crowds can generate new social bonds among strangers. (similarity 0.90)
• Existing social bonds do not always explain emergency collective behaviour (similarity 0.90)
• Pre-disaster social bonds cannot explain solidarity among strangers during crises. (similarity 0.89)
• Post-disaster solidarity toward strangers stems from emergent shared social identity, not prior personal ties. (similarity 0.87)
• Shared emergent identity from common fate explains collective support amid disasters (similarity 0.87)
• Shared danger makes people feel close to strangers and motivates mutual help. (similarity 0.87)
• Shared fate in danger makes strangers act as one group offering help. (similarity 0.86)
• Social support in disasters ranges from individual acts to collective cooperation. (similarity 0.86)
• Shared fate during disasters is almost always grounded in a shared threat of death. (similarity 0.86)
• Disaster survivors who feel shared fate identify socially and give emotional support (similarity 0.86)
• Shared identity that enables crowd helping often emerges during an emergency rather than pre-existing. (similarity 0.86)
• Shared identity can emerge rapidly during, not before, an emergency. (similarity 0.85)
• Observing others act together drives disaster solidarity more than identification (similarity 0.84)
• Solidarity with strangers can arise without prior attachment figures present (similarity 0.84)
• Collectively experienced trauma makes victims identify as one group, motivating help (similarity 0.84)

Broader Connections

• Shared danger of death heightens unity among strangers in an emergency. #corroborates (0.90) — John Drury and Chris Cocking and Steve Reicher, Everyone for themselves? A comparative…, 104
• Disaster survivors who feel shared fate identify socially and give emotional support #exemplifies (0.90) — John Drury and Rupert Brown and Roberto González and Daniel Miranda, Emergent social identity and observing…, 73
• Shared social identity is the causal variable predicting solidarity among disaster strangers. #expands (0.88) — John Drury and Evangelos Ntontis, A SOCIAL IDENTITY MODEL OF COLLECTIVE…, 26
• Shared emergent identity from common fate explains collective support amid disasters #expands (0.85) — John Drury, The role of social identity processes…, 15
• Shared catastrophe briefly unites people across difference before giving way to division and reprisal #qualifies (0.85)
• Pre-disaster social bonds cannot explain solidarity among strangers during crises. #complicates (0.85) — John Drury and Evangelos Ntontis, A SOCIAL IDENTITY MODEL OF COLLECTIVE…, 15
• Rival traditions can converge rationally on their shared global disaster threat #corroborates (0.82)
• Shared social identity produces adaptive psychosocial resilience that aids group survival in emergencies. #expands (0.80) — John Drury, The role of social identity processes…, 107
• People become more empathetic and resourceful after disasters, not selfish #corroborates (0.78) — Jenny Odell, How to Do Nothing, 123
• Groups internalize external threat as an oath to preserve cohesion after danger recedes #expands (0.78) — Fredric Jameson, Marxism and Form, 509