Dislike of a group’s unserious social culture can push members into more extreme organizations.

Evidence

One individual who reported making friends in a local book club that was affiliated with the Daily Stormer website ultimately left and transitioned to the more formal TWP, a neo-Nazi group that advocated for racially pure nations, because he found many in the book club engaging in “mean-spirited jokes and drinking and very little else. It wasn’t productive.” — Ryan Andrew Brown, Todd C. Helmus, Rajeev Ramchand, Alina I. Palimaru, Sarah Weilant, Ashley L. Rhoades, and Liisa Hiatt (RAND Corporation), Violent Extremism in America, 365

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Shrinking subcultures grow more extreme as core members chase escalating status — W. David Marx, Status and Culture: How Our Desire for…, 426; Unconditional acceptance from outsiders drives defection from restrictive religious groups. — Holm Gero Hümmler, Ulrike Schiesser, Fact and Prejudice: How to Communicate…, 207

Broader Connections

• Shrinking subcultures grow more extreme as core members chase escalating status #expands (0.86) — W. David Marx, Status and Culture, 426
• Unconditional acceptance from outsiders drives defection from restrictive religious groups. #complicates (0.72) — Holm Gero Hümmler, Ulrike Schiesser, Fact and Prejudice, 207