Failed egalitarian groups can regress toward authoritarian acceptance.

Evidence

In this context, the Communards began to lose faith in their ability to create a communal world and their organization fell apart. Instead of being able to transform a hierarchical set of social relations, their beliefs began to shift towards an acceptance of hierarchy. Over time, they scored increasingly highly on measures of authoritarianism such that, when the dissenters openly proposed a new and more draconian prisoner guard system, the Communards displayed little willingness to resist it (although the study ended before such a system could actually be imposed). — Stephen Reicher, S. Alexander Haslam, and Nick Hopkins, Social identity and the dynamics of…, 120

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the reader’s direct question about whether positive-project cohesion weakens when it is not structurally realized. — connects to: Oppressed groups internalize dominant categories and police their own members to gain acceptance — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of…, 717; Disadvantaged groups accept stereotypes that sustain their own oppression. — John T. Jost and Jim Sidanius, Political Psychology: Key Readings, 2911

Broader Connections

• Disadvantaged groups accept stereotypes that sustain their own oppression. #exemplifies (0.78) — John T. Jost and Jim Sidanius, Political Psychology, 2911
• Oppressed groups internalize dominant categories and police their own members to gain acceptance #expands (0.72) — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 717