Families are seen as interdependent and essential, friends interdependent, ethnic groups essential.
Evidence
On the basis of past empirical work (Haslam et al., 2000; Lickel et al., 2000) we hypothesized that participants would view these three groups as differing with regard to perceived essentiality and interdependence. We believed that people would view their family group as high in both interdependence and essentiality, whereas their friendship group would be viewed as high in interdependence but not essentiality and their ethnic group would be viewed as high in essentiality but not interdependence. This hypothesis was confirmed. — Nyla R. Branscombe and Bertjan Doosje (eds.), Collective Guilt, 337
Categorization
- XREF: The essentiality vs. interdependence group taxonomy parallels broader literature on entitativity and perceived group essence. — connects to: Humans are obligately interdependent and cannot survive without groups — Roderick M. Kramer, Geoffrey J. Leonardelli, Robert W. Livingston, Social Cognition, Social Identity, and…, 385; Closed communities enforce trust through overlapping religious, family, and residence ties. — Coleman, SocialCapitalCreation-1988, 46; Institutional structure makes group members feel both part of and external to their group. — Fredric Jameson, Marxism and Form, 533 (+2 more)
Broader Connections
- Humans are obligately interdependent and cannot survive without groups
#expands(0.85) — Roderick M. Kramer, Geoffrey J. Leonardelli, Robert W. Livingston, Social Cognition, Social Identity, and…, 385 - Community essentialism is a fantasy masking the hybrid constitution of migrant groups
#contradicts(0.82) - Closed communities enforce trust through overlapping religious, family, and residence ties.
#exemplifies(0.80) — Coleman, SocialCapitalCreation-1988, 46 - Ethnic communities are internally sites of renegotiation between traditional and adopted values
#complicates(0.78) — Stuart Hall, Essential Essays, Volume 2, 333 - Institutional structure makes group members feel both part of and external to their group.
#complicates(0.75) — Fredric Jameson, Marxism and Form, 533