Framing grievance through blood ties and kin sustains longer movement commitment

Evidence

The working cultural self-concept made salient in a given situation is likely to have consequences for involvement in a social movement. A collective frame may increase perceived salience of social identities, increase obligation to the in-group, highlight boundaries between in-groups and out-groups and person­ alize conflict between in-groups and out-groups. These aspects of collectivism may be beneficial to increased involvement and to maintenance of member­ ship over time. In addition, the kind of short-term, individually focused costbenefit analysis of involvement likely in an individualistic frame is unlikely in a collectivist one. A social movement can count on a longer-term and more extensive commitment to the extent that it can align itself with the kind of permanent groups that are part of the collectivistic focus—family or kin groups and “blood ties” with others who share a presumed common ancestry. — Leonard S. Newman and Ralph Erber (eds.), Understanding Genocide, 1084

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the reader’s small-exclusive-subgroup and inclusion-need mechanisms: collectivistic blood-tie framing is the identity scaffolding that later lets high-competence groups be cast as threatening outsiders. — connects to: Collective identity and shared grievances reinforce each other bidirectionally — John T. Jost and Jim Sidanius, Political Psychology, 4428

Broader Connections

• Collective identity and shared grievances reinforce each other bidirectionally #expands (0.85) — John T. Jost and Jim Sidanius, Political Psychology, 4428