Framing identity as impermeable group membership lets organizers subordinate personal goals to collective ones.

Evidence

By focusing attention on group needs rather than individual needs, collective cultural frames are advantageous to social movement organizers. If group membership is central to identity and impermeable, acting for the good of the group and following group norms can more easily replace personal goals and Beyond the Individual: Groups and Collectives more universalistic norms. — Leonard S. Newman and Ralph Erber (eds.), Understanding Genocide, 1049

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the inclusion-need and small-exclusive-subgroup mechanisms the reader is linking to powerful-minority scapegoating. — connects to: Superordinate identity framing fosters forgiveness while suppressing collective action among disadvantaged groups. — Johanna Ray Vollhardt and Michelle Sinayobye Twali, Emotion-Based Reconciliation Requires…, 53; Collective identity shifts personal goals toward the group’s welfare — , Rudman, Laurie A - On the Nature of…, 548; Salient group membership replaces personal identity with a collective self (+1 more)

Broader Connections

• Collective identity shifts personal goals toward the group’s welfare #corroborates (0.95) — , Rudman, Laurie A - On the Nature of…, 548
• Salient group membership replaces personal identity with a collective self #corroborates (0.90)
• Group identity is flexible and memberships can be recategorized #complicates (0.90) — John F. Dovidio, Peter Glick, Laurie A. Rudman, On the Nature of Prejudice, 111