Group identification varies qualitatively across cultures, not just in degree

Evidence

There is, nonetheless, another possibility that was completely overlooked: it is possible that although all humans, as a social species, create and utilize social groups, the kind of groups they identify themselves with and their motivations in these groups may vary, depending on the culture in which they reside. In other words, there can be multiple kinds of collectivism, in which group identification and behaviors differ qualitatively rather than quantitatively between cultures. — Roderick M. Kramer, Geoffrey J. Leonardelli, Robert W. Livingston, Social Cognition, Social Identity, and…, 1604

Categorization

• XREF: Complicates the universalist transfer assumption that underpins much of the Allport-inherited prejudice research thread — cultural variation in group mechanism bears on whether US-derived ingroup theories export. — connects to: Attachment and glorification are distinct facets of national identification. — Sonia Roccas and Yechiel Klar and Ido Liviatan, The Paradox of Group-Based Guilt: Modes…, 142; Local identity categories often explain linguistic practice better than analysts’ broad sociological categories. — Mary Bucholtz and Kira Hall, Identity and Interaction: A…, 35
• corroborated: 3 independent passages support this claim — Roderick M. Kramer, Geoffrey J. Leonardelli, Robert W. Livingston, Social Cognition, Social Identity, and…, 1604