High relational mobility makes people shift group loyalty opportunistically with status
Evidence
By contrast, individuals in high relational mobility societies can more freely choose in-groups, and to the extent that this is true, they should attempt to find and join groups that have higher rather than lower status, because the membership in the former will generally provide them with larger resources. Thus, people should constantly monitor intergroup status differences and attempt to associate with groups of higher status. Consistent with this idea, people in more residentially mobile societies, as well as individuals with larger personal residential mobility, generally change their in-group identity more opportunistically, depending on the success or failure of the in-group and its members, than those who are in less residentially mobile societies and those who move less (Oishi, Ishii, & Lun, 2009). — Roderick M. Kramer, Geoffrey J. Leonardelli, Robert W. Livingston, Social Cognition, Social Identity, and…, 1644
Categorization
Category: Causal Relationships
Related
- Freedom to choose groups makes people abandon failing groups for higher-status ones. (similarity 0.94)
- Lower relational mobility forces friendships across dissimilar others. (similarity 0.84)
- Easy individual mobility weakens subordinate-group solidarity and collective action (similarity 0.82)
- Visible group distinctions make people link personal needs to group status (similarity 0.81)
- When group membership is inescapable, people must accommodate internal differences managefully. (similarity 0.80)
- Status hierarchies can emerge purely from individuals’ belonging, distinctiveness, and esteem needs (similarity 0.80)
- High relational mobility fosters self-other overlap friendships unlike ascribed networks (similarity 0.78)