Human group identity, not just environmental adaptation, sustains socialized individuals.
Evidence
Socialized individuals are only sustained through group identity, which contrasts with animal societies which must be constantly built up, destroyed and formed anew. They can only secure their existence through processes of adaptation to their natural environment, and through re-adaptation to the system of social labour in so far as they mediate their metabolism with nature by means of an extremely precarious equilibrium of individuals amongst themselves . — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 602
Categorization
- XREF: connects to: Shared beliefs can sustain group boundaries despite environmental and technological similarity. — Joe Henrich and Robert Boyd, The Evolution of Conformist…, 9; Identity development is produced by environmental settings, not individual processes alone — Tatiana I. Zamora and Amado M. Padilla, Making sense of conflicting messages of…, 44; Social reproduction sustains individuals through group identity, not just purposive-rational adaptation — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 2428 (+2 more)
- yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Shared beliefs can sustain group boundaries despite environmental and technological similarity. — Joe Henrich and Robert Boyd, The Evolution of Conformist…, 9; Identity development is produced by environmental settings, not individual processes alone — Tatiana I. Zamora and Amado M. Padilla, Making sense of conflicting messages of…, 44; Social reproduction sustains individuals through group identity, not just purposive-rational adaptation — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 2428 (+2 more)
Broader Connections
- Social reproduction sustains individuals through group identity, not just purposive-rational adaptation
#expands(0.95) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 2428 - Human evolution’s selecting environment is recurring face-to-face group configurations
#complicates(0.75) — Roderick M. Kramer, Geoffrey J. Leonardelli, Robert W. Livingston, Social Cognition, Social Identity, and…, 390