Indexical tie creation is inherently ideological and builds bottom-up group norms.
Evidence
It is important to emphasize that the process of creating indexical ties of this kind is inherently ideological, creating in bottomup fashion a set of interactional norms for particular social groups. — Mary Bucholtz and Kira Hall, Identity and Interaction, 59
Categorization
- DEFINE: Positions the micro, interactional work of stance as always already ideological — a claim central to how identity is routed rather than frozen.
- XREF: connects to: An ideology can outlive and outspread the demographic group that created it — Andrew L. Whitehead, Samuel L. Perry, and Joseph O. Baker, Make America Christian Again: Christian…, 142; Close-knit groups spontaneously develop wealth-maximizing norms. — Lisa Bernestein, Opting out of the Legal System, 22; Dominant groups defend privilege through bounded ideological justifications (+12 more)
Broader Connections
- Ideology is actively created by people, not passively received from above.
#corroborates(0.86) - Ideological hegemony operates when subordinates internalize the dominant group’s justifications of inequality
#complicates(0.82) - Ideological self-placement is a declaration of group loyalty, not merely a self-categorization act
#expands(0.80) - Ideological labels function as social identities that shape group attitudes
#expands(0.80) — John T. Jost and Jim Sidanius, Political Psychology, 1816 - Group identity is constructed by designating outsiders as others
#expands(0.79) - Close-knit groups spontaneously develop wealth-maximizing norms.
#expands(0.78) — Lisa Bernestein, Opting out of the Legal System, 22 - Defining outsiders as barbarians is foundational to building group identity in every society
#expands(0.78) — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 173 - Ideological unity forms through connotative condensation and an axial interpellation
#expands(0.77) - Ideological positions reproduce social positions in transfigured form.
#expands(0.76) - Ideology operates through belief about what others believe
#expands(0.75) — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk, 1733 - Intellectual strata can be graded by their organic connection to a dominant social group
#complicates(0.75) — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 277 - Dominant groups defend privilege through bounded ideological justifications
#complicates(0.74) - Ideology maps the individual subject onto total class structures.
#qualifies(0.73) — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 890 - Ideology functions as signification that attains societal validity and justification
#qualifies(0.72) — Chris Allen, Islamophobia, 819 - An ideology can outlive and outspread the demographic group that created it
#qualifies(0.71) — Andrew L. Whitehead, Samuel L. Perry, and Joseph O. Baker, Make America Christian Again, 142