Mixed individuals often fall back on individual mobility rather than collective status strategies

Evidence

In sum, we suggest that Mixed individuals who identify with multiple racial–ethnic ingroups rarely use social creativity and social competition strategies in order to achieve higher subjective status of their ingroups, which remains an open question for future research. Individual mobility refers to strategic dissociation, disidentification or self-distancing from an ingroup to avoid negative consequences of low subjective status of the ingroup on selfesteem (Becker and Tausch 2014). — Anna X. Huang, Jacqueline M. Chen, and Juliane Degner, Being One or the Other, Both or Neither, 71

Categorization

• DEFINE: Defines individual mobility as strategic dissociation and establishes it as the strategy Mixed individuals default to when group-based routes are blocked.
• XREF: The dissociation route echoes what a mixed-identity person under homogenizing essentialism pressure faces: distancing from the ingroup rather than reforming it from within. — connects to: Perceived mobility makes people pursue the status forms they lack — W. David Marx, Status and Culture: How Our Desire for…, 91; Mixed-identity individuals cannot pursue collective status mobility without being accepted as group members — Anna X. Huang, Jacqueline M. Chen, and Juliane Degner, Being One or the Other, Both or…, 70; Easy individual mobility weakens subordinate-group solidarity and collective action — John T. Jost and Jim Sidanius, Political Psychology, 2747 (+4 more)

Broader Connections

• Easy individual mobility weakens subordinate-group solidarity and collective action #corroborates (0.90) — John T. Jost and Jim Sidanius, Political Psychology, 2747
• Mixed-identity individuals shift ingroup identification according to which dimension holds higher status #exemplifies (0.88) — Anna X. Huang, Jacqueline M. Chen, and Juliane Degner, Being One or the Other, Both or Neither, 73
• Constructivist mixed individuals shift identification toward higher-status groups for personal gain. #expands (0.85) — Anna X. Huang, Jacqueline M. Chen, and Juliane Degner, Being One or the Other, Both or Neither, 88
• High relational mobility makes people shift group loyalty opportunistically with status #expands (0.80)
• Beliefs about social permeability, not objective structure, shape whether people pursue mobility or change #qualifies (0.75) — John T. Jost and Jim Sidanius, Political Psychology, 2680