One-sided identity framing lets a strawman of passive leadership gain credence

Evidence

Do people simply wait until the social reality is such that a group exists and one amongst them happens to exemplify the group prototype? Is it the case that at that point, the prototypical individual assumes the mantle of leadership and others become followers? As with early situationist models (Cooper & McGaugh, 1963), the active and transformational aspects of leadership could here be ignored entirely. Such an approach would, of course, be a caricature. It doesn’t represent the views of those social identity researchers who investigate leadership and it certainly doesn’t represent social identity and selfcategorization theories themselves. But the danger is that, as long as researchers look one-sidedly at the ways in which social identity frames leadership it gains credence by default. — Stephen Reicher, S. Alexander Haslam, and Nick Hopkins, Social identity and the dynamics of…, 72

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Identity framing is a meso-level process of attributing meaning that organizational leaders shape — Donatella della Porta et al., Mobilizing Against the Odds: Solidarity…, 33; Leaders politicize groups by embodying the shared identity that makes their frames normative — John T. Jost and Jim Sidanius, Political Psychology, 4439; Leaders substantiate identity rhetoric through social practices that enact the desired vision — Stephen Reicher, S. Alexander Haslam, and Nick Hopkins, Social identity and the dynamics of…, 114 (+5 more)

Broader Connections

• Superordinate identity framing fosters forgiveness while suppressing collective action among disadvantaged groups. #exemplifies (0.76) — Johanna Ray Vollhardt and Michelle Sinayobye Twali, Emotion-Based Reconciliation Requires…, 53
• Leaders substantiate identity rhetoric through social practices that enact the desired vision #qualifies (0.75) — Stephen Reicher, S. Alexander Haslam, and Nick Hopkins, Social identity and the dynamics of…, 114
• Leaders politicize groups by embodying the shared identity that makes their frames normative #expands (0.74) — John T. Jost and Jim Sidanius, Political Psychology, 4439
• A spellbinding leader’s identity analogies succeed only when followers co-develop them #qualifies (0.73) — Stephen Reicher, S. Alexander Haslam, and Nick Hopkins, Social identity and the dynamics of…, 113
• Leadership requires both shared identity and consensus on who best embodies the group view #qualifies (0.73) — Stephen Reicher, S. Alexander Haslam, and Nick Hopkins, Social identity and the dynamics of…, 67
• Identity framing is a meso-level process of attributing meaning that organizational leaders shape #corroborates (0.72) — Donatella della Porta et al., Mobilizing Against the Odds, 33
• Leadership is impossible without a pre-existing or manufactured shared social identity #qualifies (0.71) — Stephen Reicher, S. Alexander Haslam, and Nick Hopkins, Social identity and the dynamics of…, 50
• Identity politics can trade one master narrative for another rather than escape them #expands (0.71)