Perceived illegitimacy and impermeability drive low-status ingroup solidarity

Evidence

Beyond personality differences, researchers have also begun to specify structural conditions that predict differences in responses among members of devalued groups. Social Identity Theory, for example, predicts that members of low-status groups are more likely to identify with their group and show ingroup favoritism to the extent that they see group boundaries as impermeable, and group status differences as unstable and illegitimate (e.g., Bettencourt, Charlton, Dorr, & Hume, 2001). — , Rudman, Laurie A - On the Nature of…, 974

Categorization

• XREF: Directly echoes Social Identity Theory claims familiar from social-psych survey texts; also resonates with Things Fall Apart’s illegitimate-colonizer solidarity dynamics. — connects to: Status hierarchies are perceived unevenly and sharpen with community inculcation — Alice E. Marwick, Status Update: Celebrity, Publicity,…, 885; Shared sacrifice in military service built solidarity while unequal service bred cynicism — Robert D. Putnam, Bowling Alone The Collapse and Revival…, 939; Solidarity arises from how groups culturally cultivate their relation to powerlessness — Nina Eliasoph, “Close to home”: The work of avoiding…, 85 (+3 more)
• SEED: Angle: the conditions under which a marginalized group coheres rather than fragments — what makes boundaries feel impermeable matters more than objective inequality.