Politicization costs group members in opportunity and personal safety

Evidence

Politicization is an effortful process that also entails numerous costs for the individual group member (e.g., opportunity costs, victimization by discrimination and oppression) so that, overall, politicized collective identity may often not be the most attractive option. — John T. Jost and Jim Sidanius, Political Psychology, 4459

Categorization

• QUESTION: What makes some individuals nonetheless choose politicization despite its costs? The claim counters the framing that politicized identity is obviously empowering.
• XREF: connects to: Allowing political talk into meetings risked overwhelming and drowning the group — Nina Eliasoph, Avoiding politics: how Americans…, 1242; Domestic political costs constrain alliance participation once the founding threat recedes — Robert B. McCalla, NATO’s persistence after the cold war, 143