Shared meanings can generate real empirical regularities among contenders

Evidence

Within a given symbolic world, furthermore, agreement on the meanings of certain performances, repertoires, and types of episodes sometimes generates empirical regularities that cry out for explanation. In the world of contemporary North American social movements, for example, participants spend enough energy emulating, interpreting, and labeling each other’s actions that their interaction follows recurrent, recognizable patterns. To explain the patterns, however, we must step out of the symbolic frames within which participants operate. — Charles Tilly, Regimes and Repertoires, 303

Categorization

• XREF: Directly relevant to the reader’s test: if ‘rights defense’ acquires shared meaning among dominant groups, it may generate regular patterned responses that still require explanation outside those symbolic frames. — connects to: Scholarly analysis can feed causally coherent terms back into participants’ vocabularies — Charles Tilly, Regimes and Repertoires, 302; Social structures are objectivated meanings built through inter-subjective exchange; Formal similarity of social position creates solidarity regardless of personal character — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 595 (+3 more)

Broader Connections

• Social structures are objectivated meanings built through inter-subjective exchange #expands (0.85)
• Formal similarity of social position creates solidarity regardless of personal character #corroborates (0.80) — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 595
• Ideologies and situations jointly trigger perceived group competition, requiring an outgroup #expands (0.78) — , Rudman, Laurie A - On the Nature of…, 1497
• Increased contact builds mutual belief frameworks that reduce miscommunication and exploitation #corroborates (0.75) — Diego Gambetta, Trust - Making and Breaking Cooperative…, 703