Solidarity arises from how groups culturally cultivate their relation to powerlessness

Evidence

Probably most citizens feel powerless sometimes. The question is how we present our powerlessness to ourselves and each other: whether we protect our feelings of empowerment by telling ourselves that we do not care; or by trying only to care about problems that we implicitly assume we can easily address; or by admitting a feeling of powerlessness and then going on to do something anyway; or by throwing up our hands in despair; or by either cultivating feelings of righteous anger, resignation, heroic resolve, indi¡erence, or delicate curiousity about our personal feelings of powerlessness. In other words, the question is how we cultivate some relation to our feelings. — Nina Eliasoph, “Close to home”, 85

Categorization

• DEFINE: Frames the analytical question as one of cultivating a relation to feeling — the core lens of the chapter.
• XREF: connects to: Resistance-based solidarity leaves common meanings unexamined and imported from outside — Nina Eliasoph, Avoiding politics: how Americans…, 930; Perceived illegitimacy and impermeability drive low-status ingroup solidarity — , Rudman, Laurie A - On the Nature of…, 974; Powerlessness does not explain why a specific group is blamed (+3 more)

Related

• Resistance-based solidarity leaves common meanings unexamined and imported from outside (similarity 0.80)
• Each group’s creative response to powerlessness retained part of the democratic ideal (similarity 0.79)

Broader Connections

• Perceived illegitimacy and impermeability drive low-status ingroup solidarity #qualifies (0.80) — , Rudman, Laurie A - On the Nature of…, 974
• Resistance-based solidarity leaves common meanings unexamined and imported from outside #complicates (0.75) — Nina Eliasoph, Avoiding politics, 930
• Powerlessness does not explain why a specific group is blamed #qualifies (0.75)