Transformation happens by assuming shared categories rather than questioning them.
Evidence
These connections and transformations, big and small, were facilitated by taking certain bounded identities for granted – by assuming mothers knew what they were doing if they handled someone else’s child, that jokes and glances indexed shared knowledge, that discussions of family, tradition, or motherhood all referred to more or less the same thing. — Farhan Samanani, Conviviality and its others, 47
Categorization
- XREF: Directly challenges the reflexive position that in multi-cultural settings one must interrogate or loosen identity categories to achieve connection; that assumption is here flipped on its head. — connects to: Categories require an implicit theory of why members belong together; Transformative change is gradual within continuities, not clean breaks; Once categorized, group members are assumed similar within and different across categories — John F. Dovidio, Peter Glick, Laurie A. Rudman, On the Nature of Prejudice: Fifty Years…, 1379 (+5 more)
- corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Farhan Samanani, Conviviality and its others: for a…, 47
Related
- Improving intergroup relations requires changing identity thinking, not identity categories. (similarity 0.83)
- Assuming shared identity permits recognizing differences across experience. (similarity 0.82)
- Once categorized, group members are assumed similar within and different across categories (similarity 0.82)
- Conviviality’s transformative force lies in stepping beyond bounded identities, not in inhabiting them. (similarity 0.80)
Broader Connections
- Categories require an implicit theory of why members belong together
#corroborates(0.80) - Once categorized, group members are assumed similar within and different across categories
#expands(0.80) — John F. Dovidio, Peter Glick, Laurie A. Rudman, On the Nature of Prejudice, 1379 - Categories require an intuitive theory linking features, not just shared similarities
#corroborates(0.80) — John F. Dovidio, Peter Glick, Laurie A. Rudman, On the Nature of Prejudice, 1382 - Transformative change is gradual within continuities, not clean breaks
#expands(0.75) - External challenges to justify beliefs can trigger belief transformation
#complicates(0.75) — Holm Gero Hümmler, Ulrike Schiesser, Fact and Prejudice, 198 - Improving intergroup relations requires changing identity thinking, not identity categories.
#complicates(0.75) — Roderick M. Kramer, Geoffrey J. Leonardelli, Robert W. Livingston, Social Cognition, Social Identity, and…, 587