Politicized collective identity. A social psychological analysis.

By Bernd Simon, B. Klandermans. American Psychologist, 2001

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Subfields: Social Psychology, Sociology and Political Science

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Collective Psychological Empowerment as a Model of Social Change: Researching Crowds and Power (2009, background): “Simon and Klandermans (2001) recently proposed an integrative model of social and psychological factors behind mobilization, according to which empowerment or, in their terms, agency, is a function of politicized collective identity.”
The Role of Agency and Morality in Reconciliation Processes (2015, background): “…in which conciliatory messages are typically expected to be conveyed via group representatives rather than directly by the victims and perpetrators (Simon & Klandermans, 2001), empowering and accepting messages by third parties who share a common identity with the conflicting out-group have been…”
The conflict of harmony: Intergroup contact, commonality and political solidarity between minority groups (2012, background): “…as a part of a re-categorized superordinate level in-group, which may reduce the effectiveness of a commonality message that requires both a salient majority out-group (Simon & Klandermans, 2001), as well as maintenance of the salience of the minority group identity (van Zomeren et al., 2008).”
How Group Identification Helps to Overcome the Dilemma of Collective Action (2002, background): “The politicization of group identification is a separate process that requires an independent explanation (Simon & Klandermans, 2001).”
Presidential Charismatic Leadership: Exploring the Rhetoric of Social Change (2008, background): “More recent theorization suggests that leaders act as “entrepreneurs of identity” (Reicher & Hopkins, 1996; 2001; see also Gardner, 1995; Simon & Klandermans, 2001), and play a critical role in constructing group identity, sometimes to assure their leadership position (Hogg, 2001).”
Personal Political Salience: The Role of Personality in Collective Identity and Action (2007, background): “According to Stewart and Healy (1989), people who attach personal meaning to social and political events generally should be more responsive to the social movements of their time and especially social movements that are related to their group identities (Agronick & Duncan, 1998; Duncan, 1999; Duncan”
Constructing Indignation: Anger Dynamics in Protest Movements (2014, background): “Identities become political when an external enemy can be blamed for a group’s problems and the struggle moves into political arenas (Simon & Klandermans, 2001).”
Identity Politics and Politicized Identities: Identity Processes and the Dynamics of Protest (2014, background): “Simon and Klandermans (2001) hold that when people become involved in political protest on behalf of a group, the collective identity of that group politicizes.”
Explaining enduring empowerment: A comparative study of collective action and psychological outcomes (2005, background): “For example, Klandermans (1992; Simon & Klandermans, 2001) suggests that collective discussions and conflicts serve to define ingroup-outgroup boundaries, attribute responsibility for grievances, and form the basis of a politicized collective identity: ‘in the clashes and confrontations between…”