Formation and persistence of oppositional identities
By Alberto Bisin, Eleonora Patacchini, Thierry Verdier, Yves Zenou. European Economic Review, 2011
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We develop a dynamic model of identity formation that explains why ethnic minorities may choose to adopt oppositional identities (i.e. some individuals may reject or not the dominant culture) and why this behavior may persist over time. We first show that the prevalence of an oppositional culture in the minority group cannot always be sustained in equilibrium. Indeed, because the size of the majority group is larger, there is an ‘‘imposed’’ process of exposition to role models from the majority group that favors the diffusion of mainstream values in the minority community. In spite of this, an oppositional culture in the minority group can nevertheless be sustained in steady state if there is enough cultural segmentation in terms of role models, or if the size of the minority group is large enough, or if the degree of oppositional identity it implies is high enough. We also demonstrate that the higher the level of harassment and the number of racist individuals in the society, the more likely an oppositional minority culture will emerge. We finally show that ethnic identity and socialization effort can be more intense in mixed rather than segregated neighborhoods. & 2011 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
Subfields: Demography, Sociology and Political Science
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- Oppositional Identities and Employment for Ethnic Minorities: Evidence from England (2010, unknown): “…that the more individuals discount the future, the more acute peer pressure becomes and the more homogenous groups are (in terms of education).4 Bisin et al. (2008a) construct a model of ethnic identity formation focusing on how choice of identity is affected by cultural transmission and…”
- Backlash: The Unintended Effects of Language Prohibition in U.S. Schools after World War I (2019, background): “At the same time, one strand of literature has shown theoretically that identity may be strengthened in response to policies aimed at integration (Bisin and Verdier, 2000, 2001; Bisin et al., 2011).”
- Culture: persistence and evolution (2014, unknown): “Census about the ancestral composition of the non-foreign born population across different cohorts.(23) In the robustness section we will experiment with different definitions of the norm.”