Social Identities in a Globalized World

Rosenmann, Amir; Reese, Gerhard; Cameron, John A.

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“…For pro‐social behavior, McFarland and colleagues () found correlations of identification with all humanity with the readiness to invest national resources to protect human rights and even with the readiness to donate to a charity. Comparable findings also suggest a consistent relationship between the identification with humanity and pro‐social (e.g., Reese & Kohlmann, ) as well as sustainable actions (e.g., Renger & Reese, ; Reysen & Katzarska‐Miller, ; Rosenmann, Reese & Cameron, ).…”

Section: The Superordinate Identity Of Humanitymentioning

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“…In Study 2, we replicated this effect with real contacts, in a longitudinal data set with two time points. Both studies thereby contribute substantially to the work on global identity and identification with all humanity (McFarland, ; McFarland, Brown & Webb, ; McFarland, Webb & Brown, ; for an overview, see Rosenmann et al, ). In addition, Study 2 showed that international contact (Time 1) mediated through higher global identification (Time 2) was positively related to intentions to act in line with global responsibility (general attitudes on global responsibility, pro‐refugee attitudes; both at Time 2).…”

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“…There is still very little research on what exactly people associate with the group of humanity. However, in Western, individualistic cultures, norms and values associated with humanity might be derived from the ideas of humanism and the universal declaration of human rights (Rosenmann et al, ). Such humanity‐related norms of justice may motivate advantaged groups to analyze their own privileged position and to target global intergroup inequality.…”

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Get together, feel together, act together: International personal contact increases identification with humanity and global collective action

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Declining natural resources or climate change are examples of global challenges that characterize our globalized world. A sustainable human cohabitation depends on global intergroup cooperation and joint efforts to solve these crises. Intergroup contact tends to reduce intergroup prejudice and can facilitate such intergroup cooperation. Another line of research indicates that these improved attitudes may reduce the motivation to collective action among members of disadvantaged groups in situations of intergroup conflict, indicating that intergroup contact and collective action are antagonistic processes. In this article, we argue instead that intergroup contact may facilitate collective action intentions against global crises (e.g., climate change or global economic inequalities) that require international cooperation. Specifically, we propose international contact to foster recategorization on the level of all humanity, and in turn intentions of globally responsible actions. We first review evidence of the effects of contact with regard to intergroup cooperation. It is followed by a discussion of the unique nature of collective action concerning a common global challenge. We then integrate both lines of research within the Common Ingroup Identity approach. In two empirical studies (N1 = 104, N2 = 259), we show first evidence that international contact increases identification and solidarity with humanity which then (according to Study 2) is also positively related to intentions of global responsible behavior. Our analysis thus suggests that intergroup contact, beyond the improvement of attitudes, may serve as an effective initiator of social change.

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“…This hints at the possibility of considering such intergroup processes in understanding the influence of culture or cultural identity, an area to be explored particularly with increasing globalization fostering multiculturalism and influencing intergroup relations (and possibly conflicts; Kinnvall, 2004;Rosenmann, Reese, & Cameron, 2016;Verkuyten & Pouliasi, 2006).…”

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Understanding depression across cultures: a social identity perspective

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There is now considerable evidence showing that culture shapes psychological processes, and this extends to depression and psychopathology more generally. In particular, an understanding of the processes and mechanisms through which culture influences depression is important not only to clinical practice, but also in the designing of interventions to promote resilience to depression. For example, such cultural understanding helps therapists to determine whether and when clients will be influenced by culture and its norms, and accordingly, the impact on their expression, assessment, diagnosis, and treatment of depression. The present thesis adopts a social identity perspective to advance research on the cultural underpinnings of depression in three research streams that investigate (a) the symptomatic presentation of depression, (b) cultural factors associated with vulnerability, and (c) resilience, to depression.Much of the work on the relationship between culture and the expression of depression has centered on Asians" tendency to emphasize somatic symptoms of the condition over psychological symptoms. However, despite extensive investigation of Asian somatization, there has been little progress in explaining how and when culture affects depression expression. To address this gap, the studies in Chapter 2 drew on social identity principles and processes to explain when culture and its norms would affect somatization.Three studies were conducted to investigate the role of cultural identity on somatization; predicting that norm endorsement would occur only when individuals identified with their culture. The key finding was that among Asians, normative expectations of collectivism predicted somatization, but only when participants strongly identified with Asian culture.These findings highlight the centrality of identification processes to cultural influence on depression.Investigations of culture and depression expression tend to conceptualize the Western perspective as the frame of reference or norm. That is, Asian somatization is commonly viewed as dysfunctional in Western contexts, whereby Asians and their emphasis on somaticizing depression is often portrayed as "that which needs to be explained". In Chapters 3 and 4, we shifted focus to studying the effect of Western culture on depression, an arguably neglected area of research. More importantly still, the socially potent nature of cultural norms in exerting influence tends to be overlooked in the literature of this field. Hence, the studies in these chapters drew on a norm-based approach to characterize cultural influence, and investigated the effects of specific collective-level cultural factors (i.e., social norms) associated with vulnerability to depression among Westerners.iii Along these lines, the study reported in Chapter 3 examined whether and why social norms communicating the value of happiness (that happiness is desirable) could potentially make individuals feel worse (i.e., more depressed). We also investigated differences in these effect...

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Alignment with globalized Western culture: Between inclusionary values and an exclusionary social identity

Rosenmann

2015

Euro J Social Psych

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Reactions to globalized Western culture (GWC) are influential in shaping intergroup relations and social issues worldwide. GWC is conceptualized here as an inclusionary cultural value system but a simultaneously exclusionary social identity. Whereas GWC's inclusive values may promote the civil liberties and fair treatment of gay people, for instance, as a social identity, groups may use their alignment with GWC to buttress ingroup superiority over less aligned outgroups. Three studies (one correlational and two experimental in design) probe these opposing vectors in samples of Jewish-Israelis, who are generally highly aligned with GWC. Results demonstrate that GWC alignment is associated with decreased anti-gay prejudice (Studies 2 and 3) but exclusionary responses towards Arab individuals and groups (Studies 1, 2, and 3), who are perceived to be less aligned with GWC. Conducted during the 2014 IsraeliPalestinian war, Study 3 notably demonstrated that a GWC identification prime reduced Jewish-Israelis' willingness to offer humanitarian assistance to Palestinian civilians in need. This may suggest that in some contexts, GWC's divisive function as a social identity supersedes its more inclusionary humanistic values. These contrary effects of GWC alignment by social target are discussed, alongside their implications on national, regional, and international levels.

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Social Identities in a Globalized World

Cited by 94 publications

References 111 publications

Get together, feel together, act together: International personal contact increases identification with humanity and global collective action

Get together, feel together, act together: International personal contact increases identification with humanity and global collective action

Understanding depression across cultures: a social identity perspective

Alignment with globalized Western culture: Between inclusionary values and an exclusionary social identity

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