Temporality and collectivity: Diversity, history and the rhetorical construction of national entitativity
Vernacular representations of nationhood collected in England differed from canonical accounts of social categorization in three respects. First, nations were not typically constructed as simple person categories, but rather as hybrid collectivities of human beings, objects and geographical location...
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crwiley:10.1348/014466605x82341 2023-12-03T10:22:44+01:00 Temporality and collectivity: Diversity, history and the rhetorical construction of national entitativity Condor, Susan 2006 http://dx.doi.org/10.1348/014466605x82341 en eng Wiley http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/termsAndConditions#vor British Journal of Social Psychology volume 45, issue 4, page 657-682 ISSN 0144-6665 2044-8309 Social Psychology journal-article 2006 crwiley https://doi.org/10.1348/014466605x82341 2023-11-09T14:09:40Z Vernacular representations of nationhood collected in England differed from canonical accounts of social categorization in three respects. First, nations were not typically constructed as simple person categories, but rather as hybrid collectivities of human beings, objects and geographical locations. Second, national representation was not confined to the present tense, but was typically conveyed through temporal distinctions and narratives. Third, speakers displayed a reflexive concern over the rationality and morality of national categorization and stereotyping. Speakers could manage the tension between the need to recognize both national diversity and entitativity by forging a distinction between Englishness (identified with homogeneity, ethnic nationalism and the past) and Britishness (identified with pluralism, civic nationalism and historical progress). However, accounts had a dilemmatic quality. The strategies speakers used to promote images of contemporary national in‐group diversity often implicitly presupposed a normal moral order of national cultural homogeneity. The association of pluralism with values of progressive social change meant that accounts of ‘our’ distinctive lack of national character could carry tacit implications of relative superiority. General implications for social identity approaches to social categorization are discussed. Article in Journal/Newspaper First Nations Wiley Online Library (via Crossref) British Journal of Social Psychology 45 4 657 682 |
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Vernacular representations of nationhood collected in England differed from canonical accounts of social categorization in three respects. First, nations were not typically constructed as simple person categories, but rather as hybrid collectivities of human beings, objects and geographical locations. Second, national representation was not confined to the present tense, but was typically conveyed through temporal distinctions and narratives. Third, speakers displayed a reflexive concern over the rationality and morality of national categorization and stereotyping. Speakers could manage the tension between the need to recognize both national diversity and entitativity by forging a distinction between Englishness (identified with homogeneity, ethnic nationalism and the past) and Britishness (identified with pluralism, civic nationalism and historical progress). However, accounts had a dilemmatic quality. The strategies speakers used to promote images of contemporary national in‐group diversity often implicitly presupposed a normal moral order of national cultural homogeneity. The association of pluralism with values of progressive social change meant that accounts of ‘our’ distinctive lack of national character could carry tacit implications of relative superiority. General implications for social identity approaches to social categorization are discussed. |
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