Nice collection of relevant quotes available here:
“To avoid overextension of the concept, we have defined collective identity as an individual’s cognitive, moral, and emotional connection with a broader community, category, practice, or institution. It is a perception of a shared status or relation, which may be imagined rather than experienced directly, and it is distinct from personal identities, although it may form part of a personal identity. A collective identity may have been first constructed by outsiders (for example, as in the case of “Hispanics” in this country), who may still enforce it, but it depends on some acceptance by those to whom it is applied. Collective identities are expressed in cultural materials –names, narratives, symbols, verbal styles, rituals, clothing, and so on – but not all cultural materials express collective identities. Collective identity does not imply the rational calculus for evaluating choices that “interest” does. And unlike ideology, collective identity carries with it positive feelings for other members of the group” (Collective identity vs. culture)
See also my post on collective identity as mediated through software systems, and some predictions about how collective identity will work within a ubiquitous always-on computing environment in which simultaneous multidirectional communication between perceiving centers becomes the norm. Digital nomadic post-nations separated by vast expanses of time and space, #techxsfer #usersunion.
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