Tribal Society Measure
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A Tribal Society Measure is a social identity measure/social configuration measure that involves tribal behavior and tribal values (which relates to tribes).
- Context:
- It can range from being a Progressively Motivated Tribalism Measure to being a Defensively Motivated Tribalism Measure (such as a common enemy).
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- See: Conformity, Nationalism, Religious Identity, Social Indentity.
References
2020
- (Wikipedia, 2020) ⇒ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tribalism Retrieved:2020-12-7.
- Tribalism is the state of being organized by, or advocating for, tribes or tribal lifestyles. Human evolution has primarily occurred in small groups, as opposed to mass societies, and people naturally maintain a social network. In popular culture, tribalism may also refer to a way of thinking or behaving in which people are loyal to their social group above all else, [1] or, derogatorily, a type of discrimination or animosity based upon group differences. [2]
2016
- (Wikipedia, 2016) ⇒ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tribalism Retrieved:2016-12-26.
- Tribalism is the state of being organized in, or an advocate for, a tribe or tribes. In terms of conformity, tribalism may also refer in popular cultural terms to a way of thinking or behaving in which people are loyal to their own tribe or social group. [3] Tribalism has been defined in as a 'way of being' based upon variable combinations of kinship-based organization, reciprocal exchange, manual production, oral communication, and analogical enquiry. Ontologically, tribalism is oriented around the valences of analogy, genealogy and mythology. This means that customary tribes have their social foundations in some variation of these tribal orientations, while at the same time often taking on traditional practices (including through religions of the book such as Christianity, Judaism, and Islam), and modern practices, including monetary exchange, mobile communications, and modern education. [4] The social structure of a tribe can vary greatly from case to case, but, due to the relatively small size of customary tribes, social life in those kinds of tribes usually involves a relatively undifferentiated role structure, with few significant political or economic distinctions between individuals. Tribalism implies the possession of a strong cultural or ethnic identity that separates one member of a group from the members of another group. Based on strong relations of proximity and kinship, members of a tribe tend to possess a strong feeling of identity. Objectively, for a customary tribal society to form there needs to be ongoing customary organization, enquiry and exchange. However, intense feelings of common identity can lead people to feel tribally connected. The distinction between these two definitions for tribalism - objective and subjective - is an important one because, while tribal societies have been pushed to the edges of the Western world, tribalism, by this second definition, is arguably undiminished. A few writers have postulated that the human brain is hard-wired towards tribalism due to its evolutionary advantages, however this claim is usually linked to equating original questions of sociality with tribalism. Many tribes refer to themselves with their language's word for "people," while referring to other, neighboring tribes with various epithets. For example, the term “Inuit” translates as "people," but they were known to the Ojibwe by a name 'Eskimo' translating roughly as "eaters of raw meat."
- ↑ Definition of "Tribalism". Macmillan Dictionary. 2018.
- ↑ "Tribalism". Merriam-Webster Dictionary. 2018.
- ↑ Definition of tribalism; http://www.macmillandictionary.com/dictionary/british/tribalism Definition of tribalism by Macmillan dictionary
- ↑ James, Paul. et al., Sustainable Communities, Sustainable Development: Other Paths for Papua New Guinea (2012) pdf download
2016
- http://alternet.org/election-2016/faced-donald-trump-and-david-friedman-jews-must-resist-toxic-allure-tribalism
- QUOTE: ... Tribalism is what keeps us from thinking critically about both the American and the Israeli government. Genuine criticism is deeply productive. I shouldn’t have to remind anyone that ignorance isn’t actually bliss, or that “wait and see” is not a viable option. Israeli and American exceptionalism feed off one another, and that combination is about to become downright toxic with Trump and Netanyahu. ... It has to do with my feelings of illegitimacy, you see. Feelings that stem from being half-Jewish — and the wrong half at that. My late mother was a shiksa ...
~350BC
- Aristotle (~384–322 BCE).
- QUOTE: ... A common danger unites even the bitterest enemies. ...