Everyday citizenship: Identity claims and their reception
Author(s) / Creator(s)
Hopkins, Nick
Reicher, Stephen D.
van Rijswijk, Wendy
Abstract / Description
Citizenship involves being able to speak and be heard as a member of the community. This can be a formal right (e.g., a right to vote). It can also be something experienced in everyday life. However, the criteria for being judged a fellow member of the community are multiple and accorded different weights by different people. Thus, although one may self-define alongside one’s fellows, the degree to which these others reciprocate depends on the weight they give to various membership criteria. This suggests we approach everyday community membership in terms of an identity claims-making process in which first, an individual claims membership through invoking certain criteria of belonging, and second, others evaluate that claim. Pursuing this logic we report three experiments investigating the reception of such identity-claims. Study 1 showed that in Scotland a claim to membership of the national ingroup was accepted more if couched in terms of place of birth and ancestry rather than just in terms of one’s subjective identification. Studies 2 and 3 showed that this differential acceptance mattered for the claimant’s ability to be heard as a community member. We discuss the implications of these studies for the conceptualization of community membership and the realization of everyday citizenship rights.
Keyword(s)
citizenship identity claims-making intergroup sensitivity effect black sheep effectPersistent Identifier
Date of first publication
2015-10-26
Journal title
Journal of Social and Political Psychology
Volume
3
Issue
2
Page numbers
84–106
Publisher
PsychOpen GOLD
Publication status
publishedVersion
Review status
peerReviewed
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Citation
Hopkins, N., Reicher, S. D., & van Rijswijk, W. (2015). Everyday citizenship: Identity claims and their reception. Journal of Social and Political Psychology, 3(2), 84–106. https://doi.org/10.5964/jspp.v3i2.380
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Author(s) / Creator(s)Hopkins, Nick
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Author(s) / Creator(s)Reicher, Stephen D.
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Author(s) / Creator(s)van Rijswijk, Wendy
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Date of first publication2015-10-26
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Abstract / DescriptionCitizenship involves being able to speak and be heard as a member of the community. This can be a formal right (e.g., a right to vote). It can also be something experienced in everyday life. However, the criteria for being judged a fellow member of the community are multiple and accorded different weights by different people. Thus, although one may self-define alongside one’s fellows, the degree to which these others reciprocate depends on the weight they give to various membership criteria. This suggests we approach everyday community membership in terms of an identity claims-making process in which first, an individual claims membership through invoking certain criteria of belonging, and second, others evaluate that claim. Pursuing this logic we report three experiments investigating the reception of such identity-claims. Study 1 showed that in Scotland a claim to membership of the national ingroup was accepted more if couched in terms of place of birth and ancestry rather than just in terms of one’s subjective identification. Studies 2 and 3 showed that this differential acceptance mattered for the claimant’s ability to be heard as a community member. We discuss the implications of these studies for the conceptualization of community membership and the realization of everyday citizenship rights.en_US
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Publication statuspublishedVersion
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Review statuspeerReviewed
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CitationHopkins, N., Reicher, S. D., & van Rijswijk, W. (2015). Everyday citizenship: Identity claims and their reception. Journal of Social and Political Psychology, 3(2), 84–106. https://doi.org/10.5964/jspp.v3i2.380en_US
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ISSN2195-3325
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Persistent Identifierhttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12034/1378
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Persistent Identifierhttps://doi.org/10.23668/psycharchives.1827
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Language of contenteng
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PublisherPsychOpen GOLD
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Is version ofhttps://doi.org/10.5964/jspp.v3i2.380
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Keyword(s)citizenshipen_US
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Keyword(s)identity claims-makingen_US
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Keyword(s)intergroup sensitivity effecten_US
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Keyword(s)black sheep effecten_US
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Dewey Decimal Classification number(s)150
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TitleEveryday citizenship: Identity claims and their receptionen_US
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DRO typearticle
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Issue2
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Journal titleJournal of Social and Political Psychology
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Page numbers84–106
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Volume3
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Visible tag(s)Version of Record