School of Education, Tel-Aviv University, Tel-Aviv, Israel.
Pers Soc Psychol Rev. 2009 Nov;13(4):354-79. doi: 10.1177/1088868309344412. Epub 2009 Aug 21.
The present article delineates the complex structure of collective identity by incorporating two levels of analysis. The first, the micro level, pertains to individual society members' recognition of and categorization as belonging to a group, with the accompanying cognitive, emotional, and behavioral consequences. The second, the macro level, pertains to the notion of collective identity that denotes the shared awareness by constituents of a society of being members of a collective. This level is founded on two pillars: One pillar consists of generic features that characterize the collective identity. These features apply to macro-level collectives and allow a comparison among them. The other pillar is particular and consists of content characteristics that provide the unique features of the collective identity. The conceptual framework is applied to the analysis of the national collective identity as a case example. The contributions and implications of the described conception are discussed.
本文通过纳入两个分析层面来描绘集体认同的复杂结构。第一个层面是微观层面，涉及个体社会成员对属于某个群体的认知和分类，以及随之而来的认知、情感和行为后果。第二个层面是宏观层面，涉及集体认同的概念，即社会成员共同意识到自己是某个集体的成员。这个层面建立在两个支柱之上：一个支柱由描述集体认同的通用特征组成。这些特征适用于宏观层面的集体，并允许对它们进行比较。另一个支柱是特殊的，由内容特征组成，提供了集体认同的独特特征。该概念框架被应用于对国家集体认同的分析，作为一个案例示例。讨论了所描述概念的贡献和影响。
