School of Psychology & Neuroscience, University of St Andrews, St Andrews, UK.
Independent Researcher, Istanbul, Turkey.
Br J Soc Psychol. 2024 Oct;63(4):2180-2199. doi: 10.1111/bjso.12774. Epub 2024 Jul 17.
In this paper, we examine how social identity, moral obligation and the relationship between the two shaped support for the 2016 Academics for Peace petition in Turkey. We examine the pre-trial statements of nine defendants charged for signing the petition and appearing in court on the same day in December 2018. We first conduct an inductive thematic analysis on one statement, and then, using the themes from this analysis, we conducted a deductive thematic analysis on the remaining eight statements. In line with the existing studies, we find considerable evidence that social identity and moral obligation are invoked as key reasons for signing in this highly repressive context. However, rather than these being separate factors, the two are reciprocally constitutive. That is, social identities define moral obligations and, at the same time, enacting moral obligations defines identity (both the position of the individual in the group and the nature of the group in the world). In discussion, we consider the broader implications of a moralized view of social identities for our understanding of both collective action and social identity processes more generally.
在本文中，我们考察了社会认同、道德义务以及两者之间的关系如何塑造了对 2016 年土耳其“学者为和平”请愿书的支持。我们研究了 2018 年 12 月 9 名被告因签署请愿书并在同一天出庭而受到指控的预审陈述。我们首先对一份陈述进行了归纳式主题分析，然后，使用该分析中的主题，对其余 8 份陈述进行了演绎式主题分析。与现有研究一致，我们发现有相当多的证据表明，在这种高度压制性的环境下，社会认同和道德义务被援引为签署的关键原因。然而，这两者并不是相互独立的因素，而是相互构成的。也就是说，社会认同定义了道德义务，而履行道德义务又定义了身份（个人在群体中的位置和群体在世界上的性质）。在讨论中，我们考虑了将社会认同道德化的观点对我们理解集体行动和更广泛的社会认同过程的更广泛影响。
