Who counts as an American? : the boundaries of national identity
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Who counts as an American? : the boundaries of national identity
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- Who counts as an American? : the boundaries of national identity
- Title remainder
- the boundaries of national identity
- Statement of responsibility
- Elizabeth Theiss-Morse
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- Loyalty -- Social aspects -- United States
- National characteristics, American
- National characteristics, American -- Psychological aspects
- Group identity -- United States
- Nationalism -- United States -- Psychological aspects
- Social psychology -- United States
- United States -- Social conditions -- 1980-
- Nationalism -- Social aspects -- United States
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- Why is national identity such a potent force in people's lives? And is the force positive or negative? In this thoughtful and provocative book, Elizabeth Theiss-Morse develops a social theory of national identity and uses a national survey, focus groups, and experiments to answer these important questions in the American context. Her results show that the combination of group commitment and the setting of exclusive boundaries on the national group affects how people behave toward their fellow Americans. Strong identifiers care a great deal about their national group. They want to help and to be loyal to their fellow Americans. By limiting who counts as an American, though, these strong identifiers place serious limits on who benefits from their pro-group behavior. Help and loyalty are offered only to 'true Americans,' not Americans who do not count and who are pushed to the periphery of the national group.--
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- Literary form
- non fiction
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- Cambridge Social Sciences eBooks
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