2/ Increasing tribalism refers to the shift of social interaction patterns and political expressions common to States towards those typical of tribes. Such patterns allow for stable Tribes. And, they create unstable States.
1/ Within political science, sociology, or anthropology, tribalism alludes to something technical that isn't defined w.r.t. Native Americans. It is a sociocomplexity classification, roughly discretized by Bands, Tribes, Chiefdoms, and States. https://twitter.com/dylanmatt/status/985657017569370112 …
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3/ That aside, if there are Native Americans raising such concerns, it's important to listen. The meaning of technical terms to experts is different from the interpretation by non-experts. Poor
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That said, the term may be a bit, er, dated. It's like "groupthink" or "mob psychology" or "brainwashing" or "cult of personality", all of which aren't really referential & persist because of non-academic popularity.
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Perhaps. I may be reading my meaning to much in others' words. For me, when I speak of tribalism in American politics, I'm referring to cognition conditioned by experientially-constructed stereotypes which partition people into highly-coupled sub-units.
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Oh? Why do they come up in SETI? I've been trying to demonstrate various Schelling Point like conditions (and inversions) in my model. So, contexts removed from the one's I've thought over (too many times) would be very helpful to me!
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The focal points idea has had some of the most longevity of Schellings ideas because of their wide spread empirical regularity in behavioral econ—the question I think is interesting is explaining how or why they emerge in the 1st place w/o begging the question
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