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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Replying to @generativist
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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Replying to @yungneocon
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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Replying to @generativist @yungneocon
Tribalism as an analogy works well -- especially during transition periods towards chiefdoms consequent to scarcity -- because physical space affords the same shape of cognition. But...that may not be the common meaning. And, it's really hard to compress.
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Replying to @generativist
Not to get super pedantic here, lol, but this reversed it—the hierarchies induced scarcity not the other way around :) . That said there are plenty of other ideas (cliques, in groups, cognitive dissonance, halo effects, empathy w authority etc which capture the key idea).
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So, that's the hard part (as always). I don't think those are good substitutes. But as amalgamation (of those terms):
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Replying to @generativist @yungneocon
Tribalism is cliques with cues that afford the generalizable perception of in-groups and out-group which condition cognition and social perceptions in a way that reinforces and generates isolated groups. (Or something.)
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Replying to @generativist @yungneocon
I guess this does motivate me to find a term more couched upon statistical physics though (which is the real foundation of my model). If we're having this discussion, it kinda means the term doesn't work well even between subject-matter experts.
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Replying to @generativist
Well homophily tries to somewhat capture it. But also, you have Schellings work in group formation absent individual agency.
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Yea. That's true. Homophily + motivated cognition gets close. And, no, not sure I have. Link, please? My section on social power is by far the worst of my dissertation right now...
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Replying to @generativist
Uhh lemme see. It’s a bit dated both in method & subject matter but basically he showed that racialized spatial stratification doesn’t require conscious prejudice using an evolutionary game theory model.
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Oh, wait -- the segregation model?
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