Social Identity, Interdependence and the Social Group: A Reply to Rabbie et al.
Abstract
Only because individuals are capable of realizing the possibilities of joint action do these possibilities become real; on this basis arise actions having a mutual reference. To say this is fundamentally different from asserting that group facts are subjective constructions in the minds of individuals. They achieve objective expression because we are capable subjectively of grasping them … we must grasp the unusual process that gives rise to groups at the human level … It is the only part-whole relation that depends on the recapitulation of the structure of the whole in the part.
Fields of Study & Subjects
Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation
Social Power and Status Dynamics
Embodied and Extended Cognition
Publication details
- Journal / source
- Social Groups and Identities
- Publisher
- Routledge
- Pages
- 25–63
- Publication date
- 18 May 2026
- Language
- EN
- Document type
- Book chapter