Social identity and the perception of history: cultural representations of Aotearoa/New Zealand

Liu, James H.; Wilson, Marc; McClure, John; Higgins, Te Ripowai

doi:10.1002/(sici)1099-0992(199912)29:8<1021::aid-ejsp975>3.3.co;2-w

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“…Consistent with this idea, Liu et al. () claim that history “is the story of the making of an ingroup” (p. 1023).…”

Section: From Social Representations Of History To Historical Chartersmentioning

confidence: 95%

“…Such events will be regarded as more relevant to current issues than others because they are regularly invoked in the context of debate as warrants of legitimacy (Reicher & Hopkins, ; Sibley et al., ). For example, in New Zealand, the Treaty of Waitangi signed between Maori chiefs and the British Crown in 1840 is consensually perceived by both Māori and NZ Europeans (its two largest ethnic groups) as the most important event in the nation's history (Liu et al., ). It regularly appears in public discourse regarding all issues to do with ethnic diversity/equity and immigration (see Kirkwood, Liu, & Weatherall, ) and is the centerpiece of major recent histories of New Zealand (Belich, ; King, ).…”

Section: From Social Representations Of History To Historical Chartersmentioning

confidence: 99%

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History Matters: Effects of Culture‐specific Symbols on Political Attitudes and Intergroup Relations

Liu

Sibley

Huang

2013

Political Psychology

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A theory of the historical anchoring and mobilization of political attitudes is proposed, arguing that culturespecific symbols, configured by historical charters, are an important resource in defining nationhood and legitimizing public opinion in a way that makes some political attitudes difficult to change. Five studies in New Zealand and Taiwan using diverse methods converged to show that historical events with "charter status" have an additive effect in explaining variance in political attitudes regarding biculturalism in New Zealand and independence in Taiwan even after controlling for the effects of Social Dominance Orientation, Right-Wing Authoritarianism, relevant social identities, and collective guilt. Field and lab experiments showed that the impact of historical symbols did not depend on the mobilization of social identity (e.g., increasing mean scores and indirect effects), but the historical anchoring of political attitudes in representations was resistant to change. Manipulations of the salience of historical events changed levels of social identification, but did not change mean levels of support for New Zealand biculturalism or Taiwanese independence. Even an intense and immersive pretest/posttest design taking high school students on a national museum tour failed to change attitudes towards biculturalism in New Zealand.Although many instances of violent intergroup conflict in recent memory have involved cultural groups built around ethnicity, nationality and religion; theory and research on the psychology of intergroup relations is typically formulated without making use of culture-specific systems of

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“…Consistent with this idea, Liu et al. () claim that history “is the story of the making of an ingroup” (p. 1023).…”

Section: From Social Representations Of History To Historical Chartersmentioning

confidence: 95%

Section: From Social Representations Of History To Historical Chartersmentioning

confidence: 99%

History Matters: Effects of Culture‐specific Symbols on Political Attitudes and Intergroup Relations

Liu

Sibley

Huang

2013

Political Psychology

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“…Liu et al () highlighted the point that different groups often promote different historical narratives. Specifically, groups tend to frame history in different ways in order to lend legitimacy to their group's current actions.…”

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Ideology and Post‐Colonial Society

Sibley

Osborne

2016

Political Psychology

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The Dark Duo Model of Post-Colonial Ideology states that post-colonial nations possess a specific set of sociostructural conditions that foster a unique pair of complementary ideologies responsible for maintaining the status quo. These are the ideologies of Historical Negation and Symbolic Exclusion. Together, these ideologies articulate a pair of discourses that draw upon culturally sanctioned repertoires to effectively resolve the collective dissonance created by past-and present-injustices experienced by Indigenous peoples. Historical Negation and Symbolic Exclusion form a joint ideological system that legitimizes inequality in two critical social domains common to all post-colonial societies: one domain relating to resource allocations for Indigenous peoples and the other domain relating to representation and membership in the nation's identity. In the current article, we review and integrate over 10 years of research on post-colonial intergroup relations in New Zealand, leading up to a formal presentation of the Dark Duo Model. Our work in this area indicates that Historical Negation and Symbolic Exclusion are psychometrically distinct constructs that are stable over time. A meta-analytic review of 13 independent samples (N 5 18,903) shows that both ideologies are independently associated with Social Dominance Orientation and Right-Wing Authoritarianism among members of the dominant (European) group in New Zealand. We review and explain why there are systematic ethnic group differences in support for these dual ideologies and why positive intergroup contact with the dominant group attenuates resistance to Symbolic Exclusion amongst M aori (the Indigenous peoples). We also show that Historical Negation and Symbolic Exclusion exert powerful unique effects on voter sentiment and support for different social policies relating to biculturalism and that these ideologies mediate the effects of Social Dominance Orientation and Right-Wing Authoritarianism on various sociopolitical attitudes. Our Dark Duo Model is a context-specific extension of the Dual-Process Model of Ideology and Prejudice that explains how specific post-colonial ideologies are generated and used to maintain social inequalities that systematically disadvantage Indigenous peoples.KEY WORDS: ideology, contact, ingroup projection, dual-process model, indigenous, M aori Integration, as stated, implies some continuation of M aori culture. Much of it, though, has already departed and only the fittest elements (worthiest of preservation) have survived the onset of civilisation. Language, arts and crafts, and the institutions of the marae are the chief relics. Only the M aori's [sic] themselves can decide whether these 115 0162-895X

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“…These results are consistent with the literature on historical representation, which demonstrates that citizens of the same country may perceive the same national events in dramatically different ways (Huang, Liu, & Chang, ; Liu et al ., ). As Liu et al .…”

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Social change inSouthAfrica: A historical approach to relative deprivation

Sablonnière

Auger

Taylor

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British J Social Psychol

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Dramatic social change involves profound transformations that impact an entire group moving forward. Such is the reality for race relations in South Africa. Research has found that most people report a trajectory of group-based relative deprivation that appears to parallel actual historical events. However, a significant subset of respondents reported a trajectory in which the perceived status of their group remained stable despite dramatic social change. The first goal of our research was to assess whether both the historically 'assumed' and 'stable' group trajectories arise consistently among South Africans (N = 2,989). The second and more important goal was to identify the factors that might account for this dichotomy in perceived trajectory building on both traditional and recent advances in relative deprivation theory as well as on social identity theory. We hypothesized that higher levels of in-group identification would be associated with the historically assumed group trajectory. Results supported this hypothesis. The third goal was to link the different group trajectories with important psychological outcomes such as personal well-being, group self-esteem, and interracial attitudes.

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Social identity and the perception of history: cultural representations of Aotearoa/New Zealand

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History Matters: Effects of Culture‐specific Symbols on Political Attitudes and Intergroup Relations

History Matters: Effects of Culture‐specific Symbols on Political Attitudes and Intergroup Relations

Ideology and Post‐Colonial Society

Social change inSouthAfrica: A historical approach to relative deprivation

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