Defining American National Identity
An Exploration into Measurement and Its Outcomes
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11046469 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Phoebe Bui (0000-0001-5313-4633, London School of Economics and Political Science, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2024 |
| Volume | 52 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 3-21 |
| Publication date | 2024-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Nationalities Papers (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0090-5992 • E-ISSN: 1465-3923 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/nps.2021.79 |
| OpenAlex | W4280586166 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
| References cited | 44 |
Scholars of American identity have typically concluded that Americans more widely endorse civic values than ascriptive ones in surveys, though IATs suggest that there are robust associations between race and American identity. In addition to this apparent contradiction, these studies share similar methodological limitations: the discrepancy between reported attitudes and real-world behavior. Though these methods are well-cited in the wider literature, attitudes are often conflated to be synonymous with behavior in American identity scholarship. I argue that it is necessary to study how Americans conceive of their national identity in different situational contexts. Using the complementary techniques of semi-structured interviewing and qualitative vignettes, I explore and compare the ways in which 10 American graduate students make sense of their national identity in a series of abstract and concrete settings. Results of a multi-method text analysis approach demonstrate that: 1) there are a multitude of components not currently being discussed or measured; 2) the invocation of American identity components depends on their setting; 3) the ways in which components are characterized are just as important as their invocation; and 4) the difficulty expressed by participants to define a singular American identity underscores the continued salience of the multiple traditions thesis
Aesthetics · Cognitive psychology · Conflation · Epistemology · Identity (music · Invocation · National identity · Political science · Salience (neuroscience · Scholarship · Situational ethics · Sociology · Electoral Systems and Political Participation · Psychology · Racial and Ethnic Identity Research · Social and Intergroup Psychology · Social Psychology
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| Unique citing works | 5 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 2,5 |
| Citation span | 2024 - 2026 (3) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 5 |