Collective and group-based pride is currently covered across a number of disciplines including nationalism studies, sociology and social psychology, with little communication between fields. This multidisciplinary collection encourages interdisciplinary research and provides a unique insight into the subject, stemming from a psychological perspective. The collection builds upon insights from collective emotion research to consider the relations between collective pride, shame and guilt as well as emotions of anger, empowerment and defiance. Collective pride is examined in contexts that vary from small groups in relatively peaceful competition to protest movements and large groups in divisive conflicts. In the book collective pride is a complex and positive emotional experience evident in the behaviour of groups, that can lead to negative forms of collective hubris in which other groups are devalued or dominated.
Emotions of Collective Pride and Group Identity
brings together international contributors to discuss the theory, research and practice surrounding collective pride in relation to other emotions and collective, cultural and national identity. Divided into two parts, part one explores the philosophy and theory behind collective pride and its extremes. Part two draws upon the latest quantitative and qualitative empirical research to focus on specific issues, for example, happiness, national pride and the 2010 World Cup. Topics covered include:
- cultural and national pride and identity
- positive feelings of unity and solidarity
- dynamic relationships between collective pride, guilt and shame
- theories of emotions in ritual, symbolic and affective practices
- collective pride and collective hubris in organizations
- perspectives on national events from young people.
This book will appeal to an interdisciplinary audience in the area of affect studies and emotion research including social psychologists, sociologists, historians and anthropologists.
Introduction Gavin Brent Sullivan Part 1: Philosophical, Conceptual and
Theoretical Issues The Rational Appropriateness of Collective Emotions Mikko
Salmela. Self, Certainty and Collective Emotions Gunter Gebauer. Emotions,
Pride and the Dynamics of Collective Ritual Events David Knottnerus.
Nationalist Libido: On Love and Circuits of Attachment Derek Hook. The Social
Consequences of Collective Emotions: National Identification, Solidarity, and
Out-Group Derogation Manuela Beyer, Christian von Scheve, Sven Ismer.
Collective Pride and Collective Arrogance in Organizations Gavin Brent
Sullivan, James Hollway Part 2: Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Collective
Pride and Related Emotions Collective Pride and Prejudice: A Naturalistic
Study of the Effects of Group Pride Versus Individual Pride on Attitudes to
Migrants Following a National Team Victory Gavin Brent Sullivan, Kitty
Dumont. Happiness, National Pride and the 2010 World Cup Valerie Mųller.
Collective Emotions, German National Pride and the 2006 World Cup Gavin Brent
Sullivan. Collective Emotions and the Imagined National Community Sven Ismer.
Marketing National Pride: Commercialization and the Extreme Right in Germany
Cynthia Miller-Idriss. Construction of Belongingness in Late Modernity:
National Pride in Brazil from a Social Inequality Research Perspective Thomas
Kühn. Is Collective Pride Possible After Intergroup Violence? A Case Study of
Kenya Following the Post-Election Violence of 2007 and 2008 Gavin Brent
Sullivan, Rose Ruto-Korir. Developing the Capacity to Share in Collective
Emotion: Research on Children and Young People's Perspectives Gavin Brent
Sullivan. Summary: New Directions in Theory and Practice.
Gavin Brent Sullivan is Reader (Identity and Resilience in Communities and Organisations) at the Centre for Research in Psychology, Behaviour and Achievement, Coventry University, UK.