‘Not a party to this crime’: The reciprocal constitution of identity and morality by signatories of the Academics for Peace petition in Turkey

IF 3.2 2区心理学 Q1 PSYCHOLOGY, SOCIAL

British Journal of Social Psychology Pub Date : 2024-07-17 DOI:10.1111/bjso.12774

Yasemin Gülsüm Acar, Canan Coşkan, Elif Sandal-Önal, Stephen Reicher

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Abstract

In this paper, we examine how social identity, moral obligation and the relationship between the two shaped support for the 2016 Academics for Peace petition in Turkey. We examine the pre-trial statements of nine defendants charged for signing the petition and appearing in court on the same day in December 2018. We first conduct an inductive thematic analysis on one statement, and then, using the themes from this analysis, we conducted a deductive thematic analysis on the remaining eight statements. In line with the existing studies, we find considerable evidence that social identity and moral obligation are invoked as key reasons for signing in this highly repressive context. However, rather than these being separate factors, the two are reciprocally constitutive. That is, social identities define moral obligations and, at the same time, enacting moral obligations defines identity (both the position of the individual in the group and the nature of the group in the world). In discussion, we consider the broader implications of a moralized view of social identities for our understanding of both collective action and social identity processes more generally.

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不是这一罪行的当事人"：土耳其学术界和平请愿签名者的身份与道德的相互构成。

在本文中，我们研究了社会认同、道德义务以及二者之间的关系如何影响了对 2016 年土耳其学者和平请愿活动的支持。我们研究了 2018 年 12 月因签署请愿书并在同一天出庭而被指控的九名被告的审前陈述。我们首先对一份陈述进行归纳式主题分析，然后利用分析得出的主题，对其余八份陈述进行演绎式主题分析。与现有研究一致，我们发现大量证据表明，在这种高度压制的背景下，社会认同和道德义务被援引为签名的关键原因。然而，这两个因素并不是相互独立的，而是相互构成的。也就是说，社会身份决定了道德义务，同时，履行道德义务也决定了身份（个人在群体中的地位和群体在世界上的性质）。在讨论中，我们考虑了社会身份道德化观点对我们理解集体行动和社会身份认同过程的广泛影响。

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British Journal of Social Psychology PSYCHOLOGY, SOCIAL-

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