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Group identity without social interactions?
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 03 April 2025
Abstract
We present several arguments for the preeminence of social interactions in determining and giving shape to societies. In our view, a society can emerge from social interaction and relationship patterns without the need for establishing an a priori limit on who actually belongs to it. Markers of group identity are one element among many that allow societies to persist.
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