Declining Legitimacy and Social Mobility

Marvin Washington

International Studies of Management & Organization, 2004, vol. 34, issue 4, 32-51

Abstract: Organizations in an association derive social identity by virtue of their membership in the association. They also obtain social identities from membership in lower-order groups in the association and cross-cutting groups in the association formed by shared demographic attributes. When peers leave the association to join a rival association, members of the association may find their social identity disconfirmed by such defections. A study of why colleges left the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA) and joined the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) shows that colleges were simultaneously influenced by defectors from a lower-order category (athletic conference) and from crosscutting categories (historically black colleges and religious denominations). The results also indicate that defectors from an athletic conference were more influential than defectors from the same religious denomination or racial group. Implications for the study of multiple social identities are outlined.

Date: 2004
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