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Author Analytic
Siegel, Bernard J.
Author Combination
Siegel, Bernard J.
Title Analytic
DEFENSIVE STRUCTURING AND ENVIRONMENTAL STRESS
Title Combination
DEFENSIVE STRUCTURING AND ENVIRONMENTAL STRESS
Journal Title
The American Journal of Sociology
Date of Publication
1970 July
Volume ID
76
Issue ID
1
Location in Work
11-32
Location URL
https://www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/2775434.pdf
Notes
Last Accessed Online 2023 January 7.
Abstract
This essay explores a kind of adaptation, referred to as defensive structuring, that recurs with great regularity among groups that perceive themsleves as expoosed to environmental stress of long duration with which they cannot cope directly and aggressively. Adaptive elements inlcude: authoritarian control over members, exercised by a small specially knowledgeable elite; a high rate of endogamy; cultivation of cultural identity symbols; and early socialization for impulse control. A defensive adaptation emerges from specifiable kinds both of prior structural characteristics and environmental changes in interaction. Examples are provided from cases examined in some depth. The response syndrome is discussed in relation to social and revitalization movements and closed corporate communities.
Call Number
752.S5.D4.1 (VF)
Keywords
Stress ; Collective Behavior ; Sociology ; Gropus ; Social Movements ;