Rituals, Emotional Entrainment and National Identification
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Abstract Although the effects of nationalized mega-events on national identification have been theorized and examined by a number of studies, little is known about the specific mechanisms that bring about changes in people’s attitudes towards their country. The authors hypothesize that during nationwide rituals, in particular sports mega-events, participants experience collective emotional entrainment in the context of national symbols and practices that in turn increases their identification with their nation. The authors present results of a naturalistic quasi-experimental study around the 2012 uefa European Football Championship with participants from Germany, the United Kingdom, and Poland. Using a multidimensional measurement of national identification, the authors show that the experience of emotional entrainment is associated with changes in symbolic, civic, and solidary facets of identification in ways specific to the different national contexts.
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Other measures of collective effervescence focus solely on emotional entrainment or on a combined connection with others and to the sacred.
“Other measures of effervescence focused solely on emotional entrainment (e.g., “How emotional have you felt about the…?”, “How much have you let yourself be carried away by the mood of other fans?”) (von Scheve et al., 2017), or on a combined connection with others and to the sacred (e.g., “I felt connected to others who were present at the event”, “I felt as if almost everyone there felt the same”
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- Authors
- von Scheve, C., Ismer, S., Kozłowska, M., & Solms-Baruth, C.
- Affiliations
- Department of Sociology, Freie Universität Berlin Germany
- Philipps University of Marburg (DE)
- Freie Universität Berlin (DE)
- Venue
- Comparative Sociology
- Publisher
- Walter de Gruyter GmbH
- Published
- 2017-10-09
- Volume
- 16
- Issue
- 5
- Pages
- 585-612
- ISSN
- 1569-1322 (ISSN-L)
- 1569-1330
- OpenAlex
- W2769674497
- Cited by
- 20
- References
- 52
- Citations by year
- 2025: 2 · 2024: 4 · 2023: 1 · 2022: 6 · 2021: 2 · 2020: 3 · 2019: 2
- FWCI
- 2.87
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Comparative Sociology (publishedVersion)
- Funders
- Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft
- Freie Universität Berlin
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Gender Studies › Sports, Gender, and Society
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › National Identity and Symbolism
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Social and Intergroup Psychology
- Keywords
- national identification, national rituals, sports mega-events, national symbols, symbolic identification, mega-events, Germany, United Kingdom, Poland
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