Topics — What a work is about. Nucleation holds whatever reading the owner files here, whether or not an Anthology of the SOTA topic could also hold it; instruction for ML practice belongs to the anthology (ADR-048). The words are seeded from the clusters the reading-time triage of 2026-09-25 found, and grow by decision.
Social identity — the psychology of group membership — social identity and self-categorization theory, how people categorize themselves and others and when a group identity becomes salient, identification and its measurement, in-group bias and intergroup relations, rivalry, recategorization and common in-group identity, group-based emotion, crowds and fandom. What a group is, as ontology, is social-ontology; here it is how people come to see themselves and act as members (ADR-062).
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| # | Title | Summary | Status |
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| CLAIM-490 | A fanbase is a mixture of spectators who relate to the club in different ways, as supporters, followers, fans and flâneurs, so the public stance credited to it is weighted towards the most committed types before any bias in who is sampled | From Giulianotti’s taxonomy (THEORY-1111): supporters are hot and bound to the club as community, while flâneurs are cool consumers who switch clubs. The expressions that make up “the fans hate the owner” come from the hot types, and the cool ones take no part. So the stance is the committed segment’s by composition, before amplification or preference falsification. It does not say the committed segment is a minority, or that its stance is illegitimate. | Proposed |
| CLAIM-491 v5 | No action is selfless in the sense of aiming at a good that is no self’s: what is called selflessness, collectivist or altruistic, is concern for the good of a self extended to include others or a group, so collectivism is self-interest on a larger self-identity | The owner’s position, from the discussion that raised self-categorization theory (2026-10-28 and 29). Selves come at more and less inclusive levels: social identity in self-categorization theory, fusion, self-expansion, interdependent self-construal. Apparent selflessness is then concern for a larger self. Cialdini et al.’s “oneness” result is its best evidence; Batson et al.’s rejoinder and the risk of trivial truth are its objections. It does not say people are self-centred, or that groups have no good of their own. | Proposed |
| CLAIM-493 v2 | When a fanbase is set against an outside party such as its club’s owner, its more extreme members become more prototypical of it, so a vocal minority can fix the fanbase’s public stance through a group process and not only through biased sampling of who speaks | A derivation from self-categorization theory: in an intergroup context the more extreme members of a group gain prototypicality (Turner et al. 1994, p. 458, reporting Haslam and Turner). If influence follows prototypicality (Turner 2005, unread), a fanbase opposed to its owner will treat its most hostile members as most representative. A minority stance can then become the fanbase’s public stance by a group process that A2’s preference falsification and amplification do not need. It does not say that the private majority agrees. | Proposed |