MODERN SOCIETY 10 (2002). ... Czech Republic. In spite of the vast cultural and historical differences · between the minority groups in these communities, members of both · majority tribes exhibited a more punitive attitude toward the minority ... B. The Creation of an Oppositional Minority · Because the criminal law represents the stated ideology and morals of

December 13, 2023 - Our criminal justice system is a “degradation ceremony” whereby we publicly denounce those who violate our fundamental rules, make them “other” and remove them from proper society.

April 30, 2012 - Science advanced, knowledge grew, nature was mastered, but Reason did not conquer and tribalism did not go away. In every country where the question has been studied, incarceration rates for members of some minority groups greatly exceed those for the majority population. Disproportionate incarceration is not a problem of a single ethnic group or one of a set of historical circumstances. It is a global problem that is fundamentally connected to social group identity. This Article explores the role that criminal law serves in group-identity formation.

Robert Everest, On the Influence of Social Degradation in Producing Pauperism and Crime, as Exemplified in the Free Coloured Citizens and Foreigners in the United States, Journal of the Statistical Society of London, Vol. 18, No. 3 (Sep., 1855), pp. 222-239

May 21, 2018 - Violence & Genocide — This is by no means harsh by any sense of the imagination. The very philosophical framework by which the Nazi’s, Joseph Stalin, and every other perpetrator of a murderous rampage stems from toxic tribalism.

June 13, 2025 - An opponent of tribalism might concede most of the above but note that although tribalism was once important for human sociality, it is unnecessary and unhelpful today, like a vestigial organ that causes more problems than it is worth. We solve the problem posed by the business example I offered above with the criminal justice system.

January 7, 2020 - Self-serving “our way or the ... in racial discrimination, xenophobia, religious prejudice, gender discrimination and even the distrust some harbor for arcane college professors and their so-called “hidden knowledge.” All know its ...

Contrarily, tribalism is negative when it generates ethnic hatred and war. The intertribal warfare and ethnic divide in Africa is tribalism’s worst manifestation. Another example of negative tribalism is the disintegration of Yugoslavia in the early 1990s into smaller competing states.

February 18, 2021 - EXCERPT FROM CHAPTER 3−“TRIBALISM,” OF IVAN’S BOOK: DOMESTIC GENOCIDE: THE INSTITUTIONALIZATION OF SOCIETY For the better part of a decade, a San Francisco Bay Area drug and gun ring sold tons of cocaine to the Crips and Bloods street gangs of Los Angeles and funneled millions in drug profits to a Latin American guerrilla army…

July 21, 2025 - Now that we understand tribalism as a natural human phenomenon, let’s explore how it manifests—starting at the individual level and growing into larger group behavior, often exacerbated by influential leaders. Tim Urban, author of What’s Our Problem?: A Self-Help Book for Societies, offers a powerful analogy of “low-rung thinking” versus “high-rung thinking,” describing how individuals can get caught in mental patterns that lead to tribal consequences.

March 31, 2019 - However, evidence suggests that degradation of the environment from various sources, including climate change, is upsetting the delicate ecosystems that make it possible and potentially contributing to an increase in the frequency and severity of inter-tribal violence (Parenti 2011; Hendrix & Salehyan 2012; Suliman 1993; Raleigh & Kniveton 2012; Buhaug & Rød 2006; Kuznar & Sedlmeyer 2005).

Unlike traditional crime theories that center on individual behavior, this theory posits that high crime levels are often the result of weak social structures within a community, leading to a breakdown in social norms and cooperation among residents.

January 17, 2017 - In response to ”degeneration theory” – a biblically derived idea that non state societies had degenerated from a previous civilized state – late nineteenth century anthropologists theorized tribal organization as the second stage of social and political formation in an evolutionary ...

December 1, 2018 - Combined with a defendant's criminal history, the final level determines the range of sentences recommended under the guidelines. I propose that tribes alone decide offense levels for crimes committed in Indian country. This proposal aims to (I) enhance tribal sovereignty over on-reservation violence and thereby provide tribes with experience regulating felonies; (2) increase respect among tribal governments and their members for federal criminal prosecutions; and (3) decrease the racial sentencing disparity between Indians and non-Indians.Read more

June 5, 2019 - We live in an increasingly polarised society. With each emerging debate – immigration, tax law, sexual misconduct, gun control – it seems we are plunged ever deeper in a cycle of outrage, distrust and recrimination. Indeed, often the mere possibility that someone is a member of the “other side” is enough to garner vitriol and slander, regardless of their intentions. This behavior, known as “moral tribalism”, is hardly surprising when considered through the lens of social science.

February 22, 2026 - When these norms weaken or collapse – during rapid industrialization, economic upheaval, or major social transitions – individuals lose their moral compass. The resulting disorientation creates conditions ripe for deviant and criminal behavior.

August 30, 2023 - Khaldun’s theory of tribal politics, while written centuries ago, is a powerful parable. It shows how the breakdown of meaningful social relationships leads to political decay. What society has lost is asabiyya—the glue that holds us together.

1 day ago - Tribalism is the state of being organized by, or advocating for, tribes or tribal lifestyles. Human evolution primarily occurred in small hunter-gatherer groups, as opposed to in larger and more recently settled agricultural societies or civilizations. With a negative connotation and in a political ...

December 21, 2022 - It is my perspective that much of what is called “tribalism” today is in fact “nationalism” and is very much a product of nation-states’ politics. What we’re encountering here is a classic case of projection: We find in ourselves feelings that discomfit us, that run against the grain of so much of what we’re taught as we grow up within our society...