Nerd and Jock 'peer-crowd' identity was measured on the same 5-point scale.
(In real life, we know nothing about the individuals in the crowd, since their identity as CIA employees is confidential, but this seems like a reasonable bet).
The cover for Nancy Baym's book "Playing to the Crowd". CHERIE HU: Identity is a crucial part of music fandom, but some would argue that technology has diluted music consumption's role in identity formation, and vice versa.
Along with Swift's Identity crowd and Bowers's White Knights, there was at least one more, wackier sect in play here, right?
New York's queer culture was forged, in large part, under these conditions; the inability to comfortably exist in public according to one's identity crowded many queer people out of "acceptable" society.
Thus, we predicted that a shared identity amongst crowd members would be associated with crowd members' positive experience through two routes, CSR and relationality.
I treacherously deserted the MIT mob to mingle with the high-society crowd, but my MIT identity eventually showed up, triggering a brief silence in the little circle where I was lurking.
It's not that everyone in the protest crowd suddenly assumes the identity of a violent jerk it's that the many peaceful protesters feel a sort of kinship with the violent jerks against the aggressive police.
Starring a young Lindsay Lohan as an outsider who insinuates herself into a high school "in" crowd and loses her identity (a part ably assumed in the musical by Erika Henningsen), the film balanced every-nerd revenge fantasies with sunny life lessons, and it lives on as a mood-elevating cult favorite.
Waving banners of gay pride and identity, a crowd estimated in the hundreds of thousands rallied in the nation's capital today, celebrating the gains of the gay rights movement in recent years and vowing redoubled efforts on issues like hate crime legislation.
