In this paper, we examine how social identity, moral obligation and the relationship between the two shaped support for the 2016 Academics for Peace petition in Turkey. We examine the pre‐trial statements of nine defendants charged for signing the petition and appearing in court on the same day in December 2018. We first conduct an inductive thematic analysis on one statement, and then, using the themes from this analysis, we conducted a deductive thematic analysis on the remaining eight statements. In line with the existing studies, we find considerable evidence that social identity and moral obligation are invoked as key reasons for signing in this highly repressive context. However, rather than these being separate factors, the two are reciprocally constitutive. That is, social identities define moral obligations and, at the same time, enacting moral obligations defines identity (both the position of the individual in the group and the nature of the group in the world). In discussion, we consider the broader implications of a moralized view of social identities for our understanding of both collective action and social identity processes more generally.

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“不是这一罪行的一方”：土耳其和平学术组织请愿书签署者的身份与道德对等宪法


在本文中，我们研究了社会身份、道德义务以及两者之间的关系如何影响对 2016 年土耳其和平学术请愿的支持。我们审查了 9 名被指控在 2018 年 12 月同一天签署申请并出庭的被告的审前陈述。我们首先对一个陈述进行归纳主题分析，然后，利用该分析的主题，我们对其余八个陈述进行演绎主题分析。与现有研究一致，我们发现大量证据表明，在这种高度压抑的背景下，社会身份和道德义务被援引为签名的关键原因。然而，这两者不是独立的因素，而是相互构成的。也就是说，社会身份定义了道德义务，同时，制定道德义务定义了身份（个人在群体中的位置和群体在世界上的性质）。在讨论中，我们考虑了社会身份的道德化观点对我们更普遍地理解集体行动和社会身份过程的更广泛影响。