Seriality

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title: "Seriality" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public tags: ["social-constructionism", "collective-identity"] description: "Social construct" topic_path: "general/social-constructionism" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seriality" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0

::summary Social construct ::

A seriality is a social construct that differs from a mere group of individuals. Serialities take the form of labels that are either imposed onto persons or voluntarily adopted by them. A seriality can be "unbound" and self-identified, such as workers, patriots, or anarchists, or "bound" and identified by authority census and elections, such as Asian-Americans or Tutsis.

Benedict Anderson described bound seriality as an insidious power grab by political authority. When a state gains an interest in power, it may serialize their citizens to identify them such as by forcing citizens to adopt a family name or, more recently, a national identification number.

References

• Benedict Anderson. The Spectre of Comparisons. 1998.

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