{{Short description|Social construct}} {{see also|Seriality (gender studies)}} 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. <!-- This explanation is poor because the concept is difficult. Sorry. -->
==See also== *Patronymic *Matronymic *Family name
==References== * Benedict Anderson. ''The Spectre of Comparisons''. 1998.
==See also== * ''Critique of Dialectical Reason''
Category:Social constructionism Category:Collective identity