1898 A. W. Small tr. G. Simmel in 3 671 The preservation of group identity in this case depends..upon the amount of invariability in the vehicles of this unity. [The Ger. original does not use a formal parallel.]
1973 A. Dundes p. xiii The relationship between folklore and a sense of group identity.
2011 S. Goldsmith ix. 210 The Japanese appear more interested, workwise, in group identity.