Sherif, “Social Categorization as a Function of Latitude of Acceptance and Series Range.” See also Berger, The Catalyst, which describes two related concepts: the zone of acceptance and the zone of rejection. 22. See Sherif, “Social Categorization.” For a more recent argument that parallels the concept of the latitude of acceptance, see Levendusky, “When Efforts to Depolarize the Electorate Fail.”