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9- Collective Action (disadvantaged groups' perspectives) Flashcards

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1
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What theory directly links to collective action?

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Social Identity Theory

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What is social identity?

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Someone’s sense of who they are based on group membership

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What do groups give us?

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A sense of belonging in the social world

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Who came up with the Social Identity Model of Collective Action (SIMCA)?

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Van Zomeren et al, 2008

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3 factors of Social Identity Model of Collective Action (SIMCA)

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Group identification, injustice, efficacy

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What is group identification in SIMCA?

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Individuals’ psychological ties with the relevant group

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What is the perceived/felt group-based injustice in SIMCA?

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Individuals’ perceptions of unfairness or experience of anger about the group’s disadvantage

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What are group efficacy beliefs in SIMCA?

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Individuals’ beliefs that the group is able to achieve group goals through unified effort

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What are group efficacy beliefs unique and positive predictors of?

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Individuals’ willingness to engage in collective action

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What associations did Cakal et al find in the role of identification?

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Between Black South Africans’ racial identification and collective action intentions

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What associations did Nelson et al find in the role of identification?

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Between feminist identification and feminist collective action

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Who studied the role of identification?

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Stuermer & Simon, 2004

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Who were more likely to participate in collective action in Stuermer & Simon’s study?

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Those who identified with a formal social movement organisation

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Who studied injustice?

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Bernburg, 2015

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What link did Bernburg examine?

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The link between economic crisis and collective action

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What did Bernburg study using a survey?

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Role of perceived economic loss and political attitudes in protest behaviour

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What did financial loss predict in Bernburg’s study and what conditions were needed for this?

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Protest support and participation, only if they believed their losses to be greater than losses of others

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What did left-wing political attitudes and beliefs in extensive corruption predict? (Bernburg)

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Protest participation and support

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What was the likelihood of protests positively related to? (Bernburg)

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Perceived injustice

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What is efficacy a subjective sense of?

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Injustice insufficient for collective action to occur

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What idea is efficacy to explain collective action?

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Idea that people engage in collective action if they believe this will make it more likely that relevant goals are achieved

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Why do we need a sense of efficacy for collective action?

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It allows us to believe the group has the capacity to engage in collective action

23
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Who investigated efficacy?

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Sabherwal et al

24
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What was Sabherwal et al’s hypothesis?

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Familiarity with Greta Thunberg is positively associated with collective action intentions through collective efficacy beliefs

25
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What did Sabherwal et al believe collective efficacy beliefs mediate?

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The associated between familiarity and collective action intentions

26
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What did Sabherwal et al find that familiarity with Greta Thunberg was positively associated with?

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Collective action intentions through collective efficacy beliefs

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Which age groups were Sabherwal et al’s found associations present across?

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All age groups

28
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Who were Sabherwal et al’s associations stronger among?

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Those who identify as more liberal

29
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What are moral convictions for collective actions?

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Motivation to protect moral beliefs by fighting for what one stands for

30
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What are moral convictions?

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Individuals’ feelings that their stance on a particular issue reflects their core belief about right and wrong

31
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Who investigated dietary behaviours as a form of collective action?

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Judge et al

32
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What was Judge et al’s research question?

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What motivates vegans to engage in collective action on behalf of this social group?

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What did individuals who more frequently engaged in vegan activism show? (Judge et al- 4 points)

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Stronger moral convictions, more collective efficacy, anger, identification

34
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What can injustice, efficacy, morality, and identification be linked to?

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Emotional component

35
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What do emotions have a key role in?

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Human functioning

36
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What does environmental cognitive appraisal lead to?

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Emotional experience, and inclines individuals towards actions

37
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How is anger important for collective action?

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It is the emotional experience of injustice about collective disadvantage

38
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Who investigated anger?

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Stanley et al, 2011

39
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What was Stanley et al’s hypothesis?

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Eco-anger is positively associated with collective action on climate change

40
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2 factors investigated by Stanley et al

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Eco-emotions
Pro-climate behaviour: collective action behaviours and individual behaviours

41
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What did Stanley et al find eco-anger was positively associated with?

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Collective action and individual behaviours

42
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What is the idea behind the collective perspective?

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Empowering minority groups and collectively acting to demand change to correct perceived injustice

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What aspects are associated in SIMCA and what do these motivate?

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Group identification, perceived injustice, efficacy, and emotions motivate normative and non-normative collective actions

44
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What violation is an important motivator to act?

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Violation of moral standards

45
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What may undermine social change?

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Intergroup contact

46
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How did Cakal et al find that contact with Whites affected Black South Africans?

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Contact was negatively related to relative deprivation perceptions, collective action, and support for ingroup favouring policies

47
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What relationship did Cocco et al study?

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Relationship between intergroup contact and collective action benefitting disadvantaged groups

48
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What effects did intergroup contact have for members of socially advantaged groups?

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Had a mobilising effect- stronger when contact increased awareness of injustice

49
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What contact mobilised collective action for disadvantaged groups?

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Contact that increased awareness of injustice

50
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What contact produced sedative effects for disadvantaged groups?

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Contact that made legitimacy of group hierarchy or threat more salient

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