Psychology of Group Resistance

Question 1

Social Mobility (Exit)

Answer 1

• Just getting up & leaving to move up to a higher status group

Question 2

Social Creativity Strategies Defenition

Answer 2

• How ppl reconstruct the meaning of a (low status) group

Question 3

What are the 3 social creativity strategies?

Answer 3

• Downward Social Comparison (e.g: I’m not that poor)
• Shift dimension of comparison w/ high-status group (choose a more flattering comparison; e.g: we may be poor, but we are more friendly)
• Refine meaning of low status (maintain value of low-status group membership)

Question 4

Collective action

Answer 4

• large #’s of ppl w/ shared identity coming together for the best interest of the group
• e.g: civil rights movement

Question 5

Resistance

Answer 5

Challenging social system in place

Question 6

Entrepreneurs of Identity

Answer 6

• leaders strategically shape group norms & social id to mobilize followers into social change

Question 7

Leadership & Social ID framing

Answer 7

1. Make it meaningful
2. Increase identity with leader
3. Discredit alternative versions of social change
4. Create new vision of social change
5. Relay new social identity with norms, attitudes & behaviors

Question 8

3 Typical predictors of participation in collective action

Answer 8

1. Anger: increases likelihood of collective action
2. Efficacy: perception that action has the ability to create social change, greater efficacy leads to greater chance of participating
3. Shared social identity: shared meaningful id w/ common goal

Question 9

Social Identity Model of Resistance

Answer 9

1. Unify under shared identity
2. Develop organization
3. Change the system
4. Effect social system (with an effective change in the system)

Question 10

Elaborate Social ID Model

Answer 10

1. Heterogenous crowd
2. Protestors perceived as homogeneously dangerous
3. Moderate crowd members become more radicalized
4. Protestors unite around a share oppositional identity to authority & police

Question 11

Political Solidarity model of change

Answer 11

shifting majority group mem. to be in line with minority group members.

Question 12

Motivational Action for social change amongst majority group members

Answer 12

• Sympathy (to take care of them)
• Guilt (not aimed at reducing inequality, don’t really get involved)
• Moral outrage (most effective, get people angry about moral injustices)

Question 13

Perceptions of non violent protests

Answer 13

• more legitimate

* more likely to convey what is not legitimate about the issue

Question 14

Perceptions of violent protests

Answer 14

• less legitimate
• more likely to receive media’s attention (attention economy)
• e.g: when bystanders have clear evidence of that gov’t is corrupt is when the violent protestors are viewed as legitimate