Protesting to challenge or defend the system? A system justification perspective on collective action
Autor(en): | Osborne, Danny Jost, John T. Becker, Julia C. Badaan, Vivienne Sibley, Chris G. |
Stichwörter: | collective action; EFFICACY; GROUP IDENTIFICATION; GROUP MEMBERS; INEQUALITY; multi-group SEM; NEW-ZEALAND; POLITICAL-IDEOLOGY; Psychology; Psychology, Social; RACIAL-DISCRIMINATION; RELATIVE DEPRIVATION; social change; social identity; SOCIAL IDENTITY MODEL; SUPPORT; system justification theory | Erscheinungsdatum: | 2019 | Herausgeber: | WILEY | Enthalten in: | EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY | Band: | 49 | Ausgabe: | 2 | Startseite: | 244 | Seitenende: | 269 | Zusammenfassung: | Social identity, shared grievances, and group efficacy beliefs are well-known antecedents to collective action, but existing research overlooks the fact that collective action often involves a confrontation between those who are motivated to defend the status quo and those who seek to challenge it. Using nationally representative data from New Zealand (Study 1; N = 16,147) and a large online sample from the United States (Study 2; N = 1,513), we address this oversight and demonstrate that system justification is negatively associated with system-challenging collective action, but positively associated with system-supporting collective action, for members of both low-status and high-status groups. Group identification, group-based injustice, group-based anger, and system-based dissatisfaction/anger mediated these relationships. These findings constitute the first empirical integration of system justification theory into a model of collective action that explains when people will act collectively to challenge-and, just as importantly, defend-the status quo. |
ISSN: | 00462772 | DOI: | 10.1002/ejsp.2522 |
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