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Collective Protest and Legitimacy of Authority: Theory and Research
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In this article, a theory of collective protest is proposed in which distrust and the erosion of the legitimacy of authority are postulated to be a function of frustrations perceived as inequitably imposed and arbitrary.Abstract:
A theory of collective protest is proposed in which distrust and the erosion of the legitimacy of authority are postulated to be a function of frustrations perceived as inequitably imposed and arbitrary. The present study tested the predictions that protest groups would have a significantly lower evaluation of authority, be more willing to participate in violence, and have a greater sense of competence than nonprotest groups. Two separate studies were conducted. The first study compared attitudes of an activist protest group, the Young Socialist Alliance, with two nonprotest groups, an active voter registration group and a nonactive student group at the University of Texas. The second study dealt with the attitudes of the campus activist Mexican-American Youth Organization (MAYO) and a Mexican-American non-MAYO group. The following instruments were administered individually and anonymously: a semantic differential to evaluate traditional and legitimate author ities; a participation questionnaire requestin...read more
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Toward an integrative social identity model of collective action: A quantitative research synthesis of three socio-psychological perspectives
TL;DR: Results showed the importance of social identity in predicting collective action by supporting SIMCA's key predictions that affective injustice and politicized identity produced stronger effects than those of non-affective injustice and non-politicized identity.
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Why Men Rebel
TL;DR: Why Men Rebel was first published in 1970 on the heels of a decade of political violence and protest not only in remote corners of Africa and Southeast Asia, but also at home in the United States as discussed by the authors.
An American Soldier.
Billy I. Ross,Richard. Schroeder +1 more
TL;DR: Miller et al. as discussed by the authors depicted an American rifleman dead on Clark Field in the Ft. Stotsenberg Area where the Jap made a desperate but futile stand to halt the sweep of Allied Forces on the road to Manila.
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When will collective action be effective? Violent and non-violent protests differentially influence perceptions of legitimacy and efficacy among sympathizers
Emma Thomas,Winnifred R. Louis +1 more
TL;DR: Experimental 1 showed that, consistent with a logic of strategic non-violence, non-violent collective action more effectively conveys a sense of the illegitimacy of the issue and the efficacy of the group, thereby promoting support for future non- violent actions.
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Power in stereotypically masculine domains: a Social Influence Strategy X Stereotype Match model.
TL;DR: The hypothesis that stereotypes of groups to which low-power people belong should influence the perceptions and behavior of powerful people only when those stereotypes are both contextually relevant and provide information of relevance given powerful people's beliefs about the relation between subordinates and goal attainment is examined.
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Generalized expectancies for internal versus external control of reinforcement.
TL;DR: In this paper, the effects of reward or reinforcement on preceding behavior depend in part on whether the person perceives the reward as contingent on his own behavior or independent of it, and individuals may also differ in generalized expectancies for internal versus external control of reinforcement.
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Why men rebel
TL;DR: Gurr's Why Men Rebel remains highly relevant to today's violent and unstable world with its holistic, people-based understanding of the causes of political protest and rebellion as discussed by the authors.
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On the social psychology of the psychological experiment: With particular reference to demand characteristics and their implications.
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors focus on some of the qualities peculiar to psychological experiments and point out that the demand characteristics perceived in any particular experiment will vary with the sophistication, intelligence, and previous experience of each experimental subject.
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Two Faces of Power
Peter Bachrach,Morton S. Baratz +1 more
TL;DR: The authors argued that there are two faces of power, neither of which sociologists see and only one of which political scientists see, and that the political scientists themselves have not grasped the whole truth of the matter; that while their criticisms of the elitists are sound, they utilize an approach and assumptions which predetermine their conclusions.