“Communities Change When Individuals Change”: The sustainability of system-challenging collective action
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“Communities Change When Individuals Change” : The sustainability of system-challenging collective action. / Rao, Neomi; Power, Séamus A.
In: European Journal of Social Psychology, Vol. 51, No. 3, 04.2021, p. 525-537.Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review
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TY - JOUR
T1 - “Communities Change When Individuals Change”
T2 - The sustainability of system-challenging collective action
AU - Rao, Neomi
AU - Power, Séamus A.
N1 - Publisher Copyright: © 2021 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
PY - 2021/4
Y1 - 2021/4
N2 - People who challenge the status quo through collective action face tremendous obstacles—not just practically, but in their ways of thinking, existing, and relating to others. This article addresses how collective actors sustain their engagement in the face of such high costs. System-challenging collective actors must reimagine and enact new, non-normative ways of thinking, existing, and relating that transform the status quo. This article explores the social psychological processes underlying sustained system-challenging collective action through activists’ narratives of politicization, experiences of identity change, and reimagination of social structures. We draw on contributions from social psychological theories of system justification and social identity to examine how system-challenging collective action is motivated and sustained. Through interviews with Chicago-based activists and organizers engaged in system-challenging collective action, we implement a qualitative thematic analysis to propose that sustainability arises from three integrated factors: shared identity, system-challenging ideology, and intentional community.
AB - People who challenge the status quo through collective action face tremendous obstacles—not just practically, but in their ways of thinking, existing, and relating to others. This article addresses how collective actors sustain their engagement in the face of such high costs. System-challenging collective actors must reimagine and enact new, non-normative ways of thinking, existing, and relating that transform the status quo. This article explores the social psychological processes underlying sustained system-challenging collective action through activists’ narratives of politicization, experiences of identity change, and reimagination of social structures. We draw on contributions from social psychological theories of system justification and social identity to examine how system-challenging collective action is motivated and sustained. Through interviews with Chicago-based activists and organizers engaged in system-challenging collective action, we implement a qualitative thematic analysis to propose that sustainability arises from three integrated factors: shared identity, system-challenging ideology, and intentional community.
KW - collective action
KW - imagined communities
KW - shared reality
KW - social identity
KW - system justification
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85116699832&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1002/ejsp.2757
DO - 10.1002/ejsp.2757
M3 - Journal article
AN - SCOPUS:85116699832
VL - 51
SP - 525
EP - 537
JO - European Journal of Social Psychology
JF - European Journal of Social Psychology
SN - 0046-2772
IS - 3
ER -
ID: 319874442