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Collective Mobilization and Social Protest
- Martijn van Zomeren
- https://doi.org/10.1093/acrefore/9780190236557.013.268
- Published online: October 26 , 2017 Summary The social psychology of collective mobilization and social protest reflects a longstanding interest within this discipline in the broader question of how social change comes about through the exercise of collective agency. Yet, within this very same discipline, different approaches have suggested different motivations for why people protest, including emotional, agentic, identity, and moral motivations. Although each of these approaches initially tended toward the development of isolated models or theories, the subsequent phase has been more integrative in nature, giving rise to multi-motive models of collective mobilization and social protest that combined predictions from different approaches, thereby improving their explanatory power and theoretical scope.