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Collective Mobilization and Social Protest
- Martijn van Zomeren
- https://doi.org/10.1093/acrefore/9780190236557.013.268
- Published online: 26 October 2017 Summary The social psychology of collective mobilization and social protest reflects a long- standing interest within this discipline in the larger 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 first tended toward development of insulated models or theories, the next 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, which improved their explanatory power and theoretical scope.