From social tension to protest behavior: motivation for participation in collective actions
Journal Title: Соціологія: теорія, методи, маркетинг - Year 2018, Vol 2, Issue
Abstract
The article deals with personal mechanisms of social tension implementation into collective protest behavior. The author analyzes the socio-psychological aspects of collective action on the basis of rational, emotional, identification and ideological motives of joining or neglecting protests on the example of empirical research in Ukraine. The embodiment of social tension in protest behavior depends on a scale of the action and a configuration of the motives. Participation in local protests is determined primarily by rational motives: participants are structured mainly by interests, when the emotional component of their motivation is limited to deprivation reasons. Instead, a growth of social tension in mass protests requires such a configuration of motives that would overcome the dilemma of rational calculation of joining/non-joining collective actions: the dynamics of emotional transformations from hopelessness to moral disturbance to the existing situation; a clear separation of subjects of conflict into “their” and “strangers” with subsequent identification with the first; value and ideological solidarity with the protesters.
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OLEKSANDR REZNIK
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