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Social Unrest in China [PDF]

open access: yes, 2006
[From Summary] This report, which will be updated periodically, discusses the causes of growing social unrest in China and describes recent incidents, explains how the PRC government responds to protest activities, analyzes implications for PRC politics,
Lum, Thomas
core   +1 more source

Researching Attitude–Identity Dynamics to Understand Social Conflict and Change

open access: yesEuropean Journal of Social Psychology, EarlyView.
Abstract Societies undergo constant change, manifested in various ways such as technological developments, economic transitions, reorganization of cultural values and beliefs, or changes in social structures. Individuals play an active role in shaping social and societal change by interactively negotiating its manifestation.
Adrian Lüders   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

El preludio de la tormenta: Conflictos y movilización social en Nicaragua 2014-2018

open access: yesConfluenze
In April 2018, a social uprising occurred in Nicaragua with massive protests that lasted until early 2019 when they were crushed by state violence. The protests surprised the government because they expressed discontent that was not perceived to be so ...
Elvira Cuadra Lira
doaj   +1 more source

Black Power At Work: Community Control, Affirmative Action, and the Construction Industry [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
{Excerpt} As the contributors to this book show, confrontations with the building trades unions became a critical axis for the rise of Black Power and community control politics, and provide a means for us to rethink the history of Black Power through ...
Goldberg, David
core   +1 more source

Towards a Conceptual Integration of Collective Victimization Beliefs and Their Variation Within and Across Contexts: A Q Methodology Study in Five Communities

open access: yesEuropean Journal of Social Psychology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Although social psychological research on how people understand collective victimization often examines comparisons between groups’ suffering, studies on related concepts (e.g., collective trauma) suggest numerous other relevant beliefs. The present article aimed to integrate diverse collective victimization beliefs and contribute to their ...
Johanna Ray Vollhardt   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Navigating the Dual Pandemics: Challenges to Faculty Diversity and Student Success

open access: yes
New Directions for Community Colleges, EarlyView.
Lorenzo Baber   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Impact of Freedom of Speech on Conspiracy Beliefs

open access: yesEuropean Journal of Social Psychology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Conspiracy beliefs are often portrayed as a threat to democracies. However, less is known about the extent to which the state of democracy may affect conspiracy beliefs. Hence, we investigated the impact of the societal level of freedom of speech on conspiracy beliefs. In Study 1, using aggregated nation‐level data (N = 68 countries), we found
Paul Bertin   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

How Do Citizens Respond to Government Measures in Times of Crisis? Narrative Meaning‐Making of Agency, Responsibility, and Compliance During the COVID‐19 Pandemic in Ecuador

open access: yesEuropean Journal of Social Psychology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Citizens’ responses to policies depend on narrative meaning‐making. Through the lens of the COVID‐19 pandemic in Ecuador, this study addresses calls for increased insights into how processes of responding to government measures function during societal crises and ruptures.
Ella Marie Sandbakken
wiley   +1 more source

‘Please Continue’: Implicit Communication and the Experimenter's Interventions in Stanley Milgram's Obedience to Authority Series

open access: yesEuropean Journal of Social Psychology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Stanley Milgram's ‘Obedience to Authority’ study demonstrated that an experimenter can lead participants to obey orders that seemingly causes others harm. To examine the nature of the experimenter's influence, we analysed the experimenter's non‐procedural interventions in 136 sessions, across four experimental conditions.
David Kaposi   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Judgements of Propaganda Near and Far: National Identity and Media Evaluations

open access: yesEuropean Journal of Social Psychology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Western media often critiques foreign governments for their propaganda efforts while ignoring similar efforts by their own government. We predicted that individuals would demonstrate a similar bias. An experiment with 282 Canadian participants revealed just the opposite: when asked overtly, participants judged a video attributed to their own ...
Rebecca J. Dunk   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

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