How Imagination Takes Power. The Motivational Foundations of Collective Action in Social Movement Mobilization
| Autor: | Kestlers, Thomas |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2023 |
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collective action
Social Psychology Politikwissenschaft soziale Bewegung action orientation plural self-awareness Federal Republic of Germany Intention Handlungsorientierung collective behavior ddc:150 motivation social movements Psychology Gruppe collective actors group Political Process Elections Political Sociology Political Culture Political science mobilization politische Willensbildung politische Soziologie politische Kultur Selbstwirksamkeit Mobilisierung Bundesrepublik Deutschland social movement collective intentionality Kollektivverhalten Handlung Psychologie ddc:320 action Sozialpsychologie imagination intentionality environmental movement self-efficacy |
| Zdroj: | Historical Social Research The Emergence and Effects of Non-hierarchical Collective Agency |
| DOI: | 10.12759/hsr.48.2023.33 |
| Popis: | The foundations of collective action and agency in large groups remain a challenging theoretical problem. Why are individuals willing to contribute to a common goal, even though their contribution may have little impact? This paper aims to answer this question by explicating the motivational mechanisms that facilitate collective action and elucidating the underlying conditions and processes using social movement mobilization as an example. The mechanisms responsible for modifying motivation and action orientations in large-scale collective action are explicated at the level of individual structures of intentionality and specified as imagination and plural self-awareness. These mechanisms create the mental prerequisites for collective action by modifying two crucial determinants of action orientations: self-efficacy and intentional control. Recurring to the case of the German environmental movement, we demonstrate that collective agency arises when a shared imaginary takes shape, and plural self-awareness gives way to common action orientations through the catalyzing effect of an external synchronizing stimulus. Historical Social Research Vol. 48, No. 3 (2023) |
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