Massrörelser,massaktioner och social identitet.
Year: 2004
Type: report
Abstract: The primary aim of this review is to explore the concept of identity as it is used in texts about mass movements and mass actions. A second aim is to find useful conceptualisations for analysing demonstrators’ group affiliation as well as the impact of these affiliations on actions when demonstrations turn into violence. Two main traditions are presented: (a) The sociological social-psychology tradition of identity resting upon symbolic interactionism and (b) the psychological social-psychology tradition of social identity mostly referring to social cognitive theories. It is argued that the way these two traditions have developed and approached each other during the last decade has made it possible to integrate them in the same study in order to explain slightly different perspectives of group members’ identity formation.
Author: Ingrid Hylander
Language: Swedish
Subfield: Sociology and Political Science
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2170270587