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Social Movements as Parsimonious Explanations for Implicit and Explicit Attitude Change.
1Kingsborough Community College, City University of New York, Brooklyn, USA.
Summary
Social movements can significantly alter both implicit and explicit attitudes in society. This research explores how collective action drives widespread, lasting changes in public opinion and bias reduction.
Area of Science:
- Social Psychology
- Sociology
- Political Science
Background:
- Growing interest in aggregate and population-level attitudes.
- Need to explore social movements' role in attitude change.
- Collective action's potential for bias reduction is underexplored.
Approach:
- Reviewing studies of aggregate attitudes through social movement theory.
- Proposing social movements as an explanation for attitude patterns.
- Outlining a model for causal pathways between movements and attitudes.
Key Points:
- Six mechanisms through which movements transform attitudes: societal change, media, intergroup contact, empathy, social recategorization, and identification processes.
- Examining effects on participants, supporters, bystanders, and opponents.
- Identifying generative questions, hypotheses, and methods for future research.
Conclusions:
- Social movements are powerful forces for generating widespread, lasting attitude change.
- Further research is needed to understand the complex interplay between social movements and implicit/explicit attitudes.
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