Why do people engage in collective action? Revisiting the role of perceived effectiveness

By Matthew J. Hornsey, Leda Blackwood, Winnifred R. Louis, Kelly S. Fielding, Kenneth I. Mavor, Thomas A. Morton, A. O’Brien, Karl-Erik Paasonen, Joanne Smith, Katherine M. White. 2006

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Subfields: Sociology and Political Science

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The Relative Impact of Anger and Efficacy on Collective Action is Affected by Feelings of Fear (2009, background): “Recently, a more extensive defi nition of group effi cacy has been offered that suggests collective action may also vary in the extent to which it is seen to be effective in satisfying intragroup, broader societal, and individual motivations (Hornsey et al., 2006).”
Theory of planned behaviour, identity and intentions to engage in environmental activism (2008, background): “Similarly, previous research has shown that group membership motivated activist intentions and behaviour (e.g., Hornsey et al., 2006; McFarlane & Boxall, 2003; McFarlane & Hunt, 2006).”
Context matters: Explaining how and why mobilizing context influences motivational dynamics (2009, background): “Indeed, the role beliefs, values, and ideologies play in motivating protest participation has recently received more attention (Hornsey et al., 2006; Jasper, 2007; Klandermans, 2004).”
Building a Tower of Babel? Integrating Core Motivations and Features of Social Structure into the Political Psychology of Political Action (2016, background): “…efficacy predicted collective action intentions.5 5 Note that different individuals may have different group goals in mind, ranging from wanting to improve the conditions of the group, to taking a public stance to change public opinion, or to change the whole system (e.g., Hornsey et al., 2006).”
Integrating who “we” are with what “we” (will not) stand for: A further extension of the Social Identity Model of Collective Action (2018, background): “In a similar vein, group efficacy motivates collective action because it reflects individuals’ beliefs that their group is able to achieve its goals through collective action (Bandura, 1997; Hornsey et al., 2006; Mummendey et al., 1999).”
A dynamic model of engagement in normative and non-normative collective action: Psychological antecedents, consequences, and barriers (2015, background): “For example, it can serve to influence wider public opinion (cf. Hornsey et al., 2006) or to provoke extreme counter-action that would unsettle the current political situation and thereby facilitate the desired goal in the long run (see also Louis & Taylor, 2002; Sedgwick, 2004).”
Can moral convictions motivate the advantaged to challenge social inequality? (2011, background): “Moreover, group identification predicts collective action indirectly because a shared identity validates and thus increases feelings of group-based anger (as the emotional experience of injustice about collective disadvantage; Van Zomeren, Spears, Fischer, & Leach, 2004; Van Zomeren, Spears, & Leach”