A study of minorities as victims

Moscovici, Serge; Pérez, Juan Antonio

doi:10.1002/ejsp.388

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“…In line with the approach of social identity theory, vis-à-vis an outgroup protest the support to the protest is neglected when the group is perceived as more threatening. In addition and in line with Moscovici and Pérez's (2007) study on Gypsies, participants declared to be most willing to support the protest when protesters are instead perceived as less threatening. Thus, the common representation of some social groups as threatening or as in opposition to in group's values and culture generally has a great influence on their eventual support.…”

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confidence: 58%

“…That is, how much people consider that particular group to be in accordance with the established rules, principles, and values of their society. Moscovici and Pérez (2007) have shown that shared and common representations of minorities affect the way those minorities are approved or disapproved of by the authority and the population. In their study on the representations of Gypsy persecution in Europe, this minority was more likely to be accepted and supported by people when public opinion depicts Gypsies as less threatening.…”

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Supporting protest movements: the effect of the legitimacy of the claims

Passini

Morselli

2015

Int. j. psychol. res.

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Past research has investigated the motivations behind support to protest actions by mainly focusing on the relationship between the perceptions of protest movements and support itself. The aim of the present research is to extend this research also by considering the qualitative content of the claims advanced by the protesters. We analyzed whether supporting a protest depends on the legitimacy of the advanced claim (i.e. in terms of adherence to democratic principles) or on the legitimacy attributed to that group. One hundred and eighty Italian citizens (45.9 % women; M age = 41.64, SD = 13.69) responded to an online questionnaire concerning a protest movement. The design included 2×2 conditions: non-threatening vs. threatening type of group and unbound vs. restricted protesters’ claims. The results showed that support given to the protest is overlooked when the group is perceived as more threatening. However, the perception of the protest group has no effect on value-oriented participants who instead focus on the claims.

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Supporting protest movements: the effect of the legitimacy of the claims

Passini

Morselli

2015

Int. j. psychol. res.

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“…Similar narratives of victimhood have served to legitimize violence and deflect responsibility for harmdoing in other contexts as well, such as Burundi, Rwanda, and the Congo (Lemarchand, 2009;Mamdani, 2001) or Ex-Yugoslavia (MacDonald, 2002). In other words, the focus on rights resulting from the experience of injustice and victimization appears to be widespread (Passini, 2011; see also Moscovici & Perez, 2007)-even expanding to the perceived right to commit injustice oneself (Bar-Tal et al, 2009).…”

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“…This movement seems to imply a clear distribution between duties and rights, according to the social roles in mass violence: while duties to redress and prevent mass violence seem to apply to ''the guilt of nations'' and individual perpetrators (Barkan, 2000), the enhanced focus on rights is now associated with victims (Moscovici & Perez, 2007;Passini, 2011). However, this bifurcation is not necessarily always present.…”

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Interpreting rights and duties after mass violence

Vollhardt

2012

Culture & Psychology

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In our age of human rights, there has been an increased focus not only on the rights of people and collectives harmed through mass atrocities and other injustices, but also on the duty to redress this harm. Building on Passini's (2011) call for an integration of rights and duties through responsibility, I argue that movements in this direction are already underway. This integration follows, for example, from growing recognition of the complexity in victim and perpetrator roles. Another way in which integration of rights and duties in the aftermath of mass violence has occurred is through alternative meanings of ingroup victimization drawn by victim groups throughout the world. Specifically, based on a sense of inclusive victim consciousness, some have expressed and advocated perceived responsibility to ensure rights for other victim groups as well. This phenomenon is an example of the moral inclusion and focus on responsibility that Passini (2011) argues is necessary in our age of human rights. Examples of moral inclusion among victim groups are reviewed and limitations are discussed, as well as conditions that might inhibit or facilitate a sense of moral responsibility to go beyond individual and ingroup rights and protect others from harm and injustice.

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“…With the move from the perceptual to the social behavioral laboratory, the phenomenon of minority influence and its implications for the conduct of human interaction in the face of conflict -for surely minority influence involves conflict between the haves and the havenots -became clear (Crano & Seyranian, 2007;Moscovici, 1994;Moscovici, Mugny & Pérez, 1985;Moscovici & Pérez, 2007;Mugny & Pérez, 1988). Changing the focus from social influence to persuasion, from perception to attitude, extended the breadth of phenomena that could be studied and created the fertile ground for today's minority influence research (Crano, 2010(Crano, , 2012Crano & Alvaro, 2013Crano & Seyranian, 2007, 2009R.…”

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Reflections on Gabriel Mugny’s Contributions to Attitude-Centric Theory and Research on Minority Influence

Alvaro¹,

Crano²

2017

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Pérez and Mugny (1987) extended the scope of minority influence research in a classic study that explicitly drew a distinction between in-group and out-group minority influence sources and their effects on majority acceptance. Their study also refocused the field from a social influence, perception-oriented view to a more dynamic persuasion, attitude-centric orientation. This paper reflects upon the generative nature of the original research, and that which followed, with a reflection on its impact on our own theorizing and research. The current work is focused on factors that affect the fundamental processes of minority influence, as viewed from the perspective of the leniency contract. Important factors considered in the model include (a) the in-group or out-group nature of the influence source, (b) the subjective or objective features of the judgment task, (c) the role of conflict with, and accommodation to the minority, (d) the genesis and potential outcome of indirect change effects on focal attitudes in response to persuasive minority communications and (e) the importance and utility of considering the structural interconnections among attitudes, and their implications for focal attitude change. Research by Mugny and his colleagues stimulated these and other important features of contemporary scholarship on minority influence. Progress and understanding of the intriguing minority-induced change process, a clear departure from the classic majority-based persuasion model, owes a great debt to Gabriel Mugny and his team of talented collaborators.

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A study of minorities as victims

Cited by 48 publications

References 12 publications

Supporting protest movements: the effect of the legitimacy of the claims

Supporting protest movements: the effect of the legitimacy of the claims

Interpreting rights and duties after mass violence

Reflections on Gabriel Mugny’s Contributions to Attitude-Centric Theory and Research on Minority Influence

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