Peace, War and Conflict: Social Representations Shared by Peace Activists and Non-Activists

Sarrica, Mauro; Contarello, Alberta

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“…Analysing participants' motives, specific representations of water and privatization processes emerged, supporting the central role of social representations in organizing and sustaining activists' actions and in promoting their commitment (cf. Campbell & Jovchelovitch, ; Sarrica & Contarello, ; Benford & Snow, ). We now discuss each motive in the light of the psychosocial literature on collective action and citizen participation in community psychology.…”

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Water as a Commons: An Exploratory Study on the Motives for Collective Action Among Italian Water Movement Activists

Mazzoni

Cicognani

2012

Community & Applied Soc Psy

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In many communities, supplying water and sanitation is a huge task, and the fact that these essential services can be carried out by the private sector is a debated issue. This article presents an exploratory study aimed to identify the range of motives for collective action shared by activists of the Italian Movement for ‘Public Water’. In‐depth interviews were conducted with 28 activists and were qualitatively analysed. Five main motivational categories emerged: defending the right to water, preserving community ties, opposing to the Government and ‘water sellers’, preserving the environment and money interests. Each motive is based on a specific representation of the issue of water and privatization process. Findings provide further support for the importance of moral convictions and sense of community in collective action development and suggest a critical reconsideration of the role played by collective efficacy. The results are discussed in the framework of the psychosocial literature on collective action and community psychology perspectives on participatory processes. Copyright © 2012 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

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Water as a Commons: An Exploratory Study on the Motives for Collective Action Among Italian Water Movement Activists

Mazzoni

Cicognani

2012

Community & Applied Soc Psy

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“…Our use of thought listing stems directly from a line of research in political psychology on people's public policy positions regarding the possibility of nuclear war as a function of the accessibility in their memories of concrete and abstract examples of the outcome of a nuclear attack (Chibnall & Wiener, 1988;Fiske, Pratto, & Pavelchak, 1983;Horvath, 1996;Sarrica & Contarello, 2004). This line of research examines people's judgments about defense policy as the product of the accessibility of concrete and abstract images of war and peace, whereas our work applies this logic to the study of legal judgments about sexual harassment.…”

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The More You See It, the More You Know It: Memory Accessibility and Sexual Harassment Judgments

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The influence of the availability of personally known and media known sexual harassment victims and harassers on perceptions of social sexual workplace conduct was examined. Male and female full-time workers evaluated two videotapes that depict sexual harassment in the workplace. Results indicated that perceived likelihood of harassment and discrimination increased as participants recalled more examples of harassment victims whom they personally knew. In some instances, recall of victims in the media had a similar influence. As predicted, the influence of availability was stronger for men than for women. Similar findings resulted from the analyses of the unwelcomeness, severity, and pervasiveness of the conduct; however, legal standard, gender, or case often moderated this relationship. The implications of these findings are discussed.KEY WORDS: sexual harassment; availability heuristic; legal decision making.Shared folk psychology suggests that prior experience with social sexual conduct at work should influence evaluations of current complaints of sexual harassment. 4 Indeed, there is some evidence in the empirical literature that supports a relationship between prior experiences with social sexual conduct at work and judgments about current complaints. For example, Gowan and Zimmerman (1996) found that previous sexual harassment victims are more likely to perceive ambiguous behaviors and severe cases of harassment as offensive. However, when Stockdale, . 4 The psychological literature examining discrimination law uses the language "social sexual conduct" to describe workplace behavior that is often social (e.g., telling jokes, bantering, and horseplay) and always sexual in the sense that it focuses on genderbased issues (e.g., flirting, insulting comments related to gender, sexual attention). If this type of conduct meets the elements of Title VII discrimination law, then it constitutes sexual harassment. If it does not meet that standard, then it does not constitute actionable conduct (

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“…Previous research on the content of social representations has relied on many different methods, including content analysis of media (e.g., Wagner et al 1999), interviews and focus groups (e.g., Howarth 2002), word associations (e.g., Sarrica and Contarello 2004), ethnographic studies (e.g., Duveen and Lloyd 1993), and questionnaires (e.g., Doise et al 1999). We suggest an additional method to identify the content of social representations and argue that Q methodology, developed by Stephenson (1953), is well suited for these purposes.…”

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The Social Psychology of Intractable Conflicts

Halperin¹,

Sharvit²

2015

Peace Psychology Book Series

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The scope of threats to human security at the dawn of the 21st century is daunting. Terrorism, weapons of mass destruction, nuclear proliferation, failed states, ideological struggles, growing resource scarcities, disparities in wealth and health, globalizing trends, violations of human rights, and the continued use of force to advance individual, group and national interests, are all complex problems. At the same time, we are witnessing countervailing trends in the growing recognition and endorsement of nonviolent means of resolving differences, the importance of reconciliation processes in human relations, the promotion of cultures of peace, and the building of societal structures and global institutions that promote peace, human rights and environmental sustainability. During the past 20 years, peace psychology has emerged as a specialty in psychology with its own knowledge base, perspectives, concepts, and preferred methodologies to grapple with threats to human security and seize opportunities to promote human well-being. In regard to the problem of violence, peace psychology scholars and activists place human psychology and its links to other disciplines at the center of their efforts to prevent and mitigate episodes of violence and structural forms of violence. In addition to reducing violence, peace psychologists seek to develop theory and practices that promote relational harmony across levels (from interpersonal relations to global networks) and equitable human well-being. The Peace Psychology Book Series recognizes that the emerging and multi-faceted problems of human security challenge us as scholars and activists to develop psychologically-informed theory that will deepen our understanding of the major threats to human security, and create practices that will help us address some of the most urgent and profound issues that bear on human well being and survival in the 21st century. This work is subject to copyright. All rights are reserved by the Publisher, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, specifically the rights of translation, reprinting, reuse of illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on microfilms or in any other physical way, and transmission or information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by similar or dissimilar methodology now known or hereafter developed. The use of general descriptive names, registered names, trademarks, service marks, etc. in this publication does not imply, even in the absence of a specific statement, that such names are exempt from the relevant protective laws and regulations and therefore free for general use. The publisher, the authors and the editors are safe to assume that the advice and information in this book are believed to be true and accurate at the date of publication. Neither the publisher nor the authors or the editors give a warranty, express or implied, with respect to the material contained herein or for any errors or omissions that may have been made. Series Advisory BoardPrinted o...

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Peace, War and Conflict: Social Representations Shared by Peace Activists and Non-Activists

Cited by 29 publications

References 27 publications

Water as a Commons: An Exploratory Study on the Motives for Collective Action Among Italian Water Movement Activists

Water as a Commons: An Exploratory Study on the Motives for Collective Action Among Italian Water Movement Activists

The More You See It, the More You Know It: Memory Accessibility and Sexual Harassment Judgments

The Social Psychology of Intractable Conflicts

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