The biographical impact of participation in social movement activities: beyond highly committed New Left activism

Giugni, Marco; Grasso, Maria T.

doi:10.1017/cbo9781316337790.004

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“…Movements try to control broad historical metanarratives, but also their own stories, and especially stories about past conflicts and their outcomes (Doerr, 2014). The concept of “political generations,” marked by the historical events of their youth, continues to inspire research (Corning & Schuman, 2015; Giugni & Grasso, 2016; Pagis, 2014). Of the many arenas in which protestors engage other strategic players, the final one is usually that of writing the history of those struggles (Owens, 2009; Ross, 2002).…”

Section: The Many Carriers Of Cultural Meaningsmentioning

confidence: 99%

The doors that culture opened: Parallels between social movement studies and social psychology

Jasper

2017

Group Processes & Intergroup Relations

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During the last 30 years the study of social movements has changed dramatically, under the recognition of how important cultural meanings are to collective action and outcomes. Social movement studies has rediscovered a number of microlevel cultural mechanisms that have enriched our understanding of protest and social movements, bringing some subjective elements to a field that for a generation had been highly structural. These include the collective identities of political players, the dynamics of gender, the role of emotions, strategic choices, and the influence of leaders. In much of this work, sociologists and political scientists in social movement studies have worked in parallel to social psychologists, and there has been insufficient dialogue between the two traditions.

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Section: The Many Carriers Of Cultural Meaningsmentioning

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The doors that culture opened: Parallels between social movement studies and social psychology

Jasper

2017

Group Processes & Intergroup Relations

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“…Other studies do stress the high level of socio-political engagement of former activists as well. (Giugni & Grasso 2016) On the contrary, in her study, Acconero analyses activists' trajectories during and after dictatorship in Portugal and found patterns of retreatment from political engagement for a majority of her respondents. She finds that their trajectory included a great disillusion connected to the establishment of a liberal democracy, which was not the aim of theses activists, as they had the 'dream of revolution'(Acconero 2019, p. 319).…”

Section: Political Engagement After Movement Activism and The Question Of Temporalitymentioning

confidence: 88%

Where did the Indignados go? How movement sociality can influence action orientation and ongoing activism after the hype

Galán¹,

Fersch

2020

Social Movement Studies

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This article focuses on the Indignado protesters in the city of Valladolid (Spain) as a case study, drawing on retrospective qualitative interview research six years after the 'hype'. Our analysis explores how forms of interaction and participation during the events could have had an important influence not only on the motives of the participants' political engagement, but also the long-term durability of such engagement. The findings offer insights on the different forms of sociality present in the various types of activism and how these contribute to forming diverse understandings of collective action. Consequently, activists show tendencies for diverse forms of long-term engagement that appear to follow patterns that align with their experienced type of sociality and how it is remembered.

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“…Studies investigating individuals after they have committed have revealed that activism has multiple and durable impacts on an individuals' life (e.g., McAdam 1988(e.g., McAdam , 1989Sherkat and Blocker 1997;Giugni and Grasso 2016). In addition to altering activists' social networks and influencing activists' practices, such as orienting personal choices and adopting new lifestyles, commitment shapes activists' worldviews and identity (e.g., Taylor 1989;Beckwith 2016;Whittier 2016).…”

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Does Commitment Change Worldviews?

Monsch

Passy

2018

Life Course Research and Social Policies

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In this chapter, we examine whether commitment affects participants' worldviews. Worldviews, or meanings, 1 are defined as thinking-feeling tools individuals use to make sense of their social and political environment (Mead 1934; Weber 1978). In the present study, participants are those individuals who join an environmental protection organization, a charitable organization, or a union. Evidence in the literature on biographical consequences of activism is supportive (e.g., Passy and Monsch forthcoming; Giugni 2004): Individuals who join an organization synchronize their worldviews with the cultural scripts that circulate in the community. For example, Blee (2016) shows that women who join far-right organizations experience a critical transformation indebted to a radical shift in their interpersonal network. As one of her interviewee's states: "I made new friends and started to become obsessed with race….I thought about race 24/7" (p.9). Commitment therefore affects people's meanings. Yet, a conflicting argument exists in the literature, one that stresses a reverse causality, that is to say, specific worldviews are required to belong to the so-called mobilization potential eventually leading the individual to engage in joint action (e.g., Cotgrove and Duff 1980; Gamson et al. 1982; Kriesi 1989; Klandermans 1997). With this logic in mind, individuals solely join political or civic organizations if their meanings correspond. Commitment, then, does not change worldviews. Our present contribution aims to shed light on this debate by analyzing the effects of joining a political or civic organization on worldviews over time. 1 In this contribution, we use the terms "worldviews" and "meanings" interchangeably.

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The biographical impact of participation in social movement activities: beyond highly committed New Left activism

Cited by 34 publications

References 27 publications

The doors that culture opened: Parallels between social movement studies and social psychology

The doors that culture opened: Parallels between social movement studies and social psychology

Where did the Indignados go? How movement sociality can influence action orientation and ongoing activism after the hype

Does Commitment Change Worldviews?

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