Who is the Neoliberal? Exploring Neoliberal Beliefs across East and West

Beattie, Peter; Bettache, Karim; Chong, Kristy Ching Yee

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“…In conclusion, neoliberal ideology, standing as a dominant ideology in Western countries (Navarro, 2007) is negatively associated to the engagement in system-challenging CA. Its specific system-justifying rationale seems to provide the basis for a depoliticization of social issues (Arfken, 2018;Beattie, Bettache & Chong, 2019;Brown, 2015), while people's disadvantage is described as resting on their own shoulders (Pyysiäinen et al, 2017). This depoliticization may thus undermine people's possibility to collectively challenge systemic injustices, ensuring a relative stability of the status quo and its inherent inequalities.…”

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“Free” Not to Engage: Neoliberal Ideology and Collective Action. The Case of the Yellow Vest Movement

Girerd¹,

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Priolo³

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The purpose of this paper is to test the main hypothesis that the endorsement of neoliberal ideology, comprising beliefs and values such as personal responsibility and hedonism, is negatively associated with the engagement in the Yellow Vest (YV) movement. In a first study (N = 489), analysis of qualitative data shows that most of the YV movement grievances are system challenging. Furthermore, consistent with our hypotheses, the more participants endorsed neoliberal ideology, the less they perceived inequalities against the lower and middle classes, the less angry they felt in the face of such inequalities, the less they identified with the Yellow Vests and finally, the less they engaged in the Yellow Vest movement. In Study 2 (N = 201), the relationship between neoliberal ideology, measured in a different way, and engagement in the movement was replicated amongst a sample of participants who support the YV movement. Moreover, it appeared that this relationship was mediated by a greater sense of personal control, leading to a higher level of system justification. In fact, neoliberal ideology appears to enhance personal control, giving them a heightened sense that the system is just and legitimate. This perception, in turn, appears to undermine the politicized identification with the Yellow Vest and as a consequence, engagement in the movement.

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“Free” Not to Engage: Neoliberal Ideology and Collective Action. The Case of the Yellow Vest Movement

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“…Due to the unique historical context, Hong Kong students are mostly bilingual with proficiency in Chinese and English. This distinctive cultural pattern of ‘East meets West’ and the high rate of internet use makes Hong Kong an ideal research setting for studying online behaviour [ 92 , 93 , 94 ]. In addition, this pioneering study also used two versions of the CRIT, one written in traditional Chinese (Study 1) and one written in simplified Chinese (Study 2).…”

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Development of the Cybercrime Rapid Identification Tool for Adolescents

Wong

Fung

2020

IJERPH

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Two studies were conducted to support the development of an eight-item Cybercrime Rapid Identification Tool (CRIT) and evaluate the psychometric properties of the proposed scale on samples of secondary school and university students. The CRIT was developed and evaluated in two cross-sectional studies with 2044 respondents from Hong Kong and China. Study 1 recruited 1533 secondary school students from Hong Kong with a mean age of 14.91 (SD = 1.77) years, and Study 2 recruited 511 university students from mainland China with a mean age of 20.41 (SD = 2.49) years. A stepwise confirmatory factor analytical approach was taken with further verification by exploratory factor analysis based on different samples. Factorial validity was further verified using confirmatory factor analysis. The analyses supported an eight-item scale with a two-factor structure. The eight-item CRIT was found to possess good internal consistency and concurrent validity. The studies offer promising support for the CRIT. It has the potential to advance epistemological methods and clinical research related to cybercrime prevention.

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“…Different individuals in a society agree with and internalize the neoliberal ideology to different extents (Beattie, Bettache, & Chong, ). Thus, neoliberalism as a sociopolitical ideology can also be studied as an individual difference variable.…”

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“…For example, these individuals tend to score high on both self‐maximization and prosocial orientation and embrace both agentic and communal values. Furthermore, in India, endorsement of neoliberalism is not connected to the preference for inequality and has only a weak association with the social dominance orientation (Beattie et al., ). These country differences can be attributed to the communitarian emphasis in Indian culture, which serves to soften the hegemonic influence of neoliberalism.…”

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The Invisible Hand is an Ideology: Toward a Social Psychology of Neoliberalism

Bettache

Chiu

2019

Journal of Social Issues

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On the one hand, neoliberalism, originally an economic theory, has evolved into a sociopolitical ideology and extended its hegemonic influence to all areas of life, including the production of psychological knowledge in academia and the practice of psychology in various domains. On the other hand, neoliberalism has been criticized as the root of all problems in contemporary societies. Widespread discontent with neoliberalism is seen as the catalyst for the rising popularity of populism, the election of Donald Trump in the United States, and the Brexit referendum. The discontent with neoliberalism has also inspired imaginations of what a postneoliberal society may be like, as evidenced by the rise of neosocialists such as Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez in the United States or Jeremy Corbyn in the United Kingdom. In this issue, we have gathered multidisciplinary insights to answer questions that would constitute a preliminary agenda of a social psychology of neoliberalism. These questions include: how neoliberalism can be studied social psychologically? What are the neoliberalist constraints on knowledge creation and social practices? How can social psychology shed light on the psychological responses to the hegemonic impact of neoliberalism and contribute to the imagination of a postneoliberal world? In short, is social psychology of neoliberalism a feasible and useful intellectual project for producing actionable social knowledge?What is social about social psychology? This question invites social psychologists to reflect on their discipline's defining attributes. This question has also challenged social psychologists to make their research socially relevant.

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Who is the Neoliberal? Exploring Neoliberal Beliefs across East and West

Cited by 28 publications

References 48 publications

“Free” Not to Engage: Neoliberal Ideology and Collective Action. The Case of the Yellow Vest Movement

“Free” Not to Engage: Neoliberal Ideology and Collective Action. The Case of the Yellow Vest Movement

Development of the Cybercrime Rapid Identification Tool for Adolescents

The Invisible Hand is an Ideology: Toward a Social Psychology of Neoliberalism

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