Social movement participation and public opinion : an experimental approach
Abstract/Contents
- Abstract
- Do racial structures in contemporary U.S. society create bias and obstacles for the support of minority activists? How does the experience of being a minority activist in this environment impact one's social psychology? My dissertation examines the role of racial bias in opposition to black activism. First, I find that racial bias exists in the value a victim of wrongful police use of fatal force has on the public's attitudes toward protests against police brutality and respect for police. However, our ability to detect this bias is strongest before beliefs crystalize along ideological lines. I also find that opposition to minority activists is driven, in part, by the perception that claims are being made on the basis of racial group membership, rather than across racial lines. While this belief is itself fraught with racial inequality implications, outright racial discrimination against the composition of the activist group is not a significant motivator for opposition. Finally, I find that salient activist experiences can indeed lead to increased emotional feelings of anger, collective identification with the content of activism, and feelings of self-efficacy. Throughout this entire dissertation, a novel contribution is an experimental approach to provide some causal evidence in the areas of race and social movements. Taken together, this dissertation breaks new ground in providing compelling evidence on how racial bias impacts the perception of minority victims of police violence and social movements seeking to alleviate race-specific inequalities, as well as how participation in those social movements changes the activists themselves.
Description
| Type of resource | text |
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| Form | electronic resource; remote; computer; online resource |
| Extent | 1 online resource. |
| Place | California |
| Place | [Stanford, California] |
| Publisher | [Stanford University] |
| Copyright date | 2019; ©2019 |
| Publication date | 2019; 2019 |
| Issuance | monographic |
| Language | English |
Creators/Contributors
| Author | Muñoz, Johnathon Daniel |
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| Degree supervisor | Soule, Sarah Anne, 1967- |
| Degree supervisor | Willer, Robert Bartley |
| Thesis advisor | Soule, Sarah Anne, 1967- |
| Thesis advisor | Willer, Robert Bartley |
| Thesis advisor | Olzak, Susan |
| Degree committee member | Olzak, Susan |
| Associated with | Stanford University, Department of Sociology. |
Subjects
| Genre | Theses |
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| Genre | Text |
Bibliographic information
| Statement of responsibility | Johnathon Daniel Muñoz. |
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| Note | Submitted to the Department of Sociology. |
| Thesis | Thesis Ph.D. Stanford University 2019. |
| Location | electronic resource |
Access conditions
- Copyright
- © 2019 by Johnathon Daniel Munoz
- License
- This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial 3.0 Unported license (CC BY-NC).
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