The main aim of the proposed research project is to extend and advance previous research on collective action. We aim to do this by examining interplay between personality-level variables and cultural dimensions in predicting willingness to engage in collective actions directed to preserve the status quo and actions for social change.
Focusing on important cultural and individual factors related to willingness to engage in collective action allows us to extend current models and explore mechanisms and processes that could be depended on cultural context and social frames existing in one social environment. Importantly for our proposition, previous research on CA concentrated mostly on actions on behalf of disadvantaged groups. To fully understand willingness to engage in collective action, research on CA should also considering recent rising in social protest and demonstrations by people who belong to majority group in society, but are driven by the desire to preserve tradition and status quo (e.g. anti-migration protests) (see: Osborne, et al., 2018). Thus, in our research, we would like to compare motivational factors that are driving people to engage in normative and non-normative actions on behalf of both (a) social change and (b) preserving the status quo. As aims of these actions differ, it is important to explore differences and similarities in factors that predict CA engagement in both system supporting and system opposing CA. In the current research project, we would like to explore these differences in the context of pro-migrants vs. anti-migrants’ collective actions.
This project investigated the determinants of both peaceful and radical collective action for migrant causes and factors contributing to motivation to join anti-immigrant movements. Funding from the Polish National Agency for Academic Exchange allowed for Fellowship at the Flinders University, Australia, for project PI Tomasz Besta. Collaboration with Emma Thomas made it possible to conduct research in 22 countries.
Project supported by Polish National Agency for Academic Exchange, The Bekker NAWA Programme 2021.
OSF: https://osf.io/nurh6
We collaborate with:
Emma Thomas, Flinders University
Gulcin Akbas, Atilim University
Julia Becker, University of Osnabrueck
Maja Becker, CLLE, Université de Toulouse, CNRS, UT2J
Tymofii Brik, Kyiv School of Economics
Maria Chayinska, Pontifical Catholic University of Chile, Chile
Makiko Deguchi, Sophia University
Sandesh Dhakal, Tribhuvan University, Kathmandu, Nepal
Raja Intan Arifah, HELP University
Kaltrina Kelmendi, University of Prishtina
Anna Kende, Eötvös Loránd University
Pravash Kumar Raut, Trichandra Campus, Tribhuvan University
Soledad Lamus, University of Granada
Paul Le Dornat, CLLE, Université de Toulouse, CNRS, UT2J
Angela Leung, Singapore Management University
Sarah E. Martiny, UiT The Arctic University of Norway, Tromsø
Özden Melis Uluğ, University of Sussex
Rie Mizuki, Sophia University
Danny Osborne, University of Auckland
Marek Palace, Liverpool John Moores University
Carlo Pistoni, Catholic University of Milan
Maura Pozzi, Catholic University of Milan
Saba Safdar, University of Guelph
Katherine Stroebe, University of Groningen
Dijana Sulejmanović, University of Bihac
Eugene Y.J. Tee, HELP University
Gonneke Ton, University of Groningen
Ana Urbiola, Universidad de Almería
Martijn van Zomeren, University of Groningen
Anna Wlodarczyk, Universidad Católica del Norte