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System Justification, the Denial of Global Warming, and the Possibility of "System-Sanctioned Change"
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The Public Nuisance Paradigm: Changes in Mass Media Coverage of Political Protest since the 1960s
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Re: Imagining Change: How to use story-based strategy to win campaigns, build movements, and change the world
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The relationship between environmental activism, pro-environmental behaviour and social identity
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The Association of Knowledge with Concern About Global Warming: Trusted Information Sources Shape Public Thinking
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Toward an integrative social identity model of collective action: A quantitative research synthesis of three socio-psychological perspectives
Emphasize shared identity, injustice, and empowerment to motivate supporters to action. This paper analyzed data from 182 prior studies on a range of social movements around the world and integrated past theories of social movement participation into a unified framework, the Social Identity Model of Collective Action (SIMCA). People were more likely to be interested in and take action on a cause as a result of three elements: their social group was experiencing injustice towards it, they more strongly identified with that group, and/or they felt that acting together could have an impact (that is, a sense of collective efficacy). The influence of injustice was stronger when it was emotionally felt, not merely intellectually understood; and identity was more potent when it was politicized—that is, linked to an organization, movement, or broader social analysis. Of the three elements, identity was the most reliable and appeared to also influence the other two, so may be the most important for organizers to focus on.