Graduation Date
Summer 2024
Document Type
Thesis
Program
Master of Arts degree with a major in Psychology, option Academic Research
Committee Chair Name
Amber Gaffney
Committee Chair Affiliation
HSU Faculty or Staff
Second Committee Member Name
Gregg Gold
Second Committee Member Affiliation
HSU Faculty or Staff
Third Committee Member Name
Benjamin Anjewierden
Third Committee Member Affiliation
HSU Faculty or Staff
Keywords
Collective action, Performance activism, Prototypicality, Peripheral, SIMCA
Subject Categories
Psychology
Abstract
Collective action is how groups can change society. According to the social identity model of collective action (SIMCA), facets of group identification can motivate or discourage collective action. However, no current research has focused on motivations for engagement in performance activism (i.e., displaying support for a mobilized group without engaging in mobilization) from an ingroup perspective. The current study investigates this literature gap, focusing on the dynamics of group membership, specifically feelings of self-prototypicality, as motivation to engage in performance activism or collective action. Participants (N = 189) were made to feel they were core members (prototypical) or fringe members (peripheral) of a superordinate group (i.e., a large, usually societal group) and made to feel their subgroup was collectively prototypical or peripheral within the larger, superordinate group. The findings support self-prototypicality as a predator of collective action but not performance activism.
Citation Style
APA
Recommended Citation
Belt, Grace, "Performance activism versus collective action" (2024). Cal Poly Humboldt theses and projects. 780.
https://digitalcommons.humboldt.edu/etd/780