Pub Date : 2020-03-19DOI: 10.1093/OSO/9780190078010.003.0007
F. Passy, Gian-Andrea Monsch
Chapter 7 wraps up the book’s main findings and highlights our main theoretical conclusion: The interplay between the mind and social interactions helps explain the process behind sustained commitment. But what does our conclusion imply for the study of social movements and activism more generally? We begin by emphasizing the necessity to bring the mind back in all its complexity. Second, we argue for the need to take into account considerations regarding the interpretative dimensions of social networks. Third, we advocate a better integration of culture in the study of social movements, as this places an emphasis on the role of culture in shaping a person’s mind, and ultimately provides for finer theories of mobilization. Finally, as with any research, this study faces limits; we expose these in this final chapter, providing us with the opportunity to suggest avenues for further research.
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Pub Date : 2020-03-19DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780190078010.003.0003
F. Passy, Gian-Andrea Monsch
The first of the book’s four empirical chapters use the survey data to examine three issues empirically: first, we show that activists rely on a specific understanding of common good and politics that departs from that held by the general population. Second, we consider how their inclusion in a specific commitment community provides them with a particular understanding of common good and politics. Activists of a specific commitment community hence see both common good and politics through particular cognitive lenses. Third, we show that activists who evolve in the same commitment site but are members of different organizations, as well as active and passive members involved in the same organization, rely on similar views about common good and politics. From these primary analyses, we demonstrate that activists rely on socially shared meanings that are distinct from one commitment community to another. Their minds are synchronized with that of their peers and enable them to perform and sustain joint action.
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Pub Date : 2020-03-19DOI: 10.1093/OSO/9780190078010.003.0004
F. Passy, Gian-Andrea Monsch
Chapter 4 develops the topic of mind synchronization further and delves into understandings of common good. Based on activists’ narratives, we first scrutinize their understandings of common good by offering a fined-grained analysis of the way they conceptualize this pillar of activism. The statistics of Chapter 3 provide a representative picture of the activist’s mind but one that is rather cursory as they reflect raw measurements. In this chapter, we investigate the intricate ways in which common good is understood inductively. In a second step, we examine how activists’ broad understanding of common good enables them to develop mental constructs that orient their action specifically. We highlight the cognitive paths that set activists’ intentionality and orient their action on a number of aspects: toward certain groups of people, on particular social problems, and within a specific field of action.
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