Journal of Community & Applied Social Psychology最新文献

This study advances an understanding of citizenship and acculturation as dilemmatic frames that are shaped by and provide situated argumentative resources for constructing belonging while managing intergroup power dynamics. It documents how Greek NGO workers may draw on these resources to negotiate and make sense of non-dominant cultural groups' socio-political and cultural inclusion/exclusion and to achieve particular interactional goals. Analysis draws on a broader data pool of 49 semi-structured interviews, specifically focusing on the talk of seven Greek NGO workers involved in supporting movers. A critical discursive socio-psychological (CDSP) approach was implemented for the analysis of this data subset, indicating four central argumentative lines. The first positions movers as a ‘special case’, subtly legitimising segmented assimilation and selective state support. The second shifts the focus to non-dominant groups' cultural participation as a matter of individual choice, emphasising movers' agency for voluntary engagement with dominant norms. The third negotiates acculturation, approaching multiculturalism as parallel coexistence and cultural independence, thereby managing emerging nationalist dilemmas. The last projects conditional multiculturalism, where integration depends on commitment to settle, constituting inclusion as procedural while managing newcomers' perceived liminality. Emerging dilemmas and power differentials underlying constructions of citizenship and cultural participation are discussed, highlighting their potential to reinforce and/or challenge inclusion, and pointing to self-reflective, rights-based approaches.

Recent studies have highlighted the importance of intergroup contact and ethnic identification in shaping attitudes toward outgroups. However, not enough consideration has been given to the influence of group status across different settings, as well as how positive attitudes toward one outgroup may translate into other groups (i.e., secondary transfer effect), who are geographically far away from one's own country. This set of studies aims to investigate the roles of both the quality and quantity of contact and ethnic identification in outgroup acceptance. We focus on the same ethnic group in three different contexts: Turks in Turkey (Study 1), Turks in Germany (Study 2a), and Turks in Bulgaria (Study 2b). For majority and minority group members, lower ethnic identification and higher quality of contact with the primary outgroup predicted more acceptance of the secondary outgroups through more acceptance of the primary outgroup. These investigations could facilitate the development of favourable intergroup relationships among minority and majority populations across various settings.

Engaging older men in initiatives that promote health and well-being is vitally important as men have distinctive health problems and often experience difficulty accessing health care and seeking help more generally. Men's Sheds are an initiative with a growing evidence base that speaks to their capacity to promote health and well-being in this hard-to-reach group. Recent research also suggests that identity leadership can play a key role in helping men to access the health benefits of Men's Sheds. Nevertheless, its constituent components in this context are unclear. To help understand the nature of identity leadership in the Men's Shed context, we performed codebook thematic analysis of responses provided by 117 Men's Shed members to an open-text box question that was part of a broader research survey. Analysis identified four overarching themes related to (a) providing good governance and public engagement, (b) promoting educational and enjoyable activities, (c) modelling positive values and behaviours, and (d) promoting supportive social networks. These themes mapped onto identity leadership constructs of advancement, impresarioship, prototypicality, and entrepreneurship. Findings provide insight into how identity leadership can be developed within volunteer mutual-aid groups in ways that enhance group members' health and well-being.

Collective agency refers to a group's perceived ability to come together, establish common goals or shared interests and take action to attain those goals/interests. Given the absence of rigorously developed scales available to measure the social construct, the aim of this study was to clarify the conceptualization of collective agency and to identify both long and short scales that actors can employ to measure collective agency. Using a rigorous approach that was informed by a conceptual framework and combined factor analysis and item-response theory methods, we analyzed cross-sectional data from participants of Farmer Organizations in Nigeria to assess measurement properties of survey items designed to operationalise group-related collective agency. Results of the factor analyses demonstrated good model fit. After identifying a valid group-related collective agency scale (GCAS-23), we identified a 12-item short form scale (GCAS-12). We recommend the use of these scales to inform the design, monitoring and evaluation of health and development programs expected to affect collective agency and to enhance measurement of the ‘power with’ dimension of empowerment. Please refer to the Supplementary Material section to find this article’s Community and Social Impact Statement.

The objective of this study is to investigate the transformative role of experiential learning in sustainable fashion education, with a particular focus on cultural sustainability. We examine how an immersive learning experience impacts young Chinese designers' understanding of cultural preservation and sustainable design practices. Eight participants took part in a 10-day immersive program in Kyrgyzstan, engaging in traditional craft practices and local cultural activities while maintaining a daily journal throughout the program. Reflective thematic analysis of the journals identified three core themes: (1) expanding the role of designers from product creators to cultural custodians; (2) fusing tradition and innovation for cultural and sustainable impact and (3) redefining the designer's role in community development, transitioning from observers to advocates. Experiential learning was found to enhance students' ecological and cultural awareness, social responsibility and respect for traditional practices. Additionally, the program also benefits local communities by raising awareness of the value of cultural heritage and creating opportunities for dialogue between designers and local artisans. Post-program tracking revealed that all participants incorporated Central Asian traditional elements into commercial collections within 2 years. Among them, four participants won international design awards and showcased their fashion works at five national or international exhibitions, demonstrating the program's lasting impact. These findings underline the value of integrating experiential methodologies into sustainable fashion education, offering insights for addressing cultural and environmental challenges while empowering designers.

People employ various tactics to realign deviant members to their ingroup's norms. While sometimes people react to deviance by re-teaching ingroup norms, other situations call for people to punish the deviant. However, no researchers have dissected what types of ingroup deviations produce different realignment tactics. We examined whether incompetent, unsociable and immoral deviants elicited different realignment tactics. Across four studies (N_Total = 1211), we manipulated the type of deviance (incompetent, unsociable, immoral) before measuring people's support of realignment tactics (re-socialisation, interpersonal punishment, institutional punishment). Four experiments consistently showed that people had more support for interpersonally and institutionally punishing immoral ingroup deviants compared to unsociable deviants. Studies 2, 3 and 4 congruently revealed that people supported re-socialising the incompetent deviant more than the unsociable deviant. Moreover, results showed that ingroup deviants' membership status (Study 3) and whether the organisation where the deviants work prioritises sociability or competence (Study 4) did not moderate these effects. These findings suggest that group members implement different realignment tactics based on the type of deviance committed.