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dc.contributor.authorPassy, Florence
dc.contributor.authorMonsch, Gian-Andrea
dc.date.accessioned2021-07-08T11:25:38Z
dc.date.available2021-07-08T11:25:38Z
dc.date.issued2020
dc.identifierONIX_20210708_9780190078027_4
dc.identifier.urihttps://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/49786
dc.description.abstractWhy does the mind matter for joint action? Contentious Minds is a comparative study of how cognitive and relational processes allow activists to sustain their commitment. With survey data and narratives of activists engaged in three commitment communities, the minds of activists involved in contentious politics are compared with those devoted to institutional and volunteering action. The book’s main argument is that activists of one commitment community have synchronized minds concerning the aim and means of their activism as they perceive common good (aim) and politics (means) through similar cognitive lenses. The book shows the importance of direct conversational contact with individuals in bringing about this synchronization. Assessing the synchronization within communities as well as the variation between them constitutes a major purpose of this book. It shows that activists construct and enact community-specific democratic cultures, thereby entering the public sphere through collective action. The book makes three major contributions. First, it emphasizes the necessity to return the study of the mind to research on activism, Second, it calls for an integrated relational perspective that rests on the structural, instrumental, and interpretative dimensions of social networks. Finally, it advocates a substantial integration of culture in the study of social movements by effectively valuing the role of culture in shaping a person’s mind.
dc.languageEnglish
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciencesen_US
dc.subject.othersocial movement
dc.subject.otheractivism
dc.subject.othercontentious politics
dc.subject.othersocial networks
dc.subject.othermind
dc.subject.othercultural sociology
dc.subject.otherprotest participation
dc.titleContentious Minds
dc.title.alternativeHow Talks and Ties Sustain Activism
dc.typebook
oapen.identifier.doi10.1093/oso/9780190078010.001.0001
oapen.relation.isPublishedByb9501915-cdee-4f2a-8030-9c0b187854b2
oapen.relation.isFundedBy07f61e34-5b96-49f0-9860-c87dd8228f26
oapen.relation.isbn9780190078027
oapen.collectionSwiss National Science Foundation (SNF)
oapen.place.publicationNew York
oapen.grant.number10BP12_188380
oapen.grant.programOpen Access Books
oapen.grant.projectContentious Minds. How Talks and Ties Sustain Activism


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