Description du projet
Un examen plus approfondi des alliances entre des groupes dont le pouvoir varie
Que savons‑nous sur la manière dont les actions collectives défient le statu quo et façonnent les attitudes? Quels processus psychologiques apportent un changement social? Le projet JointActionEff, financé par l’UE, répondra à ces questions en se concentrant sur des contextes intergroupes composés d’hommes et de femmes, ainsi que de personnes blanches et noires aux États-Unis et de juifs et Palestiniens en Israël. Il mènera huit études combinant des recherches archivistiques, des expériences de laboratoire et des méthodologies d’intervention. Les conclusions feront la lumière sur la raison pour laquelle et la manière dont l’action conjointe est efficace, et si elle amorce un changement social vers une égalité intergroupe. Selon le projet, les alliances entre les blancs et les noirs américains et les Israéliens et les Palestiniens sont uniques, car elles impliquent des membres de groupes dont le pouvoir varie.
Objectif
The last century has been characterized by the growth of grassroots social movements and large-scale collective action aimed at advancing equality, some of which has involved historically advantaged and disadvantaged groups acting together. Such alliances, e.g. those between White and Black Americans and Israelis and Palestinians, are unique because they involve members of groups that vary in power. Nonetheless members from each group have joined forces to promote social change toward equality. While there are reasons to believe that such ally-ship may be especially influential in creating actual change and motivating others to support social change, there is little research aimed at understanding whether joint action is more effective than action taken by the disadvantaged alone, and if so why. These questions are pivotal because it helps to answer the broader question of whether joint action, as a rare situation of inherently unequal group members cooperating despite the larger scale conflict between them , is actually worth the effort. While past work has focused on understanding the psychological antecedents of joint action, this proposal shifts the focus to understanding whether and how joint action is effective, that is, whether it affects social change towards intergroup equality. To these ends, a cutting-edge research programme is proposed consisting of 8 studies combining different methodologies (archival research; lab experiments, intervention) and focusing on three intergroup contexts: Whites-Blacks in the U.S.; men and women; and Jews and Palestinians in Israel. The proposed project will enhance knowledge about the psychological processes through which collective action can generate social change and succeed in shaping attitudes and motivating multitudes to challenge the status quo.
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MSCA-IF - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowships (IF)Coordinateur
91904 Jerusalem
Israël