The Importance of Protesters' Morals: Moral Obligation as a Key Variable to Understand Collective Action.

ABSTRACT: Collective action and protest have become a normalized political behavior that in many cases defines the political agenda. The reasons why people take to the streets constitute a central subject within the study of social psychology. In the literature, three precedents of protest that have been established as central to the study of this phenomenon are: injustice, efficacy, and identity. But political action is also deeply related to moral values. This explains why in recent years some moral constructs have also been pointed out as predictors of collective action. Moral variables have been introduced into the literature with little consideration to how they relate to each other. Thus, work in this direction is needed. The general aim of this research is to differentiate moral obligation fr

SUBMITTER: Sabucedo JM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5881521 | biostudies-literature | 2018

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature