Explorations in the Theory of Social Movements and Revolutions*
作者:
James A. Geschwender,
期刊:
Social Forces
(OUP Available online 1968)
卷期:
Volume 47,
issue 2
页码: 127-135
ISSN:0037-7732
年代: 1968
DOI:10.1093/sf/47.2.127
出版商: The University of North Carolina Press
数据来源: OUP
摘要:
James C. Davies proposed a “rise and drop” hypothesis to explain the origin of revolutions. The present paper attempts to place this in the more general context of analyzing conditions which produce both social movements and revolutions. Three additional temporal hypotheses (“rising expectations,” “relative deprivation,” and “downward mobility”) and one nontemporal hypothesis (“status inconsistency”) are suggested. These five hypotheses are subsumed under the Theory of Cognitive Dissonance. This provides a general social psychological theory of motivation which could account for individual predispositions toward participation in social movements and revolutions. Predictions are made regarding the direction and intensity of such movements.
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