John Drury
Biographic Data
| ID | 83608 |
|---|---|
| NAME | John Drury |
| GIVEN NAMES | John |
| FAMILY NAME | Drury |
| SIGNATURE | DRURY J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Sussex |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7748-5128 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 107 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 847 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 104 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1948 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 13 |
Applying the Social Identity Approach to Leadership to Online Support Groups for Long Covid
Previous research has shown that online support groups for Long Covid may improve group members' wellbeing, but there is limited evidence on the role of group moderators in influencing such outcomes. Applying the social identity approach to leadership, this study sought to understand the extent to which group moderators display identity leadership and their role in influencing group members' health and wellbeing. Interviews were conducted with 10…
Solidarity With Palestinians in Germany and the United Kingdom
Most research on solidarity focuses on democratic, low-repressive contexts. However, support for Palestinians in the Global North shows that solidarity can also emerge in democracies with issue-specific repression, where costs and risks for solidarity are higher, and dominant narratives limit alternative perspectives. This article explores which beliefs, emotions, and attitudes predict low-cost (i.e., low effort/risk) and high-cost (i.e., high ef…
Understanding the “new” disruptive behavior at live music events
Recent years have seen increased reports of disruptive behavior at live music events, leading many to question the capacity of audiences to regulate their behavior. This matters both for positive audience experience and for crowd safety. Whilst some previous studies have examined violence in music audiences, there is almost no research looking at the current phenomenon of varied forms of disruption, the psychological antecedents of disruptive beh…
Understanding the 2024 Summer Riots in the UK
The wave of riots in England in summer 2024 constituted the biggest wave of disorder in the country for more than a decade. These were followed by swift policy responses, based on assumptions about the events and the participants, before any detailed empirical investigation had been carried out. There is a need for detailed description of events as a solid basis for both social psychological theory and policy. This article therefore presents case…
Evaluation of psychology-based training for improving interoperability in the emergency services
Recent research highlights the need for a psychological understanding of interoperability in multi-agency emergency response to address ongoing issues and prevent future problems. We developed a psychology-based training to improve interoperability using theory and evidence from the Social Identity Approach. We evaluated its effectiveness and optimal delivery method with 65 emergency responders from UK Police ( N =8), Fire and Rescue ( N =12), an…
Understanding the socio-economic and wellbeing impacts of the 2023 earthquakes in Turkey on Syrian refugees
On February 6, 2023, a significant earthquake struck Turkey, disproportionately impacting Syrian refugees already struggling with the lingering effects of war. This study aims to understand the specific impacts of the earthquake on Syrian refugees by addressing four key topics : 1) the effects of the earthquake on their living conditions; 2) impacts on their sense of community belonging; 3) well-being impacts reported post-earthquake; and 4) bene…
Emergent Prefigurative Politics and Social Psychological Processes
Prefigurative politics—the enactment of desired future social relations in present social change practices—has become central in contemporary political organising. Protest movements like the Arab Spring and recent Latin American uprisings illustrate prefiguration emerging through struggle rather than from a pre‐existing political programme. Although psychological perspectives have been identified as promising avenues for exploring prefiguration, …
The effect of work engagement on job satisfaction and turnover intentions
The relationship between work engagement, job satisfaction, turnover intentions, and identity within organisations was investigated. Social identity theory (SIT) proposes that individuals derive part of their self-concept from their group memberships, and previous research has shown that individuals derive a degree of engagement and job satisfaction based on their identification with the organisation where they work. Based on SIT, we propose that…
How the Social Identity Approach Can Improve Interoperability in Multi‐Agency Emergency Response Teams
Major incident inquiries and research highlight persistent problems in interoperability. Evidence points to failures in the ability of responders from different organisations to work effectively together, which hinders collaborative efforts. Recently, researchers have argued that one reason why collaboration problems exist when different teams are required to work together is due to multiple identities within the overarching team. Whilst this per…
Social Cure and Savouring
There is strong evidence demonstrating a link between engagement with live music and health and wellbeing outcomes. Much of this research focuses on traditional forms of engagement such as playing an instrument or purposefully using live music as a targeted health intervention. There is less research exploring the wellbeing consequences of regular gig and/or festival attendance or the mechanisms for the effects of such attendance. Drawing on the …
Online support groups, social identity, and the health and wellbeing of adults with Long Covid
As many individuals with Long Covid are left without formal support, they have turned to online support groups for help. In a pre‐registered study, interviews were carried out with 21 adults with Long Covid to explore experiences of using online support groups, to understand whether participants felt these experiences influenced their health and wellbeing, and to identify whether group members developed a shared social identity. The reported bene…
Explaining a collective false alarm
Collective false alarms can cause significant disruption, costly emergency response, and distress. Yet an adequate psychological explanation for these incidents is lacking. We interviewed 39 participants and analysed multiple secondary data sources from the 2017 false alarm in Oxford Street, UK, to develop a new explanation of this phenomenon. There was evidence that awareness of recent collectively self‐relevant terrorist attacks lowered the thr…
Exploring the relationship between shared identity and interoperability
Previous research has shown ongoing difficulties between Police, Fire and Rescue, and Ambulance Service responders during multi-agency emergencies. Recently, researchers have used the Social Identity Approach to gain insight into these challenges, offering a psychological framework for understanding relations within and between response organisations. This study builds upon previous work by engaging responders from the emergency services in six d…
Safeguarding concerns, practices, and resources in Covid-19 mutual aid groups
Community mutual aid groups that sprang up during the COVID-19 pandemic were characterized by a lack of formal regulation and therefore potential issues around safeguarding. In this study, eight organizers of COVID mutual aid groups in the UK describe their group's concerns, and existing safeguarding resources, and resources they would find useful in the future. Groups often created their own policies, training, reference materials, and safeguard…
The role of subjective power dynamics in far-right collective action
Far-right collective action has previously been explained in terms of collective grievances. However, this does not adequately explain mobilisations after ingroup-relevant successes. Based on the broader collective action literature, we suggest that analysing experiences of subjective power before and during collective action may significantly complement existing explanations of far-right mobilisations. We used secondary data (predominantly video…
How do those affected by a disaster organize to meet their needs for justice? Campaign strategies and partial victories following the Grenfell Tower fire
Previous research has shown that disasters often involve a sense of injustice among affected communities. But the empowerment process through which ‘disaster communities’ organise strategically to confront such injustices have not been investigated by social psychology. This study addresses this gap by examining how community members impacted by the Grenfell Tower fire self-organized to demand justice in response to government neglect. Thematic a…
Tracking the nature and trajectory of social support in Facebook mutual aid groups during the Covid-19 pandemic
At the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, thousands of mutual aid groups were established on social media and operated as platforms through which people could offer or request social support. Considering the importance of Facebook mutual aid groups during the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic in the United Kingdom but also the lack of empirical research regarding the trajectories and types of social support rendered available through the groups,…
Advancing a social identity perspective on interoperability in the emergency services
Previous research shows there are persistent challenges with multi-agency response centring on problems of communication and coordination. The Social Identity Approach provides an important psychological framework for analysing relations within and between groups which can be used to understand why challenges in multi-agency response occur, and what can be done to prevent them re-occurring in the future. To explore this issue, we conducted semi-s…
Open science communication
The COVID-19 pandemic has shone a light on the complex relationship between science and policy. Policymakers have had to make decisions at speed in conditions of uncertainty, implementing policies that have had profound consequences for people's lives. Yet this process has sometimes been characterised by fragmentation, opacity and a disconnect between evidence and policy. In the United Kingdom, concerns about the secrecy that initially surrounded…
Understanding collective flight responses to (mis)perceived hostile threats in Britain 2010-2019
Interventions to promote physical distancing behaviour during infectious disease pandemics or epidemics
How Riots Spread Between Cities
Waves of riots are politically and psychologically significant national events. The role of police perceptions and practices in spreading unrest between cities has been neglected in previous research, even though the police are significant actors in these events. We examined the role of police interventions in the spread of rioting to one English city in August 2011 by triangulating multiple data sources and analyzing police accounts and communit…
Biographical consequences of environmental activism
Most of us have come into contact with environmental activism in some form, such as seeing news coverage of environmental protests and activists such as Greta Thunberg, or participated in protests to fight or raise awareness of the climate crisis. Even though the former may leave us unaffected, the latter, participation in environmental activism, can have a profound effect on our lives. In this chapter, we outline and discuss the range of biograp…
A social model of secondary stressors in relation to disasters, major incidents and conflict
Social norms misperception among voters in the 2020 US presidential election
We aim to explain the dynamics enabling spikes in hate crimes by examining the underlying social‐psychological processes behind it. We see these as captured in empowerment processes among racists who see themselves as “victims” and their position strengthened by majority support from the public for their actions. Building on previous research, we investigated the role social norm misperception (false consensus and pluralistic ignorance), followin…
Using social and behavioural science to support Covid-19 pandemic response
Explaining enduring empowerment
An ethnographic study of two crowd events was carried out in order to develop a hypothesis about the experience of empowerment in collective action. Qualitative comparison of an anti-roads occupation and a mass eviction suggests that empowerment as an outcome of collective action is a function of the extent to which one's own action is understood as expressing social identity, a process we term collective self-objectification. The comparison indi…
The Intergroup Dynamics of Collective Empowerment
Recent accounts of collective action highlight the importance of psychological empowerment, but conceptualize it simply as a precondition for such action. By contrast, the social identity model (Reicher, 1996, 1997; Stott, 1996) suggests that empowerment is a product as well as a precondition of collective action. However, existing research on the social identity model has merely inferred the emergence of feelings of power rather than shown it em…
Crowds, context and identity
Reicher has recently developed the social identity model of crowd behaviour based on self-categorization theory (SCT). This model begins to tackle the thorny theoretical problems posed by the dynamic nature of crowd action (Reicher, 1996b). The present paper describes an ethnographic study of a crowd event in which there were changes in the inter-group relationships over time. It is suggested that the laboratory evidence in support of SCT is comp…
Collective Psychological Empowerment as a Model of Social Change
The issue of psychological empowerment in crowd events has important implications for both theory and practice. Theoretically, the issue throws light on both intergroup conflict and the nature and functions of social identity. Practically, empowerment in collective events can feed into societal change. The study of empowerment therefore tells us something about how the forces pressing for such change might succeed or fail. The present article fir…
Carnivals, Rogues, and Heroes
Emergent social identity and observing social support predict social support provided by survivors in a disaster
Survivors of disasters commonly provide each other with social support, but the social‐psychological processes behind such solidarity behaviours have not been fully explicated. We describe a survey of 1240 adults affected by the 2010 Chile earthquake to examine the importance of two factors: observing others providing social support and social identification with other survivors. As expected, emotional social support was associated with social id…
Transforming the boundaries of collective identity
This paper is concerned with how people involved in ‘local’ protest might come to see themselves as part of wider social groupings and even global forces of resistance. An ethnographic study of the No M11 Link Road Campaign in London examines participants' definitions of their collective identity boundaries at different stages of involvement. Cross-sectional material from the beginning and later in the campaign shows that there was a transformati…
Self-image – is it in the bag? A qualitative comparison between “ordinary” and “excessive” consumers
Emergent social identities in a flood
Although the mobilization of pre‐existing networks is crucial in psychosocial resilience in disasters, shared identities can also emerge in the absence of such previous bonds, due to survivors sharing a sense of common fate. Common fate seems to operate in sudden‐impact disasters (e.g., bombings), but to our knowledge, no research has explored social identity processes in “rising‐tide” incidents. We interviewed an opportunity sample of 17 residen…
Activist Identity as a Motivational Resource
This paper describes a study examining how different groups at some of the G8 protests, Gleneagles, 2005, negotiated experiences of (dis)empowerment. A recent survey of protest events speculated that, as a function of their social identities, experienced activists have available to them particular strategies to counter disempowerment and hence provide motivation for continued involvement. The G8 direct actions in Gleneagles provided an opportunit…
How participation in collective action changes relationships, behaviours, and beliefs
Research has shown that numerous psychological changes can occur in and through collective action. Previous research on psychological consequences of participation in collective action has mainly focused on one change at a time and has rarely included a theoretical explanation for the change. The present study therefore investigates the range and possible connections between changes occurring in collective action. We interviewed participants (n =…
The role of shared social identity in mutual support among refugees of conflict
In the midst of an unprecedented refugee crisis and the shortfall of aid organization resources, a shift toward utilizing the capacity for collective resilience in refugee communities could be helpful. This paper explores experiences of psychosocial social support among a community of Syrian urban refugees in Jordan, especially the kind of support that helps them deal with secondary stressors. We were specifically interested in the role of shared…
Sharing distress increases helping and contact intentions via social identification and inclusion of the other in the self
We surveyed young children ( N = 517) affected by two major earthquakes to shed light on the role of identity processes in relation to the common observation that disasters can bring survivors closer together and enhance helping amongst them. As expected, posttraumatic stress symptoms caused by the earthquake were positively associated with intentions to have contact with and help other survivors of the earthquake, these effects being sequentiall…
When the Mobs are Looking for Witches to Burn, Nobody's Safe
Previous research has successfully problematized the pathologizing discourses used to discredit crowd events. However, examples of reactionary crowds can operate rhetorically as an obstacle to a liberatory account of the crowd in history. This article presents an analysis of newspaper accounts of a series of `anti-paedophile' crowd actions which took place in Britain in the summer of 2000. Such accounts characteristically pathologized the crowd n…
The importance of social structure and social interaction in stereotype consensus and content
This paper addresses the hypothesis derived from self‐categorization theory (SCT) that the relationship between groups and stereotyping will be affected by the social structural conditions within which group interaction occurs. A mixed design experiment (n=56) measured low‐status groups' stereotypes and preferences for conflict with a high‐status outgroup prior to and after within‐group discussion across varying social structural conditions. Over…
Shared social identity transforms social relations in imaginary crowds
In this paper we present three studies that address the difference between physical and psychological groups, the conditions that create a transformation from the one into the other, and the psychological processes underlying this transformation. In Study 1 we demonstrate correlations between shared social identity, desired physical proximity to others, and positive emotions in the company of others. Study 2, employing a between-subjects design, …
The evolving normative dimensions of ‘riot’
The question of how normative form changes during a riot, and thus how collective behaviour spreads to different targets and locations, has been neglected in previous research, despite its theoretical and practical importance. We begin to address this limitation through a detailed analysis of the rioting in the London borough of Haringey in 2011. A triangulated analysis of multiple sources of data (including police reports, media accounts, and vi…
On the Role of a Social Identity Analysis in Articulating Structure and Collective Action
Theoretical perspectives that give primacy to ideological or structural determinism have dominated criminological analysis of the 2011 English ‘riots’. This paper provides an alternative social psychological perspective through detailed empirical analysis of two of these riots. We utilize novel forms of data to build triangulated accounts of the nature of the events and explore the perspectives of participants. We assert these riots cannot be ade…
A social identity model of riot diffusion
Previous research has shown that riots spread across multiple locations, but has not explained underlying psychological processes. We examined rioting in three locations during the August 2011 disorders in England to test a social identity model of riot diffusion. We triangulated multiple sources to construct a narrative of events; and we analysed interviews with 68 participants to examine experiences. In line with the model, we found evidence fo…
Managing to avert disaster
There is considerable evidence that psychological membership of crowds can protect people in dangerous events, although the underlying social–psychological processes have not been fully investigated. There is also evidence that those responsible for managing crowd safety view crowds as a source of psychological danger, views that may themselves impact upon crowd safety; yet, there has been little examination of how such ‘disaster myths’ operate i…
Bias as a Research Strategy in Participant Observation
Participant observation (PO) is one of the more fruitful methodological approaches to studying crowd behavior. This article argues that, since crowd behavior characteristically takes place in a context of intergroup conflict, PO may involve having to take sides to gather data. Possible sources of bias within a partisan PO framework are examined, including bias in access, in observation, and in analysis. Two examples vof partisan research on crowd…
When nonactivists care
In recent years, multiple social movements have emerged around the world. In addition, public surveys indicate the highest recorded levels of support for protest. In this context of acceptance of collective action, we examine the role of nonactivists in the perceived legitimacy of social movements, as this “passive” support can contribute to social change. Given that antecedents of legitimacy have been neglected in the literature, we carried out …
Contextualising the crowd in contemporary social science
This paper situates contemporary social scientific studies of crowd events and crowd behaviour in their historical and ideological context. The original ‘crowd science’ developed from definitions of ‘social problems’ that emerged in the late nineteenth century – in particular the concerns among the French establishment about the threat of the ‘mass’ to ‘civilization’. This, and the surrounding intellectual context, encouraged the development of t…
Reification and Evidence in Rhetoric on Economic Recession
This paper examines reasoning and rhetoric about economic recession in selected newspapers. This is an interesting topic for discourse analysis because it is a site of argumentation. We begin by asking: (1) epistemological questions (e.g. What evidential basis is drawn on in rhetoric about recession?) and then (2) ontological questions (e.g. How is recession pictured? and How is recession coordinated with the social world?). We examine the manage…
Historic Midwest Houses
Architecture of the Old Northwest Territory; A Study of Early Architecture in Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, Wisconsin, & Part of Minnesota
Journal Article Architecture of the Old Northwest Territory; A Study of Early Architecture in Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, Wisconsin, & Part of Minnesota. By Rexford Newcomb. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1950. 225 pp. Photographs, illustrations, bibliography, and index. $20.00.) Get access John Drury John Drury Chesterton, Indiana Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History,…
Old Illinois Houses
Old Illinois Houses. By John Drury. Foreword by Jay Monaghan. (Springfield: Illinois State Historical Society, 1948. xv + 220 pp. Illustrations and index. Free to members of the Society.) Get access William T. Utter William T. Utter Denison University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 37, Issue 3, December 1950, Pages 528–529, https://doi.org/10.2307/1893337 Published: 01 …
History and the Theology of Liberation
Christians and Socialism
Christians and Socialism
The Presence of Christ
Latin America
A Note from the Editors
Liturgy, Lawrence and God
Our Sinful Theologians
Frontiers of Theology in Latin America
The Gates of Hell
Market Place, Wilderness and Mystery
A New Offer
Bomb and People-Carrying on carrying on
And/or Religious Studies
Personal and Impersonal in Theology
For all Must Love the Human Form
Critics of the Bible, 1724–1873
English critics were brilliant initiators and exploiters of biblical criticism. This momentous exercise, whereby the 'Holy Scriptures' became the object of human critique independent of church control, is illustrated by John Drury in the present volume with excerpts from such famous critics as Coleridge, Blake and Matthew Arnold, and lesser names such as Collins and Deist and Bishop Sherlock. Robert Lowth's famous lectures on the Psalms, which ha…
Reification and Evidence in Rhetoric on Economic Recession
This paper examines reasoning and rhetoric about economic recession in selected newspapers. This is an interesting topic for discourse analysis because it is a site of argumentation. We begin by asking: (1) epistemological questions (e.g. What evidential basis is drawn on in rhetoric about recession?) and then (2) ontological questions (e.g. How is recession pictured? and How is recession coordinated with the social world?). We examine the manage…
Young People's Communication Difficulties
Communication between teenagers and employers is an important research topic, but has been neglected relative to research on communication between young people and other adults, such as parents. The present paper describes an open-ended questionnaire survey in which 1500 young people aged between 12 and 20 recounted a difficult communication experience with either an employer or a family adult, addressing the reason for difficulty, whether the di…
The Intergroup Dynamics of Collective Empowerment
Recent accounts of collective action highlight the importance of psychological empowerment, but conceptualize it simply as a precondition for such action. By contrast, the social identity model (Reicher, 1996, 1997; Stott, 1996) suggests that empowerment is a product as well as a precondition of collective action. However, existing research on the social identity model has merely inferred the emergence of feelings of power rather than shown it em…
Individual Responsibility versus Social Category Problems
With many young people today dependent on welfare benefits, communication with benefits officers is an important and consequential part of their lives. The question of how benefits officers perceive their communication with young people has a bearing on issues of individualization and power, yet is an area neglected by research. The present paper describes an interview study in which 14 benefits officers were asked about their perceptions of comm…
Collective action and psychological change
The study comprises an analysis of processes of psychological change among participants at an environmental protest. A participant observation study found evidence of a radicalized self concept among a number of crowd members, and indicates a link between radicalization, an asymmetry of categorical representations between protesters and the police, and the subsequent interaction premised on these divergent representations. The analysis supports a…
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