The US Student Antisweatshop Movement's Presence and Success at the Campus Level

Impacts of Collective Identity Strength and Network Density1

Datos Bibliográficos

ID2292168
AutoresDale W Wimberley (0000-0002-6480-9744, Virginia Tech, autor de correspondencia), Pallavi Raonka (0009-0002-8293-0254, University of Missouri), Talitha Rose (Virginia Tech), Sofia Sabirova (Georgia Institute of Technology), Sasha Gheesling (independent scholar)
Año2024
Volumen94
Número3
Páginas627-654
Fecha de publicación2024-08-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaSociological Inquiry (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0038-0245 • E-ISSN: 1475-682X
EditorialWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/soin.12584
OpenAlexW4390611972
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas3
Referencias citadas35

College students and campuses have played key roles in social movements because colleges' cultural and structural features tend to facilitate movements. But such attributes vary across campuses. This quantitative study models how two campus features that correspond to core elements of social movement theory-students' collective identity strength and social network density-appear to impact United Students Against Sweatshops (USAS) groups' presence and success on 1,265 US 4-year public and private nonprofit campuses during 2000-2006, operationalizing success as schools' joining the Worker Rights Consortium (WRC) monitoring organization. Results generally indicate that collective identity strength and network density promote USAS presence and that network density facilitates WRC membership. USAS presence is pivotal, though not required, for WRC membership. Our logistic regression models also confirm that campus opportunity structures and off-campus movement actors' roles help account for these USAS outcomes; notably, antiunion location ('Right-to-Work' states) undermines and Roman Catholic school affiliation encourages USAS presence and success. We identify theoretically why certain factors may promote only some forms of student activism (e.g., conscience constituent but not beneficiary-based groups

Beneficiary · Collective identity · Identity (music · Movement (music · Operationalization · Political science · Politics · Public relations · Social group · Social identity theory · Social media · Social movement · Social network (sociolinguistics · Social science · Sociology · Work (physics · Engineering · Labor Movements and Unions · Law · Psychology · Social Capital and Networks · Social Psychology · Social Work Education and Practice