The ties that mobilize us
Networks, intergroup contact, and participation in the Black Lives Matter movement
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 21739528 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Pamela M Hong (0000-0002-6482-9331, Indiana University Bloomington), Clayton D Peoples (0000-0002-0256-434X, University of Nevada, Reno, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2021 |
| Volume | 21 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 541-556 |
| Publication date | 2021-12-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Analyses of Social Issues and Public Policy (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1529-7489 • E-ISSN: 1530-2415 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/asap.12230 |
| OpenAlex | W3118204011 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 63 |
Scholarship on peoples’ involvement in social movements shows that social networks predict movement participation. Research in this area has traditionally focused on connections to activists—but other kinds of social relationships, such as intergroup contact, may matter as well. In this study, unique data were collected from both a student sample and a general sample of the population to examine how intergroup contact—namely, social ties with African Americans—affects whites’ participation in the Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement. In both samples, intergroup contact is a significant predictor of participation in BLM, net of other factors. The study's findings suggest that social ties outside of activist networks can matter greatly for movement participation; they also suggest that intergroup contact can affect more than just attitudes—it can spur collective action
Collective action · Interpersonal ties · Political science · Population · Scholarship · Social contact · Social movement · Sociology · Communication · Demography · Psychology · Social and Intergroup Psychology · Social Capital and Networks · Social Media and Politics · Social Psychology
Social movements
Social conflict and social movements.
Frontiers in social movement theory
Networks of Collective Action
A Theory of Cognitive Dissonance
Digitally Enabled Social Change
Social Networks Matter. But How?
Separate but equal? A comparison of participants and data gathered via Amazon’s MTurk, social media, and face-to-face behavioral testing
Inside the Turk
The Next Civil Rights Movement?
W . E . B . D u B ois at the center
A Study of Thinking. J. S. Bruner , J. J. Goodnow , G. A. Austin
Organized for Action
Political Networks
Community Power Structure. A Study of Decision Makers
Black Lives Matter and the Civil Rights Movement
The Contact Hypothesis Revisited
Predicting Organizational Citizenship Behavior
Correlates of individualism and collectivism
Participation in Black Lives Matter and deferred action for childhood arrivals
Activism or slacktivism? The potential and pitfalls of social media in contemporary student activism
Social Media and Social Movements
College campus activism
Whites for racial justice
Crowdsourcing research
The Contact Hypothesis and Attitudes Toward L atinos in the U nited S tates
Some of My Best Friends Are Black
Majority Involvement in Minority Movements
Protesting Racial Hierarchy
Acting in Solidarity
Group Process and Social Integration
Converging measurement of horizontal and vertical individualism and collectivism
Horizontal and Vertical Dimensions of Individualism and Collectivism
The Mobilization Dropout Race
Socialization, Connection, and The Structure/Agency Gap
Activists Online and Offline
A meta-analytic test of intergroup contact theory
Multiple Networks and Mobilization in the Paris Commune, 1871
Social media in the 2011 Egyptian uprising
Collective Action and Network Structure
Dissident Groups, Personal Networks, and Spontaneous Cooperation
Social Networks and Social Movements
Potentials, Networks, Motivations, and Barriers
The source of a movement
Social Networks and Political Participation
Political Process and the Development of Black Insurgency, 1930-1970
Interracial Contact and Black Racial Attitudes
Recruiting Strangers and Friends
Structured Ignorance and Organized Racism in the United States
Specifying the Relationship Between Social Ties and Activism
Recruitment to High-Risk Activism
Resource Mobilization and Social Movements
Alienation and Action
Some Effects of 'Social Desirability' in Survey Studies
Ferguson and the death of Michael Brown on Twitter
The vitality of social media for establishing a research agenda on black lives and the movement
| Unique citing works | 2 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,67 |
| Citation span | 2023 - 2025 (3) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |