Capitalism Versus a New Economic Model
Implicit and Explicit Attitudes of Protesters and Bankers
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6220741 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Brian A O''Shea (0000-0001-9736-238X, London School of Economics and Political Science, corresponding author), Brian O''Shea, Brian O'Shea |
| Year | 2015 |
| Volume | 14 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 311-330 |
| Publication date | 2015-05-04 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Social movement studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1474-2829 • E-ISSN: 1474-2837 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/14742837.2014.938732 |
| OpenAlex | W1997689877 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 60 |
Why is it difficult to sustain collective action that challenges the political and economic status quo? To develop an answer to this central problem in the study of social movements, this paper investigates the possible role of cognitive mechanisms using the framework of System Justification Theory. It examines the explicit and implicit attitudes of London bankers and Occupy St. Paul's protesters towards capitalism and an alternative economic system (Resource Based Economy: RBE) using the Implicit Relational Assessment Procedure and questionnaires. As hypothesised, bankers were more likely than protesters to demonstrate positive attitudes towards conservative capitalistic worldviews/values on both explicit and implicit measures. Also as expected, protesters had more positive explicit attitudes towards the RBE than did bankers. However, implicit attitudes towards the RBE were neutral for both groups. The implicit capitalism measures correlated positively with the explicit Capitalism Semantic Differential Scales (SDS) and negatively with the RBE SDS. No correlations were found between the implicit RBE measures and any of the explicit SDSs. The central theoretical insight of this paper is that implicit attitudes play an important role in maintaining the status quo, and that cognitive factors may underpin the resilience of extant social, political and economic structures
Capitalism · Economics · Implicit attitude · Market economy · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Positive economics · Sociology · Status quo · Status quo bias · Cultural Differences and Values · Psychology · Qualitative Comparative Analysis Research · Social and Intergroup Psychology · Social Psychology
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| Highly cited | No |