Social Embeddedness and Protest Avoidance
Evidence from China
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6283328 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Meixi Zhuang (0000-0002-2391-9111, Fudan University), Zhengxu Wang (0000-0003-1053-4308, Zhejiang University, corresponding author), Xiaoyuan Li (0000-0003-1892-3594, Tongji University), Li Xiao-Yuan (0000-0003-4151-2697, Tongji University) |
| Year | 2023 |
| Volume | 67 |
| Issue | 9 |
| Pages | 1704-1730 |
| Publication date | 2023-10-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Conflict Resolution (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0022-0027 • E-ISSN: 1552-8766 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/00220027221123320 |
| OpenAlex | W4319838900 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 51 |
Social capital is generally believed to facilitate protest mobilization. We examine, however, whether and how it might reduce an individual’s tendency to join a protest. Analyzing survey data of a migrant population in Beijing, China’s capital, we find that social capital operating as better embeddedness in local social networks lowers the likelihood of protest participation. We reason that, structurally, embeddedness in local networks provides access to support and assistance, reducing the attractiveness of disruptive means of problem-solving. Psychologically, such embeddedness mitigates the feeling of relative deprivation, reducing the possibility of such feelings accumulating and eventually translating into protesting actions. Regressions and structural equation models confirm our hypotheses, and we are also able to check the robustness of our findings with a different, much larger, cross-national dataset
Attractiveness · Beijing · China · Economics · Embeddedness · Feeling · Political science · Population · Positive economics · Robustness (evolution · Social capital · Social science · Sociology · Demography · Law · Psychology · Social and Cultural Dynamics · Social Capital and Networks · Social Psychology · Urban, Neighborhood, and Segregation Studies
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| Unique citing works | 3 |
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| Citations per year | 1 |
| Citation span | 2023 - 2025 (3) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |