Other people's struggles : outsiders in social movements / Nicholas Owen.
2019
HM881 .O938 2019
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Title
Other people's struggles : outsiders in social movements / Nicholas Owen.
ISBN
9780190945893 (electronic book)
Published
New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2019.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource.
Call Number
HM881 .O938 2019
Dewey Decimal Classification
303.484
Summary
'Other People's Struggles' is the first attempt in over 40 years to explain the place of 'conscience constituents' in social movements. Conscience constituents are people who participate in a movement but do not stand to benefit if it succeeds. Why do such people participate when they do not stand to benefit? Why are they sometimes present and sometimes absent in social movements? Why and when is their participation welcome to those who do stand to benefit, and why and when is it not? The work proposes an original theory to answer these questions, crossing discipline boundaries to draw on the findings of social psychology, philosophy, and normative political theory, in search of explanations of why people act altruistically and what it means to others when they do so.
Note
Also issued in print: 2019.
'Other People's Struggles' is the first attempt in over 40 years to explain the place of 'conscience constituents' in social movements. Conscience constituents are people who participate in a movement but do not stand to benefit if it succeeds. Why do such people participate when they do not stand to benefit? Why are they sometimes present and sometimes absent in social movements? Why and when is their participation welcome to those who do stand to benefit, and why and when is it not? The work proposes an original theory to answer these questions, crossing discipline boundaries to draw on the findings of social psychology, philosophy, and normative political theory, in search of explanations of why people act altruistically and what it means to others when they do so.
'Other People's Struggles' is the first attempt in over 40 years to explain the place of 'conscience constituents' in social movements. Conscience constituents are people who participate in a movement but do not stand to benefit if it succeeds. Why do such people participate when they do not stand to benefit? Why are they sometimes present and sometimes absent in social movements? Why and when is their participation welcome to those who do stand to benefit, and why and when is it not? The work proposes an original theory to answer these questions, crossing discipline boundaries to draw on the findings of social psychology, philosophy, and normative political theory, in search of explanations of why people act altruistically and what it means to others when they do so.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Access limited to authorized users.
Source of Description
Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on June 14, 2019).
Series
Oxford scholarship online.
Available in Other Form
Print version: 9780190945862
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