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Supporting men or male privilege? Women's progressive and reactionary collective action for men
Author(s) -
Mikołajczak Gosia,
Becker Julia C.
Publication year - 2022
Publication title -
european journal of social psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.609
H-Index - 111
eISSN - 1099-0992
pISSN - 0046-2772
DOI - 10.1002/ejsp.2887
Subject(s) - outgroup , reactionary , privilege (computing) , collective action , injustice , ingroups and outgroups , social psychology , psychology , action (physics) , system justification , social identity theory , social group , political science , law , physics , quantum mechanics , politics , ideology
Collective action for other groups, such as men's action for women, has usually been analysed as social protest advancing equality of disadvantaged groups. In the current research we extend collective action literature by applying SIMCA predictors—identity, injustice, efficacy—to investigate action in support of an advantaged group (women's action for men) and by distinguishing its progressive and reactionary forms. Across three online samples of women (Study 1: N = 1825 US; Study 2: N = 679 UK; Study 3: N = 429 US), we show that support for reactionary action reinforcing male privilege is associated with outgroup identification and outgroup injustice. Conversely, progressive action supporting men in adopting egalitarian gender roles is associated with outgroup identification, outgroup‐focused efficacy, and ingroup injustice. Importantly, some of these associations depend on the content of outgroup‐focused variables. We discuss the implications of our findings for collective action and gender research.