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Nonviolent Action from a Social‐psychological Perspective *
Author(s) -
Hare A. Paul
Publication year - 1968
Publication title -
sociological inquiry
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.446
H-Index - 51
eISSN - 1475-682X
pISSN - 0038-0245
DOI - 10.1111/j.1475-682x.1968.tb00667.x
Subject(s) - perspective (graphical) , interpersonal communication , dominance (genetics) , social psychology , action (physics) , social exchange theory , psychology , space (punctuation) , sociology , adversary , epistemology , computer science , biochemistry , chemistry , physics , philosophy , computer security , quantum mechanics , artificial intelligence , gene , operating system
A social‐psychological perspective, used in the analysis of three cases of nonviolent direct action, combines the “exchange theory” of Homans and the two and three dimensional approaches for the analysis of interpersonal behavior suggested by Leary and Bales. The three dimensions are: dominance‐submission, positive‐negative, and goal, oriented‐deviant. Once the behavior of a nonviolent actor has been identified in this three dimensional space, the expected behavior of his opponent can be predicted.