Table_1_Intergroup contact, outgroup knowledge and advantaged group collective action: can who you know and what you know promote social change?.docx

Some groups in society unjustly hold greater social, economic, and political power over others, placing some groups in more advantaged and others in more disadvantaged positions. One way to challenge group-based inequality and promote social change is through collective action (e.g., protests, petitions, advocating). Most often, disadvantaged group members engage in collective action. However, when advantaged group members engage in solidarity-based collective action, it can heighten a movement's momentum. Four motivators of collective action among advantaged (and disadvantaged) group members have been identified: identification with the cause, anger about injustice, morality, and group efficacy. We examined what precedes these motivations regarding White Canadians' collective action benefitting Indigenous communities and White Americans' collective action benefitting Black communities. We examined two potential antecedents of advantaged group collective action motivation, intergroup contact and knowledge about the outgroup. In both samples, intergroup contact and knowledge of the outgroup were consistently indirectly associated with collective action through identification with the cause as well as through identification with the cause and anger about injustice. Of the multiple forms of intergroup contact and knowledge examined, the strongest associations were observed for higher quality contact and knowledge of systemic racism. These results have implications for both theory and intervention.

社会中部分群体不公地相较于其他群体拥有更多的社会、经济与政治权力，由此使得部分群体处于更具优势的地位，而另一部分群体则处于更为弱势的处境。挑战基于群体的不平等并推动社会变革的途径之一，便是集体行动（例如抗议、请愿、倡导行动）。通常而言，集体行动多由弱势群体成员发起。然而，当优势群体成员参与基于团结的集体行动时，能够提升社会运动的声势与发展势头。目前已明确优势群体（及弱势群体）成员参与集体行动的四类动因：事业认同、对不公现象的愤怒、道德准则，以及群体效能感。本研究针对两类场景展开探究：加拿大白人参与助力原住民社区的集体行动，以及美国白人参与助力非裔社区的集体行动，旨在探究驱动上述集体行动的前置动因。本研究聚焦优势群体集体行动动机的两类潜在前置因素：群体间接触（intergroup contact）与外群体认知（outgroup knowledge）。在两个研究样本中，群体间接触与外群体认知均通过事业认同，以及同时通过事业认同与对不公现象的愤怒，与集体行动呈现出稳定的间接关联。在本次研究考察的多种群体间接触与外群体认知形式中，高质量群体间接触以及对系统性种族主义（systemic racism）的认知，与集体行动的关联强度最高。本研究结果对相关理论构建与干预实践均具有重要启示意义。