Social movement rhetoric and the social psychology of collective action: A case study of anti-abortion mobilization

Human Relations

Volumn 50, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 261-286

  Hopkins, Nick ^a   Reicher, Steve ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DUNDEE   (United Kingdom)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Abortion; Fetus; Rhetoric; Self categorization theory; Social identities; Social movements

Indexed keywords

EID: 0039768694     PISSN: 00187267     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/001872679705000303     Document Type: Article

References (50)

1. ABRAMS, D., & HOGG, M. A. Social identification, self-categorisation and social influence. In W. Stroebe and M. Hewstone (Eds.), European review of social psychology (Vol. 1). Chichester: Wiley, 1990, p. 195-228.
2. ABRAMS, D., WETHERELL, M. S., COCHRANE, S., HOGG, M. A. & TURNER, J. C. Knowing what to think by knowing who you are: Self-categorisation and the nature of norm formation, conformity and group polarisation. British Journal of Social Psychology, 1990, 29, 97-119,
3. ARIES, P. Centuries of childhood. New York: Vintage Books, 1962.
4. BARTHES, R. The photographic message. In S. Sontag (Ed.), A Barthes reader. New York: Hill and Wang, 1982, pp. 194-210.
5. BEST, J. Rhetoric in claims-making: Constructing the missing children problem. Social Problems, 1987, 34(2), 101-121.
6. BILLIG, M. Arguing and thinking. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1987.
7. BRODIE, J., GAVIGAN, S. A. M., and JENSON, J. The politics of abortion. Toronto: Oxford University Press, 1992.
8. CONDIT, C. M. Decoding abortion rhetoric: Communicating social change. Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 1990.
9. DANIELS, C. R. At women's expense: State power and the politics of fetal rights. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1993.
10. EAGLY, A., & CHAIKEN, S. An attribution analysis of the effect of communicator characteristics on opinion change: The case of communicator effectiveness. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 1975, 32, 136-144.
11. ELDER, C. D., & COBB, R. W. The political uses of symbols. New York: Longman, 1983.
12. FRANCOMBE C. Abortion and public opinion. Abortion Law Reform Association and National Abortion Campaign, 1989.
13. HOGG, M., & TURNER, J. C. Social identity and conformity: A theory of réfèrent informational influence. In W. Doise and S. Moscovici (Eds.), Current issues in European social psychology (Vol. 2). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1987.
14. HOPKINS, N. P., & REICHER, S. D. Anti-abortion propaganda: A critical reading. Critical Social Policy, 1992, 35, 64-78.
15. HOVLAND, C. I., JANIS, I. L. & Kelley, H. H. Communication and persuasion. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1953.
16. HOVLAND, C. I., LUMSDAINE, A. A., & SHEFFIELD, F. D. Experiments on mass communications. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1949.
17. HOVLAND, C. I., & WEISS, W. The influence of source credibility on communication effectiveness. Public Opinion Quarterly, 1951, 15, 635-650.
18. KOVIT, L. Babies as social products: The social determinants of classification. Social Science and Medicine, 1978, 12, 347-351.
19. KNUTSON, A. L. The definition and value of a new human life. Social Science and Medicine, 1967, 1, 7-29.
20. LEE, J. A., & UNGAR, S. A coding method for the analysis of moral discourse. Human Relations, 1989, 42(8), 691-715.
21. LEVENTHAL, H. Findings and theory in the study of fear communications. In. L. Berkowitz (Ed.), Advances in experimental social psychology (Vol. 5). New York: Academic Press, 1970, pp. 119-186.
22. LUMLEY, J. The image of the fetus in the first trimester. Birth and the Family Journal, 1980, 7, 5-14.
23. MAGUIRE, M. R. Symbiosis, biology, and personalization. In E. Doerr and J. W. Prescott (Eds.), Abortion rights and fetal personhood. Long Beach, CA: Centerline Press, 1989.
24. MALL, D. Toward an understanding of the abortion debate: Rhetoric as a reticulate structure. In T. W. Hilgers, D. J. Horan, and D. Mall (Eds.), New perspectives on human abortion. Frederick, MD: Aletheia Books, University Publications of America, 1981.
25. MARSHALL, S. E. Ladies against women: Mobilization dilemmas of antifeminist movements. Social Problems, 1985, 32(4), 348-362.
26. MILLS, J., & ARONSON, E. Opinion change as a function of communicator's attractiveness and desire to influence. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 1965, 1, 173-177.
27. MINTURN, L. The birth ceremony as a rite of passage into infant personhood. In E. Doerr and J. W. Prescott (Eds.), Abortion rights and fetal personhood. Long Beach, CA: Centerline Press, 1989.
28. MORGAN, L. When does life begin? A cross-cultural perspective on the personhood of fetuses and young children. In E. Doerr and J. W. Prescott (Eds.), Abortion rights and fetal personhood. Long Beach, CA: Centerline Press, 1989.
29. OAKES, P. J., TURNER, J. C., & HASLAM, S. A. Perceiving people as group members: The use of fit in the salience of social categories. British Journal of Social Psychology, 30, 125-144.
30. OSTERHOUSE, R. A., & BROCK, T. C. Distraction increases yielding to propaganda by inhibiting counterarguing. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 1970, 15, 344-358.
31. PETCHESKY, R. Fetal images: The power of visual culture in the politics of reproduction. Feminist Studies, 1987, 13(2) 263-292.
32. PRATKANIS, A., & ARONSON, E. Age of propaganda. The everyday use and abuse of persuasion. New York: Freeman, 1992.
33. REICHER, S. D. On the construction of social categories: From collective action to rhetoric and back again. In B. Gonzalez (Ed.), Psicologia cultural. Seville: Eudema, 1993.
34. REICHER, S. D. Crowd behaviour as social action. In J. C. Turner, M. Hogg, P. J. Oakes, S. D. Reicher, and M. Wetherell (Eds.), Rediscovering the social group. Oxford: Blackwell, 1987.
35. REICHER, S. D. The St. Pauls Riot: An explanation of the limits of crowd action in terms of a social identity model. European Journal of Social Psychology, 1984, 14, 1-21. (a)
36. REICHER, S. D. Social influence in the crowd: Attitudinal and behavioural effects of deindividuation in conditions of high and low group salience. British Journal of Social Psychology, 1984, 23, 341-350. (b)
37. REICHER, S. D., & HOPKINS, N. Seeking influence through characterising self-categories: An analysis of anti-abortionist rhetoric. British Journal of Social Psychology, 1996, 35, 297-311. (a)
38. REICHER, S. D., & HOPKINS, N. Self-category constructions in political rhetoric; An analysis of Thatcher's and Kinnock's speeches concerning the British miners' strike (1984-5). European Journal of Social Psychology, 1996, 26, 353-371. (b)
39. SCHNEIDER, J. W. Social problems theory: The constructionist view. Annual Review of Sociology, 1985, 11, 209-229.
40. SOLOMAN, M. Redemptive rhetoric: The continuity motif in the rhetoric of Right to Life. Central States Speech Journal, 1980, 31, 52-62
41. SNOW, D. A., ROCHFORD, E. B., WORDEN, S. K., & BENFORD, R. D. Frame alignment processes, micromobilisation, and movement participation. American Sociological Review, 1986, 51, 464-481.
42. STAGGENBORG, S. The pro-choice movement. Organization and activism in the abortion conflict. New York, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1991.
43. STAINTON, M. C. The foetus: A growing member of the family. Family Relations, 1985, 34, 321-326.
44. TURNER, J. C. Social influence. Milton Keynes: Open University Press, 1985.
45. TURNER, J. C., HOGG, M., OAKES, P. J., REICHER, S. D., & WETHERELL, M. Rediscovering the social group. Oxford: Blackwell, 1987.
46. TURNER, J. C., OAKES, P. J., HASLAM, S. A., & McGARTY, C. Self and collective: Cognition and social context. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 1994, 20, 454-463.
47. VANDERFORD, M. Vilification and social movements: A case study of pro-life and pro-choice rhetoric. Quarterly Journal of Speech, 1989, 75, 166-182.
48. WETHERELL, M. S., Social identity and group polarisation. In J. C. Turner, M. Hogg, P. J. Oakes, S. D. Reicher, and M. Wetherell, Rediscovering the social group. Oxford: Blackwell, 1987.
49. WILLIAMS, R. H. Constructing the public good: Social movements and cultural resources. Social Problems, 1995, 42(1), 124-144.
50. WILLIAMSON, L. Infanticide: An anthropological analysis. In M. Kohl (Ed.), Infanticide and the Value of Life. New York: Prometheus Books, 1978.