Can moral convictions motivate the advantaged to challenge social inequality? Extending the social identity model of collective action

Group Processes and Intergroup Relations

Volumn 14, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 735-753

  van Zomeren, Martijn ^a   Postmes, Tom ^a   Spears, Russell ^a   Bettache, Karim ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

collective action; moral convictions; social inequality

Indexed keywords

EID: 80052245784     PISSN: 13684302     EISSN: 14617188     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1368430210395637     Document Type: Article

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