By Any Means Necessary? When and Why Low Group Identification Paradoxically Predicts Radical Collective Action

Journal of Social Issues

Volumn 71, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 517-535

  Jiménez Moya, Gloria ^a,c   Spears, Russell ^b   Rodríguez Bailón, Rosa ^a   de Lemus, Soledad ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRANADA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^c PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD CATÓLICA DE CHILE   (Chile)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLLECTIVE ACTION; ETHNIC GROUP; IDENTITY CONSTRUCTION; MINORITY GROUP;

EID: 84941119856     PISSN: 00224537     EISSN: 15404560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/josi.12126     Document Type: Article

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