Hopmans, Aukje (2022) Advantaged group's reactions to protests: Support of the advantaged group to religiously or racially framed minority group's (non)normative protests. Master thesis, Psychology.
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Abstract
This research investigated the reactions of advantaged group members (Europeans) to (non)normative protests held by racially (racism) or religiously (Islamophobia) framed minority groups (Turkish immigrants). We expected that Islamophobia protests would be supported less, because we suspected that religion would be seen as more of a choice than race, and therefore Muslims would be more blameworthy for their low status. Moreover, we expected nonnormative Islamophobia protests to be the least supported, as those can be linked to radicalism. We conducted a 2 (type of action) x 2 (framing of the minority group) between subjects study, with 246 first year psychology students at the RUG. Participants filled in an online questionnaire, and were presented with a (constructed) newspaper article, after which we measured their support for protest and other variables. Nonnormative Islamophobia protests were supported significantly less than normative Islamophobia protests and racially framed protests. Normative conditions did not differ significantly. It seems that some minority groups that use nonnormative forms of action are at a disadvantage to achieving equality, as they gain less support by advantaged group members.
| Item Type: | Thesis (Master) |
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| Supervisor name: | Spears, R. |
| Degree programme: | Psychology |
| Differentiation route: | Applied Social Psychology (ASP) [Master Psychology] |
| Date Deposited: | 15 Feb 2022 09:55 |
| Last Modified: | 15 Feb 2022 09:55 |
| URI: | http://gmwpublic.studenttheses.ub.rug.nl/id/eprint/178 |
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