Becoming Politicized

Abstract

Abstract. This research took place just after the end of the protests following the killing of a 16-year-old boy by a policeman in Greece in December 2008. Participants (N = 224) were 16-year-olds in different schools in Attiki. Informed by the Politicized Collective Identity Model ( Simon & Klandermans, 2001 ), a questionnaire measuring grievances, adversarial attributions, emotions, vulnerability, identifications with students and activists, and questions about justice and Greek society in the future, as well as about youngsters’ participation in different actions, was completed. Four profiles of the participants emerged from a cluster analysis using representations of the conflict, emotions, and identifications with activists and students. These profiles differed on beliefs about the future of Greece, participants’ economic vulnerability, and forms of participation. Importantly, the clusters corresponded to students from schools of different socioeconomic areas. The results indicate that the way young people interpret the events and the context, their levels of identification, and the way they represent society are important factors of their political socialization that impacts on their forms of participation. Political socialization seems to be related to youngsters’ position in society which probably constitutes an important anchoring point of their interpretation of the world.

The intergenerational transmission of participation in collective action: The role of conversation and political practices in the family

“…This study shows that involvement in collective actions and the transmission of related experiences have certain particularities when parents are politically engaged in a nondemocratic context: a dictatorship that violently repressed social movements, where being politically active could mean risking one's life. Although some studies have examined similar situations (Barkas & Chryssochoou, 2017;Chan, Cattaneo, Mak, & Lin, 2017), most research in this area has occurred in democratic contexts (Becker, Tausch, & Wagner, 2011;Drury, Reicher, & Stott, 2003;Sabucedo et al, 2018;van Zomeren, Postmes, et al, 2012). Considering Chile's past and present context, the results of this study indicate that parents are unsure about sharing their political experiences with their children, since they fear to encourage them to participate in something that can entail risks and suffering.…”

Self-Determined Intention to Vote and the Mediating Role of Politicized Identification

“…Politicized identification develops when members of a group share the group's rules and aims and become aware of the need to participate in the public arena, where other actors are present and must be involved. This identification would lead people to perceive a sort of inner obligation to participate in activities promoted by movements or political groups (Alberici & Milesi, 2018;Barkas & Chryssochoou, 2017;Becker et al, 2011;Schmitt et al, 2019). The literature shows that the greater the politicized identification that an individual possesses, the greater will be the intention to commit politically (Alberici & Milesi, 2016;Turner-Zwinkels et al, 2015, 2017.…”