Living on the Margins of Democratic Representation: Socially Connected Community Responsibility as Civic Engagement in an Unincorporated Area

Fernández, Jesica Siham; Langhout, Regina Day

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“…Recent literature has examined the intricacies of online and offline civic engagement (Jones & Mitchell, 2016). Historically, civic engagement literature has also been predominantly White, though samples have become more diverse in recent literature (Fernández & Langhout, 2018).…”

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Examining civic engagement in ethnic minority youth populations: A literature review and concept analysis

Phan

Kloos

2023

American J of Comm Psychol

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Racial reckoning is defined as the subjugation of Black, Indigenous, and people of Color (BIPOC) to racial hierarchies and subordinate groups that influence multiple well‐being outcomes throughout the developmental lifespan and across generations. With the two pandemics of racial reckoning and COVID‐19 amidst a growing controversial political landscape, topics around civic engagement have been brought to the forefront of community conversation. Discussions surrounding civic engagement must go beyond addressing issues of public concern and examine the vehicle in which civic engagement may be delivered. This is becoming increasingly important as civic engagement is one of the main avenues of social change through individual and collective action, particularly regarding racial reckoning and healthcare disparities highlighted by COVID‐19. The paper focuses on civic engagement among ethnic minority youth and young adults. An integrated model of civic engagement was created based off what was learned through this review. This proposed model of civic engagement is meant to be the first step to addressing the gap in civic engagement literature for ethnic minority youth. Weaknesses and future considerations regarding the model will also be discussed, as well as any implications for ethnic minority youth and young adults.

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Section: Literature Review and Conceptual Analysismentioning

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Examining civic engagement in ethnic minority youth populations: A literature review and concept analysis

Phan

Kloos

2023

American J of Comm Psychol

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“…What particular forms emerge and stabilize and how, in interactions among members and within sociopolitical contexts, is a major interest for researchers (Stoecker, 2009); and sociology can be fruitfully engaged in this study with a focus on culture work, internal politics, meaning construction, and organizational strategy (Stoecker, 2009). Important CO research focused on processes and power relations within communities has been done with regard to transitions from local to national mobilization (Wood, 2007), comparisons of CO paradigms (Martinson & Su, 2012), youth organizing (Govan, Fernandez, Lewis, & Kirshner, 2015), participatory action research (Fernández & Langhout, 2018).…”

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Speaking power to power: Grassroots democracy in the anti‐fracking movement in Bulgaria

Mihaylov

2020

Journal Community Psychology

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The anti-fracking movement (AFM) in Bulgaria, was a successful grassroots local-to-national organizing effort to change public policy. The study draws on social movements, community psychology, and grassroots democracy theory to explore, describe and critique how participants in the AFM collectively constructed meanings and practices of organizing in interaction with the sociopolitical context as they expanded their efforts from the local to the national level of policy-making. Data for the study were collected from semi-structured interviews with activists, movement documents, and participant observations. Structured and open coding followed by qualitative analyses produced descriptions and explanations of grassroots democracy in the movement. The movement was based on a prefigurative vision and practice of an antihierarchical "civic society" and was also shaped by the demands of the Bulgarian political context. Power, consent, and participation had dynamic meanings and forms that secured both grassroots democracy and effective political action. Тhe AFM resisted well-known mechanisms of hierarchization and co-optation, but it also reproduced certain inequalities of power. The findings relate to recent trends for expansion of community organizing to the national level of politics, for expansion of the community organizing models outside the United States, and for a popular grassroots preference for antiorganizational organizing.

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“…Civil-political forms of social activity are studied from various angles and mainly from the standpoint of civic participation. Therefore, the socio-psychological analysis of these activities touches more on the problems of the relationship between social identity and the nature of activity (Grant et al, 2017;Merrilees et al, 2013;Pan, 2019), acceptance of the values of civil/political movements (Lin, 2019), the influence of trust on civic, political and volunteer behaviour (Liu, Shen, 2020), as well as the significant role of social responsibility in civic and political behaviour (Fernandez, Langhout, 2018;Owusu-Agyeman, Fourie-Malherbe, 2019); various characteristics of social activity in the context of social (virtual, for example, Facebook) networks are studied (Chan, Guo, 2013;Savrasova-Vyun, 2017). It should also be noted that civic participation is often viewed as a pro-social behaviour and in some cases it is even supposed to be studied within the framework of certain programmes (Lin, 2019;Sze-Yeung Lai, Chi-Leung Hui, 2020).…”

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The Role of Civic Identity in the Preferences of Civil and Political Forms of Social Activity in Russian Youth

Shamionov

Мунирович²

2020

Vestn. Ross. univ. družby nar., Ser. Psihol. pedagog.

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Civic identity is an important feature of a socialised person. It regulates numerous personal behavioural manifestations, e.g. commitment to the country, patriotism, willingness to participate in important processes related to democratic procedures, desire to realise values that are of paramount importance for adaptation and integration with other representatives of civil society. The aim of this research is to determine the role of civic identity in the preferences of civil and political forms of social activity among young people in provincial Russia. The study involved 305 people (35.4% men) aged 17 to 35 (M = 21.1; SD = 3.1). The study used a questionnaire aimed at determining the socio-demographic characteristics of the sample group, containing scales for assessing the degree of personal involvement in certain forms of social activity (R.M. Shamionov et al.), Civic Identity Scale (A.N. Tatarko), Self-Assessment of the Propensity for Extreme Risky Behavior Technique (the Russian version of M. Zuckermans Sensation Seeking Scale). The study revealed that the indicators of commitment to protest, radical-protest and subcultural activity are more homogeneous and less pronounced in comparison with the indicators of civic, political and socio-economic activity. As a result of the factor analysis, it was found that civic-political (civic, socio-economic and political) and subcultural-protest (subcultural, protest and radical-protest) forms of activity constitute two stable factors. As a result of structural modelling, it was shown that civic identity has a positive impact on social activity in the civil-political field and a negative impact on subcultural-protest activity. Seeking new experiences plays a positive role in subcultural-protest activity of young people, while the feeling of uncertainty undermines the manifestations of civic-political activity. The study also revealed an important role of socialisation conditions: the participation of parents in the public life of the country contributes to civic-political activity and the formation of civic identity of their children. Civic identity reduces the manifestation of the feeling of uncertainty and the search for new experiences among young people.

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Living on the Margins of Democratic Representation: Socially Connected Community Responsibility as Civic Engagement in an Unincorporated Area

Cited by 10 publications

References 35 publications

Examining civic engagement in ethnic minority youth populations: A literature review and concept analysis

Examining civic engagement in ethnic minority youth populations: A literature review and concept analysis

Speaking power to power: Grassroots democracy in the anti‐fracking movement in Bulgaria

The Role of Civic Identity in the Preferences of Civil and Political Forms of Social Activity in Russian Youth

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