Comparing Van Skelenburg And Klandermans The Social Psychology Of Protest

Van Skelenburg and Klandermans’ “The social psychology of protest” establishes the importance of studying protest through the lens of social psychology, as it creates a framework of seeing protest through the perception of the individual and further discussing how it then relates to the group. The main question, “Why people who are seemingly in the same situation respond so differently?,” is answered as there are a variety of different reasons which bring people to the point of mobilization. Grievances, efficacy, identity and emotion have all been popular theories for the participation in protest in the past three decades, but Van Stekelenburg and Klandermans’ suggest a new theory of social embeddedness, which combines elements of each of