Struggles for REcognition: towards a Social Psychology of Equity-based Collective acTion (RESPECT)

This project starts from well-established recognition gaps or unequal belonging in ethnic relations. Recognition is defined as mirror opposite of disrespect or discrimination. Starting from (direct and vicarious) experiences of disrespect in social interactions and relations, and spanning ethnic minority and majority perspectives, the proposed research has three main aims: to map situated experiences of disrespect onto unequal belonging and contingent support for recognition; to elucidate the relational processes of (dis)valuation that afford recognition; and to test symmetry in cross-cutting ties and networks, minority influence, and emergent norms of equity as hypothetical drivers of recognition. To this end, we combine multi-level longitudinal and sociometry analyses of ethnic minority and majority samples across schools and municipalities with new embedded experiments in the general population.

Keywords:Equity norms, Intergroup contact, Discrimination, Collective action

Disciplines:Social behaviour and social action, Cultural and cross-cultural psychology