The experience of collective participation: shared identity, relatedness and emotionality
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This paper presents three studies that explore the experience of participating in crowd events. Analysis of semi-structured interviews with football supporters and student demonstrators is used to illustrate the role that shared identity plays in transforming within-crowd social relations (relatedness), and the positive impact this has upon emotionality of collective experience. Questionnaire data collected at a music festival are then used to confirm these claims. The paper argues for a conceptual distinction between shared identity and self-categorisation, and against the contention in classic crowd psychology that a loss of identity is at the root of collective emotion. It concludes by suggesting avenues for future research, including the potential role for collective experience in encouraging future co-action.
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Another frequently used measure of collective effervescence assesses the intensity of affective experience or positive emotions and is generally associated with social identity perspective (SIP)-based studies.
“Another frequently used measure assessed the level intensity of affective experience or positive emotions and is generally associated with SIP-based studies”
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- Authors
- Neville, F., & Reicher, S.
- Affiliations
- University of St Andrews (GB)
- Corresponding author
- Neville, Fergus
- Venue
- Contemporary Social Science
- Publisher
- Informa UK Limited
- Published
- 2011-11
- Volume
- 6
- Issue
- 3
- Pages
- 377-396
- ISSN
- 1745-0144 (ISSN-L)
- 2158-2041
- 2158-205X
- OpenAlex
- W2152878653
- Cited by
- 159
- References
- 6
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- FWCI
- 16.07
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
- hdl.handle.net
- Locations
- Contemporary Social Science (publishedVersion)
- St Andrews Research Repository (St Andrews Research Repository) (submittedVersion)
- Funders
- Economic and Social Research Council
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Social and Intergroup Psychology
- Social Sciences › Gender Studies › Sports, Gender, and Society
- Social Sciences › Business, Management and Accounting › Marketing › Consumer Behavior in Brand Consumption and Identification
- Keywords
- collective participation, mass gatherings, shared identity, relatedness, collective emotions, self-categorization, football fans, music festivals, coaction, crowd psychology
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