| dc.description.abstract | Whilst we know a great deal about why people engage in collective action, we know little about how and, perhaps more importantly, when this happens. In order to fully understand the process of becoming engaged in collective action we need to understand how and when action emerges, and the processes of change that people go through to become engaged. Adopting a mixed-methods approach, this thesis explores the change processes an individual may go through when becoming engaged in collective action in two ways: (1) a qualitative analysis of change that can be characterised as non-linear, sudden, or abrupt, and (2) a quantitative test of the within-person change processes involved in becoming engaged in collective action. This involved multiple experimental studies, as well as a multiverse analysis using secondary data collected in the context of a large scale social movement. Findings suggest that becoming engaged in collective action for participants was indeed characterised by moments of sudden, abrupt change. We also demonstrate the value in studying within-person change processes specifically, and the additional insights this can present. | en_GB |
