Neighborhood collective efficacy and collective action: The role of civic engagement

2018 ◽  
Vol 47 (2) ◽  
pp. 311-326 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jason T. Carbone ◽  
Stephen Edward McMillin
Keyword(s):  
Collective Action ◽  
Civic Engagement ◽  
Collective Efficacy ◽  
Neighborhood Collective Efficacy

“A rising tide floats all boats”: The role of neighborhood collective efficacy in responding to child maltreatment

2022 ◽  
Vol 124 ◽  
pp. 105461
Author(s):  
James C. Spilsbury ◽  
Jarrod E. Dalton ◽  
Bridget M. Haas ◽  
Jill E. Korbin
Keyword(s):  
Child Maltreatment ◽  
Collective Efficacy ◽  
Neighborhood Collective Efficacy

scholarly journals Changing the NHS a day at a time: The role of enactment in the mobilisation and prefiguration of change

2016 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 196-219 ◽  
Author(s):  
Liora Moskovitz ◽  
Lucia Garcia-Lorenzo
Keyword(s):  
Collective Action ◽  
Social Movement ◽  
Collective Efficacy ◽  
Organisational Change ◽  
Small Scale ◽  
Group Setting ◽  
Top Down ◽  
Frontline Staff ◽  
Identity Processes

This paper aims to contribute to our understanding of the unique role of enactment in the dynamics of motivation and participation in prefigurative social movements, with the intention of providing a deeper understanding of the mechanisms, inherent to prefiguration, driving change through collective action. We achieve this through examining what motivates people to participate as activists in a social movement trying to enact changes within the National Health Service (NHS) in the United Kingdom. To do so, we explore the narratives of 23 activists working to develop the NHS Change Day movement. The narratives describe how NHS frontline staff engage in daily grassroots change activities while having to navigate top-down, planned, organisational change interventions. We analyse our findings in light of recent developments in the understanding of group identity processes in the mobilisation of collective action, and highlight the role of enactment in these dynamics. The findings indicate that it is not the overall top-down managerial strategies, but rather the daily participation and enactment of self-initiated small-scale change actions that gives meaning and direction to the activists’ participation in the social movement – a meaning which is constructed through the encapsulation of a sense of personal agency and collective efficacy, contributing to a sense of the affirmation of vocational and organisational identity. We contend that the relationship between the experience of the daily enactment of self-initiated activities within a supportive group setting and the motivation to participate in collective action is mutually constructed, and as such, inextricable.

Assessing the Role of Local Communication Networks in Neighborhood Disorder and Crime

2015 ◽  
Vol 45 (6) ◽  
pp. 887-908 ◽  
Author(s):  
Masahiro Yamamoto
Keyword(s):  
Collective Efficacy ◽  
Communication Networks ◽  
Neighborhood Disorder ◽  
Structural Factors ◽  
Crime Victimization ◽  
Local Communication ◽  
Organizational Participation ◽  
Positive Effects ◽  
Neighborhood Collective Efficacy

This study conceptualizes local communication networks as a unique source of neighborhood collective efficacy. Data from the Seattle Neighborhoods and Crime Survey were used to create neighborhood-level measures of structural factors, friendship/kinship networks, organizational participation, local communication networks, collective efficacy, disorder, and crime victimization. Results indicate that socioeconomic status and residential stability have positive effects on local communication networks. The measure of local communication networks is positively related to collective efficacy, which in turn has decreased effects on disorder and crime victimization. Implications are discussed in terms of the role of communication in building a safe community.

The Urban Ethnic Community and Collective Action: Politics, Protest, and Civic Engagement by Hmong Americans in Minneapolis–St. Paul

2014 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 119-139 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jeremy Hein
Keyword(s):  
Spatial Distribution ◽  
Collective Action ◽  
Civic Engagement ◽  
Collective Efficacy ◽  
Public Institutions ◽  
Ethnic Community ◽  
Social Solidarity ◽  
Ethnic Communities ◽  
Ethnic Newspapers ◽  
Hmong Americans

This paper replicates and extends Sampson et al.'s (2005) collective efficacy explanation of civic action events to ethnic communities formed through international migration. It examines political, social movement, and civic collective action of Hmong Americans in Minneapolis–St. Paul through a content analysis of events reported in one of the community's ethnic newspapers from 2002 to 2011 (N = 541). Initially a dispersed group of refugees from Laos, by the early 2000s, 25 percent of all Hmong Americans lived in the Minneapolis–St. Paul metropolitan area. Most (68 percent) of their collective action is for civic engagement, not politics or protest. This civic engagement is mostly for socioeconomic improvement (53 percent) but also social solidarity (47 percent). As Sampson et al. found in Chicago, the spatial distribution of Hmong collective action is shaped more by the location of ethnic and public institutions than by ethnic residential concentration. The paper concludes that the analysis of collective action events in ethnic communities should combine social ecology, institutional, and interactional models.

scholarly journals Civic Engagement Among Youth Exposed to Community Violence: Directions for Research and Practice

2019 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 24-47 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sonia Jain ◽  
Alison K. Cohen ◽  
Kei Kawashima-Ginsberg ◽  
Catherine D. P. Duarte ◽  
Alexander Pope
Keyword(s):  
Civic Engagement ◽  
Collective Efficacy ◽  
Community Violence ◽  
Developmental Assets ◽  
Marginalized Youth ◽  
Youth Civic Engagement ◽  
Research And Practice ◽  
Neighborhood Collective Efficacy ◽  
Exposure To Community Violence

Historically and contemporarily marginalized youth who are disproportionately exposed to community violence are often the same youth who are less likely to be civically engaged. However, the community violence and civic engagement literatures have not yet fully explored how these experiences may be linked in young people’s lives and in relation to what other forces. Using developmental assets and ecological-transactional frameworks, we review the emerging literature on civic engagement among youth exposed to community violence and how external developmental assets and neighborhood collective efficacy may create opportunity for their increased civic engagement. We present numerous conceptually- and empirically-based hypotheses to further examine the intersections between exposure to community violence and youth civic engagement. Ultimately, we identify opportunities for intervention.

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