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The Social Psychology of Citizenship: Engagement With Citizenship Studies and Future Research

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posted on 2023-07-26, 13:52 authored by Clifford Stevenson, Nick Hopkins, Russell Luyt, John Dixon
In this article we review the argument outlined in the opening article in this special thematic section: that the current social psychology of citizenship can be understood as the development of longstanding conceptualisations of the concept within the discipline. These conceptualisations have contributed to the current social psychological study of the constructive, active and collective (but often exclusive) understandings of citizenship in people’s everyday lives, as evidenced by contributions to this thematic section. We consider how this emerging body of work might fit with current citizenship studies and in particular how it may contribute to the current trend towards conceiving citizenship as an active practice embedded in everyday social life. Specifically, we highlight three areas of future research that we think are particularly promising: citizenship and recognition; displays and enactments of citizenship in public space; citizenship and lived coexistence. Although this is far from an exhaustive list of possibilities, we propose that research in these areas could enable the way for social psychology to articulate a distinct, recognisable and valuable contribution to citizenship studies.

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Refereed

  • Yes

Volume

3

Issue number

2

Page range

192-210

Publication title

Journal of Social and Political Psychology

ISSN

2195-3325

Publisher

PsychOpen

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  • Published version

Language

  • eng

Legacy posted date

2016-11-30

Legacy creation date

2016-11-17

Legacy Faculty/School/Department

ARCHIVED Faculty of Science & Technology (until September 2018)

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