Free-Riders in the Nonprofit Industrial Complex: The Problem of Flexitarianism

IF 0.6 4区农林科学 Q4 SOCIOLOGY

Society & Animals Pub Date : 2020-12-01 DOI:10.1163/15685306-12341544

C. Wrenn

引用次数: 5

Abstract

Social movements have traditionally viewed free-riders as a problem for effective mobilization, but under the influence of the nonprofit industrial complex, it is possible that movements actively facilitate their presence. Free-riders become an economic resource to professionalized movements seeking to increase wealth and visibility in the crowded social movement space by discouraging meaningful attitude or behavior change from their audiences and concentrating power among movement elites. Actively cultivated free-riding is exemplified by the professionalized Nonhuman Animal rights movement which promotes flexitarianism over ethical veganism despite its goal of nonhuman liberation. Major social-psychological theories of persuasion in addition to 44 studies on vegan and vegetarian motivation are examined to illustrate how free-rider flexitarianism is at odds with stated goals, thereby suggesting an alternative utility in flexitarianism as a means of facilitating a disengaged public.

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非营利性工业综合体中的搭便车者:弹性主义问题

传统上，社会运动将搭便车视为有效动员的问题，但在非营利工业综合体的影响下，运动可能会积极促进他们的存在。搭便车者成为职业化运动的一种经济资源，这些运动试图通过阻止观众有意义的态度或行为改变，并将权力集中在运动精英中，从而在拥挤的社会运动空间中增加财富和知名度。职业化的非人类动物权利运动体现了积极培养的自由骑行，尽管其目标是非人类解放，但该运动提倡弹性素食主义而非道德素食主义。除了44项关于素食主义者和素食主义者动机的研究外，还对说服的主要社会心理学理论进行了研究，以说明搭便车的弹性意志主义如何与既定目标不一致，从而表明弹性意志主义作为一种促进脱离社会的公众的手段具有另一种效用。

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来源期刊

Society & Animals 社会科学-兽医学

CiteScore

1.40

自引率

12.50%

发文量

审稿时长

>12 weeks

期刊介绍： Society & Animals publishes studies that describe and analyze our experiences of non-human animals from the perspective of various disciplines within both the Social Sciences (e.g., psychology, sociology, anthropology, political science) and the Humanities (e.g., history, literary criticism). The journal specifically deals with subjects such as human-animal interactions in various settings (animal cruelty, the therapeutic uses of animals), the applied uses of animals (research, education, medicine and agriculture), the use of animals in popular culture (e.g. dog-fighting, circus, animal companion, animal research), attitudes toward animals as affected by different socializing agencies and strategies, representations of animals in literature, the history of the domestication of animals, the politics of animal welfare, and the constitution of the animal rights movement.