{Social movements}[13th October 1990]

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‘The consequences of social movements.

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‘It has been suggested that the committed participant in a social movement undergoes a psychological reorganisation.

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It is clear that his new sense of security and importance is acquired at the sacrifice of autonomy.

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As a loyal member he tends to let the leaders do his thinking for him,

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suppressing doubts as to the validity of the ideology and the wisdom of the leader’s#** decision.

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He repeats their arguments in a dogmatic fashion; persons who are not in the movement find it difficult to debate with him since they start from different premises. His perception is selective in a different way from theirs. The ideology, for example, may lead him to view all government authorities as villains, while the ordinary citizen views them as legitimate leaders, some good, some bad. The end product of this surrender of autonomy may be an altered world-view. Some things taken for granted before becoming part of the movement will never seem the same again, even after leaving the discipline of the movement.’

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#*– ibid: [[Encyclopaedia Britannica 16:] 615-6

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