Being green: Patterns of participation in the environmental movement

This research extends existing scholarship on the environmental movement by examining different groups of participants, building on the distinctions between public and private modes of engagement. The article uses data from the 2010 United States General Social Survey and the International Social Su...

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Published in:Current sociology 2018-09, Vol.66 (5), p.788-809
Main Author: Tripp, Winston B
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Environmental movements
Latent class analysis
Lifestyles
Membership
Participation
Polls & surveys
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Summary:This research extends existing scholarship on the environmental movement by examining different groups of participants, building on the distinctions between public and private modes of engagement. The article uses data from the 2010 United States General Social Survey and the International Social Survey Programme to first conduct a latent class analysis to explore the existence of different classes of participants, and then presents a multinomial logit model to examine factors that affect class membership. The study finds there are four classes in the analysis of the environmental movement: a group of non-participators, a group that engages primarily in more organizationally-based environmental movement activities, a group that engages in green lifestyle activities, and a group that engages in both types of activities, but only at a high-intensity level. The study also finds that there are distinct differences in the composition of each group.
ISSN:0011-3921
1461-7064
DOI:10.1177/0011392117737818