People rationalize political non-involvement through differing accepted explanations.

Evidence

In the interview with Carolyn and her eighteen year old son, the son made less of an e¡ort. Each time he said that people do not get involved because they don’t think it will have an e¡ect, his mother gently corrected him, saying that people just did not have enough time. — Nina Eliasoph, “Close to home”, 60

Categorization

• corroborated: 5 independent passages support this claim — Nina Eliasoph, “Close to home”: The work of avoiding…, 60
• XREF: connects to: The masses hold a contradictory consciousness that can produce political passivity — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 1199; The overwhelming volume of world events rationalizes political nonparticipation for ordinary citizens. — Nina Eliasoph, Avoiding politics: how Americans…, 1014; People rationalize oppressive arrangements that harm them rather than protect their own interests — John T. Jost and Jim Sidanius, Political Psychology, 2911 (+3 more)

Related

• The overwhelming volume of world events rationalizes political nonparticipation for ordinary citizens. (similarity 0.83)
• People can absorb political problems into purely personal solutions (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• The overwhelming volume of world events rationalizes political nonparticipation for ordinary citizens. #exemplifies (0.85) — Nina Eliasoph, Avoiding politics, 1014
• The masses hold a contradictory consciousness that can produce political passivity #expands (0.82) — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 1199
• People rationalize oppressive arrangements that harm them rather than protect their own interests #expands (0.80) — John T. Jost and Jim Sidanius, Political Psychology, 2911