Power holders resist social change that threatens their self-interests

Evidence

Vigorous disputes arise over the morality of militant actions directed against institutional practices that are socially harmful. The African American civil rights movement is a notable example of this type of challenge. Power holders and those in privileged positions resist pressure to make needed social changes when those changes jeopardize their self-interests. Challengers consider their militant actions to be morally justifiable because their goal is to eradicate harmful social practices. — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement, 359

Categorization

• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement: How People Do Harm…, 359
• XREF: connects to: Direct collective refusal reveals the contingency of official power. — Luke W. Cole and Sheila R. Foster, From the Ground Up: Environmental…, 435; Sacralized politics yields a self-sustaining power structure resistant to change — Nadim N. Rouhana and Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian, When Politics Are Sacralized:…, 108; Powerful business interest groups actively oppose average citizens’ policy preferences. — Martin Gilens and Benjamin I. Page, Testing Theories of American Politics:…, 133