Violation of newly adopted values spurs new social movements among the middle class.

Evidence

Moreover, Kriesi’s (1993) work on new social movements in the Netherlands points to the violation of principles or values as an important source of shared grievances. He described how in the Netherlands cultural transformations resulted in the emergence of a new middle class with its specific principles and values (e.g., nonviolent conflict resolution, egalitarianism, ecological consciousness) and how these changes have fostered the emergence of new social movements, such as the peace movement, the antiapartheid movement, and the environmental movement. It seems reasonable to assume that it was the violation of these “new” principles that led to shared grievances in the form of moral indignation and ultimately to collective protest on the part of many members of the new middle class. — John T. Jost and Jim Sidanius, Political Psychology, 4426

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Radical new demands arise spontaneously at both margins of affluent society, not its center. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 2630; The 1990s middle class later became the occupy movement’s squeezed core — Arthur Borriello and Anton Jäger, The Populist Moment: The Left After the…, 91; The anti-busing movement mobilized white suburban middle-class moderates, not just ideologues. — Matthew D. Lassiter, The Suburban Origins of “Color-Blind”…, 68