Status Change Model of Interethnic Riots

Sandra Marker
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Sandra Marker: School of Behavioral Sciences, Black Hills State University, Spearfish, SD 57783, USA

Societies, 2018, vol. 8, issue 4, 1-13

Abstract: The status change riot model opens up a new avenue of riot explanation. One that takes into consideration ethnic group relations and factors of group status and honor—i.e., dignity. The riot model asserts that the potential for a riot arises when new and old concepts about group statuses, and as such, ideas about appropriate intergroup behaviors, give rise to disputative intergroup interactions. The model affirms that a trigger event either by itself or in accumulation with other events drives actors to a dignity threshold that prompts them to riot. The model further relates that, once started, a riot will follow a general riot pattern that ends in either a status resolution or an increased strain in ethnic group relations.

Keywords: interethnic riot; status; honor; social structure; intergroup relations (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: A13 A14 P P0 P1 P2 P3 P4 P5 Z1 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
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