Radicale denkbeelden vanuit een meerderheids- en minderheisperspectief: De rol van (gepercipieerde) sociale normen, meta-percepties, en mispercepties

Today, Western democracies are characterized by social conflicts on issues such as the integration of Muslim immigrants, the position of Islam and the demarcation of group identities. This lead to concerns about mutual radicalization: among the majority population, the radical right gains momentum, while radical Islam becomes more popular among the Muslim minority group. The core argument of this project is that these two types of radical belief systems are a product of group membership. The project will examine the relative influence of personal attitudes, perceived group norms (perceptions of the ingroup’s attitudes), and outgroup attributed beliefs (perceptions of the outgroup’s attitudes) about intergroup attitudes (here, acculturation attitudes and stereotypes) on radicalization. These three perspectives give rise to different sources of misperceptions between groups, which will be evaluated (e.g., ‘I would like to interact more with Muslims’ –personal attitude–, ‘but I believe Muslims think we are asocial’ –outgroup attributed belief). Innovatively, the project will draw upon survey research enriched with digital trace data and administrative data, making use of text analysis and supervised machine learning techniques.

Keywords:Radicalisation, Social norms, Digital trace data

Disciplines:Group and interpersonal relations