Social Work

Modelling collective action to change social norms around domestic violence: social dilemmas and the role of altruism

L. Gram, R. Granados, et al.

Explore how collective action can transform gendered social norms to prevent domestic violence, as formalized through a game-theoretic model by Lu Gram, Rolando Granados, Eva M. Krockow, Nayreen Daruwalla, and David Osrin. Discover the surprising role of altruism in overcoming social dilemmas that inhibit action among women.

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Abstract

Interventions promoting collective action have been used to prevent domestic violence, but their mechanisms remain unclear. This paper formalizes feminist theoretical approaches to domestic violence into a game-theoretic model of women's collective action to change gendered social norms and outcomes. It shows that social norms create a social dilemma where individual rationality leads women to abstain from action, but collective action benefits all. Promoting altruism among women can overcome this dilemma. Discouraging tolerance of violence, external punishments for perpetrators, or lowering action costs may not work or backfire. The authors invite researchers to use this framework to understand collective action in domestic violence prevention.

Publisher

HUMANITIES AND SOCIAL SCIENCES COMMUNICATIONS

Published On

Mar 01, 2021

Authors

Lu Gram, Rolando Granados, Eva M. Krockow, Nayreen Daruwalla, David Osrin

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