Morgan Targhetta

UWRT 1103
3/27/2017
Inquiry Project: Research Review
1. Keywords
The two key words that I used when searching for articles and websites
relating to my topic: WHY and PROTEST. When I first attempted my search
for scholarly articles found through UNC Charlottes library database, there
were very few results that came back that matched with my inquiry question.
There were many results on protests taking place in countries around the
world but none that really aimed and focused on the question of why people
protest. However, when I put these two keywords into the google search bar,
the entire first page of results was discussing exactly what I am looking to
discuss in my inquiry paper. I found many sources that provided examples
and explanations of why people protest and the motivations behind
protesting. I found that with many of the sites that were results of my key
words were also sites that were targeting the effects of protesting. There
were many websites that aimed to explain why people protest as well as the
effects of protesting on society. Before I made my inquiry question more
specific I just tried searching the word PROTEST, but the results that came
back were so varied and different that it was close to impossible to find
sources that were accurate with what I was looking for.
2. Concept Map

3. Synthesis

4. References
3. Synthesis
Trying to fit all of the information that I obtained from my research onto my
concept map was difficult. Expanding on a few ideas, I want to hit and focus
on my sources that explained psychologys influence on protesting. Three of
the sources that I found and am planning on using in my paper all shared a
common theme of how psychology relates to protests and why people decide
to protest. One of the sites focused on an individuals need for self-discovery
while another focused on the need for groups to come together and find an
identity as whole. I love that though all three of the psychology based
sources focus on psychology and its relationship with protesting, they still
are very different from one another. After showing the relationship between
these three sources I then am wanting to take these sources that are driven
by psychology and tie them into the interview I did with a personal friend of
mine who participated in a protest. I want to take these claims made on the
websites that I found and see how well they correlate with the responses that
I got from my interviewee. So far, reviewing the material, I see quite a few
parallels between the interview and my other sources and I am excited that
the information I have obtained is tying in together so nicely. For example,
the interview also ties in with another focus that I want to have in my paper
which is the idea of re-enchantment. The approach of this article views
protesting as a form of re-enchantment. I loved the approach of this article
because often times protesting is viewed with negative connotations while in
this article the author takes the term protesting and rephrases it into one
that comes off as positive when reading it the first time, re-enchantment.
One of the biggest focuses in this article discussing re-enchantment is that
the world as it is now is not made to help people of all types. The person that
I interviewed also hit on this idea since he was involved in the Black Lives
Matter protests that took place last fall in the Charlotte area. Overall, I
believe that my sources are tying in well with each other and are going to
help me formulate a very strong inquiry paper that has solid arguments but
will also allow for my opinion to be incorporated. All the sources, though so
different, do answer the question in some form of why people protest. The
approaches of each source are varied but that is why I think they work so
well. Just like the reasons to protest are so varied, so are the sources that I
found. Yet there is still the common ground that they all are motivations.
There is some form of motivation that comes along with every protest and
that is what drives a protest. Protests are such a prevalent part of the worlds
history as well as current times. It is so interesting to see how no matter
what time in history it is, there were still motivations driving the reigns of the
protests, and most likely the same exact motivations that people had in
historical events are the ones experienced in current times. Motivations are
still motivations and people have a drive to protest. The explanations for why
are all so varied and that is evident in my sources yet they all still tie
together well and support one another. Protesting is an action that I do not
see decreasing in the years to come and is a topic the most everyone is
aware of. Learning and understanding why someone protests and seeing the
multiple motivations has been interesting and eye opening-and I havent
even written the paper yet.

4. References

Fann, Thomas. (2012, September 18. 10 reasons why you should bother to
protest. Retrieved

March 24, 2017 from http://www.malaysiakini.com/letters/209191

Gilger, Patrick. (2016 May 15). Re-enchanting the world. Retrieved March 24,
2017 from

http://eds.a.ebscohost.com.librarylink.uncc.edu/eds/detail/detail?
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WxpdmUmc2NvGU9c2l0ZQ%3d%3d#AN=118490443&db=pwh

Radwan, Farouk M. Why do people protest? (The psychological drives behind

protest &

revolutions). Retrieved March 24, 2017 from

https://www.2knowmyself.com/Why_do_people_protest_and_start_revol
utions

Stekelenburg, Jacquelien van. (2015, November 30). People protest for many
reasons, yet we

dont know how effective protests are. Retrieved March 24, 2017 from
 http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/politicsandpolicy/how-effective-are-protests/

C. Williams. Personal Communication. 26 March 2017.

In text citation: (C. Williams, personal communication).