The introduction to the EJSP special issue brings together recent literature on allyship. We present and discuss different definitions of allyship and highlight a multiple perspectives approach to understanding the predictors and consequences of allyship. This approach suggests that engagement in allyship can be driven by egalitarian and non‐egalitarian motivations and that the behaviours identified as allyship can have different meanings, causes and consequences depending on whether researchers take into account the allies’ perspective or the disadvantaged groups’ perspective. We use this approach as an organizing principle to identify themes that emerge in the papers included in this special issue. We start with four papers that consider the perspective of the advantaged group, followed by two papers that consider the perspective of the disadvantaged group. Finally, we introduce two theoretical papers that examine the relations between disadvantaged groups and allies, and we set out directions for future research.

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了解盟友参与社会变革的多角度方法

引入到EJSP特刊汇集了有关盟友关系的最新文献。我们提出并讨论联盟的不同定义，并着重介绍一种多角度的方法来理解联盟的预测因素和后果。这种方法表明，参与同盟关系可以由平等和非平等动机来驱动，并且被确定为同盟的行为可以具有不同的含义，原因和后果，这取决于研究人员是考虑盟友的观点还是处境不利的群体的观点。我们使用这种方法作为组织原则来识别本期特刊中所包含的主题。我们从考虑弱势群体观点的四篇论文开始，然后是考虑弱势群体观点的两篇论文。最后，