When faced with a collective dilemma, why do individuals from the same group perceive their strategic choices differently? A growing actor-centered stream of social movements research shows that strategic decision making is a cultural process where actors decide upon a strategy by drawing on past experiences to make sense of the present and anticipate what might happen if they act in a particular way. However, actors’ past experiences are not only contextual and variable, they are also patterned by social location. It is in these patterns that we can better understand the relationship between structure and agency in processes of social change. Integrating an intersectional framework, I draw on evidence from forty focus groups with about 200 Muslim community members discussing the policing of Muslim communities. I find that perceptions of agency are patterned across intersections of race and ethnicity, gender, class, and nativity, driving three central interpretations of the dilemma and strategic decisions: fear and disengagement; anger and grassroots mobilization against police; and neutrality and collaboration with police.

当面对集体困境时，为什么同一群体中的个人对战略选择的看法不同？越来越多的以行动者为中心的社会运动研究表明，战略决策是一个文化过程，在此过程中，行动者通过借鉴过去的经验来决定当下的战略，从而把握当下的现状并预测如果他们以特定的方式行事会发生什么。但是，演员过去的经历不仅是上下文和可变的，而且还受到社会位置的影响。正是通过这些模式，我们才能更好地理解社会变革过程中结构与代理之间的关系。通过整合交叉框架，我从40个焦点小组的证据中吸取了约200名穆斯林社区成员的意见，讨论了穆斯林社区的警务工作。我发现对代理的理解是跨种族，种族，性别，阶级和诞生的交汇点的模式，从而驱动了对困境和战略决策的三种主要解释：恐惧和脱离接触；对警察的愤怒和基层动员；以及与警察的中立与合作。