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There's actually quite a lot of social psychology theory about what drives certain people to protest and what holds others back. Some theories have been more popular at particular points in time, but we're gradually coming to understand that the complexity of peoples' motivations and understandings of protest are likely a combination of theories.
There are, according to political scientists, three theories currently at the forefront of our understanding of why people protest: expectancy-value theory, relative deprivation theory, and social identity theory. These sound tricky, but actually boil down to fairly fundamental beliefs. Expectancy-value theory is all about the expectations one has about an activity and what value you think you're going to get out of it; people with particular expectations and ideas abut the success of protests are probably going to be more likely to do them. Relative deprivation theory means you compare yourself with some other standard (black societal treatment versus white societal treatment, for example, or workers versus bosses), see that there's a mismatch, and get annoyed enough to protest. And social identity theory is the practice of feeling part of a group or identity, which makes people more likely to protest if they feel that group is threatened or powerless.