The assenters who try to mask their preferences and interests by clamouring for a monolithic structure of power and social control by state and its institutions.
Researchers have developed a five-category model that they have termed The Five As in which different aspects of individual religious beliefs are combined and blended as follows: abiders, adapters, assenters, avoiders, and atheists (Pearce, Foster, & Halliday Hardie, 2013).
Interlocutors are now no longer silent assenters; they begin to see that they have choices about whether to accept, and how to respond to, incoming narratives.
Mosley-Jensen locates the climate change controversy between "two heterogeneous camps that have organized in support or opposition to the principle document on climate change, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) assessment report": assenters who agree with the report and dissenters who oppose the IPCC's findings (p.