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Recruitment to high-risk activism: The case of Freedom Summer.
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This paper argued for the importance of a distinction between "low-and high-risk/cost activism" and outlined a model or recruitment to the latter, emphasizing the import of low-risk and high-cost activism.Abstract:
This article proposes and argues for the importance of a distinction between "low-" and "high-risk/cost activism" and outlines a model or recruitment to the latter. The model emphasizes the importa...read more
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Decline of Political Control in Chinese Universities and the Rise of the 1989 Chinese Student Movement
TL;DR: This paper argued that the decline in political control over students made a significant contribution to the rise of the 1989 Chinese Student Movement, arguing that participating actively in mutual supervision became neither moral nor necessarily profitable.
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OMGs! Offline-based movement organizations, online-based movement organizations and network mobilization: a case study of political bloggers in Singapore
Carol Soon,Hichang Cho +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined political bloggers' social networks through 41 in-depth interviews and 76 survey responses, collecting data on political bloggers activism participation and their organizational affiliations Social networking patterns are linked to different organizational affiliation types.
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Economic Threat and Protest Behavior in Comparative Perspective
TL;DR: In this article, the role of economic threat in fostering movement participation has highlighted the importance of economic change, but many of the insights of this approach are drawn fro the economic threat.
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Resource Mobilization and Social Movements: A Partial Theory
John D. McCarthy,Mayer N. Zald +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors present a set of concepts and related propositions drawn from a resource mobilization perspective, emphasizing the variety and sources of resources; the relationship of social movements to the media, authorities, and other parties; and the interaction among movement organizations.
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Self-perception theory
TL;DR: Self-perception theory as discussed by the authors states that individuals come to know their own attitudes, emotions, and other internal states partially by inferring them from observations of their own overt behavior and/or the circumstances in which this behavior occurs.
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Resource Mobilization Theory and the Study of Social Movements
TL;DR: In this paper, a multifactored model of social movement formation is presented, emphasizing resources, organization, and political opportunities in addition to traditional discontent hypotheses, and the McCarthy-Zald theory of entrepreneurial mobilization is critically assessed as an interpretation of the social movements of the 1960s-1970s.