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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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CONTRIBUTOR INFLUENCE IN CONGRESS: Social Ties and PAC Effects on U.S. House Policymaking
TL;DR: In this article, the authors used data on campaign contributors to understand how campaign contributors influence policymaking. But the existing literature on political power has mixed findings, and they found that "the existing literature, much of it outside sociology,has mixed findings."
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The Role of Family in the Intergenerational Transmission of Collective Action
Roberto González,Belén Álvarez,Belén Álvarez,Jorge Manzi,Micaela Varela,Cristián Frigolett,Andrew G. Livingstone,Winnifred R. Louis,Héctor Carvacho,Diego Castro,Manuel Cheyre,Marcela Cornejo,Gloria Jiménez-Moya,Carolina Rocha,Daniel Valdenegro,Daniel Valdenegro +15 more
TL;DR: The authors demonstrate intergenerational influences on collective action participation, whereby parents' past and current participation in collective action (descriptive family norms) shined through through their children's behaviors.
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Pro-government demonstrations in Hungary – citizens’ autonomy and the role of the media
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors conducted a survey to identify the factors that contribute to the mobilisation of citizens at pro-government demonstrations, and they made a parallel study on the reasons that explain the mobilization of citizens in the case of demonstrations critical of the ruling regime.
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Associations Among Psychological Distress, High-Risk Activism, and Conflict Between Ethnic-Racial and Sexual Minority Identities in Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual Racial/Ethnic Minority Adults.
TL;DR: Results from a study exploring the associations of high-risk activism (HRA) orientation in lesbian, gay, and bisexual (LGB) issues; HRA orientation in racial/ethnic issues; conflicts in allegiances (CIA) between one’s ethnic-racial and sexual minority identities; and anxiety among LGB racial/ ethnic minority adults are presented.
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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.