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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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Non-Disruptive Tactics of Suppression Are Superior in Countering Terrorism, Insurgency, and Financial Panics
TL;DR: It is found using simulation analysis of a general model of interdependent behavior that the degree to which such less disruptive suppression tactics are superior to more disruptive ones increases in the propensity of individuals to engage in the behavior in question.
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Radical Social Movements in Western Europe: A Configurational Analysis
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors identify the causal contexts that explain the differences of strengths within these movements across 52 large cities in Western Europe and use fuzzy sets qualitative comparative analysis (fsQCA) to identify configurations of causal conditions.
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Social movement networks, policy processes, and forest tenure activism in Indonesia
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors studied how environmental movement networks sustain collective action in order to influence forest tenure reforms in Indonesia by using a mixed methods approach to social movement studies, recognizing the interaction between the social structure and agency and the role of culture in shaping social movement networks.
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Economic Action, Fields and Uncertainty
TL;DR: In this article, the key theoretical assumptions of this approach in relation to those of the embeddedness tradition are outlined and the elements of field and habitus to the center of attention helps in examining how cognitive and historical factors matter for explaining individual action.
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Empathy Beyond US Borders: The Challenges of Transnational Civic Engagement
TL;DR: Adler et al. as discussed by the authors conducted a study of a progressive, religious immersion travel organization at the US-Mexico border and found that the moralization of travel, the organizational challenges of transnational engagement, and the difficulty of feeling transformed but not knowing how to help.
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The Strength of Weak Ties
TL;DR: In this paper, it is argued that the degree of overlap of two individuals' friendship networks varies directly with the strength of their tie to one another, and the impact of this principle on diffusion of influence and information, mobility opportunity, and community organization is explored.
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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.