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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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COMMUNITY ORGANIZING OR ORGANIZING COMMUNITY? Gender and the Crafts of Empowerment
Susan Stall,Randy Stoecker +1 more
TL;DR: The authors compare the well-known Alinsky model, which focuses on communities organizing for power, and what they call the women-centered model, focusing on organizing relationships to build community, and conclude by examining the implications of this analysis and questions for further research and practice.
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A false dichotomy? Mental illness and lone-actor terrorism.
Emily Corner,Paul Gill +1 more
TL;DR: The results identify behaviors and traits that security agencies can utilize to monitor and prevent lone-actor terrorism events and provide an image of how risk can crystalize within the individual offender.
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Evolution on a Dancing Landscape: Organizations and Networks in Dynamic Blau Space
TL;DR: In this article, an evolutionary model of the growth, decline, and demographic dynamics of voluntary organizations is developed and tested, and the model demonstrates a strong analogy between the adaptive landscape of Sewall Wright (1931) and the exploitation surfaces generated by a model of member selection and retention for voluntary associations.
Cross-talk in movements: reconceiving the culture- network link
TL;DR: Mische and White as mentioned in this paper explored a set of conversational mechanisms that are highly contingent on (and constitutive of) crosscutting network relations: identity qualifying, temporal cuing, generality shifting and multiple targeting.
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Social capital and civic action: A network-based approach
Joonmo Son,Nan Lin +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors propose that social capital, defined as resources embedded in individual and organizational networks, produces expressive and instrumental civic actions, and use the 2000 Social Capital Benchmark Survey data to examine the hypothesis.
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The Strength of Weak Ties
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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.