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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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Economic Action and Embeddedness: The Problem of the Structure of Action - eScholarship
TL;DR: In this article, a sociological theory of economic action is proposed to make a substantial break with the teleological structure that informs both rational actor theory and normative theories of action, arguing that meaning and perceptions of rationality are established intersubjectively in the action process itself.
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The Role of Guanxi in Rural Social Movements: Two Case Studies from Taiwan
Chi-Mao Wang,Michael Woods +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examine everyday interactions, and particularly the role of traditional ritual and relationships, in the mobilization of rural social movements in Taiwan, and argue that collective action in Taiwan is strongly influenced by social practices, such as Guanxi.
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Confronting the caliphate? Explaining civil resistance in jihadist proto-states:
Isak Svensson,Daniel Finnbogason +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the potential of nonviolent civil resistance in challenging autocratic state regimes is discussed, but little is known about the applicability of civil resistance to challenging state regimes, except for the recent work of Chenoweth and Stephan.
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Political theater and student organizations in the 1989 Chinese movement: A multivariate analysis of Tiananmen
TL;DR: The 1989 Chinese student movement as discussed by the authors was a two-tiered movement with an organized student leadership tier and a mass audience, which employed cultural symbols and acts to mobilize mass audiences that were beyond the scope of the students' organizational linkages.
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Resource Mobilization Theory and the Study of Social Movements
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