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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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A New Political Generation: Millennials and the Post-2008 Wave of Protest:
TL;DR: This article argued that U.S. Millennials comprise a new political generation with lived experiences and worldviews that set them apart from their elders, based on Karl Mannheim's theory of generations.
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The Many Faces of Culture: Making Sense of 30 Years of Research on Culture in Organization Studies
TL;DR: This paper identified and discussed five prominent ways in which culture has been theorized in the management literature and organized these into a framework that hinges on values and toolkits as anchors, and examined the relationship between culture and theorizations of identity, institutions, and practices in organization studies.
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Pulled, Pushed and Persuaded: Explaining Women’s Mobilization into the Salvadoran Guerrilla Army
TL;DR: This paper identified three paths that consistently led Salvadoran women to involvement in the FMLM guerrilla army: politicized guerillas, reluctant guerilla, and recruited guerila.
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Uncommon Ground: Indivisible Territory and the Politics of Legitimacy
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors argue that actors choose their legitimations strategically, in order to gain a political advantage at the bargaining table, and that legitimation strategies have unintended structural consequences: by resonating with some actors and not others, legitimations either build ties between coalitions and allow each side to recognize the legitimacy of each other's claims, or else lock actors into bargaining positions where they are unable to recognize their opponent's demands.
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Why Social Movement Sympathizers Don't Participate: Erosion and Nonconversion of Support
Dirk Oegema,Bert Klandermans +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors provide a theoretical framework for explaining nonconversion and erosion and apply it to a longitudinal study of a mobilization campaign of the Dutch Peace Movement: the People's Petition against cruise missiles.
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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.