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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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Evaluating stochastic seeding strategies in networks.
TL;DR: In this article, the authors consider contrasts between stochastic seeding strategies and analyze nonparametric estimators adapted from policy evaluation and importance sampling, and apply their proposed estimators to two field experiments, one that assigned households to an intensive marketing intervention and another that assigned students to an anti bullying intervention.
The Accretion and Dispersion of Issues in Social Movement Coalitions
Abstract: Social movement coalitions link groups and individuals with different goals and analyses together in the service of expedient goals. But those coalitions strain or strengthen over time, in response to exogenous and internal provocations and pressures. To examine the diversity within movements over time, we look at two social movement coalitions along two dimensions (among national groups and between a national organization and local affiliates). By assessing the expressed goals of Tea Party and Peace Movement groups at three distinct time periods, we can see how groups within a coalition diversify, accreting goals and issues, over time. We note that national groups diversify more slowly than local groups, and offer explanations of how and why. Our analysis exposes the diversity within social movements, and demonstrates the necessity of looking beneath the unifying label to see the real action within a movement.
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Der Ort der Politik
TL;DR: In this paper, an empirischen Untersuchung ist the politische Mobilisierung von Jugendlichen in den Plattenbausiedlungen des Pariser Vorortes Dammarie-les-Lys, die sich in einem besonders gespannten politischen and polizeilichen Kontext entfaltete.
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Participation in Social Movements
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors outline the variety of ways in which individuals can participate in social movements and the major factors which predict differential recruitment to social movements. But they do not discuss the role of individuals in social change.
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Creative thinking and collective mobilisation in the Muslim world
TL;DR: In this paper, Islam openness to new ideas and creativity (ONIC) helps explain the elite-challenging collective mobilisation in the Muslim world and are religious Muslims who are open to creativ...
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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.