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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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The Theology of Struggle: Recognizing Its Place in Recent Philippine History
TL;DR: The "theology of struggle" is the name embraced by a significant group of socially concerned Christians in the Philippines who, after experiencing conversion as a result of living and working among the poor, committed themselves to a new way of "being church" as discussed by the authors.
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Conflict Activity in the Neighborhoods of Quebec City (Canada), 1989–2000
TL;DR: In this article, the authors explored the relationship between the spatial dynamics of the conflicts and the following four dimensions of urban space: social composition; built environment; propensity to associate and to voice; and accessibility to various urban resources.
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Small-world networks and synchronisation in an agent-based model of civil violence
TL;DR: A classic agent-based model of civil violence by Epstein (2002) consisting of citizen and law-enforcement agents is modified by integrating a Watts-Strogatz small-world network (SWN), which provides a new mechanism for non-trivial dynamics and leads to a synchronisation effect.
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Smiling contributions: Social control in a public goods game with network decline
Károly Takács,Béla Janky +1 more
TL;DR: An extended game-theoretical model that incorporates social control mechanisms as side payments and allows for endogenous network change is presented here and predicts that network clustering undermines mass public good production and the possibility of deleting ties leads towards equilibrium structures in which contributors and defectors are segregated.
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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.