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Recruitment to high-risk activism: The case of Freedom Summer.

Doug McAdam
- 01 Jul 1986 - 
- Vol. 92, Iss: 1, pp 64-90
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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.
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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...

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Encountering Distant Suffering: The Culture, Production, and Outcomes of Transnational Immersion Trips on the U.S.-Mexico Border

TL;DR: In this article, the authors describe international immersion travel as a cultural strategy of transformation and conclude that travel in the Scholarly Gaze: Tourism and Pilgrimage 54 2.5 Differentiating Short-term International Immersion Travel 60 2.6 Aspects of a Globally Engaged Religious Culture 70 2.8 Conclusion 79 3.2.
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On social networks and social protest: Understanding the role of organizational and personal ties in large-scale protest events

TL;DR: In this article, the role of social networks in mobilizing participants in large-scale domestic protest events was compared in the United States and France, and it was found that social ties played a differing role in each country.
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Exploring language as the tool for religious leaders in countering radicalisation and religious extremism among the youth in eastleigh, nairobi county

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explored language as a tool for religious leaders in preventing and countering radicalization and religious extremism among the youth and proposed a common discourse that religious leaders could use in preventing radicalisation and religious extremists of the youth.
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Age Dynamics and Identity: Conflict and Cooperation among Feminists in Buenos Aires

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined age-related discourse and interaction in the feminist movement in Argentina and found that younger women joined the movement pioneers as the movement grew and gained momentum over the past 15 years.
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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

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.