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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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Social networks and religion: The role of congregational social embeddedness in religious belief and practice
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Social Movement Theory and the Prospects for Climate Change Activism in the United States
TL;DR: This article argued that awareness of the issue developed during an especially inopportune period in American politics, and the organizations that arose to address the issue were ill suited to the kind of grassroots mobilization characteristic of successful movements.
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Social Networks, Identification and Participation in an Environmental Movement: Low-medium Cost Activism within the British Columbia Wilderness Preservation Movement*
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examine how the structure of egocentric networks is related to the ongoing participation of individuals in a social movement (the British Columbia Wilderness Preservation Movement) and suggest that: communication, ongoing recruitment, and identification mediate the relationship between ego-network structure and level of movement participation.
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It's a Family Affair: Intergenerational Mobilization in the Spring 2006 Protests
Irene Bloemraad,Christine Trost +1 more
TL;DR: In 2006, up to a million children and teenagers participated in the 2006 immigrant rights marches, and why young people engage in protest politics, and how are they mobilized into such activities as discussed by the authors.
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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.