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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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Cooperative Networks: Altruism, Group Solidarity, Reciprocity, and Sanctioning in Ugandan Producer Organizations.
TL;DR: Results show that cooperation is induced by patterns of reciprocity that emerge through repeated interaction rather than other-regarding preferences like altruism or group solidarity.
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“Carrying Online Participation Offline”-Mobilization by Radical Online Groups and Politically Dissimilar Offline Ties
TL;DR: This paper analyzed survey data obtained from members in neo-Nazi and environmentalist discussion forums to assess the links between participation in radical and ideologically homogeneous online groups and two forms of political engagement (movement support and movement promotion).
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White Hats or Don Quixotes? Human Rights Vigilantes in the Global Economy
TL;DR: The authors analyzes the dynamics of these efforts in terms of a "market for standards" in which consumers, stimulated by human rights activists, demand that corporations improve working conditions in supplier factories.
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Union Membership and Political Participation in the United States
Jasmine Kerrissey,Evan Schofer +1 more
TL;DR: This paper examined the effect of union membership on civic and political participation in the late 20th century in the United States and found that union membership is associated with many forms of political activity, including voting, protesting, association membership, and others.
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Backyards, NIMBYs, and Incinerator Sitings: Implications for Social Movement Theory
TL;DR: The authors examined two siting disputes involving modern incinerators and asked why one was eventually built and the other defeated, arguing that technology movements are especially influenced by an interaction of factors which figure less prominently in equity movements.
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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.