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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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Women's Social Movement Involvement: The Role of Structural Availability in Recruitment and Participation Processes
TL;DR: In this article, data derived from three years of field work illuminate women's participation in a working class, community-based environmental protest organization, and show that initial recruitment occurs in the early stages of the movement.
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The Phoenix Effect of State Repression: Jewish Resistance during the Holocaust
TL;DR: In this paper, a distinction between selective and indiscriminate state repression is made, and the authors argue that selective repression is more likely to create skilled resisters; indiscriminate repression substantially less so.
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Social media in the 2011 Egyptian uprising.
TL;DR: Examining the independent effects of a host of factors associated with high-risk movement activism, the paper concludes that using some new electronic communications media was associated with being a demonstrator, however, grievances, structural availability, and network connections were more important than was the use of new electroniccommunications media in distinguishing demonstrators from sympathetic onlookers.
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Structured ignorance and organized racism in the United States
TL;DR: In this article, a theory of structured ignorance is developed and applied in an analysis of variation in the number of racist organizations in U.S. counties in 1997 and 2000, identifying forms of structural differentiation that would make the worldview constructed within racist organizations seem plausible to a critical mass of individuals.
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Collective threat framing and mobilization in civil war
TL;DR: The authors argue that social structures, within which individuals are embedded, provide access to information critical for mobilization decisions by collectively framing threat, and that individuals adopt self- to other-regarding roles, from fleeing to fighting on behalf of the collectivity, even if it is a weaker actor in the war.
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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.