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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 Movements and Organization Theory: INSTITUTIONAL VARIATION IN THE EVOLUTION OF SOCIAL MOVEMENTS: COMPETING LOGICS AND THE SPREAD OF RECYCLING ADVOCACY GROUPS
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors aim to push such cross-pollination further by reorienting research attention away from the study of institutionalization that has been prominent in both literatures.
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Toward a Dynamic Theory of Action at the Micro Level of Genocide: Killing, Desistance, and Saving in 1994 Rwanda
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors introduce the concept of behavioral boundary crossing to examine when and how Hutu in 1994 Rwanda aligned with the killing behaviors expected of them and when they did not, and reveal that transactional, relational, social-psychological, and cognitive mechanisms informed individuals' behaviors during the genocide.
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Repression and solidary cultures of resistance: Irish political prisoners on protest.
TL;DR: This study uses interviews and contemporary writings by prisoners, prison authorities, visitors, and movement activists to examine how the dynamic of protest and repression transformed insurgent prison culture—through material, emotional, and perceptive changes—and the importance of leadership in the transformation.
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Why Do People Join Backlash Protests? Lessons from Turkey:
TL;DR: When people learn that demonstrators are being subjected to harsh treatment by the police, sometimes their reaction is to join demonstrations as discussed by the authors, which explains the potentially mobilizing power of the police.
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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.