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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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The impact of humanitarian context conditions and individual characteristics on aid worker retention
TL;DR: This study examines how features of humanitarian work and aid workers' individual characteristics affect retention within one humanitarian organisation, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) Holland, and engages in the first large-scale quantitative analysis of aid worker retention.
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The New Anti-war Protests and Miscible Mobilizations
TL;DR: The authors analyzes the factors contributing to the relative success of the recent mobilizations against war despite the peace movement organizations' weakness and unfavorable political opportunity structures, and argues that these anti-war protests were shaped by trigger events which created new grievances and, second, by the use of new information technologies such as the Internet.
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Twitter as Data
TL;DR: This Element introduces these methods to social scientists and provides scripts and examples for downloading, processing, and analyzing Twitter data.
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The paradox of weak ties in 55 countries
TL;DR: In this article, the authors used de-identified data from almost 17 million social ties in 55 countries to document the widespread existence of weak ties across many societies and showed that the level of income inequality in a country is positively correlated with the added value of a strong tie and individual strong ties matter more when there is greater income inequality.
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The missing link in the diffusion of protest: : asking others
Stefaan Walgrave,Ruud Wouters +1 more
TL;DR: Drawing on a new and unusual data set including evidence on more than 7,000 participants in 48 demonstrations across Europe, the authors find that activists who are committed to the demonstration’s cause and who are part of participation-friendly networks are the most active recruiters.
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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.