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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 Limits of Networks in Social Movement Retention: On Canvassers and their Careers
TL;DR: Fisher et al. as discussed by the authors explored the relationship between the pathways to mobilization and retention and found that those who were mobilized with personal connections were less likely to be working for the organization a year later versus those who came to the organization as strangers.
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How social movement organizations explicitly and implicitly promote deviant behavior: The case of the militia movement
TL;DR: In this article, the authors discuss the explicit and implicit paths through which social movements promote deviance and/or criminal behavior in the modern militia movement and find that the movement has both a "defensive" and an "offensive" wing, which are unable to control either the actions of those who are part of the movement or the flow of movement generated information.
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Beyond the usual suspects? New participants in anti-austerity protests in Greece
Wolfgang Rudig,Georgios Karyotis +1 more
TL;DR: The authors investigated whether these protests mobilized just the usual suspects of left-wing trade union activists, or if a new protest generation emerged using a general population survey carried out in December 2010, and found that almost one-third of the adult Greek population had taken part in anti-austerity protests, but less than one in five had been first-time protesters.
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Security-based diplomacy influencing transnational terrorism management between kenya and somalia
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What Is Youth Political Participation? Literature Review on Youth Political Participation and Political Attitudes
TL;DR: In this article, a map of different terminologies and logics that are used to discuss youth political participation is presented, along with a review of the current state of research in this field.
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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.