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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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Collective action and network change
TL;DR: The equilibrium analysis suggests that structures that tend to segregate contributors from free riders are stable, but costless network change only promotes all-or-nothing participation and complete networks.
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Advances in the Microfoundations of Sociology: Recent Developments and New Challenges for Social Psychology
TL;DR: Social psychology is no longer a coherent label for the broad class of work that spreads across its two parent disciplines: psychology and sociology as discussed by the authors, and the work within these disciplines has developed over the past two decades in two quite different directions.
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Participation in the Environmental Movement Analysis of the European Union
TL;DR: The Eurobarometer 25, a biannual questionnaire administered across 12 European Union nations to examine the influence of individual factors, including values, education and income, family responsibilities, national economic development and population density, on environmental activism as mentioned in this paper.
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Local Canvassing: The Efficacy of Grassroots Voter Mobilization
TL;DR: This paper analyzed data from a randomized campaign conducted by a local community outreach group during the 2006 general election and found that the effect of being contacted by the campaign is higher in precincts where some canvassers were working in their own neighborhood.
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Explaining the Puzzle of Homeless Mobilization: An Examination of Differential Participation:
TL;DR: In this article, the authors examine participation in protests about homelessness by an unlikely set of participants, i.e., the homeless themselves, through an analysis of data derived from 400 structured...
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Resource Mobilization and Social Movements: A Partial Theory
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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.