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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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Pride Parades and LGBT Movements: Political Participation in an International Comparative Perspective
TL;DR: Pride Parades and LGBT Movements: Political Participation in an International Comparative Perspective as mentioned in this paper ) is a survey of the role of political participation in these two movements in the last decade.
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Change in Covert Social Movement Networks
Rachel Stevenson,Nick Crossley +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors explore patterns and mechanisms of change within the network of the "inner circle" of the Provisional Irish Republican Army (PIRAs) during the period between 1969 and 1988.
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Individualism revisited: Moral worldviews and civic engagement
Kraig Beyerlein,Stephen Vaisey +1 more
TL;DR: The authors found that a moral worldview emphasizing civic responsibility is more likely to encourage volunteer efforts that benefit the larger community than is one emphasizing personal fulfillment, while a religious worldview emphasizing religious duty is less likely to promote involvement in civic activity that helps those in the broader community relative to a worldview emphasizing moral responsibility.
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Is the Political Personal? Everyday Behaviors as Forms of Environmental Movement Participation
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined five everyday behaviors associated with social movements (conserving water, gasoline, energy, and purchasing products made from recycled materials) and explored whether they are being carried out as expression of social movement adherence.
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Determinants and Benefits of Household Level Participation in Rural Drinking Water Projects in India
TL;DR: In this article, the authors found that wealth, literacy, household and village size are often determinants of participation in community-based development projects and that participation leads to benefits for the households that participate although these benefits are strongest in regions with higher levels of overall participation.
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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.