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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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Politiques et conflits territorialisés à propos du séjour irrégulier des étrangers : configurations comparées en France et en Espagne
TL;DR: In this article, sociologiser l'analyse des effets politiques of the presence d'etrangers in situation administrative irreguliere en France and en Espagne, interroge les politiques menees par l'Etat.
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Commitment across the Miles: Ideological and Microstructural Sources of Membership Support in a National Antihunger Organization
TL;DR: In this paper, the effects of ideological, microstructural, and other sources of commitment in a national antihunger organization were examined, and the theoretical and pragmatic implications of the findings were discussed.
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Protests by the young and digitally restless: the means, motives, and opportunities of anti-government demonstrations
TL;DR: In this article, the role and interaction of a burgeoning young population and the penetration of information and communications technology (ICT) in explaining the onset and diffusion of anti-government demonstrations was investigated.
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Social Movement Engagement over the Long Haul: Understanding Activist Retention
TL;DR: In this paper, a broad review of the scholarship of the "retention" of social movement activists is presented, examining it from the individual, social relational, and organizational levels of analysis.
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The Political Geography of Nationalist Protest in China: Cities and the 2012 Anti-Japanese Demonstrations
TL;DR: Li et al. as mentioned in this paper found that both state-led patriotism and the availability of collective action resources were positively associated with Chinese nationalist protest, particularly "biographically available" populations of students and migrants.
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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.