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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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Women's Pathways into Activism: Rethinking the Women's Environmental Justice Narrative in California's San Joaquin Valley
TL;DR: The authors explored women's pathways to participation in environmental justice advocacy in California's San Joaquin Valley and found that women become environmental justice activists according to a common set of experiences in which apolitical women personally experience an environmental problem that launches them into a life activism to protect the health of their families.
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Youth purpose and the perception of social supports among African-American girls
TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined the associations between purpose and social support in African-American adolescents and found that five forms of purpose experienced by these young people were associated with emotional, informational, appraisal, and instrumental support.
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Dynamics of violent and dehumanizing rhetoric in far-right social media:
TL;DR: The analysis shows that violent rhetoric primarily occurs in the context of narratives about criminals and crimes with (imagined) immigrant perpetrators and often particularly vulnerable victims, linked to a social problem definition of a corrupt and failing state as well as the alleged need to deport immigrants.
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An Elusive “We” Antidogmatism, Democratic Practice, and the Contradictory Identity of the German Autonomen
TL;DR: In the context of the Germany "autonomous" movement, the authors found that a contradiction in the movement's ideology around the meaning of autonomy has generated a deeply ambivalent identity and a resistance to ideological dogmatism, both of which have functioned to help sustain the movement.
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The Strength of Weak Ties
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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.