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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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Power in Movement: Social Movements and Contentious Politics
TL;DR: The history of contention in social movements can be traced to the birth of the modern social movement as discussed by the authors, and the dynamics of social movements have been studied in the context of contention.
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Modernization, Cultural Change, and Democracy: The Human Development Sequence
TL;DR: The authors presented a model of social change that predicts how the value systems play a crucial role in the emergence and flourishing of democratic institutions, and that modernisation brings coherent cultural changes that are conducive to democratisation.
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Network Analysis, Culture, and the Problem of Agency
Mustafa Emirbayer,Jeff Goodwin +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors outline the theoretical presuppositions of network analysis and distinguish between three different implicit models in the network literature of the interrelations of social structure, culture, and human agency.
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Complex Contagions and the Weakness of Long Ties
Damon Centola,Michael W. Macy +1 more
TL;DR: The strength of weak ties is that they tend to be long and connect socially distant locations, allowing information to diffuse rapidly as discussed by the authors, which may explain the widely observed tendency for social movements to diffuse spatially.
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Hearing the Other Side: Deliberative versus Participatory Democracy
TL;DR: In this article, hearing the other side examines this theme in the context of the contemporary United States and suggests that it is doubtful that an extremely activist political culture can also be a heavily deliberative one.
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TL;DR: In this paper, Davies proposed a "rise and drop" hypothesis to explain the origin of revolutiolls and placed this in the more general context of analyzing conditions which produce both social movements and revolutions.
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A Theory of Ethnic Collective Action
TL;DR: This paper presented a theory to explain the frequency of ethnic collective action based on rational choice premises, which represents an alternative to currently popular structural theories, and was shown to be more accurate than structural theories.
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Socialization Correlates of Student Activism1
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The assembling process: a theoretical and empirical examination*
Clark McPhail,David Miller +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, a correlation of R =.67 is obtained between the receipt of assembling instructions, and related activities, and the completion of the assembling process, and an alternate interpretation is advanced and supported by data from a study of one non-periodic assembling process.