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    Pro-Life Activists: How Social Movement Mobilization Works, gives a different perspective of political activism. The main question is why do people join social movements, is it the fact that they genuinely care about the movement or do they do it for other reasons. In other words, do they have a belief or an idea about the movement before they join, or do they join for other reason? Munson uses the Pro life movement to explain his case that most people do not join movements because they have a…

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    Amaya and Federico Pino (2015) offer a slightly different lens on cruceño movement. Amaya and Federico Pino’s work could be interpreted as another story of lost hegemony, this time defining hegemony primarily in terms of development ideology. Nevertheless, this text breaks away from other interpretations as it conflates hegemony with development strategies. Instead of focusing on the indigenous/non-indigenous binary, Amaya and Federico Pino interpret hegemony as the two competing development…

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    The Civil Rights Movement in the United States began in the mid 1950’s. This was a time of great social change, people from all over the country united as one to demand equal rights for all citizens regardless of their race. They wanted justice for all the unfair trials, beatings, killings and unequal treatment of innocent people solely based on the color of their skin. As time went on the movement grew at a staggering pace. One by one celebrities, athletes, politicians, songwriters and other…

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    decrease accumulated strain in a society, stating that collective action is not only necessary but also functional for the maintenance of a balanced culture (Davetian). Neil Smelser, the first to propose the value-added theory, saw social movement as a side-effect of rapid social change. His theory is based on the recognition that tension decreases if a means is found for episodic and manageable events that drain off the excessive…

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    era has effected social-political movements, how…

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    Protest Songs Movement

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    paper will answer the following research question: how did the tactic of freedom songs used in the Civil Rights Movement support the relational approach to social movements in its argument that individuals mobilize due to their social relationships with others? There is a lack of theoretical research in the field of academia regarding the relationship of protest songs and social movements, and their influence on collective action. Protest songs are essentially symbolic compositions that describe…

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    The True Believer Summary

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    The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements by Eric Hoffer stands out in the social­-psychological literature because of it’s author’s notorious lack of formal education and for the conclusions he drew about social movements and their participants. Hoffer, seeking to better understand the prognosis of large social movements and how they gain and lose members, applies numerous theoretical examples to illustrate his arguments including Nazism, Christianity, Islam, and Communism.…

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    Process and the Development of Black Insurgency, 1930-1970 chronicles the development and growth of the black protest movement through that changing political and social conditions that both created and denied political opportunities for black protest and contributed to the growth of the Civil Rights Movement from the 1950s onward. McAdam first traces the origins of the political and social conditions that denied blacks the political opportunities to organize and protest to “King Cotton” and…

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    ISIS Movement

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    As a movement, the main driving power of ISIS has been the physical force, and how this has created an uprising. But throughout this movement putting aside the destruction, ISIS has attempted to create credibility and sought to be seen as a legitimate state. ISIS has had a clear message, and that has led to recruitment of a large military force, and the intimidation of enemy forces, and the global media. In recent times there has been various factors in the lead up to this type of movement,…

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    I chose to interview my boyfriend’s Aunt Jamie about participating in the Blue Lives Matter movement. She explained that she is still an active member of the movement and that their goal is to recognize all of the positive things that the police do for the community and to strengthen support from the community. Aunt Jamie heard about the Blue Lives Matter movement through Facebook when people she knew began posting about the New York City incident when two NYPD officers were murdered right…

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