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1 online resource |
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Includes bibliographic references. |
| Contents |
Summary -- Chapter 1 : Modern Social Movements -- An Unprecedented Summer -- Studying Movement Mobilization -- Generalizability of the BLM 2020 Protests -- Chapter 2 The Ties That Mobilize -- Mobilization and Social Network Ties -- Tie Strength, Personal Recruitment, and Exposure -- Mobilizing Movement Insiders versus Outsiders -- Interracial Contact and Cross-Cleavage Capital -- Conclusion -- Chapter 3 Measuring Mobilization -- The COVID States Project -- Protest Motivations -- Insiders and Outsiders -- Capturing Ties -- Measuring Race -- Controls -- Chapter 4 : Tie Strength and Mobilization Mechanisms -- Personal Recruitment -- Exposure to Norms, Behavior, and Nonpersonal Appeals -- Implications -- Chapter 5 : Movement Insiders and Outsiders -- Mobilizer Characteristics and Mechanisms -- Social Embeddedness -- Affective Drivers -- Leaderless Movements and Last-Mile Mobilization -- Chapter 6 : Beyond the Contact Hypothesis : Mobilizing Allies -- Racial Homophily -- The Impact of Strong Cross-Cleavage Ties -- Cross-Cleavage Mobilization and Tie Strength -- Sharing Stories with Non-Black Friends -- Residential Integration -- Alternative Explanations -- Implications -- Chapter 7 : Conclusion : Where Do We Go from Here? -- Summary of Findings -- Chaos or Community? -- A Sign of Things to Come? |
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Scholars have long recognized that interpersonal networks play a role in mobilizing social movements. Yet, many questions remain. This Element addresses these questions by theorizing about three dimensions of ties: emotionally strong or weak, movement insider or outsider, and ingroup or cross-cleavage. The survey data on the 2020 Black Lives Matter protests show that weak and cross-cleavage ties among outsiders enabled the movement to evolve from a small provocation into a massive national mobilization. In particular, the authors find that Black people mobilized one another through social media and spurred their non-Black friends to protest by sharing their personal encounters with racism. These results depart from the established literature regarding the civil rights movement that emphasizes strong, movement-internal, and racially homogenous ties. The networks that mobilize appear to have changed in the social media era. -- Provided by publisher. |
| Local Note |
Cambridge University Press Cambridge Open Access Books and Elements |
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Black lives matter movement.
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Black power -- United States -- History -- 21st century.
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| Added Author |
Block, Ray, Jr., author.
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Druckman, James N., author.
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Ognyanova, Katherine, author.
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Lazer, David M. J. Lazer, author.
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| Other Form: |
Original 1009475703 9781009475709 (OCoLC)1405843797 |
| ISBN |
9781009415842 (electronic bk.) |
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1009415840 (electronic bk.) |
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1009475703 |
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9781009475709 |
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