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Social Movement Participation

by Kate Calle on November 28, 2009

in Papers

There are various factors that can contribute to social movement involvement, and they are disputed among sociologists.  There are multiple classical social theories of social involvement: 1) status inconsistency; 2) cumulative deprivation; 3) relative deprivation; 4) rising expectations; and, 5) isolation.  According to the status inconsistency approach, people join d when they experience psychological tensions [...]