How do stigmatized minorities advance agendas when confronted with hostile majorities?
Elite theories of influence posit marginal groups exert little power. I propose the concept of …

Whether upheld as heroic or reviled as terrorism, people have been willing to lay down their
lives for the sake of their groups throughout history. Why? Previous theories of extreme self …

While the Turkish state was debating, diagnosing, and de-vising solutions for the “prisons
problem,” political prisoners argued that the real problem was the state itself. As if it were not …

Campus activists and others might refer to slights of one's ethnicity or other cultural
characteristics as “microaggressions,” and they might use various forums to publicize them …

Suicide attacks are the definitive form of terrorism. More than any other terrorist tactic, they
convey the ruthless willingness of present day terrorists to kill themselves for killing others …

Challenging the prevailing belief that organised violence is experiencing historically
continuous decline, this book provides an in-depth sociological analysis that shows …

There is a wave of globalized match-fixing occurring in football. In the last few years, there
have been investigations and scandals in dozens of different countries in every continent …

2009 Outstanding Academic Title, Choice This groundbreaking volume examines the rise
and spread of suicide attacks over the past decade. Sorting through 1,270 terror strikes …

This book provides a multidisciplinary approach to understanding human behavior and uses
it to analyze the forces shaping the life cycle of violent political movements. This new edition …

Since the 1970s, catalogs of protest events have been at the heart of research on social
movements. To measure how protest changes over time or varies across space, sociologists …