基于对一组邻避运动案例的实证研究, 分析中国环境抗争的扩散效应. 中国环境抗争的扩散效应
出现在不同邻避运动之间, 它们在运动剧目, 运动框架, 组织形式等方面表现出了高度的相似性 …

Media are central to the dynamics of protest and social movements. Contemporary social
movements face a shifting environment composed of new media technologies and platforms …

The philosopher Cristina Bicchieri here develops her theory of social norms, most recently
explained in her 2006 volume The Grammar of Society. Bicchieri challenges many of the …

Stigma is a corrosive social force by which individuals and communities throughout history
have been systematically dehumanised, scapegoated and oppressed. From the literal …

Agent-based modeling (ABM) is a novel computational methodology for representing the
behavior of individuals in order to study social phenomena. Its use is rapidly growing in …

Based on a survey of participants in Egypt's Tahrir Square protests, we demonstrate that
social media in general, and Facebook in particular, provided new sources of information …

Organizations are frequent targets for social activists aiming to influence society by first
altering organizational policies and practices. Reflecting a steady rise in research on this …

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 …

Social movements have an elusive power but one that is altogether real. From the French
and American revolutions to the Arab Spring, and to ethnic and terrorist movements of today …

Why do newspapers cover social movement actors, and why is this coverage sometimes
favorable? Early scholarship saw the news media mainly as a source of data on collective …