Resource Mobilization and Social Movements

McCarthy, J. D., & Zald, M. N. (1977). Resource Mobilization and Social Movements: A Partial Theory. American Journal of Sociology, 82(6), 1212-1241.

Type

Journal article

Intellectual base

Primary research

Year

1977

Volume

82

Issue

6

Pages

1212-1241

DOI

10.1086/226464

DOI registrant

University of Chicago Press

Link

https://doi.org/10.1086/226464

Cited from

chemistry_materials, sociology_anthropology

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2 citations across 2 artifacts.

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Primes

• Catalysis
  • Social and political change: an organiser, whistleblower, or journalist catalyses a movement's transition from latent grievance to mobilisation without being consumed by it — the social-movement literature's "movement entrepreneurship."

    This sourceDevelops movement entrepreneurship and the organizer/cadre who catalyzes mobilization of latent grievance.

• Mobilization
  • In sociology, resource mobilization theory holds that movements succeed when they can convert sympathizers into participants, dollars, and time — the conversion rate, not the size of the sympathy pool, is the predictor — and civil-rights organizing, labor movements, and mass protests instantiate the pattern with different trigger, coordination, and sustainment profiles.

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