Militias in the New Millennium: A Test of Smelser's Theory of Collective BehaviorUniversity Press of America, 2004 - 116 páginas In Militias in the New Millennium, Stan Weeber and Daniel Rodeheaver examine the state of the U.S. citizen militia movement in the new millennium. Using Smelser's theory of collective behavior, the authors examine the causes, belief systems, and electronic presence of militias, and the efforts of social control agents to contain them. Tested with 1196 internet communications and supplemented with interviews with militia members, Smelser's theory of the origins and direction of radical social movements, such as militias, is mostly confirmed by data analysis. |
Índice
Introduction | 1 |
Why Do Militias Appear? | 2 |
Internet and the Rise of Citizen Militias | 3 |
Defining Citizen Militias | 4 |
Summary and Plan of the Book | 6 |
The Rise and Evolution of American Citizen Militias | 9 |
Militias in the New Republic | 10 |
Militias in the Early Modern Era | 11 |
Generalized Beliefs | 46 |
Precipitating Events | 49 |
Summary | 50 |
Mobilization Social Control and Ideological Orientations of the Militia Movement | 51 |
Social Control | 53 |
Ideological Orientation | 59 |
Summary | 64 |
Internet and NonInternetBased Militias A Comparison | 67 |
The NeoMilitia Movement of the 1990s | 14 |
Summary | 16 |
Smelsers Theory of Collective Behavior | 17 |
Smelsers Model | 18 |
Criticisms of Smelsers Theory | 22 |
Summary | 24 |
Testing Smelsers Theory Data Sources and Sample Selection | 27 |
Data Sources | 28 |
Representativeness of the Sample | 32 |
Summary | 33 |
Testing Smelsers Theory Variables and Research Questions | 35 |
Structural Strain | 36 |
Generalized Beliefs | 37 |
Precipitating Events | 38 |
Ideological Orientation | 39 |
Note | 40 |
Strain Generalized Beliefs and Precipitating Events | 41 |
Structural Strain | 42 |
Differences between Groups | 69 |
Comparisons along Smelsers Dimensions | 70 |
Summary | 72 |
Conclusion | 75 |
References | 83 |
Appendices | 95 |
A Note about USENET | 96 |
Research Questions Key Concepts and Keywords for NUDIST Data Searches | 98 |
Data Gathering Procedures | 101 |
Coding of Militiamen and Womens Occupations | 103 |
Coding Instructions for Research Questions | 104 |
Generalized Beliefs | 105 |
Precipitating Events | 106 |
Social Control | 107 |
Ideological Orientation | 108 |
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