Who joined the sit-ins and why: Southern black students in the early 1960s

IF 1.3 2区社会学 Q3 SOCIOLOGY

Mobilization Pub Date : 2006-10-01 DOI:10.17813/MAIQ.11.3.011507X736926W68

Michael Biggs

引用次数: 29

Abstract

The wave of sit-ins that swept the American South in 1960 has become a crucial episode in the literature on social movements. To investigate who joined the sit-ins and why, this article analyzes a sample survey of 255 students in Southern black colleges in 1962. The survey includes measures of integration into preexisting social networks. Most surprisingly, students who attended church frequently were less likely to join the sit-ins, though the presence of activist ministers made protest more likely. The survey also includes measures of beliefs and sentiments. Protesters were motivated by strong grievances, for they had an especially negative evaluation of race relations. Yet they were also motivated by optimism about the prospects of success, for they believed—incorrectly—that there was no white majority for strict segregation. The analysis underscores the importance of beliefs and sentiments, which cannot easily be reduced to objective measures of social location.

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谁加入了静坐，为什么:60年代早期的南方黑人学生

1960年席卷美国南方的静坐浪潮成为社会运动文学中的一个重要事件。为了调查谁参加了静坐以及为什么参加静坐，本文分析了1962年对南方黑人大学255名学生的抽样调查。这项调查包括了融入现有社交网络的措施。最令人惊讶的是，经常去教堂的学生不太可能参加静坐，尽管激进的牧师的存在使抗议更有可能发生。这项调查还包括对信念和情绪的测量。抗议者的动机是强烈的不满，因为他们对种族关系有着特别负面的评价。然而，他们对成功前景的乐观态度也激励了他们，因为他们错误地认为，严格的种族隔离不会使白人占多数。分析强调了信仰和情感的重要性，不能轻易地将其简化为社会地位的客观衡量。

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Mobilization SOCIOLOGY-

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期刊介绍： Mobilization: An International Quarterly is the premier journal of research specializing in social movements, protests, insurgencies, revolutions, and other forms of contentious politics. Mobilization was first published in 1996 to fill the need for a scholarly review of research that focused exclusively with social movements, protest and collective action. Mobilization is fully peer-reviewed and widely indexed. A 2003 study, when Mobilization was published semiannually, showed that its citation index rate was 1.286, which placed it among the top ten sociology journals. Today, Mobilization is published four times a year, in March, June, September, and December. The editorial board is composed of thirty internationally recognized scholars from political science, sociology and social psychology. The goal of Mobilization is to provide a forum for global, scholarly dialogue. It is currently distributed to the top international research libraries and read by the most engaged scholars in the field. We hope that through its wide distribution, different research strategies and theoretical/conceptual approaches will be shared among the global community of social movement scholars, encouraging a collaborative process that will further the development of a cumulative social science.