Why people join social movements

Title: Why people join social movements
Category: Law & Government / Government & Politics
Details: Words: 848 | Pages: 3.6 (approximately 235 words/page)

Why people join social movements

Why do people join social movements? Why do people join political, professional, or social movements, of whatever size, and surrender so completely, giving up, in the extreme, everything; their fortunes, their critical thinking, their political freedom, their friends, families, even their own lives? What causes people to create a system or perhaps follow a system that creates such things as “ethnic cleansing” and the killing fields of Cambodia? “That anyone who opposes this system of …showed first 75 words of 848 total…

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…showed last 75 words of 848 total…source of evil must be found who helps create and sustain the special feeling so necessary for the formation of the followers and the leader into a social movement. All of these weigh in on whether or not people will or will not join a social movement. The movement must seem appealing to them. The movement must erase a fear. The promise of erasing a fear will lead to followers needed for a social movement.

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