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Drawing from well‑established psychological principles, in his book 'Mutual Radicalization' Moghaddam presents a dynamic, cyclical three‑stage model of mutual radicalization that explains how groups gather under extremist ideologies, establish rigid norms under authoritarian leadership, and develop antagonistic worldviews that exaggerate ...
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Sorokin wrote that his approach to the analysis of revolution was based on having lived "in the circle of the Russian Revolution" for a period of five years. [5] Sorokin argued that contemporaries rather than "descendants" are "the best observers and judges of historical events", suggesting that he saw a similar precedence in natural sciences where "direct experience has long been preferred". [6]
Indeed, Escape from Freedom is viewed as one of the founding works of political psychology. His second important work, Man for Himself: An Inquiry into the Psychology of Ethics, first published in 1947, continued and enriched the ideas of Escape from Freedom. Taken together, these books outlined Fromm's theory of human character, which was a ...
Out of Revolution is a book by Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy (1888-1973), German social philosopher. The book counters conventional historiography as a “theory of history: how history should be understood, how historians should write about it,” as Harold J. Berman wrote in the introduction to the book.
The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements is a non-fiction book authored by the American social philosopher Eric Hoffer.Published in 1951, it depicts a variety of arguments in terms of applied world history and social psychology to explain why mass movements arise to challenge the status quo. [1]
The initial fourth-generation books and journal articles generally relied on the Polity data series on democratization. [30] Such analyses, like those by A. J. Enterline, [31] Zeev Maoz, [32] and Edward D. Mansfield and Jack Snyder, [33] identified a revolution by a significant change in the country's score on Polity's autocracy-to-democracy scale.
Teaching the Actuality of Revolution: Aesthetics, Unlearning, and the Sensations of Struggle is a 2023 book by American educational theorist, author and academic Derek R. Ford. [a] [b] The book, which is their eighth monograph, explores the intersection of aesthetics, pedagogy, and the experiential aspects of revolutionary movements.