Citation

Earl J. Socio. Theor. 2003; 21(1): 44-68.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2003, American Sociological Association, Publisher John Wiley and Sons)

DOI

10.1111/1467-9558.00175

PMID

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Abstract

Despite the importance of research on repression to the study of social movements, few researchers have focused on developing a refined and powerful conceptualization of repression. To address the difficulties such theoretical inattention produces, three key dimensions of repression are outlined and crossed to produce a repression typology. The merit of this typology for researchers is shown by using the typology to: (1) reorganize major research findings on repression; (2) diagnose theoretical and empirical oversights and missteps in the study of repression; and (3) develop new hypotheses about explanatory factors related to repression and relationships between different forms of repression. Such a typology represents an important step toward creating richer theoretical explanations of repression.

Language: en