@article{ref1,
title="Isolation, Powerlessness, and Violence: A Study of Attitudes and Participation in the Watts Riot",
journal="American journal of sociology",
year="1968",
author="Ransford, H. E.",
volume="73",
number="5",
pages="581-591",
abstract="The hypothesis that isolated individuals are more prone to extremism is tested, using a sample of Los Angeles Negroes interviewed shortly after the Watts riot. It is found that racial isolation (low degrees of intimate white contact) is strongly associated with a willingness to use violence under two subjective conditions: (a) when isolated individuals feel a sense of powerlessness in the society and (b) when such isolated individuals are highly dissatisfied with their treatment as Negroes. Ideal types of the most and least violence-prone are developed from the cumulative effects of the three independent variables (isolation, powerlessness, and dissatisfaction).<p />",
language="",
issn="0002-9602",
doi="10.1086/224532",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1086/224532"
}