TY  - JOUR
PY  - 1968//
TI  - Isolation, Powerlessness, and Violence: A Study of Attitudes and Participation in the Watts Riot
JO  - American journal of sociology
A1  - Ransford, H. E.
SP  - 581
EP  - 591
VL  - 73
IS  - 5
N2  - 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 />
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SN  - 0002-9602
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1086/224532
ID  - ref1
ER  -