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Adamek, Raymond J. and Lewis, Jerry M. “Social Control Violence and Radicalizat The Kent State Case.” Social Forces, Vol. 51, No. 3, 1 March, 1973, pp. 342-347.This article focuses on the uses and effects of excessive force and social control during the Kent State shootings. The authors hypothesize that social control will either radicalize a subculture or pacify it. Interviews with more than two hundred Kent State students in the years following the massacre showed that at least initially, social control served to radicalize.
Bills, Scott L. (Ed.) Kent State/May 4: Echoes Through a Decade. Kent, OH: Kent University Press.
Published by the Kent State University Press, this book provides extensive and multidisciplinary coverage of the May 4, 1970 events. Interviews comprise a large portion of the primary source evidence used in the book, which also includes commentary from abroad, interviews with law enforcement, and analyses of how the event did and did not change American society and politics.
Hariman, Robert and Lucaites, John Louis. “Dissent and emotional management in a liberal-democratic society: The Kent state iconic photograph.” Rhetoric Society Quarterly, Vol. 31, No. 3, pp. 5-31.
This article takes a unique approach to the study of the Kent State protest and subsequent shootings, focusing on media coverage and responses to the iconic...
The authors show how visual imagery of historical events can construct popular narratives, shaping identity and political culture. Moreover, the authors show how visual imagery with emotional content can either motivate or stifle dissent.
Lewis, Jerry M. “A Study of the Kent State Incident Using Smesler’s Theory of Collective Behavior.” Sociological Inquiry, Vol. 42, No. 2, April 1972, pp. 87-96.
Approaching the Kent State University protest and shooting from a sociological perspective enables greater understanding of how to conceptualize the event historically. In this article, the author evaluates several theories of collective behavior including structural conduciveness, structural strain, and mobilization to help historians apply lessons learned from Kent to possible future issues involving the potential use of social control during political dissent.
Lewis, Jerry M. and Hensley, Thomas R. “The May 4 Shootings at Kent State University: The Search for Historical Accuracy.” http://www.stetson.edu/law/conferences/highered/archive/media/higher-ed-archives-2009/ii-lewis-may-4-
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This article reveals some of the methodological problems in reconstructing the events that took place before, during, and after the historic May 4, 1970 Kent State protest and shooting. According…
evidence and analysis: "The national guardsmen violated the Students right of assembly at Kent State University on May 4, 1970." The paper will describe the evidences and circumstances of May 4, 1970 in details, the analysis and the observation of the relative facts will be included in the paper so that the readers can gain effective information regarding the day in which the nation lost four lives. The paper
G. A Police Office in a large metropolitan area like New York will have different duties and dangers than a County Sheriff in a rural Oklahoma area) (Barlow, 2000). Rightly so, modern society has a certain level of expectations for its military and law enforcement branches. While it is known that both must, at times, deal with the underside of society, it is also assumed that the group will rise above
Diversity -- with the exception of homophobia -- was beginning to be commonly accepted and praised. Technology -- such as the use of DNA in criminology and the introduction of the PC -- was becoming more prominent in the lives of everyday Americans. In the Cold War, President Gorbachev asked for openness and economic freedom, while President Reagan asked him to tear down the Berlin Wall, which he did.
Schultz v. Wheaton Glass Co. Leading up to the Schultz v. Wheaton Glass Co. case of 1970, women had been primarily viewed as being part of the domestic sphere. Their traditional role in society was to take care of the house and kids while the man went to work and supported the family by earning the paycheck. Following WWII, when the women were pushed out of the home by the necessity
The terrorists estimated that it would be necessary to eliminate some 25 million people in this fashion, so as to advance the revolution (Bill Ayers: 1, 2). Although always numerically tiny, the cadre's members were charismatic, provocative, articulate, and intelligent. They commanded news media attention (at the expense of other leftist groups) with their brash rhetoric, violent actions, and, in the eyes of many, romantic allure. At whom and/or does
Y. National Guard, which had been conducting a vigorous recruiting campaign (Troy 24). According to this author, "The Sixty-ninth was drafted into the Regular Army and was proud to be selected New York's representative in the newly formed Forty-second Division, the 'Rainbow Division,' where it was redesignated the 165th Regiment" (Troy 24). These events as much as any other were responsible for providing Donovan with both the experience as well