"Undoubtedly"? On the contrary, the "power of weak-tie networks" is inflexibly the event here. In any case, this is an pragmatic question. As Brandzel admits, "the Greensboro sit-in fed into a interminable civil movement, while the New Jersey walkout became a generally singular event." If common networking tools appearance prominently in some significant group variety somewhere, Brandzel's importance will be validated (with apologies to the Popperians out there).
Til then, Gladwell's claims seem to rest. Both may be missing the palpable point, however. Non-violent, non-elite sexually transmitted movements typically only generate metamorphosis when either (a) they "break a tie" between equally-matched elite factions, or (b) elites look upon capitulation to the non-violent trend a facesaving other to other, more harmful (or potentially violent) opponents. The two cases most often advanced by fist pacifists as proving the soundness of their scheme are the struggles for Indian home rule from Britain and for internal rights for blacks in the American South.
Yet it is onerous to apprehend (certainly for many Indians) Gandhi's labour succeeding without Netaji's….
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