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CULTURAL SOCIOLOGY OF WAR (1) answer(s).
 
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MODEL social structure of an armed group: from Liberian refugees to heroes of Côte d’Ivoire and liberators of the homeland / Käihkö, Ilmari   Journal Article
Käihkö, Ilmari Journal Article
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Summary/Abstract This article investigates the Movement for Democracy in Liberia (MODEL) through a revised Weberian framework that focuses on legitimacy and offers a thick description of the different phases of this armed group. The article argues that the key to fostering cohesion is the harmonization of the micro, meso, and macro levels. This proved a difficult undertaking for the MODEL. Not only did the MODEL lack material resources but it also relied on different and evolving kinds of legitimacy on these levels. With its sources of legitimacy exhausted after the war, the MODEL ceased to exist.
Key Words Insurgency  Liberia  Model  Social structure  Legitimacy  Militia 
Cohesion  Strategy  Côte D’Ivoire  Cultural Sociology of War 
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