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MIT OpenCourseWare
Riots, Rebellions, Revolutions
- Instructor
- Prof. Roger Petersen
- Term
- Spring 2013
- Level
- Undergraduate
- What's inside
- 2 exams · 1 reading · 4 web pages
- Materials open
- MIT OCW
About this course
Source: MIT OpenCourseWare 17.581 Riots, Rebellions, Revolutions, Spring 2013, Prof. Roger Petersen — original course page on ocw.mit.edu ↗. License: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0. Study order: MIT's own listing order, section by section. Taken from MIT's published course files, downloaded from ocw.mit.edu on September 23, 2026. How RedLectern is built.
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Before you start
Prerequisites are not listed here. Check MIT's own syllabus for this course.
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Exams
Course outline
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Lecture 2: Explaining social action
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Lecture 3: Rationality
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Lecture 4: Psychological approaches, relative deprivation
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Lecture 5: Norms
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Lecture 6: Emotions
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Lecture 7: Structural explanations
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Lecture 8: In-class quiz
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Lecture 12: U.S. Riots I
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Lecture 13: U.S. Riots II: Relative deprivation and the 1960’s urban riots
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Lecture 14: U.S. Riots III: The Rodney King riots in LA
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Lecture 15: Threshold-based models
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Lecture 16: Student presentations of agent-based modeling exercises
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Lecture 17: Background to Eastern European cases
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Lecture 18: Cascade models applied to Eastern Europe
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Lecture 19: Violent rebellion in Kosovo
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Lecture 20: Revolutions I
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Lecture 21: Revolutions II
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Lecture 22: Revolutions III
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Lecture 23: Readings from the October 2011 edition of the Journal of Democracy
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Lecture 26: Final exam
MIT OpenCourseWare, Prof. Roger Petersen, 17.581 Riots, Rebellions, Revolutions, Spring 2013.
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