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The spread of the term 'male chauvinist,' coined in the United States around 1934, reveals the crucial work done in a social movement — in this case the second wave of American feminism — by what we call 'everyday activists.' Everyday activists may not interact with the world of formal politics, but they take actions in their own lives to redress injustices that a contemporary social movement has made salient. The interplay between organized and everyday activists creates an evolutionary dynamic of 'organized activist variation' and 'everyday activist selection.' Organized activists in tightly-knit and protected enclaves (such as those in the American Communist Party in the 1930s or the feminist movement in the late 1960s) produce a cornucopia of counter-hegemonic concepts. Everyday activists then select the concepts they will use, primarily for the purpose of persuasion, in everyday talk.

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