The Blackwell Companion to Social Movements

by Snow, David A.; Soule, Sarah A.; Kriesi, Hanspeter

• ISBN13: 9781405175616
• ISBN10: 1405175613
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2007-09-04
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

Summary

The Blackwell Companion to Social Movements is a compilation of original, state-of-the-art essays by internationally recognized scholars on an array of topics in the field of social movement studies. Contains original, state-of-the-art essays by internationally recognized scholars Covers a wide array of topics in the field of social movement studies Features a valuable introduction by the editors which maps the field, and helps situate the study of social movements within other disciplines Includes coverage of historical, political, and cultural contexts; leadership; organizational dynamics; social networks and participation; consequences and outcomes; and case studies of major social movements Offers the most comprehensive discussion of social movements available

Author Biography

David A. Snow is Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Irvine. He is widely published in social movements, and author of, among other books, the award-winning Down on Their Luck: A Study of Homeless Street People (with Leon Anderson, 1993). He is a former President of both the Society for the Study of Symbolic Interaction and the Pacific Sociological Association, and has been a Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences.

Sarah A. Soule is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Arizona. Her main areas of research are social movements and political sociology. She has published several articles on social movements with a focus on diffusion processes in social movements.

Hanspeter Kriesi is Professor of Political Science at the University of Zurich, Switzerland. He is an internationally renowned scholar and has published numerous journal articles on social movements. He is the author of Political Mobilization and Social Change (1993).

Table of Contents

Contributors	p. viii
Acknowledgments	p. xvi
Introduction	p. 1
Mapping the Terrain	p. 3
Facilitative Contexts and Conditions	p. 17
Protest in Time and Space: The Evolution of Waves of Contention	p. 19
The Strange Career of Strain and Breakdown Theories of Collective Action	p. 47
Political Context and Opportunity	p. 67
The Cultural Contexts of Collective Action: Constraints, Opportunities, and the Symbolic Life of Social Movements	p. 91
Resources and Social Movement Mobilization	p. 116
Field of Action and Dynamics	p. 153
Beyond the Iron Law: Rethinking the Place of Organizations in Social Movement Research	p. 155
Leadership in Social Movements	p. 171
Movement Allies, Adversaries, and Third Parties	p. 197
Policing Social Protest	p. 217
Bystanders, Public Opinion, and the Media	p. 242
"Get up, Stand up": Tactical Repertoires of Social Movements	p. 262
Diffusion Processes within and across Movements	p. 294
Transnational Processes and Movements	p. 311
Microstructural and Social-Psychological Dimensions	p. 337
Networks and Participation	p. 339
The Demand and Supply of Participation: Social-Psychological Correlates of Participation in Social Movements	p. 360
Framing Processes, Ideology, and Discursive Fields	p. 380
Emotional Dimensions of Social Movements	p. 413
Collective Identity, Solidarity, and Commitment	p. 433
Consequences and Outcomes	p. 459
The Legislative, Organizational, and Beneficiary Consequences of State-Oriented Challengers	p. 461
Personal and Biographical Consequences	p. 489
The Cultural Consequences of Social Movements	p. 508
The Consequences of Social Movements for Each Other	p. 531
Major Social Movements	p. 553
The Labor Movement in Motion	p. 555
Feminism and the Women's Movement: A Global Perspective	p. 576
Environmental Movements	p. 608
Antiwar and Peace Movements	p. 641
Ethnic and Nationalist Social Movements	p. 666
Religious Movements	p. 694
Index	p. 717
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