Readings on Social Movements Origins, Dynamics, and Outcomes

by McAdam, Doug; Snow, David A.

• ISBN13: 9780195384550
• ISBN10: 0195384555
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2009-07-27
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

This is the second edition of a reader on social movements, edited by arguably two of the biggest names in the sub-field of social movements within sociology. The collection of readings is organized theoretically (rather than historically) and views social movements as best analyzed accordingto dynamics and internal / external processes. It is a compilation introducing examples of the most salient sociological / theoretical lenses that have been produced by social movement scholars in the 20th century.

Author Biography

Doug McAdam is Professor of Sociology at Stanford University and former Director of the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences.
David A. Snow is a Chancellor's Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Irvine.

Table of Contents

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Each Part opens with an Introduction.

Preface

Alternative Uses Course Grid

Contributor Biographies

Introduction: Social Movements: Conceptual And Theoretical Issues

Emergence: Facilitating Conditions

Disruptions and Threats

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A Demographic/Structural Model of State Breakdown

Structural Social Change and Mobilizing Effect of Threat: Explaining Levels of Patriot and Militia Organizing in the United States

Political Opportunities

Political Opportunities and African-American Protest, 1948-1997

New Social Movements and Political Opportunities in Western Europe

Labor Transnationalism and Global Governance: The Impact of NAFTA on Transnational Labor Relationships in North America

Opportunity Organizations and Threat-Induced Contention: Protest Waves in Authoritarian Settings

Resources and Organizations

Mobilization at the Margins: Resources, Benefactors and the Viability of Homeless Social Movement Organizations

From Struggle to Settlement: The Crystallization of a Field of Lesbian/Gay Organizations in San Francisco, 1969-1973

Globalization and Transnational Social Movement Organizations

Facilitative Spaces and Contexts

Ecologies of Social Movements: Student Mobilization During the 1989 Pro-Democracy Movement in Beijing

Black Southern Student Sit-In Movement: An Analysis of Internal Organization

Free Spaces, Collective Identity, and the Persistence of U.S. White Power Activism

Processes Of Micromobilization

Social Networks

Status, Networks, and Social Movement Participation: The Case of Striking Workers

Specifying the Relationship Between Social Ties and Activism

A Qualitative Comparative Analysis of Conversion to Venezuelan Evangelicalism: How Networks Matter

Interpretive Processes: Framing Processed

Ideology, Framing Processes, and Islamic Terrorist Movements

Linking Mobilization Frames and Political Opportunities: Insights from Regional Populism in Italy

Resonance and Radicalism: Feminist Framing in the Abortion Debates of the United States and Germany

From Protective to Equal Treatment: Legal Framing Processes and Transformation of the Women's Movement in the 1960s

The Social Psychology of Participation: Grievances, Identity, and Emotion

Grievance Formation in a Country in Transition: South Africa, 1994-1998

""It Was Little A Fever"". . .: Narrative and Identity in Social Protest

Identity Work and Collective Action in a Repressive Context: Jewish Resistance on the ""Aryan Side"" of the Warsaw Ghetto

Persistent Resistance: Commitment and Community in the Plowshares Movement

Movement Dynamics

Strategies and Tactics

Getting It Together in Burgundy, 1675-1975

Tactical Innovation and the Pace of Insurgency

Celebration and Suppression: The Strategic Uses of Identity by the Lesbian and Gay Movement

The Success of the Unruly

Extra-Movement Dynamics

Discursive Opportunities and the Evolution of Right-Wing Violence in Germany

Protest Under Fire? Explaining the Policing of Protest

Coalitions and Political Context: U.S. Movements Against Wars in Iraq

IntraMovement Dynamics

Social Movement Continuity: The Women's Movement in Abeyance

The Consequences of Professionalization and Formalization in the Pro-Choice Movement

The Structure of Charismatic Mobilization: A Case Study of Rebellion During the Chinese Cultural Revolution

Diffusion and Modularity

Do Movements Matter?

Outcomes and Impacts

Feminist Generations? The Long-Term Impact of Social Movement Involvement on Palestinian Women's Lives

Movement Framing and Discursive Opportunity Structures: The Political Successes of the U.S. Women's Jury Movements

Age for Leisure? Political Mediation and the Impact of the Pension Movement on U.S. Old-Age Policy

Social Movements and Policy Implementation: The Mississippi Civil Rights Movement and The War on Poverty, 1965 to 1971

References

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