Rethinking Social Movements Structure, Meaning, and Emotion

by Goodwin, Jeff; Jasper, James M.; Ferree, Myra Marx; Flacks, Richard; Ganz, Marshall; Goodwin, Jeff; Gould, Deborah B.; Jasper, James M.; Koopmans, Ruud; Kurzman, Charles; McAdam, Doug; Merrill, David A.; Meyer, David S.; Morris, Aldon; Polletta, Francesca

• ISBN13: 9780742525955
• ISBN10: 0742525953
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2003-10-14
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

Summary

This landmark volume brings together some of the titans of social movement theory in a grand reassessment of its status. For some time, the field has been divided between a dominant structural approach and a cultural or constructivist tradition.. The gaps and misunderstandings between the two sides--as well as the efforts to bridge them--closely parallel those in the social sciences at large. This book aims to further the dialogue between these two distinct approaches to social movements and to show the broader implications for social science as a whole as it struggles with issues including culture, emotion, and agency. Visit our website for sample chapters!

Author Biography

Rhodes Cook has covered presidential and congressional elections for more than a quarter century -- as a political writer for Congressional Quarterly from 1975 through 1997

Table of Contents

Introduction	vii
Jeff Goodwin and James M. Jasper
Part I POLITICAL PROCESS THEORY: OPPORTUNITY OR CONSTRAINT?
1 Caught in a Winding, Snarling Vine: The Structural Bias of Political Process Theory	3	(28)
Jeff Goodwin and James M. Jasper
2 Wise Quacks	31	(8)
Charles Tilly
3 Paradigm Warriors: Regress and Progress in the Study of Contentious Politics	39	(8)
Sidney Tarrow
4 Tending the Vineyard: Cultivating Political Process Research	47	(14)
David S. Meyer
5 Political. Opportunity. Structure. Some Splitting to Balance the Lumping	61	(14)
Ruud Koopmans
6 Trouble in Paradigms	75	(22)
Jeff Goodwin and James M. Jasper
Part II BEYOND DOMINANT PARADIGMS
7 Culture Is Not Just in Your Head	97	(14)
Francesca Polletta
8 The Poststructuralist Consensus in Social Movement Theory	111	(10)
Charles Kurzman
9 The Intellectual Challenges of Toiling in the Vineyard	121	(14)
Marc W. Steinberg
10 Knowledge for What? Thoughts on the State of Social Movement Studies	135	(20)
Richard Flacks
11 Passionate Political Processes: Bringing Emotions Back into the Study of Social Movements	155	(22)
Deborah B. Gould
12 Why David Sometimes Wins: Strategic Capacity in Social Movements	177	(24)
Marshall Ganz
Part III CONCLUDING REFLECTIONS
13 Revisiting the U.S. Civil Rights Movement: Toward a More Synthetic Understanding of the Origins of Contention	201	(32)
Doug McAdam
14 Reflections on Social Movement Theory: Criticisms and Proposals	233	(14)
Aldon Morris
15 Hot Movements, Cold Cognition: Thinking about Social Movements in Gendered Frames	247	(16)
Myra Marx Ferree and David A. Merrill
References	263	(34)
Index	297	(8)
Contributors	305