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| Preface | |
| List of Contributors | |
| Introduction | p. 1 |
| Building Social Movement Theory | p. 3 |
| The Social Psychology of Social Movements | p. 27 |
| The Political Context of Rationality: Rational Choice Theory and Resource Mobilization | p. 29 |
| The Social Psychology of Collective Action | p. 53 |
| The Social Construction of Protest and Multiorganizational Fields | p. 77 |
| Collective Identity in Social Movement Communities: Lesbian Feminist Mobilization | p. 104 |
| Sociopolitical Culture and the Persuasive Communications of Social Movement Organizations | p. 131 |
| Master Frames and Cycles of Protest | p. 133 |
| Collective Identity and Activism: Networks, Choices, and the Life of a Social Movement | p. 156 |
| Mentalities, Political Cultures, and Collective Action Frames: Constructing Meanings through Action | p. 174 |
| Conflict, Community, and Mobilization | p. 203 |
| Resource Mobilization versus the Mobilization of People: Why Consensus Movements Cannot Be Instruments of Social Change | p. 205 |
| Communities of Challengers in Social Movement Theory | p. 224 |
| Mobilization, Quiescence, and Consensus | p. 249 |
| Mobilizing Technologies for Collective Action | p. 251 |
| Consensus Movements, Conflict Movements, and the Cooptation of Civic and State Infrastructures | p. 273 |
| When Paradigms Collide: Resource Mobilization Versus Breakdown Theories | p. 299 |
| Normalizing Collective Protest | p. 301 |
| Looking Backward to Look Forward: Reflections on the Past and Future of the Resource Mobilization Research Program | p. 326 |
| Conclusion | p. 349 |
| Political Consciousness and Collective Action | p. 351 |
| Index | p. 375 |
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