Social Movements

Betsy Erbaugh

Comprehensive Exam Reading List

July 10, 2002

Interest Areas

1. Major Theoretical Approaches:

· Collective Behavior/Breakdown Theory

· Resource Mobilization

· Political Process

· New Social Movements

· Culture/Subjective Dynamics/Identity

2. Public Sphere/Social Space

3. Gender/Women's Movements

4. Grassroots Mobilization

Theoretical Approaches

Collective Behavior/Breakdown Theories

Smelser, Neil. 1998. "Social and Psychological Dimensions of Collective Behavior." Essays in Sociological Explanation.

Snow, David, et al. 1998. "Disrupting the Quotidian." Mobilization.

Useem, Bert. 1998. “Breakdown Theories of Collective Action.” Annual Review of Sociology .

Resource Mobilization

Ferree, Myra Marx and Frederick D. Miller. 1985. “Mobilization and Meaning: Toward an Integration of Social Psychological and Resource Perspectives on Social Movements.” Sociological Inquiry 55:38-61.

Gamson, William. 1990 [1975]. The Strategy of Social Protest: Dorsey Press.

Ganz, Marshall. "Resources and Resourcefulness: Strategic Capacity in the Unionization of California Agriculture, 1959-1966." American Journal of Sociology 105: 1003

Goldstone, Jack. "The Weakness of Organization: A New Look at Gamson's The Strategy of Social Protest." AJS 85.5.

Jenkins, Craig. 1983. "Resource Mobilization Theory and the Study of Social

Movements" in Annual Review of Sociology 9:527-53.

McCarthy, John and Mayer Zald. 1977. “Resource Mobilization and Social Movements: A Partial Theory.” American Journal of Sociology .

Oberschall, Anthony. 1973. Social Conflict and Social Movements. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall.

Portes, Alejandro. 1998. “Social Capital: Its Origins and Applications in Modern Sociology.” Annual Review of Sociology .

Tilly, Charles. 1978. From Mobilization to Revolution.

Political Process

McAdam, Doug. Political Process and the Development of Black Insurgency, 1930-1970.

McAdam, Doug, John D. McCarthy, and Mayer N. Zald. 1988. “Social Movements.” Pp. 695-737 in Handbook of Sociology, edited by N. J. Smelser: Sage.

McAdam, D., Sidney Tarrow and Charles Tilly. 2001. Dynamics of Contention. Cambridge: Cambridge U. Press.

Meyer, DS and S Staggenborg. "Movements, Countermovements, and the Structure of Political Opportunity." AJS 101(6): 1628-1660.

Skocpol, Theda. Politics and Society.

Tarrow, Sidney. 1994. Power in Movement: Social Movements, Collective Action, and Politics: Cambridge.

New Social Movements

Cohen, Jean and Andrew Arato. 1992. Civil Society and Political Theory. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

Cohen, Jean L. 1985. “Strategy or Identity: New Theoretical Paradigms and Contemporary Social Movements.” Social Research 52:663-716.

Melucci, Alberto. 1980. “The New Social Movements: A Theoretical Approach.” Social Science Information 19:199-226.

Rose, F. 1997. "Toward a Class-Cultural Theory of Social Movements: Reinterpreting New Social Movements." Sociological Forum 12(3):461-494.

Culture/Subjective Dynamics/Identity

Friedman, Debra and Doug McAdam. 1992. “Collective Identity and Activism: Networks, Choices, and the Life of a Social Movement.” Pp. 156-173 in Frontiers in Social Movement Theory, edited by A. D. Morris and C. M. Mueller. New Haven: Yale University Press.

Gamson, Josh. 1995. “Must Identity Movements Self-Destruct? A Queer Dilemma.” Social Problems 42(3) pp. 390-407.

Gamson, William A. 1992. “The Social Psychology of Collective Action.” Pp. 53-76 in Frontiers in Social Movement Theory, edited by A. D. Morris and C. M. Mueller. New Haven, CT: Yale University.

Goodwin, Jeff, James M. Jasper, and Francesca Poletta. 2001. Passionate Politics: Emotions and Social Movements. University of Chicago Press.

Guigni, M.G. 1998. "Was It Worth the Effort? The Outcomes and Consequences of Social Movements." ARS 24:371-393.

Harrison, Michael L. 1977. “Dimensions of Involvement in Social Movements.” Sociological Focus 10:353-366.Hunt, S.A. and R.D. Benford. 1994. "Identity Talk in the Peace and Justice Movement.: Journal of Contemporary Ethnography 22(4):488-517.

Klandermans, Bert. 1988. “The Formation and Mobilization of Consensus.” Pp. 173-196 in International Social Movement Research, vol. 1: JAI Press Inc.

Marx, John H. and Burkart Holzner. 1977. “The Social Construction of Strain and Ideological Models of Grievance in Contemporary Movements.” Pacific Sociological Review 20:411-438.

Polleta, Francesca and James Jasper. 2001. "Collective Identity and Social Movements." Annual Review of Sociology 27:283-305.

Snow, David A. et al. 1986. "Frame Alignment Processes, Micromobilization, and Movement Participation." American Sociological Review 51: 464-481.

Snow, David A. and Robert D. Benford. 2000. “Framing Processes and Social Movements: An Overview and Assessment.” Annual Review of Sociology 26:611-39.

Stoecker, R. 1995. "Community, Movement, Organization: The Problem of Identity Convergence in Collective Action." Sociological Quarterly 36(1):111-130.

Tarrow, Sidney. 1992. “Mentalities, Political Cultures, and Collective Action Frames.” Pp. 174-202 in Frontiers in Social Movement Theory, edited by A. D. Morris and C. M. Mueller. New Haven: Yale University Press.

Public Sphere/Social Space

Arendt, Hannah. 1986. “Communicative Power.” in Power, edited by S. Lukes. New York: NY University Press.

Benhabib, Seyla. 1991. “Models of Public Space: Hannah Arendt, the Liberal Tradition, and Jürgen Habermas.” in Habermas and the Public Sphere, edited by C. Calhoun. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

Eliasoph, Nina. 1998. Avoiding Politics: How Americans Produce Apathy in Everyday Life. Cambridge, UK: University Press.

Fraser, Nancy. 1992. “Rethinking the Public Sphere: A Contribution to the Critique of Actually Existing Democracy.” in Habermas and the Public Sphere, edited by C. Calhoun. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

Gramsci, Antonio. “The Formation of Intellectuals.” in The Modern Prince and other writings, edited by A. Gramsci.

Habermas, Jürgen. 1989. The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

Gender/Women's Movements

Acker, Joan. 1995. “Feminist Goals and Organizing Processes.” Pp. 137-144 in Feminist Organizations: Harvest of the New Women's Movement, edited by M. M. Ferree and P. Y. Martin. Philadelphia: Temple University Press.

Ferree, Myra Marx and David A. Merrill. 2000. “Hot Movements, Cold Cognition: Thinking about Social Movements in Gendered Frames.” Contemporary Sociology: A Journal of Reviews 29:454-462.

Ferree, Myra Marx and Silke Roth. 1998. “Gender, Class, and the Interaction between Social Movements: A Strike of West Berlin Day Care Workers.” Gender & Society 12:626-648.

Gamson, Josh. 1997. "Messages of Exclusion: Gender, Movements, and Symbolic Boundaries." Gender & Society 11(2):178-199.

Hardy-Fanta, Carol. 1993. Latina Politics, Latino Politics: Gender, Culture and Political Participation in Boston. Philadelphia: Temple University Press.

Kamensita, Lynn. 1998. "The Complexity of Decline: Explaining the Marginalization of the East German Women's Movement." Mobilization 3(2):245-263.

Luker, Kristen. 1984. Abortion and the Politics of Motherhood. Berkeley: University of California.

Molyneux, Maxine. 1986. “Mobilization without emancipation? Women's interests, state, and revolution.” in Transition and Development: Problems of Third World Socialism, edited by R. Fagen, C. D. Deere, and J. L. Corragio. New York: Monthly Review Press.

Palier, Judith. 2000. “Without Strong Roots the Tree Won't Grow : Women's Activism, Gender Roles, and Civil Society in Mexico.” PhD Dissertation, Political Science, UNM, Albuquerque.

Pardo, Mary S. 1998. Mexican American Women Activists: Identity and Resistance in two Los Angeles Communities. Philadelphia: Temple University Press.

Ray, R. and A.C. Korteweg. 1999. “Women's movements in the third world: Identity, mobilization, and autonomy.” Annual Review of Sociology 25:47-.

Safa, Helen Icken. 1990. “Women's Social Movements in Latin America.” Gender & Society 4:354-369.

Taylor, Verta. 1999. “Gender and Social Movements: Gender Processes in Women's Self-Help Movements.” Gender & Society 13:8-33.

Taylor, Verta. 1989. "Social Movement Continuity: The Women's Movement in Abeyance." ASR 54:761-775.

Whittier, N. 1997. "Political Generations, Micro-cohorts, and the Transformation of Social Movements." ASR 62(5):760-778.

Grassroots Mobilization

Castells, Manuel. 1984. The City and the Grassroots: A Cross-Cultural Theory of Urban Social Movements.

Gamson, Josh. 1989. “Silence, Death, and the Invisible Enemy: Aids Activism and Social Movement Newness.” Social Problems 36(4):351-367.

Horton, John. 1995. The Politics of Diversity: Immigration, Resistance, and Change in Monterey Park, California. Philadelphia: Temple University Press.

Morris, Aldon. 1984. The Origins of the Civil Rights Movement: Free Press.

Nagel, Joane. 1997. American Indian Ethnic Renewal: Red Power and the Resurgence of Identity and Culture. Oxford.

Piven, Frances Fox and Richard A. Cloward. 1977. Poor People's Movements: Why They Succeed, How They Fail. New York: Pantheon Books.

Putnam, Robert. 1993. Making Democracy Work: Civic Traditions in Modern Italy. Princeton: Princeton University Press.

Warren, Mark R. 2001. Dry Bones Rattling: Community Building to Revitalize American Democracy. Princeton: Princeton University Press.