Organizations, External Resources, Professionalization Key issues: What kinds of resources constrain/impact social movements? What kinds of organizations carry social movements? How does organizational form vary with movement type or environmental constraints?

1. A brief overview of collective action theory. Readings on Collective Action Theory & Mobilization Processes
   1. Read selected pages from Mancur Olson's The Logic of Collective action
   2. Read Oliver's overview of collective action theory in the first six pages of "Formal Models of Collective Action"
   3. I will give a mini-lecture on what I see as the key ideas. (Hint: besides benefit/cost, the other key ideas are probability of making a difference and assessments of others' actions.)
2. Networks & Mobilizing Structures. Read over the four review chapters to get the lay of the land and identify key issues and then explore some of the empirical articles on the web site or that are cited by the reviews (and accessible) that seem relevant or interesting to you, given your research concerns. The overarching ideas here are the way people are pulled into collective action through networks and the way collective action is pursued through networks and relations between people and between groups. My idea is that your first reading pass on these overviewswill be fairly superficial, part of getting the lay of the land.
   1. Della Porta & Diani text chapter 5
   2. Diani's network article in Blackwell Companion
   3. Rucht's allies, adversaries, third parties article in Blackwell Companion.
   4. Klandermans's "Demand and Supply of Participation" in Blackwell Companion, which links instrumental and ideological factors into a common model. I have some trouble seeing the distinctions he's trying to make between demand and supply in this argument, but still see it as a) a useful summary and synthesis of his work (which is significant) and b) good at showing how instrumental and non-instrumental approaches to social psychological processes can be intergrated.
3. Look over some of the empirical articles on these two assignment pages to see how research has been done in this area.
   1. Let's all read Klandermans, Bert, Jojanneke van der Toorn, et al. (2008). "Embeddedness and Identity: How Immigrants Turn Grievances into Action." American Sociological Review 73: 992-1012 available from JSTOR. I picked it because it is fairly recent and a good exemplar of this kind of research.

Meet at Pam's house at 3:30. See email and learn@UW for addresss & info.

1) Identity, Consciousness, Emotions Assignment: (1) Ferree and Ellingson articles (2) Della Porta and Diana Ch 4, identities, *'d with short chapter summary on assignment page (3) Also Morris & Braines (oppositional consciousness) and Poletta "It was like a fever" which are *'d in the assignment page for Identity. Assignment page: Identity, Consciousness, Emotions Note that the assignment pages for this week and last week include a lot more articles that are worth pursuing if you have a special interest in this area. NOTE: As I said in class, you may modify the reading per your own interests as long as you read "5 things" where a "thing" is an article or chapter.

2) Class party & discuss our research interests

Media & Movements

Transnational movements