Professor Pamela Oliver Department of Sociology

Outcomes and Consequences of Social Movements

All of these are reviews of the literature.

1. Chapter 9 of DellaPorta and Diani "Social Movements and Democracy"
2. Amenta, Edwin and Neal Caren (2004). The Legislative, Organizational, and Beneficiary Consequences of State-Oriented Challengers. The Blackwell Companion to Social Movements. D. A. Snow, S. A. Soule and H. Kriesi. Malden, MA and Oxford, UK, Blackwell Publishing: 461-488.
   Concepts of success, new advantages, acceptance, power, collective goods. Accounting for state-related consequences: direct effect, varied effects, political opportunities, political mediation. Methodological issues: difficulty of sorting out causal influence in cases with multiple actors.
3. Earl, Jennifer (2004). The Cultural Consequences of Social Movements. The Blackwell Companion to Social Movements. D. A. Snow, S. A. Soule and H. Kriesi. Malden, MA and Oxford, UK, Blackwell Publishing: 508-530. Review of studies classified by type of conceptualization of culture (social psychological, cultural production, worldview and communities). Then discussion of causal arguments in the literature, again sorted by the three types.
4. Marco G. Giugni "Was It Worth the Effort? The Outcomes and Consequences of Social Movements" Annual Review of Sociology 1998 PDF file
5. Giugni, Marco (2004). Personal and Biographical Consequences. The Blackwell Companion to Social Movements. D. A. Snow, S. A. Soule and H. Kriesi. Malden, MA and Oxford, UK, Blackwell Publishing: 489-507. Key issues are studies of life course and life cycle and processes of political socialization and participation. Cite Goldstone and McAdam 2x2 grid: macro/mico factors X emergence/development vs decline/outcomes. This article focuses on consequences (decline/outcomes). Follow-up studies of new left activists. Follow up studies of other activists. Aggregate effects. Methodological issues.
6. Whittier, Nancy (2004). The Consequences of Social Movements for Each Other. The Blackwell Companion to Social Movements. D. A. Snow, S. A. Soule and H. Kriesi. Malden, MA and Oxford, UK, Blackwell Publishing: 531-551. How movements affect other movements: (1) generative. movement spin-off, continuity and abeyance, countermovements. (2) Spillover. frames, identities, tactical and cultural repertoires. Routes of influence: biographical and generational, networks and organizations, social movement sector, external political and cultural contexts

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