Sociology 924: Social Movements Seminar Calendar Pamela Oliver

 

Fall 2009. Course meets Mondays 3:30-6 in #6304 or 8146 Sewell Social Science.

Calendar of assignments and ntoes

How this works: If you click on a topic heading, you open a page which lists readings and has hot links to on-line copies of many of them. Copyrighted materials are in a password-protected directory for class members only, but you can read the list of articles & chapters without the password.

September 14. Introduction, concepts, the 1970s resource mobilization turn (and revisited).
September 21Collective Action Theory. An overview of collective action theory. (1) Selected pages from Mancur Olson's The Logic of Collective action, (2) Oliver's overview of collective action theory in "Formal Models of Collective Action", (3) Look over the "Critical Mass" papers I and II. Readings on Collective Action Theory & Mobilization Processes . You may find it helpful to have the lecture notes on this material I used in my undergraduate class. We will also take time in this class to review library research and clarify the plans for the next 5-6 classes.
September 28 (oliver gone: to be rescheduled as an evening or weekend gathering at my home plus individual conferences on your papers) Assignment: library research for your paper and for additional readings for class discussions.

October 5 Organizations, External Resources, Professionalization and Networks & Mobilizing Structures. Topics: Professionalization, cooptation, leadership + networks.

October 12 Political structures and movement (more on political opportunity) Interactions of Movements with Opponents, part I Key questions: how do political structures and opportunities vary between polities, between groups within a polity, and across time? What elements of variation are most imporant?. See page for specific assignment.
October 19 Frames, Framing Processes, & Related Issues (assginment on topic page)
October 26 Identity, Consciousness, Emotions Assignment: (1) Per class discussion, we will give more attention to the Ferree and Ellingson articles from last week, to focus on empirical examples of frames. (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.

November 2 Media & Movements
November 9 Politics II: Interactions. Countermovements and repression . Outcomes & Consequences of Movements. Also dynamics Something about countermovements I suggest Meyer & Staggenborg for general synthesis or Andrews for an empirical study

November 16. Reminder. "Pre-class writing" is no longer due, although you may do this if you missed some earlier assignments and would like to get credit for this to help your overall participation grade.

(1) Taylan Acar. Frame extension in a Turkish strike, from labor to feminism. Taylan's research proposal summary . Taylan suggests the following readings for background: (1) Mary Ruggie "Women's Movements and Women's Interests" and (2) Hagen Koo "World System, Class and State in Third World Development" and (3) Rothman & Oliver article "From Local to Global"

(2) Ayca Zayim. Istanbul neighborhoods in response to proposed redevelopoment and destruction of the neighborhood. Ayca will describe the case and wants to talk about the theoretical approach to applying social movement theory to the mobilization in the two neighborhoods. Background reading is Ayca's MPhil thesis.: (1) Just the suggested parts introduction & method and case details (2) Alternately the whole thesis.

(3) One hour on the literature review assignment and using library resources.
November 23 Transnational movements
November 30 (1) Jill Hopke Alternative media and collective action (Latin America emphasis). (2) Jon Breschak. Community and collective action in the context of lake pollution issues. (3) David Rangel. Chicano Identity and movement.
December 7
December 14 (1) Rahul Mahajan anti-war movement & political process.

Other: (1) DeShano: Identities, lit review. OK to talk or not. (2) Twin lit review spatial analysis, later. (3) McReynolds, either. (4) Nasuti Pakistan lawyer's movement, mid to late. (5) Blocq can do case earlier but would prefer feedback on model later. (6) Grdesic. labor & nationalist protest in Yugoslavia. any time. Also Malik (suicide bombers), Hein (Burmese Communists), Gonalons.

 

 
 

 
 
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Sociology 924: Social Movements Calendar Pamela Oliver

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