Soc 626 The political context of protest

  • * Meyer (The Politics of Protest), preface, introduction, Chapter 1, Chapter 2. In these two chapters, meyer locates protest and social movements in a US political context.
  • Notes on Meyer_and_Part I readings (these are my personal cursory notes which you may compare with yours)
  • *GJ1. Rhoda Lois Blumberg.. The Civil Rights Movement (From Civil Rights: The 1960s Freedom Struggle) Overview of history through the mid-1950s.
  • * Aldon Morris. A Retrospective on the Civil Rights Movement: Political and Intellectual Landmarks. Annual Review of Sociology 1999. 25:517. This will provide background for the next section.
  • *GJ2 Jo Freeman. The Women’s Movement. (From The Origins Of The Women’s Liberation Movement, American Journal of Sociology 1973: original available on web site). Overview of mobilization 1960-1970, with a boxed chronology through 1982. Emphasis on cooptable networks and a precipitating crisis.
  • *GJ3. John D’Emilio. The Gay Liberation Movement (From Sexual Politics, Sexual Communities: The Making of a Homosexual Minority in the United States, 1940-1970). This selection focuses on 1969 Stonewall riot through the 1970s, “gay liberation” and “radical lesbian feminist” phases.
  • *GL4, . Charles Kurzman. The Iranian Revolution (From Structural And Perceived Opportunity: The Iranian Revolution Of 1979, American Sociological Review 1996.) Perceptions of political situation did not match objective conditions.
  • David Snyder & Charles Tilly “Hardship and Collective Violence in France, 1830 to 1960.” American Sociological Review 37: 520-532 (1972) The article which influenced resource mobilization arguments that deprivation does not cause movements.
  • James Chowning Davies. “The J-Curve and Power Struggle Theories of Collective Violence.” 1974, American Sociological Review 39: 607-610. A response to Snyder and Tilly.