How do people come to feel tied to a movement?
- *GJ pp 91-3 editors’ comments. Definition of “collective identity” on p. 103.
- Class notes for October 2 on Hirsch, Whittier, Klandermans
- Oliver’s notes on Hirsch, Morris & Braine (below), Goodwin & Pfaff (fear), and Klandermans (leaving). I’ll be using some of these slides in the Oct 4 class.
- * GJ9, . Eric L. Hirsch. Generating Commitment Among Students (From Sacrifice For The Cause: Group Processes, Recruitment, And Commitment In A Student Social Movement, American Sociological Review)
- * GJ10. Nancy Whittier. Sustaining Commitment Among Radical Feminists (From Feminist Generations).
- * GJ11. Bert Klandermans. Disengaging From Movements (From The Social Psychology Of Protest)
- * GJ28. Barbara Epstein. The Decline Of The Women’s Movement (From What Happened To The Women’s Movement? Monthly Review 2001). Feminist ideas are broadly accepted, but the movement itself has declined.
- *Goodwin, J. and S. Pfaff (2001). Emotion work in high-risk social movements: managing fear in the U.S. and East German civil rights movements. Passionate Politics: Emotions and Social Movements. J. Goodwin, J. M. Jasper and F. Polletta. Chicago, The University of Chicago Press: 282-300. High risk activists need to deal with fears of reprisals against self or family. Networks, gatherings, rituals, identities, shaming, guns all helped people deal with fear.
- Pfaff, S. (1996). “Collective Identity and Informal Groups in Revolutionary Mobilization: East Germany in 1989.” Social Forces 75(1): 91-118. Informal groups were the invisible reservoir of dissent. JSTOR stable URL
- Snow, D. A. and L. Anderson (1987). “Identity Work among the Homeless: The Verbal Construction and Avowal of Personal Identities.” American Journal of Sociology 92(6): 1336-1371. Processes of identity construction & avowal among 168 homeless street people. JSTOR Stable URL
- Goodwin, J. (1997). “The Libidinal Constitution of a High-Risk Social Movement: Affectual Ties and Solidarity in the Huk Rebellion, 1946-1954.” American Sociological Review 62(1): 53-69. Family & love relations eroded movement solidarity. My reserves
- Link to graduate seminar page with more articles on identities, consciousness & emotions