Soc 626 Frames, Ideologies and Other Ways of Talking About Ideas
Meyer (chapter 2) pp. 40-43. Ideas in movements. A critique of the “great books” idea of how movements; emphasis on reception context. This is basically an introductory overview
*David Snow et al., “Frame Alignment Processes,” ASR 51 (1986): 464-481. Movement actors try to bring their movement’s frame into alignment with other’s ideas so that they will join or support the movement.
* Morris, A. and N. Braine (2001). “Social movements and oppositional consciousness.” Oppositional consciousness: the subjective roots of social protest. J. Mansbridge and A. Morris. Chicago, The University of Chicago Press: 20-37. Argues that liberation movements against domination differ in key ways from social problems movements. Copy in on-line reserves
Lectures and reading notes -Lectures notes on frames, narratives, fields Snow et al, Superbarrio, Poletta, Ray (listed below)
Robert Benford. 1993. “Frame Disputes within the Nuclear Disarmament Movement.” Social Forces 71: 677-702. Debates inside the peace movement about how they would view their issue and present themselves to others. Stable URL:
Polletta, F. (1998). “”It Was Like a Fever…” Narrative and Identity in Social Protest.” Social Problems 45(2): 137-159, Narratives of the sit-ins helped to constitute “student activist” as a new collective identity & to make high-risk activism attractive. My reserves (.txt file)
Bert Klandermans. 1988. “The Formation and Mobilization of Consensus.” International Social Movement Research 1: 173-196. Consensus mobilization is the creation of shared views of movement issues (vs action mobilization to act). Wide-ranging review of functionalist requirements for content of ideologies and sources of communication and credibility. In On-Line Reserves
Robert Benford and David Snow. Framing Processes and Social Movements: An Overview and Assessment. Annual Review of Sociology, 2000, 26, 611-639. Reviews scholarship on collective action frames & framing processes in relation to social movements, with focus on the analytic utility of this literature for understanding social movement dynamics. My Reserves