Soc 626 Frames, Ideologies and Other Ways of Talking About Ideas Continued
* GJ13. Kristin Luker. Word Views Of Pro- And Anti-Abortion Activists (From Abortion And The Politics Of Motherhood) This selection emphasizes the prolife rather than prochoice views (which are both treated in the book); lecture will expand upon this discussion.
Notes on history & ideas of pro- & anti-abortion movements (summary of Luker & Staggenborg)
* GJ14. Jane J. Mansbridge. Ideological Purity In The Women’s Movement (From Why We Lost The ERA) This selection might give the impression that the whole women’s movement became “purist,” but she captures a significant tendency of the 1970s.
* GJ15. James M. Jasper The Emotions Of Protest (From The Emotions Of Protest: Affective and Reactive Emotions in and around Social Movements. Sociological Forum, 1998, 13, 3, Sept, 397-424) An overview.
* GL33. Ron Eyerman And Andrew Jamison. Movements And Cultural Change (From Music And Social Movements):
Raka Ray. “Women’s Movements and Political Fields” Social Problems 1998. Compares women’s movement groups in Bombay and Calcutta, showing how discussion of spouse abuse was shaped by political context. My reserves
Cadena-Roa, J. (2002). “Strategic Framing, Emotions, and Superbarrio-Mexico City’s Masked Crusader.” Mobilization 7(2): 201-216 .A”party mood” that prevailed in a Mexico City social movement organization, the Asamblea de Barrios, created the conditions for the emergence of Superbarrio, a masked crusader for justice who used humor & dramaturgy drawn from wrestling culture to help the urban poor confront the corruption & mismanagement of the Mexican state.
Stephen Ellingson. “Understanding the Dialectic of Discourse and Collective Action: Public Debate and Rioting in Antebellum Cincinnati.” American Journal of Sociology 101: 100-144. 1995. Two incidents of mob violence in Cincinnati altered the discursive struggle over abolitionism
Steinberg, M. W. (1999). “The Talk and Back Talk of Collective Action: A Dialogic Analysis of Repertoires of Discourse among Nineteenth-Century English Cotton Spinners.” American Journal of Sociology 105(3): 736-780. Discourses evolve through rational choice and discursive constraints.