Pamela E. Oliver
Professor of Sociology

Soc 626 Existing Networks link people and organizations and are created by movements.

  • * Meyer, Chapter 4, “Individuals, Movements, Organizations, and Coalitions” ALSO * Meyer Ch2 pp. 24-40 about organizations.
  • *GJ2 REVIEW 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.
  • David Snow, Louis Zurcher, Sheldon Ekland-Olson, “Social Movements: A Microstructural Approach to Differential Recruitment.” ASR 45: 787-801. 1980. People are recruited through social networks. Stable URL
  • Staggenborg, S. (1998). “Social Movement Communities and Cycles of Protest: The Emergence and Maintenance of a Local Women’s Movement.” Social Problems 45(2): 180-204. Movement communities developed as a context, communities maintain movements.
  • Whittier, Nancy “Political Generations, Micro-Cohorts, and the Transformation of Social Movements”. American Sociological Review; 1997, 62, 5, Oct, 760-778. Cohort replacement and movement change.
  • Pamela E. Oliver. 1989. “Bringing the Crowd Back In: The Nonorganizational Elements of Social Movements.” Research in Social Movements, Conflict and Change 11: 1-30. Showing how crowds and consciousness can be integrated in collective action and social movement theory.  Big PDF file (4MB) Smaller Files (copy of pre-publication manuscript): RTF file PDF file
  • Roger Gould. 1991. “Multiple Networks and Mobilization in the Paris Commune, 1871.” American Sociological Review 45: 787-801. Stable URL
  • Zhao, Dingxin. “Ecologies of Social Movements: Student Mobilization during the 1989 Prodemocracy Movement in Beijing” American Journal of Sociology; 1998, 103, 6, May, 1493-1529. Networks, space. Stable URL