Soc 924 – Blackwell Companion to Social Movements (2004 edition) Annotated Contents

The Blackwell Companion to Social Movements
(David A. Snow, Sarah A. Soule, Hanspeter Kriesi, eds)

Contents

  • Amenta, Edwin and Neal Caren (2004). The Legislative, Organizational, and Beneficiary Consequences of State-Oriented Challengers. The Blackwell Companion to Social Movements. D. A. Snow, S. A. Soule and H. Kriesi. Malden, MA and Oxford, UK, Blackwell Publishing: 461-488.
    Concepts of success, new advantages, acceptance, power, collective goods. Accounting for state-related consequences: direct effect, varied effects, political opportunities, political mediation. Methodological issues: difficulty of sorting out causal influence in cases with multiple actors.
  • Buechler, Steven M. (2004). The Strange Careerof Strain and Breakdown Theories of Collective Action. The Blackwell Companion to Social Movements. D. A. Snow, S. A. Soule and H. Kriesi. Malden, MA and Oxford, UK, Blackwell Publishing: 47-66.
    A good review of the concept from its origins, repudication, revival. Argues for the need to specify strain & breakdown along with political opportunity to discuss their relations.
  • Clemens, Elisabeth S. and Debra Minkoff (2004). Beyond the Iron Law: Rethinking the Place of Organizations in Social Movement Research. The Blackwell Companion to Social Movements. D. A. Snow, S. A. Soule and H. Kriesi. Malden, MA and Oxford, UK, Blackwell Publishing: 155-170.
    Interactions and how organizations are created and defined, not just question of oligarchy. Culture of interaction cmbined with anaysis of structure. Movements inside organizations. Also studies of org ecology. Adds up to an essay on different ways organizations in movements are handled.
  • Della Porta, Donatella and Olivier Fillieule (2004). Policing Social Protest. The Blackwell Companion to Social Movements. D. A. Snow, S. A. Soule and H. Kriesi. Malden, MA and Oxford, UK, Blackwell Publishing: 217-241.
    Changing patterns of policing. police characteristics and policing styles. consequences of policing.
  • Diani, Mario (2004). Networks and Participation. The Blackwell Companion to Social Movements. D. A. Snow, S. A. Soule and H. Kriesi. Malden, MA and Oxford, UK, Blackwell Publishing: 339-359.
    Begins by seeing networks as duality of link between individuals (particularly their identity) and group memberships, instead of as predictors of participation. Organizing idea. Section on background of network approaches. then broadening work on how networks actually work. Then population and organization effects. Then overlapping networks and affiliations. Ends with recurring themes: varying role of networks, impact of extent of difference between network messages and dominant society, different functions of networks, important to study network properties not just individual ties. Urgent final messages: duality of individuals and organizations, time dimension, virtual links.
  • Earl, Jennifer (2004). The Cultural Consequences of Social Movements. The Blackwell Companion to Social Movements. D. A. Snow, S. A. Soule and H. Kriesi. Malden, MA and Oxford, UK, Blackwell Publishing: 508-530.
    Review of studies classified by type of conceptualization of culture (social psychological, cultural production, worldview and communities). Then discussion of causal arguments in the literature, again sorted by the trehe types.
  • Edwards, Bob and D. McCarthy John (2004). Resources and Social Movement Mobiliation. The Blackwell Companion to Social Movements. D. A. Snow, S. A. Soule and H. Kriesi. Malden, MA and Oxford, UK, Blackwell Publishing: 116-152.
    Analysis of types of resources and mobilization issues, including organizations, people etc.
  • Fantasia, Rick and Judith Stepan Norris (2004). The Labor Movement in Motion. The Blackwell Companion to Social Movements. D. A. Snow, S. A. Soule and H. Kriesi. Malden, MA and Oxford, UK, Blackwell Publishing: 555-575.
    US labor movement over time.
  • Ferree, Myra Marx and Carol McClurg Mueller (2004). Feminism and the Women’s Movement: A Global Perspective. The Blackwell Companion to Social Movements. D. A. Snow, S. A. Soule and H. Kriesi. Malden, MA and Oxford, UK, Blackwell Publishing: 576-607.
    Distinguishing women’s and feminist movements, problems of definitions. Historical contexts. Feminism is not a new social movement. Feminism has long been transnational. Women’s movements and SM theory (leading to gender specifying theory): political opportunity, forms of mobilization, ideologies and frames
  • Gamson, William A. (2004). Bystanders, Public Opinion and the Media. The Blackwell Companion to Social Movements. D. A. Snow, S. A. Soule and H. Kriesi. Malden, MA and Oxford, UK, Blackwell Publishing: 242-261.
    Role of mass media, bystanders as imagined community. Nature of public opinion, framing complexities. Movemetns carry symbolic interests. Movement framing strategy: discursive opportunity structure, depth of challenge dilemma, access dilemma, need for validation dilemma, weak control dilemma. Media as source of power: cultural resonance, marketing a constituency, mainstreaming, consumers vs citizens, embarrassing.
  • Giugni, Marco (2004). Personal and Biographical Consequences. The Blackwell Companion to Social Movements. D. A. Snow, S. A. Soule and H. Kriesi. Malden, MA and Oxford, UK, Blackwell Publishing: 489-507.
    Key issues are studies of life course and life cycle and processes of political socialization and participation. Cite Goldstone and McAdam 2×2 grid: macro/mico factors X emergence/development vs decline/outcomes. This article focuses on consequences (decline/outcomes). Follow-up studies of new left activists. Follow up studies of other activists. Aggregate effects. Methodological issues.
  • Goodwin, Jeff, James M. Jasper, et al. (2004). Emotional Dimensions of Social Movements. The Blackwell Companion to Social Movements. D. A. Snow, S. A. Soule and H. Kriesi. Malden, MA and Oxford, UK, Blackwell Publishing: 413-432.
    First an overview. Reflex emotions (e.g. fear, surprise, anger, disgust, joy, sadness). Affective bonds. Moods. Moral emotions. Strategy (strategic displays of emotion).
    Hunt, Scott A. and Robert D. Benford (2004). Collective Identity, Solidarity, and Commitment. The Blackwell Companion to Social Movements. D. A. Snow, S. A. Soule and H. Kriesi. Malden, MA and Oxford, UK, Blackwell Publishing: 433-457.
    Review, analysis of concept of collective identity. Classical roots, social psychology. Contemporary uses: new social movements. How does collective identity work: concepts of micromobilization, solidarity, commitment in relatino to collective identity. Empirical review on collective identity construction, boundaries, consciousness negotiation. Effects of identity: build commitment and solidarity, affect biography, backlash
  • Klandermans, Bert (2004). The Demand and Supply of Participation: Social-Psychological Correlates of Participation in Social Movements. The Blackwell Companion to Social Movements. D. A. Snow, S. A. Soule and H. Kriesi. Malden, MA and Oxford, UK, Blackwell Publishing: 360-379.
    Demand side: instrumentality, identity, ideology. Supply side: insterumentality, identity, ideology. Mobilization: four steps. Dynamics of disengagement. Pulls together ideas from his earlier research, organized abstractly.
  • Kniss, Fred and Gene Burns (2004). Religious Movements. The Blackwell Companion to Social Movements. D. A. Snow, S. A. Soule and H. Kriesi. Malden, MA and Oxford, UK, Blackwell Publishing: 694-715.
    3 types of questions: 1) New religions: causes and consequences. 2) Movements within religions. 3) Religion as a facor in movements. Also levels of analysis: cultural/ideological, organizational, macropolitical. 1) Studies of religious movements: classical studies, “new” religions, fundamentalism, immigrant religions; 2) Movements within religions, e.g. gay rights or feminism or abortion within religion. Notes that if religion is autonomous from the state, religious organizations can be homes for movements. 3) Religion and otehr movements. Problem of difference bewteen leaders and followers in tracing impact of ideas. Makes the point of the contrast between white and black evangelicals. Organizations as homes. Also religons and the state.
  • Koopmans, Ruud R. (2004). Protest in Time and Space: The Evolution of Waves of Contention. The Blackwell Companion to Social Movements. D. A. Snow, S. A. Soule and H. Kriesi. Malden, MA and Oxford, UK, Blackwell Publishing: 19-46.
    Essay on expansive processes: political opportunities, diffusion, reactive mobilization. And transformative mechanisms: Mechanisms of strategic change: strategic anticipation, strategic adaptation, environmental selection. Then a discussion of punctuated equilibrium, contingency, path dependence. Discussion of problem of scope conditions for generalizations. Contractive mechanisms (how they end): restabilization through interactive convergence, conflict mediation and resolution, external effects.
  • Kriesi, Hanspeter (2004). Political Context and Opportunity. The Blackwell Companion to Social Movements. D. A. Snow, S. A. Soule and H. Kriesi. Malden, MA and Oxford, UK, Blackwell Publishing: 65-90.
    Attempts to analyze the different levels of the concept and in particular the way political factors affect mobilization.
  • Marullo, Sam and David S. Meyer (2004). Antiwar and Peace Movements. The Blackwell Companion to Social Movements. D. A. Snow, S. A. Soule and H. Kriesi. Malden, MA and Oxford, UK, Blackwell Publishing: 641-665.
    begin with 9 findings based on analysis of history of peace movement. Then an extended history of peace movements in the US in the 20th century. Then “findings” based in this history.
  • Morris, Aldon and Suzanne Staggenborg (2004). Leadership in Social Movements. The Blackwell Companion to Social Movements. D. A. Snow, S. A. Soule and H. Kriesi. Malden, MA and Oxford, UK, Blackwell Publishing: 171-196.
    Need to theorize leadership. Summary of history of literature. Social composition of leadership: who they are. Gender and leadership, inside and outside leaders. Cultural contexts for the emergence of leaders. Leadership and mobilization. Agency and structure in interaction. Leaders and framing, including institutions and mass media. Leadership and outcomes.
  • Olzak, Susan (2004). Ethnic and Nationalist Social Movements. The Blackwell Companion to Social Movements. D. A. Snow, S. A. Soule and H. Kriesi. Malden, MA and Oxford, UK, Blackwell Publishing: 666-693.
    Begins with definitions. Intersection of SM theory and race/nation theory. Types of ethnic/racial and nationalist movemetns. Orienting questions: (1) how does ethnic/racial identity become a SM? (2) what factors explain emergence & persistence of E/R/N-SM. (3) Are e/r/n movements new or just creatures of older poltiical movemetns. (4) What leads shift from local to national? (5) When do you get civil war? 6) Difference between e/r movements and n movemetns.national building as producing ethnic movements. Internal colonialism, competition, rational choice, dependency, political/institutional theories, macropolitical, organizational, cultural/ideological, diffusion. International components.
  • Rootes, Christopher (2004). Environmental Movements. The Blackwell Companion to Social Movements. D. A. Snow, S. A. Soule and H. Kriesi. Malden, MA and Oxford, UK, Blackwell Publishing: 608-640.
    definitions, history, social bases, values, issues and forms of actin, political context, green parties, problems of institutionalization, comparing environmental movements, decline?. Local environmental groups. Non-western movements (one page). Global movement?
  • Rucht, Dieter (2004). Movement Allies, Adversaries and Third Parties. The Blackwell Companion to Social Movements. D. A. Snow, S. A. Soule and H. Kriesi. Malden, MA and Oxford, UK, Blackwell Publishing: 197-216.
    Need to understand mvoements relationally. Abandon two-party immage. Multiorganizational fields, including bystander publics, third parties, mediators. Chart of reference groups of SMs. Issues of cooperation, competition and conflict within movement alliances. Also brief discussion of adversaries, mediators and audiences.
  • Smith, Jackie (2004). Transnational Processes and Movements. The Blackwell Companion to Social Movements. D. A. Snow, S. A. Soule and H. Kriesi. Malden, MA and Oxford, UK, Blackwell Publishing: 311-335.
    World system and national state, global institutions. Globalization. Transnational movement dynamics: movements reshaped to fit transnational discourses, arenas of engagement (e.g. conferences), resources and leverage. Cooperation and conflict. Transnational strategies.
  • Snow, David A. (2004). Framing Processes, Ideology and Discursive Fields. The Blackwell Companion to Social Movements. D. A. Snow, S. A. Soule and H. Kriesi. Malden, MA and Oxford, UK, Blackwell Publishing: 380-412.
    Historical view that picks up older critiques of concept of ideology. Digs into ideas of ideology and framing. Summary of framing literature: distinguishing collective action frames from everyday frames. Empirical work and theoretical elaborations: frames as properties of organizations, master frames, frames and independent and dependent, frame transformations. Connecting ideology, frames, discursive fields: problematizing ideology, discursive process of frame articulation and elaboration, discursive fields and opportunity structures
  • Snow, David A., Sarah A. Soule, et al. (2004). Mapping the Terrain. The Blackwell Companion to Social Movements. D. A. Snow, S. A. Soule and H. Kriesi. Malden, MA and Oxford, UK, Blackwell Publishing: 3-16.
    Movements are common, much growth in scholarship. Main sections: (1) Conceptualizing SMs. 6-11. (2) Org of the volume, 11-13
  • Soule, Sarah A. (2004). Diffusion Processes within and across Movements. The Blackwell Companion to Social Movements. D. A. Snow, S. A. Soule and H. Kriesi. Malden, MA and Oxford, UK, Blackwell Publishing: 292-310.
    Review of diffusion research. Concepts, Direct ties, indirect ties. Theory. Suggestions. Short overview.
  • Taylor, Verta and Nella Van Dyke (2004). “Get up, Stand up”: Tactical Repertoires of Social Movements. The Blackwell Companion to Social Movements. D. A. Snow, S. A. Soule and H. Kriesi. Malden, MA and Oxford, UK, Blackwell Publishing: 262-293.
    Focus on analysis of tactics and the problem of evolving tactics and tactical repertoires that lags research coding schemes. Emphasis on cultural performances. Factors that influence tactical repertoires: external and internal. Factors that affect outcomes: novelty, militancy, variety, size, cultural resonance.
  • Whittier, Nancy (2004). The Consequences of Social Movements for Each Other. The Blackwell Companion to Social Movements. D. A. Snow, S. A. Soule and H. Kriesi. Malden, MA and Oxford, UK, Blackwell Publishing: 531-551.
    How movements affect other movements: (1) generative. movement spin-off, continuity and abeyance, countermovements. (2) Spillover. frames, identities, tactical and cultural repertoires. Routes of influence: biographical and generational, networks and organizations, social movement sector, external political and cultural contexts
  • Williams, Rhys H. (2004). The Cultural Contexts of Collective Action: Constraints, Opportunities, and the Symbolic Life of Social Movements. The Blackwell Companion to Social Movements. D. A. Snow, S. A. Soule and H. Kriesi. Malden, MA and Oxford, UK, Blackwell Publishing: 91-115.
    Summary of different cultural approaches to the question of symbolic meaning construction in movements. Invokes the criteria of boundedness (what is in the culture and what is not) and resonance (salience and applicability of cultural elements) for exlanations. Elaborates boundedness and public power, resonance and cultural power, then intersection of boundedness and resonance. (I’m going to have to read this more carefully to follow his key arguments)