This course is designed to acquaint you with the field of Social Movements, broadly defined. We begin with a brief look at the origins of the field and early theories and then go on to systematically cover the major theoretical approaches to social movements along with some empirical applications of those theories.

COURSE REQUIREMENTS

Seminar Participation

This is a graduate seminar, which means that students share in the responsibility to organize and enliven class discussions. This implies that you will have read all required readings, thought about them, and synthesized them before each class meeting. In order to facilitate this process, you are required to bring to class each week (and turn it in at the end of the class period) a paragraph stating your conceptualization of the major issues and debates, along with at least three key questions of concern for that week's topic. In addition to the normal preparation for each class meeting, each student will be assigned to be the seminar facilitator for one week (depending on the number of students enrolled, some weeks may be led by two students). This will entail organizing and leading class discussion on the topic of the week. The fulfillment of this requirement, participation in the seminar throughout the quarter, and satisfactory completion of the weekly paragraph assignment will constitute fifty percent of your final grade.

Research Paper
15-20 pages (double-spaced)
Due June 9 by 10AM (No extensions under normal circumstances)

The term paper is to use two or more of the theoretical approaches to social movements covered in class to analyze a social movement of your choice. It is expected that students will conduct research on the movement, pose a problem/issue that is central to it, and write an intelligent essay that juxtaposes how the various approaches would analyze it. It is essential that the essays be argued from students own perspective. In other words, make it clear which perspective you think is best and why. I have assigned John Lofland s Social Movement Organizations, which is a guide to research on social movements. This book will help you get started on your research papers.

All students should meet with me by the fifth week of class to discuss paper topics. This paper will constitute fifty percent of your final grade. Under normal circumstances, I do not give incompletes.

Week One (4/2): Introduction to the Course, the origins of the field and early theories

Week Two (4/9) Frames/Culture: Theory

Required Readings:

Snow, David, Louis A. Zurcher, & Sheldon Ekland-Olson. 1980. "Social Networks and Social Movements: A Microstructural Approach to Differential Recruitment." American Sociological Review 45: pp. 787-801.

Snow, David and Robert Benford. 1988. "Ideology, Frame Resonance, and Participant Mobilization" In Klandermas, Kriesi and Tarrow, eds. International Social Movement Research: From Structure to Action Vol. 1 pp.197-217.

Snow, David and Robert Benford. 1988. "Master Frames and Cycles of Protest" Pp. 133-155 in Frontiers in Social Movement Theory, edited by Aldon Morris and Carol McClurg Mueller. New Haven: Yale University Press.

McClurg Mueller, Carol. 1992. "Building Social Movement Theory." Pp. 3-25 in Frontiers in Social Movement Theory, edited by Aldon Morris and Carol McClurg Mueller. New Haven: Yale University Press.

Gamson, William. 1988."Political Discourse and Collective Action" In Klandermas, Kriesi and Tarrow eds. International Social Movement Research: From Structure to Action Vol.1 Pp.219-44.

Week Three (4/16) Frames/Culture: Empirical Work

Required Readings:

Benford, Robert. 1993. "Frame Disputes Within the Nuclear Disarmament Movement" Social Forces Vol.71 No.3 pp.677-701.

Donati, Paolo. 1992. "Political Discourse Analysis" In Diani, Mario and Ron Eyerman, eds. Studing Collective Action. Newbury Park/London: Sage.

Eyerman, Ron and Andrew Jamison. 1990. Social Movements: A Cognitive Approach. Cambridge: Polity Press.

Johnston, Hank. 1991. "Antecedents of Coalition: Frame Alignment and Utilitarian Unity in the Catalan Anti-Francoist Opposition." Pp.241- 59 in Research in Social Movements, Conflict and Change, vol.13, edited by Louis Kriesberg. Greenwich, Conn.: JAI Press.

Week Four (4/23): Resource Mobilization: the Classics

Required Readings:

McCarthy, John and Mayer Zald. 1987. Social Movements in an Organizational Society.

Week Five (4/30): Resource Mobilization: the Classics, Continued

Required Readings:

Tilly, Charles. 1978. From Mobilization to Revolution. New York: McGraw-Hill.

Week Six (5/7): Resource Mobilization: Political Process

Required Readings:

McAdam, Doug. 1982. The Political Process and Development of Black Insurgency, 1930- 1970. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

McAdam, Doug. 1989. "The Biographical Consequences of Activism." American Sociological Review 54: pp. 744-60.

Week Seven (5/14): Resource Mobilization: Political Process, cont.

Required Readings:

Morris, Aldon. 1984. The Origins of the Civil Rights Movement. New York: The Free Press.

Piven, Frances Fox and Richard Cloward. 1992. Normalizing Collective Protest Pp. 301-25 in Frontiers in Social Movement Theory, edited by Aldon Morris and Carol McClurg Mueller. New Haven: Yale University Press.

Week Eight (5/21): New Social Movements

Required Readings:

Buechler, Steven. 1995. New Social Movement Theories. The Sociological Quarterly Vol 36, Pp. 441-64.

Melucci, Alberto. 1980. "The New Social Movements" Social Science Information Vol. 19 No. 2, pp.199-226.

Offe, Claus. 1985. "New Social Movements: Changing Boundaries of the Political." Social Research 52: pp. 817-68.

Dalton, Russell, Manfred Kuechler and Wilhelm Burklin. 1990. The Challenge of New Movements. Pp. 3-20 in Challenging the Political Order, ed by Dalton and Kuechler.

Taylor, Verta. 1989. "Social Movement Continuity: The Women's Movement in Abeyance" American Sociological Review 54 pp.761-775.

Week Nine (5/28): New Social Movements and Class

Johnson, Paul. 1994. Success While Others Fail: Social Movement Unionism and the Public Workplace. New York: ILR Press.

Kriesi, Hanspeter. 1989. New Social Movements and the New Class in the Netherlands American Journal of Sociology Vol 94 Pp. 1078-1116.

Week Ten (6/4): Social Movement Networks

Required Readings:

Oliver, Pamela. 1989. "Bringing the Crowd Back in: The Nonorganizational Elements of Social Movements." Research in Social Movements, Conflict and Change, edited by Louis Kriesberg. Greenwich, Conn.: JAI Press, Vol. 11 pp.1-30.

Rucht, Dieter. 1989. "Environmental Movement Organizations in West Germany and France: Structure and Interorganizational Relations." International Social Movement Research, Organizing for Change, edited by B. Klandermans. Greenwich, Conn.: JAI Press, Vol. 2 pp.61- 94.

Diani, Mario. 1992. "Analysing Social Movement Networks." in Studying Collective Action, edited by Mario Diani and Ron Eyerman. Newbury Park/London: Sage, pp.107-135.

Fernandez, Roberto and Doug McAdam. 1989. "Multiorganizational Fields and Recruitment to Social Movements " in International Social Movement Research: Organizing for Change, edited by B. Klandermans. Greenwich, Conn.: JAI Press, Vol 2. pp.315-343.

Knoke, David. 1990. Political Networks: The Structural Perspective Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, Chapter 3 "Social Movements," pp.57-84.