The Social Movements Reader

List of Key Concepts and Chronologies List of Activist Biographies Acknowledgments Part I: Introduction: 1 Editors' Introduction: Jeff Goodwin and James M. Jasper Part II: When and Why Do Social Movements Occur? Introduction Discussion Questions 2 The Civil Rights Movement (from Civil Rights: The 1960s Freedom Struggle ): Rhoda Lois Blumberg 3 The Women's Movement (from "The Origins of the Women's Liberation Movement"): Jo Freeman 4 The Gay Liberation Movement (from Sexual Politics, Sexual Communities ): John D'Emilio 5 The Iranian Revolution (from "Structural and Perceived Opportunity: The Iranian Revolution of 1979"): Charles Kurzman Part III: Who Joins or Supports Movements? Introduction Discussion Questions 6 The Free-Rider Problem (from The Logic of Collective Action ): Mancur Olson 7 Recruits to Civil Rights Activism (from Freedom Summer ): Doug McAdam 8 Middle-Class Radicalism and Environmentalism (from "Environmentalism, Middle-Class Radicalism and Politics"): Stephen Cotgrove and Andrew Duff 9 Who Are the Radical Islamists? (from "Bin Laden and Other Thoroughly Modern Muslims"): Charles Kurzman Part IV: Who Remains in Movements, and Who Drops Out? Introduction Discussion Questions 10 Generating Commitment Among Students (from "Sacrifice for the Cause: Group Processes, Recruitment, and Commitment in a Student Social Movement"): Eric L. Hirsch 11 Sustaining Commitment Among Radical Feminists (from Feminist Generations ): Nancy Whittier 12 True Believers and Charismatic Cults (from Bounded Choice ): Janja Lalich 13 Disengaging from Movements (from The Social Psychology of Protest ): Bert Klandermans Part V: What Do Movement Participants Think and Feel? Introduction Discussion Questions 14 World Views of Pro- and Anti-Abortion Activists (from Abortion and the Politics of Motherhood ): Kristin Luker 15 Ideological Purity in the Women's Movement (from Why We Lost the ERA ): Jane J. Mansbridge 16 Are Frames Enough? (from "The Art of Reframing Political Debate"): Charlotte Ryan and William A. Gamson 17 The Emotions of Protest (from "The Emotions of Protest"): James M. Jasper 18 Classic Protest Songs: A List (from Contexts magazine) Part VI: How Are Movements Organized? Introduction Discussion Questions 19 Social Movement Organizations (from "Resource Mobilization and Social Movements: A Partial Theory"): John D. McCarthy and Mayer N. Zald 20 Organizational Repertoires (from "Organizational Repertoires and Institutional Change: Women's Groups and the Transformation of U.S. Politics, 1890-1920"): Elisabeth S. Clemens 21 Transnational Environmental Activism (from "Politics Beyond the State: Environmental Activism and World Civic Politics"): Paul Wapner 22 The Transnational Network for Democratic Globalization (from Social Movements for Global Democracy ): Jackie Smith Part VII: What Do Movements Do? Introduction Discussion Questions 23 Protest Tactics (from Rules for Radicals ): Saul D. Alinsky 24 Tactical Innovation in the Civil Rights Movement (from The Origins of the Civil Rights Movement ): Aldon Morris 25 The Strategic Uses of Identity by the Lesbian and Gay Movement (from "Celebration and Suppression"): Mary Bernstein 26 Armed Struggle in the South African Anti-Apartheid Movement (from "Guerrillas in Their Midst: Armed Struggle in the South African Anti-Apartheid Movement"): Gay Seidman 27 Suicide Bombing (from "Six Lessons of Suicide Bombing"): Robert J. Brym 28 Everyday Life, Routine Politics, and Protest: Javier Auyero Part VIII: How Do Institutions Influence Movements? Introduction Discussion Questions 29 Farmworkers' Movements in Changing Political Contexts (from "Insurgency of the Powerless"): J. Craig Jenkins and Charles Perrow 30 The Media in the Unmaking of the New Left (from The Whole World Is Watching ): Todd Gitlin 31 What Shapes the West's Human Rights Focus? (from Contexts magazine): James Ron, Howard Ramos, and Kathleen Rodgers 32 The Quest for International Allies (from "Merchants of Morality"): Clifford Bob 33 Global Corporations, Global Unions (from Contexts magazine): Stephen Lerner Part IX: Why Do Movements Decline? Introduction Discussion Questions 34 The Decline of the Women's Movement (from "What Happened to the Women's Movement?"): Barbara Epstein 35 The Dilemmas of Identity Politics (from "Must Identity Movements Self-Destruct? A Queer Dilemma"): Joshua Gamson 36 The Repression/Protest Paradox in Central America (from "A Protest Cycle Resolution of the Repression/Popular Protest Paradox"): Charles Brockett 37 Counterinsurgency (from Contexts magazine): Ian Roxborough Part X: What Changes Do Movements Bring About? Introduction Discussion Questions 38 Defining Movement "Success" (from The Strategy of Social Protest ): William A. Gamson 39 How Social Movements Matter (from Contexts magazine): David S. Meyer 40 The Personal Consequences of Protest (from "Explaining the Political and Personal Consequences of Protest"): Darren E. Sherkat and T. Jean Blocker 41 Environmental Justice (from "Poisoning the Planet: The Struggle for Environmental Justice"): David Naguib Pellow and Robert J. Brulle References from Part Introductions/Key Concepts Index