Teaching Social Movements

Laura Miller
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Laura Miller
Department of Sociology
Pearlman 103
Brandeis University
Waltham, MA 02454
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Juliet Schor
519 McGuinn
140 Commonwealth Ave.
Boston College
Chestnut Hill, MA 02467
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Lisa Peñaloza
College of Business
Bus 468
University of Colorado
Boulder, CO 80309
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Sara Steen
Department of Sociology
219 Ketchum Hall
University of Colorado
Boulder, CO 80309
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Jan Phillips
Department of Social and
Behavioral Science
University of Southern Maine/
Lewiston-Auburn College
Lewiston, ME 04240
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Joel Stillerman
2166 AuSable Hall
Grand Valley State University
Allendale, MI 49401
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Deborah Thorne
Department of Sociology and
Anthropology
Ohio University
Athens, OH 45701
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Meghan Ashlin Rich
Department of Sociology and Criminal
Justice
University of Delaware
Newark, DE 19716
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Melanie Wallendorf
Department of Marketing
Eller College of Management
University of Arizona
Tucson, AZ 85721
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George Ritzer
Department of Sociology
University of Maryland
College Park, MD 20742
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Frederick Wherry
Department of Sociology
University of Michigan
Ann Arbor, MI 48109
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J. Michael Ryan
Department of Sociology
University of Maryland
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Laura Miller
Department of Sociology
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Juliet Schor
519 McGuinn
140 Commonwealth Ave.
Boston College
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Lisa Peñaloza
College of Business
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University of Colorado
Boulder, CO 80309
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Sara Steen
Department of Sociology
219 Ketchum Hall
University of Colorado
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Jan Phillips
Department of Social and
Behavioral Science
University of Southern Maine/
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Lewiston, ME 04240
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Joel Stillerman
2166 AuSable Hall
Grand Valley State University
Allendale, MI 49401
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Department of Sociology
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Brandeis University
Waltham, MA 02454
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Juliet Schor
519 McGuinn
140 Commonwealth Ave.
Boston College
Chestnut Hill, MA 02467
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Lisa Peñaloza
College of Business
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Boulder, CO 80309
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Sara Steen
Department of Sociology
219 Ketchum Hall
University of Colorado
Boulder, CO 80309
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Jan Phillips
Department of Social and
Behavioral Science
University of Southern Maine/
Lewiston-Auburn College
Lewiston, ME 04240
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Joel Stillerman
2166 AuSable Hall
Grand Valley State University
Allendale, MI 49401
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Deborah Thorne
Department of Sociology and
Anthropology
Ohio University
Athens, OH 45701
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Meghan Ashlin Rich
Department of Sociology and Criminal
Justice
University of Delaware
Newark, DE 19716
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Melanie Wallendorf
Department of Marketing
Eller College of Management
University of Arizona
Tucson, AZ 85721
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George Ritzer
Department of Sociology
University of Maryland
College Park, MD 20742
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Frederick Wherry
Department of Sociology
University of Michigan
Ann Arbor, MI 48109
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J. Michael Ryan
Department of Sociology
University of Maryland
College Park, MD 20742
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CONTENTS
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INTRODUCTION
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Teaching
Social Movements
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Lisa
Peñaloza
Sara Steen
PART I: Syllabi for Graduate Level Courses in Social Movements
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468
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Ketchum Hall
1 Social Movements and Collective Action
Suzanne
Staggenborg,
McGill University
University of Colorado
University of Colorado
Boulder,
CO 80309
2 Social Movements
MichaelBoulder,
SchwartzCO
and80309
Louis Esparza, SUNY
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Stony Brook
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3Jan
The
Sociology of Gender and Social Protest
Phillips
22
Department of Social and
4Behavioral
MovementsScience
and Media in Latin America
University of Southern Maine/
5 Social Movements in 20th Century Latin
Lewiston-Auburn
College
America
Lewiston, ME 04240
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6 Environmental Politics
Meghan Ashlin Rich
Department
of Sociology
Criminal
7 Environmental
Movementsand
in the
United
States
Justice
University of Delaware
8 Social Movements
Newark,
DE 19716in Health
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9 Practicing Democracy: Leadership,
Community and Power
Benita Joel
Roth,Stillerman
SUNY Binghamton
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MarkusGrand
S. Schulz,
New
YorkUniversity
University
Valley
State
Allendale, MI 49401
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Jeffrey Rubin, Boston University
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DeborahNational
ThorneUniversity of Ireland,
Liam Leonard,
GalwayDepartment of Sociology and
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Anthropology
Robert Ohio
Brulle,University
Drexel University
Athens, OH 45701
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Phil Brown, Brown University
Melanie Wallendorf
Marshall
Ganz, Harvard
University
Department
of Marketing
Eller College of Management
George Ritzer
Department of Sociology
University of Arizona
University of Maryland
Tucson, AZ 85721
PART II: Syllabi for Undergraduate Level Courses in Social Movements
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1 Revolutions, Social Movements, and
Charles Tilly, Columbia University
Frederick Wherry
Contentious Politics
J. Michael Ryan
Department of Sociology
Department
of
Sociology
University
of Michigan
2 Contentious Politics The Roots of Social
Susan Olzak,
Stanford
University
Protest
University
of Maryland
Ann Arbor, MI 48109
College Park, MD 20742
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3
Protest,
Contention
&
Social
Movements
Jim
Conley,
Trent University
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4 Social Movements
Ziad Munson, Lehigh University
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5 Social Movements and Film
Beate Sissenich, Indiana University Bloomington
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6 Social Change in Action
Darcy Leach, Boston College
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SocialMiller
Movements Across Time and Space
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Social Justice
in a Global Context
University
Waltham, MA 02454
9 Social Movements
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Mona El-Ghobashy,
Juliet Schor Barnard College,
Columbia
519University
McGuinn
10 Social Movements
140 Commonwealth Ave.
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MathewBoston
Williams,
Boston College
College
121
Paul Almeida, Texas A&M University
Chestnut Hill, MA 02467
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Millie Thayer, University of Massachusetts,
132
Lisa Peñaloza
Sara Steen
Amherst
College of Business
Department of Sociology
Bus
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Ketchum
Hall
11 Political Economy of Social Movements
Lesley 219
Wood,
York University
University of Colorado
University of Colorado
Boulder, CO 80309
Boulder, CO 80309
PART
III:
Instructional
Aids
for
Courses
in
Social
Movements
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1Jan
Designing
Phillips Your Own Social Movement Exercise
Emily
A Bowman, Indiana University
Joel Stillerman
Department of Social and
2 Final Assignment: Board Game
Behavioral Science
University of Southern Maine/
Lewiston-Auburn
College
3 Final Take-home Exam
Lewiston, ME 04240
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4 Qualitative Research Paper
2166 AuSable Hall
Neal Caren, University of North
Grand Valley State University
Carolina at Chapel Hill
Allendale, MI 49401
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Jim
Conley, Trent University
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Deborah
Thorne
Angela
Mertig,
Middle Tennessee State 153
Department of Sociology and
University
Anthropology
Meghan Ashlin Rich
5Department
Final Paper of
Assignment:
Social
SociologyEvaluating
and Criminal
Movement
Outcomes
Justice
University of Delaware
6.
Memo on
Papers
Newark,
DETerm
19716
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Gillian
Murphy, University of
Ohio University
Washington
Athens, OH 45701
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7 Imagination Assignment 1 - “Seeing” Social
Movements
Susan Olzak, Stanford University
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Melanie Wallendorf
Department of Marketing
Eller College of Management
University
of Arizona
Stephen
J. Scanlan,
Ohio University
Tucson, AZ 85721
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Amory
Starr, Chapman University
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Frederick Wherry
Department of Sociology
University of Michigan
Ann Arbor, MI 48109
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Stephen J. Scanlan, Ohio University
George Ritzer
Sociology
8Department
Assignment:ofSocial
Movements in the News
University of Maryland
MDexercise
20742
9College
StudentPark,
activism
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PART IV: List of Contributors
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Department of Sociology
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The ASA’s Academic and Professional Affairs Program would like to thank Jo Reger and William
Roy for serving as reviewers of this publication.
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Miller
Teaching
Social Movements
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Department of Sociology
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Teaching courses
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in social movements is a pleasure. 140
Students
come to theAve.
classes with
Boston
College
enthusiasm
Brandeis
University
that is rooted both in their academic interests,
and
personal histories. Some are
Hill, MAand
02467
Waltham,
MA
02454 the opportunity to learn aboutChestnut
activists and
appreciate
past movements
strategize about their
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current campaigns. Others are curious about the images
of struggle that they see in popular
culture. Some want to know more about the history of their family, ethnicity, race or class. Some
simply
Lisa
Peñaloza
want to understand the world around them. On
Sara
a more
Steenacademic level, social movements
courses are
College
of Business
opportunities for wrestling with more abstract
Department
concepts
of Sociology
within social theory,
concepts
Bus
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219power.
Ketchum Hall
University
Theof
social
Colorado
movement literature has grown rapidly
University
over the
of Colorado
past twenty years, and
developedCO
Boulder,
even
80309
in the four years since the last editionBoulder,
of this collection.
CO 80309 Theoretical divisions
between new social movement theory and political process
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approaches are being transcended as
scholars use multiple traditions to analyze activist identities, the role of the state, narrative,
repertoires
Jan
Phillipsand repression, along with the movementsJoel
thatStillerman
have emerged associated with
economic globalization,
Department
of Social andand ethnic conflict. This is apparent
2166 AuSable
when one
Halllooks at the recent edited
collections and
Behavioral
Science
textbooks on social movements that have
Grand
been
Valley
published
State University
in the past five years,
many of which
University
of Southern
anchor social
Maine/movement courses (Bantjes
Allendale,
2007;MI
della
49401
Porta and Diani 1999,
2006; Meyer 2007;College
Nash 2005; Snow, Soule and Kriesi
2004, 2007; Staggenborg 2008; Tilly
Lewiston-Auburn
[email protected]
2004; TillyME
and04240
Tarrow 2007).
Lewiston,
Most undergraduate social movements courses
Deborah
center their
Thorne
readings around a main text.
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In addition to the newer ones listed above, the most popular
Department
textsofassigned
Sociology
continue
and to be Sidney
Tarrow’sAshlin
PowerRich
in Movement (1998), Doug McAdam’s
Anthropology
Political Process and the Development
Meghan
of Black Insurgency,
1930-1970
(1982/1999), the edited
Comparative Perspectives on
Ohiocollection
University
Department
of Sociology
and Criminal
Justice
Athens,
OH 45701
Social Movements: Political Opportunities, Mobilizing
Structures,
and Cultural Framings
(1996) and of
Alberto
Melucci’s Challenging Codes (1996).
However, in putting together this
University
Delaware
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collection,
we19716
have attempted to find syllabi and exercises that go beyond single textbooks, thus
Newark,
DE
expanding
our sense of what might be possible in a social
movements
course. We are excited
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Melanie
Wallendorf
about this collection, and what it suggests about the current
moment
in social movement
Department
of Marketing
scholarship.
Syllabi by Staggenborg, Olzak, Schwartz
andCollege
Esparza,ofWood,
Roth, Munson, Tilly
Eller
Management
George Ritzer
and
Conley offer
different perspectives on the state of
the field. of
While
Olzak, Staggenborg and
Department
of Sociology
University
Arizona
Munson
emphasize
movement emergence and dynamics,
Wood
University
of Maryland
Tucson,
AZconsiders
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economy,
and MD
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and Conley place movements into
the larger context of contentious politics.
College Park,
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Over
the past few years, social movement research and writing has begun to speak more
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explicitly about the processes and dynamics that underlie
mobilization,
Frederick
Wherry recruitment, alliance
J.
Michael
Ryan
building
and
communication. Exercises like Caren’s Department
Social Movement
Board Game, Bowman’s
of Sociology
Department
of Sociology
exercise on designing
a social movement, and Conley’s
project of
on Michigan
analyzing a stream of
University
University
Maryland
contention of
allow
the students to wrestle with these processes
in ways
that will sharpen both their
Ann Arbor,
MI 48109
College
MD 20742
analysis,Park,
and build
their sense of themselves as [email protected]
participants in society.
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Inevitably, the collection also reflects the gaps in the field. While Roth highlights the
interaction between gender and social movements there is a need for more courses that pay
sustained attention to dynamics of gender, race, class, sexuality and disability as they are
manifested in movements.
Slowly, North American scholars are examining social movements outside of the ‘core
countries’ in Western Europe and North America. While the US civil rights movement
continues to hold a central place in our theorizing, it is no longer as dominant as it once was.
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Juliet Schor
Laura Miller
Newer
movements including the anti-sweatshop movement,
global justice movements,
519 McGuinn
movements around
Department
of Sociology
health, the environment, immigration
and security, and movements around
140 Commonwealth
racism and103
Pearlman
sexism in social institutions beyond the government
are slowlyAve.
becoming more
Boston
College
visible in University
Brandeis
our literature. Some of these movements are
reflected
as focused case studies in this
Chestnut
MA 02467
Waltham,
02454
collection MA
– from
the courses on environmental movements
byHill,
Leonard
and by Brulle, to
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Brown’s course on Social Movements in Health. Social
movement courses that examine
collective action in times and places different to our own can be an opportunity for
understanding
Lisa
Peñaloza the particularities of the current moment
SarainSteen
North America. Such investigations
help students
College
of Business
to understand that another world is not Department
only possible,
of but
Sociology
inevitable. Courses on
social
Bus
468
movements in Latin America such as those by219
Rubin,
Ketchum
and Schulz,
Hall and courses that adopt a
global
University
perspective
of Colorado
like those by Williams, El-Ghobashy,
University
Thayer,ofand
Colorado
Almeida offer ways of
doing
Boulder,
this.
CO 80309
Boulder, CO 80309
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Social movement courses also offer [email protected]
challenges. Often students arrive in the
classes feeling disconnected from movements and skeptical about the effectiveness of movement
activity.
Jan Phillips
Some scholars included here have developedJoel
tools
Stillerman
for overcoming this sense of
disconnection
Department ofby
Social
engaging
and students through social movement
2166 AuSable
work.Hall
The courses by Marshall
Ganz
and byScience
Darcy Leach and the exercises by Starr,Grand
Bowman,
Conley
Scanlan ask students
Behavioral
Valley
State and
University
to
participate
social movement
the boundaries
University
of in
Southern
Maine/ activity, breaking down
Allendale,
MI 49401 between the sociologist
and
the activist/organizer.
can facilitate a deeper understanding of
Lewiston-Auburn
College When done well, such work
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the
dynamics
underlie social movement activity, as well as developing skills for engagement
Lewiston,
MEthat
04240
in
the larger society.
Deborah Thorne
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Social movement courses offer opportunities Department
for buildingof
academic
students
Sociology
and abilities that
will
be useful
toRich
them in their other courses, and in their
Anthropology
research. Some of these courses offer
Meghan
Ashlin
ways
to simultaneously
whileUniversity
honing methodological skills.
Department
of Sociologybuild
and substantive
Criminal knowledgeOhio
Mertig’s
analyzing
Justice Fieldwork exercise and Conley’s project onAthens,
OHepisodes
45701 of contention bring
these
goals of
together
explicitly. Scanlan’s exercises on
analyzing news coverage of protest and
University
Delaware
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films about
Newark,
DEsocial
19716movements also offer creative methodological exercises. Sissenich’s course on
Social Movement and Film suggests ways that we might
be able
to incorporate film into our
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Melanie
Wallendorf
teaching and understand more deeply the ways that popular
culture,
movements and political
Department
of Marketing
processes
more generally interact.
Eller College of Management
George Ritzer
Teaching
social movements is also a way to encourage
to confront questions of
Department
of Sociology
Universitystudents
of Arizona
power and inequality.
in theirAZ
university
University
of MarylandSome students, especially earlyTucson,
85721 education are reluctant
to critically
analyze
the hegemonic ideas of [email protected]
and development. Many of the courses
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Park,
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included here explicitly examine the ways that less powerful groups force authorities into
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concessions. Applying theories of success and mobilization
to particular
Frederick
Wherry cases can offer students
J.
Michael
Ryanchange becomes possible. One example
a sense
of how
of this is of
offered
by Colleen Murphy,
Department
Sociology
Department
of Sociology
who in her final
exam, asks the students to use their knowledge
of Michigan
social movements to predict
University of
University
the successof
ofMaryland
the movement around gay marriage. Ann Arbor, MI 48109
CollegeSo,
Park,
MD
20742
here
it is.
This collection offers some of the
best ideas from today’s social movement
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courses in the US and beyond – we hope that it will inspire and challenge both you and your
students.
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Lewiston, ME 04240
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[email protected]
Department of Sociology and
Anthropology
Meghan Ashlin Rich
Ohio University
Department of Sociology and Criminal
Justice
Athens, OH 45701
University of Delaware
[email protected]
Newark, DE 19716
[email protected]
Melanie Wallendorf
Department of Marketing
Eller College of Management
George Ritzer
Department of Sociology
University of Arizona
University of Maryland
Tucson, AZ 85721
College Park, MD 20742
[email protected]
[email protected]
Frederick Wherry
J. Michael Ryan
Department of Sociology
Department of Sociology
University of Michigan
University of Maryland
Ann Arbor, MI 48109
College Park, MD 20742
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Department of Sociology
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Brandeis University
Waltham, MA 02454
[email protected]
Juliet Schor
519 McGuinn
140 Commonwealth Ave.
Boston College
Chestnut Hill, MA 02467
[email protected]
Lisa Peñaloza
College of Business
Bus 468
University of Colorado
Boulder, CO 80309
[email protected]
Sara Steen
Department of Sociology
219 Ketchum Hall
University of Colorado
Boulder, CO 80309
[email protected]
Jan Phillips
Department of Social and
Behavioral Science
University of Southern Maine/
Lewiston-Auburn College
Lewiston, ME 04240
[email protected]
Joel Stillerman
2166 AuSable Hall
Grand Valley State University
Allendale, MI 49401
[email protected]
Deborah Thorne
Department of Sociology and
Anthropology
Ohio University
Athens, OH 45701
[email protected]
Meghan Ashlin Rich
Department of Sociology and Criminal
Justice
University of Delaware
Newark, DE 19716
[email protected]
Melanie Wallendorf
Department of Marketing
Eller College of Management
University of Arizona
Tucson, AZ 85721
[email protected]
George Ritzer
Department of Sociology
University of Maryland
College Park, MD 20742
[email protected]
Frederick Wherry
Department of Sociology
University of Michigan
Ann Arbor, MI 48109
[email protected]
J. Michael Ryan
Department of Sociology
University of Maryland
College Park, MD 20742
[email protected]
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Laura Miller
Department of Sociology
Pearlman 103
Brandeis University
Waltham, MA 02454
[email protected]
Juliet Schor
519 McGuinn
140 Commonwealth Ave.
Boston College
Chestnut Hill, MA 02467
[email protected]
Lisa Peñaloza
College of Business
Bus 468
University of Colorado
Boulder, CO 80309
[email protected]
Sara Steen
Department of Sociology
219 Ketchum Hall
University of Colorado
Boulder, CO 80309
[email protected]
Jan Phillips
Department of Social and
Behavioral Science
University of Southern Maine/
Lewiston-Auburn College
Lewiston, ME 04240
[email protected]
Joel Stillerman
2166 AuSable Hall
Grand Valley State University
Allendale, MI 49401
[email protected]
Deborah Thorne
Department of Sociology and
Anthropology
Ohio University
Athens, OH 45701
[email protected]
GRADUATE SYLLABI
Meghan Ashlin Rich
Department of Sociology and Criminal
Justice
University of Delaware
Newark, DE 19716
[email protected]
Melanie Wallendorf
Department of Marketing
Eller College of Management
University of Arizona
Tucson, AZ 85721
[email protected]
George Ritzer
Department of Sociology
University of Maryland
College Park, MD 20742
[email protected]
Frederick Wherry
Department of Sociology
University of Michigan
Ann Arbor, MI 48109
[email protected]
J. Michael Ryan
Department of Sociology
University of Maryland
College Park, MD 20742
[email protected]
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Juliet Schor
Laura Miller
Social Movements and Collective
Action
519 McGuinn
Department
of Sociology
Suzanne Staggenborg
140 Commonwealth Ave.
Pearlman
103
McGill University
Boston College
Brandeis University
Chestnut Hill, MA 02467
Waltham,
Sociology MA
511,02454
Fall 2007
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Course Description
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The
Peñaloza
provides a graduate-level introduction to Sara
the study
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collective
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This is now a large area of study within
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political
of sociology
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able 468
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to survey all of the literature on the subject. Instead,
219 Ketchum
we will read
Hallsome of the interesting
recent workofinColorado
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the area and discuss some of the majorUniversity
theoreticalofissues.
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The course will serve
as a guideCO
Boulder,
for80309
further independent study of the field. Boulder, CO 80309
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Course Requirements
Jan Phillips
Joel Stillerman
1) Completion
of assigned
indicated
Department
of Social
and readings by the class dates
2166
AuSable Hall
Behavioral Science
Grand Valley State University
The following
required Maine/
book is available at the university
book MI
store:
University
of Southern
Allendale,
49401
Power in Movement:
Social Movements and Contentious
Politics, Second Edition by Sidney
Lewiston-Auburn
College
[email protected]
Tarrow.
Cambridge University Press, 1998.
Lewiston,
ME 04240
Deborah Thorne
[email protected]
There is also a required packet of readings available
Department
from Eastman
of Sociology
copy service
and in the
universityAshlin
bookstore.
Anthropology
book, assigned readings listed on the
Meghan
Rich With the exception of the Tarrow
course outline
all be found
in the course pack. The
Ohio
course
University
pack and Tarrow book are also on
Department
of can
Sociology
and Criminal
library reserve.
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Athens, OH 45701
University of Delaware
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2) Class participation
Newark,
DE 19716
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Each student will be required to participate in discussions
Department
of the course
of Marketing
readings. Beginning the
second
Eller
discussion
College question
of Management
or comment for each
George week
Ritzerof class, each student should prepare one
assigned
Department
reading.
of Sociology
Your questions may be preceded by
University
a brief comment
of Arizona
or you may write a short
comment
University(rather
of Maryland
than a question) that we can discuss.Tucson,
They may
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focus on one particular reading,
or
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compare
Park,
arguments
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in two or more, including readings
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previously assigned compared with
one
or more of the current week’s readings. These should be typed and handed in each class.
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We will get to as many student questions as we can during
Frederick
the Wherry
class period. Please do not make
J.
Michael
Ryan
your
questions/comments
excessively long. The following
Department
is an example
of Sociology
of the type of questions
Department
of Sociology
and brief comments
that I want you to come up with University
for each reading:
of Michigan
University of Maryland
Ann Arbor, MI 48109
CollegeStaggenborg
Park, MD 20742
in “Social Movement Communities
and Cycles of Protest” advances a view
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of social movements as consisting of a range of different types of mobilizing structures
beyond SMOs. How would studies of social movements differ if they focussed on the
social movement community rather than the social movement organization as the unit of
analysis?
In addition to discussing the reading material related to theoretical topics on the course outline, I
would like students to discuss their papers in progress as they relate to the class topics. Class
200
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Juliet Schor
Laura Miller based on your prepared questions/comments,
participation,
attendance, and contributions to class
discussions, of
Department
will
Sociology
count for 35% of the final grade. 519 McGuinn
140 Commonwealth Ave.
Pearlman 103
Boston College
3) Research
Brandeis
University
paper
Chestnut Hill, MA 02467
Waltham, MA 02454
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Each student will be required to write a paper on a topic
related to the study of social movements
and collective action. You need not do original empirical research, but may base the paper on
secondary
Lisa
Peñaloza
sources. The paper might focus on a question
Sara related
Steen to a particular social movement
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of interest
of (e.g.,
Business
how the women's movement maintains
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itself). Or
ofyou
Sociology
might focus on a general
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219 Ketchum
in recruitment
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to social movements).
University of Colorado
University of Colorado
Boulder,
I have provided
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a bibliography on the class website and
Boulder,
put the
CO
following
80309 books, which might be
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helpful to you in writing your papers, on reserve at the
[email protected]
library:
Doug McAdam, John D. McCarthy,
Jan
Comparative
Phillips Perspectives on Social Movements edited
JoelbyStillerman
and Mayer N.
University Press, 1996.
Department
ofZald.
SocialCambridge
and
2166 AuSable Hall
Behavioral Science
Grand Valley State University
The Blackwell
Companion
to Social Movements, edited
by David
University
of Southern
Maine/
Allendale,
MI Snow,
49401 Sarah Soule and
Hanspeter Kriesi. College
Blackwell Publishing, 2004.
Lewiston-Auburn
[email protected]
Lewiston, ME 04240
You are required to submit a proposal for the paper (approximately
Deborah Thorneone typed page in length) by
[email protected]
th
the 5 week of class (Oct 4), at the latest. You should
each talk to
individually
Department
ofme
Sociology
and about your
research Ashlin
topic. IRich
can help you formulate a research question
Anthropology
and point you to books and articles
Meghan
on the topic.of
The
paper will
for 65% of the final
Ohio
grade
University
and is due the last day of class. The
Department
Sociology
andcount
Criminal
suggested length for the paper is 20 double-spaced, typed
Justice
Athens,
pages.
OH 45701
University of Delaware
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Newark, DE 19716
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Melanie Wallendorf
COURSE OUTLINE
Department of Marketing
Date
Eller College of Management
George Ritzer Topics and Readings
Department of Sociology
University of Arizona
University
of Maryland
Tucson, AZ 85721
I.
INTRODUCTION
College Park, MD 20742
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Sept
6 Introduction to theories of social movements
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McAdam, McCarthy and Zald, "Social
Frederick
Movements"
Wherry
J. Michael Ryan
Turner, "Collective Behavior and Resource
Department
Mobilization
of Sociology
as Approaches to Social
Department of Movements"
Sociology
University of Michigan
University of Maryland
McCarthy and Zald, “The Enduring Vitality
Ann Arbor,
of theMI
Resource
48109 Mobilization Theory
College Park, MD
20742Movements”
of Social
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[email protected]
Pichardo, “New Social Movements: A Critical Review”
II. CULTURAL AND POLITICAL CONTEXTS AND DYNAMICS
200
9
Laura13Miller Political Opportunities and Processes Juliet Schor
Sept
519 McGuinn
Department of Tarrow,
Sociology
pp. 1-105
140 Commonwealth Ave.
Pearlman 103 Meyer, "Protest and political opportunities"
Brandeis University
McAdam, Tarrow, and Tilly, ChapterBoston
2 from College
Dynamics of Contention
Chestnut Hill, MA 02467
Waltham, MA 02454
[email protected]
Sept
20
Cycles of Protest
[email protected]
Tarrow, pp. 106-175
Waves"
Lisa Peñaloza Koopmans, "The Dynamics of ProtestSara
Steen
Snow and Benford, "Master Frames and
Cycles ofofProtest"
College of Business
Department
Sociology
Taylor, “Social Movement Continuity”
Bus 468
219 Ketchum Hall
University of Colorado
University of Colorado
Sept
27 CO 80309
Culture and collective action
Boulder,
Boulder, CO 80309
Gusfield, "Social Movements and Social
Change"
[email protected]
[email protected]
Polletta, “Culture In and Outside Institutions”
Jan Phillips Zald, “Ideologically Structured Action”
Joel Stillerman
“The Acceptance of New Cultural
Values” Hall
Department of Rochon,
Social and
2166 AuSable
Armstrong and Crage, “Movements and
Memory”
Behavioral Science
Grand
Valley State University
University of Southern Maine/
Allendale, MI 49401
Oct
4
Collective
Lewiston-Auburn
Collegeaction frames and mass media
[email protected]
Benford and Snow, “Framing Processes and Social Movements: An Overview
Lewiston, ME 04240
and Assessment”
Deborah Thorne
[email protected]
Gitlin, Chapter 2 from The Whole World
is Watching
Department
of Sociology and
and Rucht, “Mesomobilization:
Anthropology
Organizing and Framing in Two Protest
Meghan AshlinGerhards
Rich
in West
Germany”
Ohio University
Department of Campaigns
Sociology and
Criminal
Justice
Benford, “Frame Disputes within the Athens,
Nuclear OH
Disarmament
45701
Movement”
Bob, “Marketing Rebellion”
University of Delaware
[email protected]
Newark, DE 19716
[email protected]
Melanie Wallendorf
***PAPER PROPOSAL DUE***
Department of Marketing
George
Ritzer PSYCHOLOGICAL PROCESSESEller College of Management
III. SOCIAL
Department of Sociology
University of Arizona
Oct 11 Social
psychological perspectives
University
of Maryland
Tucson, AZ 85721
College Park, MD 20742
[email protected]
Snow and Oliver, "Social Movements and Collective Behavior: Social
[email protected]
Psychological Dimensions and Considerations"
Frederick Wherry
J. Michael Ryan
Klandermans, "The Transformation ofDepartment
Discontent of
into
Sociology
Action"
Department of Jasper,
Sociology
“The Emotions of Protest” University of Michigan
University of Maryland
Gould, “Life During Wartime: Emotions
the Development
of Act Up”
Annand
Arbor,
MI 48109
College Park, MD
20742
Nepstad
and Smith, “The Social Structure
of Moral Outrage in Recruitment to the
[email protected]
[email protected]
U.S. Central America Peace Movement”
Oct 18
Collective identity
Polletta and Jasper, “Collective Identity and Social Movements”
Taylor and Whittier, "Collective Identity in Social Movement Communities"
200
10
Juliet Schorand the Transformation of Social
Laura Miller Whittier, “Political Generations, Micro-Cohorts,
519 McGuinn
Department of Sociology
Movements”
140 Commonwealth
Ave.Uses of Identity by
Pearlman 103 Bernstein, Mary, “Celebration and Suppression:
The Strategic
Boston College
Brandeis University the Lesbian and Gay Movement”
Chestnut
Hill, MA
Waltham, MA Jenson,
02454 "What's in a Name? Nationalist
Movements
and02467
Public Discourse"
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[email protected]
Lisa ORGANIZATION
Peñaloza
IV.
AND MOBILIZATION Sara Steen
College of Business
Department of Sociology
Oct
Bus 25
468Micromobilization
219 Ketchum Hall
University of Colorado
University
of Colorado
Snow et al., "Social Networks and Social
Movements"
Boulder, CO 80309
McAdam and Paulsen, "Specifying the
Boulder,
Relationship
CO 80309
between Social Ties and
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Activism"
[email protected]
Diani, “Networks and Participation”
Jan Phillips Hirsch, “Sacrifice for the Cause”
Joel Stillerman
Department of Veltmeyer
Social and and Petras, “The Social Dynamics
2166 AuSable
Hall Rural Landless Workers’
of Brazil’s
Behavioral Science
Movement”
Grand Valley State University
University of Southern Maine/
Allendale, MI 49401
Nov
1
Mobilizing
Lewiston-Auburn
College Structures
[email protected]
Minkoff and McCarthy, “Reinvigorating the Study of Organizational Processes in
Lewiston, ME 04240
Social Movements”
Deborah Thorne
[email protected]
Staggenborg, “Social Movement Communities
Department
andofCycles
Sociology
of Protest”
and
“Stepsisters: Feminist Movement
Anthropology
Activism in Different Institutional
Meghan AshlinKatzenstein,
Rich
Ohio University
Department of Spaces”
Sociology and Criminal
Ayres, “From the Streets to the Internet”
Justice
Athens, OH 45701
University of Delaware
[email protected]
Nov
8 DE 19716
Organization and Strategy
Newark,
Tilly, "Social Movements and National
Politics"
[email protected]
Melanie
Wallendorf
McAdam, "Tactical Innovation and the
Pace of Insurgency"
Department
of Marketing
Eller College of Management
George Ritzer Ganz, “Resources and Resourcefulness”
“Facing South?”
Department of Rootes,
Sociology
University of Arizona
Tarrow, “Shifting the Scale of Contention”
(Chapter
7 from The New
University of Maryland
Tucson,
AZ 85721
College Park, MD
Transnational
20742
Activism)
[email protected]
[email protected]
Nov 15
Coalitions
Frederick Wherry
J. Michael Ryan
Staggenborg, "Coalition Work in the Pro-Choice
Department Movement"
of Sociology
Department of Carroll
Sociology
and Ratner, “Master Framing University
and Cross-Movement
of MichiganNetworking in
University of Maryland
Contemporary Social Movements” Ann Arbor, MI 48109
College Park, MD
20742
Wood,”
Bridging the Chasms”
[email protected]
[email protected]
Bandy, “Paradoxes of Transnational Civil Societies under Neoliberalism”
Nov 22
Opposition and Repression
Meyer and Staggenborg, "Movements, Countermovements, and the Structure of
Political Opportunity"
Jasper and Poulsen, "Fighting Back: Vulnerabilities, Blunders, and
Countermobilization by the Targets in Three Animal Rights Campaigns"
200
11
Schor
Laura Miller Almeida, “Opportunity OrganizationsJuliet
and Threat-Induced
Contention”
519 McGuinn
Department of Earl,
Sociology
“Controlling Protest”
140 Commonwealth Ave.
Pearlman 103
Boston College
Nov 29 University
Brandeis
Outcomes of Social Movements
Waltham, MA Giugni,
02454 “Was it Worth the Effort?” Chestnut Hill, MA 02467
[email protected]
[email protected]
Gamson, “Social Movements and Cultural
Change”
Andrews, “Explaining the Consequences of Social Movements”
Lisa Peñaloza Tarrow, pp. 176-210
Sara Steen
College of Business
Department of Sociology
Bus 468
219 Ketchum Hall
University
of Colorado
University of Colorado
***ALL PAPERS
DUE***
Boulder, CO 80309
Boulder, CO 80309
[email protected]
[email protected]
Jan Phillips
Department of Social and
Behavioral Science
University of Southern Maine/
Lewiston-Auburn College
Lewiston, ME 04240
[email protected]
Joel Stillerman
2166 AuSable Hall
Grand Valley State University
Allendale, MI 49401
[email protected]
Deborah Thorne
Department of Sociology and
Anthropology
Ohio University
Athens, OH 45701
[email protected]
Meghan Ashlin Rich
Department of Sociology and Criminal
Justice
University of Delaware
Newark, DE 19716
[email protected]
Melanie Wallendorf
Department of Marketing
Eller College of Management
University of Arizona
Tucson, AZ 85721
[email protected]
George Ritzer
Department of Sociology
University of Maryland
College Park, MD 20742
[email protected]
Frederick Wherry
Department of Sociology
University of Michigan
Ann Arbor, MI 48109
[email protected]
J. Michael Ryan
Department of Sociology
University of Maryland
College Park, MD 20742
[email protected]
200
12
Juliet Schor
Laura
SocialMiller
Movements
519 McGuinn
Department
of Sociology
Michael Schwartz
and Louis Esparza
140 Commonwealth Ave.
Pearlman
103
State University
of New York, Stony Brook
Boston College
Brandeis University
Chestnut Hill, MA 02467
Waltham,
02454
Sociology MA
595-01
[email protected]
[email protected]
The course begins with a rich survey of social movement history that climaxes mid-semester
with Peñaloza
Lisa
the cultural critique of social movement theory.Sara
ThisSteen
unresolved tension is carried through
the rest of
College
of the
Business
course, as it explores some thematic areas
Department
including
ofleadership,
Sociology guerilla
movements,
Bus
468
the Women’s Movement, “normal” politics,
219 Ketchum
global movements,
Hall
and others.
University of Colorado
University of Colorado
Social movements
Boulder,
CO 80309can be defined as:
Boulder, CO 80309
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collectivities acting with some degree of organization
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and continuity outside of
institutional or organizational channels for the purpose of challenging or defending extant
Jan Phillips
authority, whether it is institutionally or culturally
Joel Stillerman
based, in the group, organization,
Department
society,
of Social
culture,
and
or world order of which they2166
are aAuSable
part (Snow,
Hallet. al. 2004; Session 1).
Behavioral Science
Grand Valley State University
University
There is a wide
of Southern
range ofMaine/
perspectives including atomistic
Allendale,
conceptions
MI 49401
of movement actors,
Lewiston-Auburn
power analyses, structural
College perspectives, and recently,[email protected]
cultural understandings. The course will
Lewiston,
introduce students
ME 04240
to the key issues in the field. Topics include the role of leadership in social
Deborah
Thorne
[email protected]
movement organizations, the boundary between social
movements
and revolutions, transnational
social movement dynamics, measuring social movement
Department
outcomes,
of Sociology
and institutional
and forms of
Anthropology
Meghan
resistance.
Ashlin Rich
Ohio University
Department of Sociology and Criminal
Justice
The course is structured to emphasize lasting contributions
Athens,toOH
the45701
body of social movement
research, while
drawing attention to key, contemporary
debates. In the first part of the course, we
University
of Delaware
[email protected]
will review
Newark,
DEmajor
19716social movement theories; in later weeks, readings will be organized
thematically. This should serve as both a theoretical Melanie
grounding
and a field map, with the
[email protected]
Wallendorf
intention of highlighting exciting areas for further research
(We have
provided an extended
Department
of Marketing
reading Ritzer
list at the end for your reference).
Eller College of Management
George
Department of Sociology
University of Arizona
The course of
will
be run as a seminar. This means thatTucson,
each session
will be primarily a discussion
University
Maryland
AZ 85721
rather than
a lecture.
You should be prepared to discuss
the readings that are listed under a given
College
Park,
MD 20742
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week during the class occurring in that week. Each student will be responsible for preparing at
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least one of the sessions, with or without a partner, depending
enrollment. This will include
Frederick on
Wherry
J.
Michael Ryan
pre-reading
the material, trimming it if necessary andDepartment
posing study
of questions
Sociologythat everyone must
Department
of discuss.
Sociology
be prepared to
For sessions that are not prepared
by a student,
we may require short
University
of Michigan
University
ofbeginning
Maryland of the session about a key issue,
essays at the
written and then read to
Annwhich
Arbor,will
MIbe
48109
College
the class.Park, MD 20742
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In addition to the preparation of a class session, the informal in-class essays, and contribution to
class discussion, the grade will be based on a term paper due one week after the last day of class.
The paper may be a critical literature review, a substantive discussion of a topic, an empirical
research paper, or a research proposal (in the form of a grant or fellowship proposal). We will
read the paper as a preliminary draft for one of the required papers for advancement to
candidacy. So you need to discuss the paper topic with us before you proceed.
200
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Juliet Schor
Laura Miller
McGuinn
A list of required
Department
of Sociology
readings is presented in the course 519
outline
below. We have ordered six books
140 purchasing,
Commonwealth
Ave.because we use
Pearlman
(available 103
at Stony Books) that we strongly recommend
not only
Boston College
Brandeis
them extensively,
University
but also because they represent watershed
moments in the field and will
Chestnut
Hill,search
MA 02467
Waltham,
02454
provide theMA
genesis
for a social movements library. You
can also
for the books online at
[email protected]
[email protected]
www.fetchbook.info.
Lisa Peñaloza
SteenStruggle: The Mississippi Civil
Andrews, Kenneth T. 2004. Freedom is a Sara
Constant
College of Business
DepartmentofofChicago:
Sociology
Rights Movement and Its Legacy. University
Chicago.
Bus 468 Goodwin, Jeff and James M. Jasper (Ed). 2004.
219 Ketchum
Hall
Rethinking Social Movements:
University of Colorado
ColoradoPublishers: New
Structure, Meaning, and Emotion. University
Rowman &ofLittlefield
Boulder, CO 80309
Boulder,
CO
80309
York.
[email protected]
[email protected]
McAdam, Doug. 1982. Political Process and the Development of the Black
Insurgency, 1930-1970. UniversityJoel
of Chicago
Press: Chicago.
Jan Phillips
Stillerman
McAdam,
Tilly.
2001.Hall
Dynamics of Contention.
Department
of SocialDoug,
and Sidney Tarrow and Charles
2166
AuSable
2001. Cambridge University Press:Grand
New York.
Behavioral Science
Valley State University
UniversityPiven,
of Southern
Maine/
Allendale,
MI 49401
Frances
Fox and Richard A. Cloward.
1979. Poor
People’s Movements: Why
Lewiston-Auburn They
College
[email protected]
Succeed, How They Fail. Vintage Books: New York.
Lewiston, Schwartz,
ME 04240Michael. 1976. Radical Protest and Social Structure: The Southern
Deborah
Thorne University of Chicago:
[email protected]’ Alliance and Cotton Tenancy,
1880-1890.
Department of Sociology and
Chicago.
Anthropology
Meghan Ashlin Rich
Ohio University
Department
of Sociology and Criminal
COURSE OUTLINE
Justice
Athens, OH 45701
SECTION I: SOCIAL MOVEMENT PERSPECTIVES
University
Delaware to the Course
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Session 1 -of
Introduction
Newark, DE 19716
Readings:
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Melanie Wallendorf
Garner, Roberta. 1997. “Fifty Years of Social
Movement
Theory: An Interpretation”
Department
of Marketing
in Social Movement Theory and Research:
An Annotated
Bibliographical
Eller College
of Management
George Ritzer
Guide. By Roberta Garner and John
Tenuto. Magill
Bibliographies, Scarecrow
Department of Sociology
University
of Arizona
Press and Salem Press: Lanham, MD.
[pp. 1-58]
University of Maryland
Tucson,
AZ 85721
College Park,
MDDavid
20742A., Sarah A. Soule and Hanspeter
[email protected]
Snow,
Kriesi. 2004. “Mapping the Terrain”
[email protected]
in The Blackwell Companion to Social Movements. Blackwell Publishing:
Frederick Wherry
Malden. [pp. 3-16]
J. Michael Ryan
Department of Sociology
Department of Sociology
University of Michigan
University of Maryland
Ann Arbor, MI 48109
College Park, MD 20742
[email protected]
[email protected]
200
14
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Laura
Miller
Other
Relevant Readings:
519 McGuinn
DepartmentSnow,
of Sociology
David A. 2006. “Are There Really Awkward Movements or Only Awkward
140 Commonwealth Ave.
Pearlman 103
Research Relationships.” Mobilization 11(4): 495-500.
Boston College
Brandeis University
Snow,
David A. and Danny Trom. 2002.Chestnut
“The Case
Study
the Study of Social
Hill,
MAand
02467
Waltham, MA
02454
Movements”
in
Methods
of
Social
Movement
Research
by
Klandermans,
Bert and
[email protected]
[email protected]
Suzanna Staggenborg. University of Minnesota Press: Minneapolis. [pp. 146-172]
Lisa Peñaloza
Sara Steen
Session
Collective Behavior
College 2of–Business
Department of Sociology
Bus 468
219 Ketchum Hall
Readings:
University of Colorado
University of Colorado
Boulder, CO
80309
Boulder,
CO 80309
Fantasia, Rick. 1989. Cultures of Solidarity.
University
of California Press. [3-24; [email protected]
[email protected]
120].
Olson, Mancur. 1971. The Logic of Collective Action. Harvard University Press:
Jan Phillips
Cambridge. [pp. 5-22; 132-167]. Joel Stillerman
Department of Social and
2166 AuSable Hall
Runciman, Walter Garrison. 1966. Relative deprivation and social justice: a study of
Behavioral Science
Grand Valley State University
attitudes to social inequality in twentieth-century England. University of
University of Southern Maine/
Allendale, MI 49401
California Press: Berkeley. [pp. 9-35].
Lewiston-Auburn College
[email protected]
Schwartz,
Michael.
1976.
Radical
Protest
and Social Structure: The Southern
Lewiston, ME 04240
Farmers’
Alliance
and
Cotton
Tenancy,
1880-1890.
Deborah
Thorne University of Chicago:
[email protected]
Chicago. [pp. 135-153].
Department of Sociology and
Smelser,
Behavior. [1-22; 270-312].
Meghan Ashlin
RichNeil J. 1963. Theory of CollectiveAnthropology
Ohio Organizations:
University
Department
of Sociology
Criminal
Zald,
M. and R.and
Ash.
1966. “Social Movement
Growth, Decay, and
Justice
Athens,
OH
45701
Change.” Social Forces (44): 327-40.
University of Delaware
[email protected]
OtherDE
relevant
Newark,
19716 readings
Turner, R.H. and L. Killian. 1957. Collective
Behavior.
Prentice-Hall: Englewood
[email protected]
Melanie
Wallendorf
Cliffs, NJ. [17-34; 241-261].
Department of Marketing
Eller College of Management
George Ritzer
Session
3
Political
Process
and
Resource
Mobilization
Department of Sociology
University of Arizona
University
of
Maryland
Tucson, AZ 85721
Readings:
College Park, MD 20742
[email protected]
Bosi, Lorenzo. 2006. “The Dynamics of Social Movement Development: Northern
[email protected]
Ireland’s Civil Rights Movement in the 1960’s.” Mobilization 11(1): 81-100.
Frederick Wherry
McAdam, Doug. 1982. Political Process Department
and the Development
of the Black
J. Michael Ryan
of Sociology
Insurgency,
1930-1970.
University
of
Chicago
Press:
Chicago.
[pp. 22-64;
Department of Sociology
University of Michigan
117-180; 230-234].
University of Maryland
Ann Arbor, MI 48109
McCarthy,
John D. and Mayer N. Zald. 1977.
“Resource Mobilization and Social
College Park,
MD 20742
[email protected]
Movements: A Partial Theory.” American Journal of Sociology 82(6): [email protected]
1241.
Schwartz, Michael and Shuva Paul. 1992. “Resource Mobilization Verses the
Mobilization of People: Why Consensus Movements Cannot be Instruments of
Change” in Frontiers in Social Movement Theory by Aldon Morris and Carol
McClurg Mueller (Eds.). Yale University Press: New Haven. [Entire].
200
15
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Laura
Miller
Other
Relevant Readings
519 McGuinn
DepartmentRule,
of Sociology
James and Charles Tilly. 1975. “Political
Process in Revolutionary France,
140(ed.)
Commonwealth
Ave.New Viewpoints:
1830-1832. In Jonathan M. Merriman
1830 in France.
Pearlman 103
Boston College
Brandeis University
New York.
Chestnut Hill, MA 02467
Waltham, MA 02454
[email protected]
[email protected]
Session
4 – Activist Perspectives
Readings:
Lisa Peñaloza
Sara Steen
Schwartz,
Michael.
1976.
Radical
Protest
and Social Structure:
The Southern
College of Business
Department
of Sociology
Farmers’
Alliance
and
Cotton
Tenancy,
1880-1890.
University
of Chicago:
Bus 468
219 Ketchum Hall
Chicago. [pp. 91-133; 155-198]. University of Colorado
University of Colorado
Flacks,
Richard. 2003. “Knowledge for What?
Thoughts
on the State of Social
Boulder, CO
80309
Boulder,
CO 80309
Movement
Studies”
in
Rethinking
Social
Movements
by Jeff Goodwin and
[email protected]
[email protected]
James Jasper (Ed.). Rowman & Littlefield: Lanham, MD.
Lynd,
Staughton.
1989. “Intellectuals, theJoel
University,
and the Movement.” The
Jan Phillips
Stillerman
Journal
479-86.
Department of Social
and of American History 76(2):2166
AuSable Hall
BehavioralMorris,
ScienceAldon. 1984. Origins of the Civil Rights
Grand Movement.
Valley StateFree
University
Press. [195-228;
University of Southern
Maine/
Allendale, MI 49401
275-290].
Lewiston-Auburn College
[email protected]
Other Relevant Readings:
Lewiston, ME 04240
Bevington, Douglas and Chris Dixon. 2005.
“Movement-relevant
Theory: Rethinking
Deborah
Thorne
[email protected]
Social Movement Scholarship and Department
Activism.” Social
Movement
of Sociology
and Studies
4(3):185-208.
Anthropology
Meghan Ashlin Rich
Ohio University
Department of Sociology and Criminal
Session
Justice 5 - Social Movement Frames
Athens, OH 45701
University
of Delaware
[email protected]
Reading:
Newark, DE
19716
Gamson, William A. and David S. Meyer. 1996. “Framing political opportunity.”
[email protected]
Melanie Wallendorf
Comparative Perspectives on Social Movements
by Doug McAdam, McCarthy
Department
Marketing
and Zald (Ed.). Cambridge University Press: Newof
York.
[Entire].
Eller
College
of
Management
George Ritzer
Snow, David A. and R. D. Benford. 1988. Ideology, frame resonance,
and participant
Department of mobilization.
Sociology International Social Movement
University
of Arizona
Research,
1, 197-217.
UniversitySnow,
of Maryland
857211986. “Frame Alignment
David, Steven Worden Rochford andTucson,
Robert AZ
Benford.
College Park, MD
20742Micromobilization, and Movement
[email protected]
Process,
Participation.” American
[email protected]
Sociological Review 51: 464-481.
Frederick Wherry
J. Michael Ryan
Department of Sociology
Session
6 – Repertoires
Department
of Sociologyand Movement Cycles University of Michigan
University
of Maryland
Ann Arbor, MI 48109
Readings:
College Park, MD 20742
[email protected]
Tarrow,
Sidney.
1995.
“Cycles
of
Collective
Action: Between Moments of Madness
[email protected]
and the Repertoire of Contention” in Repertoires and Cycles of Collective
Action by Mark Traugott (Ed.). Duke University Press: Durham. [Entire].
Tilly, Charles. 1995. “Contentious Repertoires in Great Britain” in Repertoires and
Cycles of Collective Action by Mark Traugott (Ed.). Duke University Press:
Durham. [Entire].
200
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SchorUniversity Press: Cambridge,
Laura Miller
-------------. 1986. The Contentious French.Juliet
Harvard
519 McGuinn
Department of Sociology
MA. [pp. 351-404].
140Resolution
Commonwealth
Ave.
Pearlman 103
Brockett, Charles D. 1993. “A Protest-Cycle
of the Repression/PopularBoston 17(3):
College457-84.
Brandeis University
Protest Paradox.” Social Science History
Chestnut Hill, MA 02467
Waltham, MA 02454
Other Relevant Readings:
[email protected]
[email protected]
Rucht, Dieter. 2003. “Overcoming the Classical Model?” Mobilization 8(1):112-116.
Lisa Peñaloza
Sara Steen
Zald, Mayer and John McCarthy. 1979. Dynamics
of Social Movements: Resource
College of Business
Department
Sociology
Mobilization, Social Control and Tactics.
LittleofBrown
& Co.
Bus
468
219
Ketchum
Hall
Session 7 - Culture
University of Colorado
University of Colorado
Readings:
Boulder, CO 80309
Boulder, CO 80309
Jasper,
James
M.
1997.
The
Art
of
Moral
Protest:
Culture, Biography, and Creativity
[email protected]
[email protected]
in Social Movements. University of Chicago Press: Chicago. [Chapters 3-5].
“Caught
in a Winding, Snarling Vine: The
Jan PhillipsGoodwin, Jeff and James M. Jasper. 2004.Joel
Stillerman
Structural
Theory”
in Rethinking
Social Movements:
Department of Social
and Bias of Political Process2166
AuSable
Hall
Structure, Meaning, and Emotion by
Goodwin,
and
James M. Jasper (ed.).
Behavioral Science
Grand
ValleyJeff
State
University
Rowman
& Littlefield Publishers: Allendale,
New York.MI 49401
University of Southern
Maine/
Lewiston-Auburn
College
[email protected]
Polletta, Francesca. 2004. “Culture is Not Just in Your Head” in Rethinking Social
Lewiston, ME 04240
Movements: Structure, Meaning, and Emotion by Goodwin, Jeff and James M.
Thorne
[email protected] (Ed.). Rowman & LittlefieldDeborah
Publishers:
New York. [Entire].
Department
of
Sociology
Thompson, E. P. 1971. “The Moral Economy of the English
Crowd and
in the Eighteenth
Anthropology
Meghan Ashlin Rich
Century.” Past and Present 50: 76-136.
Ohio University
Department of Sociology and Criminal
Other Relevant Readings
Justice
Athens, OH 45701
UniversityGoodwin,
of Delaware
Jeff and James M. Jasper. [email protected]
“Trouble in Paradigms” in Rethinking
Newark, DE 19716
Social Movements: Structure, Meaning, and Emotion by Goodwin, Jeff and
[email protected] M. Jasper (Ed.). Rowman &Melanie
Wallendorf
Littlefield
Publishers: New York. [Entire].
Department
of Marketing
Tarrow, Sidney. 1999. “Paradigm Warriors: Regress and
Progress in the Study of
Eller
College
Management
George Ritzer
Contentious Politics.” Sociological Forum (14)1:of71-77.
Department of Sociology
University of Arizona
University of Maryland
Tucson, AZ 85721
Session 8 - Dynamics of Contention
College Park, MD 20742
[email protected]
Readings:
[email protected]
McAdam, Doug, Sidney Tarrow and Charles
Tilly. 2001.
Dynamics of Contention.
Frederick
Wherry
New York..
J. Michael Ryan 2001. Cambridge University Press:
Department
of[Selections].
Sociology
Department
of
Sociology
University
of
Michigan
Symposium on Dynamics of Contention in Mobilization 8(1).
University of Maryland
Ann Arbor, MI 48109
College
Park,
MD
20742
[email protected]
SECTION II: THEMATIC SESSIONS
[email protected]
Session 9 – Movement Outcomes
Readings
Andrews, Kenneth T. 2004. Freedom is a Constant Struggle: The Mississippi Civil
Rights Movement and Its Legacy. University of Chicago Press: Chicago.
200
17
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Laura
Miller
Session
10 – Leadership
519 McGuinn
Department of Sociology
Readings:
140 Commonwealth Ave.
Pearlman 103
Piven,
Frances
Fox
and
Richard
A.
Cloward.
1979.
Poor People’s Movements: Why
Boston
College
Brandeis University
They Succeed, How They Fail. Vintage
Books:
Chestnut
Hill,New
MAYork.
02467[pp. 1-40; 96-180].
Waltham, MA 02454
Gamson, William A. and Emilie Schmeidler.
1984. “Organizing the Poor.” Theory
[email protected]
[email protected]
and Society 13(4): 567-585.
Lisa Peñaloza
Sara Steen
Polletta, Francesca. 2002. Freedom is an Endless
Meeting: Democracy in American
College of Business
Department
ofChicago.
Sociology[pp. 1-25 (26-54
Social Movements. University of Chicago
Press:
Bus 468
219
Ketchum
Hall
suggested)].
UniversityMorris,
of Colorado
of Colorado
Aldon and Suzanne Staggenborg. University
2004. “Leadership
in Social Movements” in
Boulder, CO 80309
Boulder,
CO
The Blackwell Companion to Social Movements80309
By David A. Snow, Sarah A.
[email protected]
Soule, and Hanspeter Kriesi (Ed.). [email protected]
Blackwell: Malden MA. [Entire].
Nepstad, Sharon Erickson and Clifford Bob. 2006. “When Do Leaders Matter?
Jan Phillips
Joel Stillerman
Hypotheses on Leadership Dynamics in Social Movements.” Mobilization
Department of Social and
2166 AuSable Hall
(11)1: 1-22.
Behavioral Science
Grand Valley State University
Sitrin, Marina. 2006. Horizontalism: Voices of Popular Power in Argentina.
University of Southern Maine/
Allendale, MI 49401
AK Press. [pp. 1-66].
Lewiston-Auburn College
[email protected]
Michels,
Robert.
1915.
Political
Parties:
A
Sociological Study of the Oligarchical
Lewiston, ME 04240
Tendencies
of
Modern
Democracy.
The
FreeThorne
Press: New York. [pp. 25-96].
Deborah
[email protected]
Entire book is available online, with
different pagination
at and
Department
of Sociology
http://socserv.mcmaster.ca/econ/ugcm/3ll3/michels/polipart.pdf.
Anthropology
Meghan Ashlin Rich
Ohio University
Department of Sociology and Criminal
Justice
Athens, OH 45701
Session 11 - Guerilla Movements & Revolutions
University of Delaware
[email protected]
Readings:
Newark,
DE 19716
Wood, Elizabeth Jean. 2003. Insurgent Collective
and Civil War in El Salvador.
[email protected]
MelanieAction
Wallendorf
Cambridge University Press: New York.
[pp. 226-256].
Department
of Marketing
Goodwin, Jeff. 2001. No Other Way Out. Cambridge
University
Press. [pp 59-63;
Eller College
of Management
George Ritzer
(chapter
1
suggested)].
Department of Sociology
University of Arizona
UniversityPaige,
of Maryland
Tucson,
85721 and Export
Jeffery M. 1978. Agrarian Revolution:
SocialAZ
Movements
College Park, MD
20742 in the Underdeveloped World.
[email protected]
Agriculture
Free Press. [pp. 278-333 (chapter 1
[email protected]
suggested)].
Frederick
Schwartz, Michael. 2006. “Contradictions of
the Iraq Wherry
Resistance: Guerilla War vs.
J. Michael Ryan
Department
Terrorism.” Against the Current 120 (Jan/Feb). of Sociology
Department of Sociology
University of Michigan
University of Maryland
Ann Arbor, MI 48109
College
Park,
MD
20742
[email protected]
Session 12 – Global Movements
[email protected]
Readings:
Keck, Margaret and Kathryn Sikkink. 1998. Activists Beyond Borders: Advocacy
Networks in International Politics. Cornell University Press. [selections].
Tsutsui, Kiyoteru and Christine Min Wotipka. 2004. "Global Civil Society and the
International Human Rights Movement: Citizen Participation in Human Rights
International Nongovernmental Organizations." Social Forces (83)2: 587-620.
200
18
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Schor
Laura Miller
Tarrow, Sidney. 2005. The New Transnational
Cambridge University Press.
519 McGuinn
Department of Sociology
[pp. 15-34; 183-200].
Ave. Protest and
Pearlman 103
della Porta, Donatella and Sidney Tarrow,140
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2004. Transnational
Boston[pp.
College
Brandeis University
Global Action. Rowman and Littlefield.
1-14].
Chestnut Hill, MA 02467
Waltham, MA 02454
Smith, Jackie and Dawn Wiest. 2005. “The Uneven Geography of Global Civil
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[email protected]
Society: National and Global Influences on Transnational Association.” Social
Forces 84(2): 621-652.
Lisa Peñaloza
Sara Steen
Smith,
Jackie,
Charles
Chatfield
and
Ron
Pagnucco
(Eds.).
1998. Transnational Social
College of Business
Department
of Sociology
Movements
and
Global
Politics:
Solidarity
Beyond
the
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University Press. [p. 42-77]
University of Colorado
University of Colorado
Boulder,
80309 Readings
Boulder, CO 80309
OtherCO
Relevant
[email protected]
Guidry, John A., Michael D. Kennedy [email protected]
Mayer N. Zald, eds. 2000. Globalizations
and Social Movements: Culture, Power, and the Transnational Public Sphere.
Jan Phillips
Joel Stillerman
University of Michigan Press.
Department of Social and
2166 AuSable Hall
Bandy, Jo and Jackie Smith. 2004. Coalitions Across Borders: Transnational Protest
Behavioral Science
Grand Valley State University
and the Neo-Liberal Order. Rowman & Littlefield.
University of Southern Maine/
Allendale, MI 49401
O’Brien,College
Robert, et al. 2000. Contesting Global
Governance. Multilateral Institutions
Lewiston-Auburn
[email protected]
and Global Social Movements. Cambridge University Press.
Lewiston, ME 04240
Tsutsui, Kiyoteru. 2006. “Redressing PastDeborah
Human Rights
ThorneViolations: Global
[email protected]
Dimensions of Contemporary Social
Movements.”
Social Forces
Department
of Sociology
and 85(1): 331354.
Anthropology
Meghan Ashlin Rich
Ohio University
Department of Sociology and Criminal
Session 13 - Women’s Movements
Justice
Athens, OH 45701
University
of Delaware
[email protected]
Readings:
Newark, DE
19716
Einwohner, Rachel L, Hollander, Jocelyn A. and Toska Olson. 2000.
[email protected]“Engendering Social Movements: Melanie
Cultural Wallendorf
Images and Movement
Department
Dynamics.” Gender and Society 14(5):
679-99.of Marketing
Eller College of Management
George Ritzer
Ferree,
Myra
Marx
and
Carol
McClurg
Mueller.
2004.
Department of Sociology
University
of“Feminist
Arizona and the Women’s
Movement: A Global Perspective”Tucson,
In The Blackwell
University of Maryland
AZ 85721Companion to Social
Movements
by
Snow,
David
A.,
Sarah
A.
Soule
and Hanspeter Kriesi.
College Park, MD 20742
[email protected]
Blackwell Publishing: Malden. [pp. 576-607].
[email protected]
Freeman, Jo. 1973. “The Origins of the Women's
Liberation
Frederick
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792-811.of Sociology
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bell.
1991
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Ain't
I
a
Woman?:
Black
women
and feminism. South
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University
of Michigan
End Press. Chapter 4.
University of Maryland
Ann Arbor, MI 48109
McCammon,
and into the Streets’: The
College Park, MD 20742Holly J. 2003. "’Out of the Parlors
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Changing
Tactical
Repertoire
of
the
U.S.
Women's Suffrage
[email protected]
Movements.” Social Forces 81(3): 787-818.
Sitrin, Marina. 2006. Horizontalism: Voices of Popular Power in Argentina.
AK Press. [pp. 199-214].
Other Relevant Readings
Alway, Joan. 1995. “The Trouble With Gender: Tales of the Still-Missing Feminist
Revolution in Sociological Theory.” Sociological Theory 13(3): 209-228.
200
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Laura Miller
Department
Sociology and “Normal” Politics 519 McGuinn
Session 14 –ofMovements
140 Commonwealth Ave.
Pearlman 103
Readings:
Boston College
Brandeis University
Piven,
Frances Fox and Richard A. Cloward.
1979. Hill,
PoorMA
People’s
Chestnut
02467Movements: Why
Waltham, MA
02454
They
Succeed,
How
They
Fail.
Vintage
Books:
New
York.
[pp. 267-361].
[email protected]
[email protected]
Schwartz, Michael. 1976. Radical Protest and Social Structure: The Southern
Farmers’ Alliance and Cotton Tenancy,
1880-1890. University of Chicago:
Lisa Peñaloza
Sara Steen
Chicago.
[pp.
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College of Business
Department of Sociology
Bus 468 Goldstone, Jack A. 2003. “Introduction: Bridging
219 Ketchum
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Institutionalized
and NonUniversity of Colorado
of Colorado
Institutionalized Politics” in States,University
Parties, and
Social Movements by Jack A.
Boulder, CO 80309
Boulder,
CO[pp.
80309
Goldstone (Ed.). Cambridge University
Press.
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[email protected]
[email protected]
Tilly, Charles. 2003. “Afterward: Agendas for Students of Social Movements” in
States, Parties, and Social Movements by Jack A. Goldstone (ed.). Cambridge
Jan Phillips
Joel Stillerman
University Press. [246-256].
Department of Social and
2166 AuSable Hall
Behavioral
Science
Grand Valley State University
Session 15 - New Social Movement Theory
University of Southern Maine/
Allendale, MI 49401
Readings: College
Lewiston-Auburn
[email protected]
Lewiston, Melucci,
ME 04240Alberto. 1995. “The Process of Collective Identity” in Social Movements and
Klandermans.
Deborah
Thorne University of Minnesota
[email protected] by Johnston, Hank and Bert
Press: Minneapolis.
Department of Sociology and
Anthropology
Meghan Ashlin
Rich
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social movements and individual needs in
Ohio University
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contemporary
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Justice Pizzorno A. 1978. Political exchange and Athens,
OH
45701in industrial conflict. In
collective
identity
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The Resurgence of Class Conflict in
Western Europe since 1968, By C Crouch,
Newark, DE 19716
A Pizzorno (ed.), pp. 277– 98. London: Macmillan
[email protected]
Melanie Wallendorf
Cohen, Jean L. 1985. “Strategy or Identity:Department
New Theoretical
Paradigms and
of Marketing
Contemporary
Social
Movements.”
Social
Research
52(4):
663-716.
Eller College of Management
George Ritzer
Department of Sociology
University of Arizona
Further
Reading
University
of Maryland
Tucson, AZ 85721
College Park, MD 20742
[email protected]
Armstrong,
Elizabeth. 2002. Forging Gay Identities: Organizing Sexuality in San Francisco,
[email protected]
1950-1994. University of Chicago Press: Chicago.
Frederick Wherry
Auyero,
Javier.
Women,ofTwo
Protests, and the Quest
J. Michael
Ryan2003. Contentious Lives: Two Argentine
Department
Sociology
for Recognition.
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of SociologyDuke University Press.
University of Michigan
Banaszak,
Lee
Ann.
1996.
Why
Movements
Succeed
or Fail:
Opportunity,
University of Maryland
Ann
Arbor,
MI 48109 Culture, And the
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Woman Suffrage. Princeton University
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CollegeStruggle
Park, MD
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Earl,
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2006.
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and
the
Social
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of
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Gitlin, Todd. 2003. The Whole World is Watching: Mass Media in the Making and Unmaking of
the New Left. University of California Press: Berkeley.
Lopez, Steven Henry. 2004. Reorganizing the Rust Belt: An Inside Study of the American Labor
Movement. University of California Press: Berkeley.
Mansbridge, Jane J. 1986. Why We Lost the ERA. University of Chicago Press: Chicago.
200
20
JulietMovement:
Schor
Laura Miller
McAdam,
Doug. 2004. “Revisiting the U.S. Civil Rights
Toward a More Synthetic
McGuinn Social Movements: Structure,
Department
Understanding
of Sociology
of the Origins of Contention” 519
in Rethinking
Commonwealth
Ave.
Pearlman
Meaning,
103
and Emotion by Goodwin, Jeff and140
James
M. Jasper (Ed.).
Rowman &
Boston College
Brandeis
Littlefield
University
Publishers: New York.
Chestnut
Hill, MA
02467 in Protest
Waltham,
MA1995.
02454“‘Initiator’ and ‘Spin-off’ Movements:
---------------Diffusion
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[email protected]
Cycles” in Repertoires and Cycles of Collective
Action by Traugott, Mark (Ed.). Duke
University Press: Durham.
McCarthy,
Lisa
Peñaloza
John D. 1997. “The Globalization of Social
Sara
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Steen
Theory” in Transnational
CollegeSocial
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Department
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Bus 468Charles Chatfield and Ron Pagnucco (ed.). Syracuse
219 Ketchum
Univeristy
Hall Press: Syracuse.
Meyer, David
University
of Colorado
S. 2004. “Tending the Vineyard: Cultivating
University
Political
of Colorado
Process Research” in
Boulder,Rethinking
CO 80309Social Movements by Jeff Goodwin
Boulder,
and James
CO 80309
Jasper (Ed.). Rowman &
[email protected]
Littlefield: New York.
[email protected]
Meyer, David S. and Suzanne Staggenborg. 1996. “Movements, Countermovements, and the
Jan Phillips
Structure of Political Opportunity.” AmericanJoel
Journal
Stillerman
of Sociology 101(6): 1628-60.
Morris, Aldon.
Department
of Social
2000. “Reflections
and
on Social Movement
2166Theory:
AuSable
Criticisms
Hall
and Proposals.”
Contemporary
Behavioral
Science Sociology 29(3): 445-54.
Grand Valley State University
Tarrow, Sidney.
1998. Power
and49401
Contentious Politics.
University
of Southern
Maine/in Movement: Social Movements
Allendale, MI
Cambridge,College
UK: Cambridge University [email protected]
Lewiston-Auburn
Lewiston, ME 04240
Deborah Thorne
[email protected]
Department of Sociology and
Anthropology
Meghan Ashlin Rich
Ohio University
Department of Sociology and Criminal
Justice
Athens, OH 45701
University of Delaware
[email protected]
Newark, DE 19716
[email protected]
Melanie Wallendorf
Department of Marketing
Eller College of Management
George Ritzer
Department of Sociology
University of Arizona
University of Maryland
Tucson, AZ 85721
College Park, MD 20742
[email protected]
[email protected]
Frederick Wherry
J. Michael Ryan
Department of Sociology
Department of Sociology
University of Michigan
University of Maryland
Ann Arbor, MI 48109
College Park, MD 20742
[email protected]
[email protected]
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Laura
Miller of Gender and Social Protest
The Sociology
519 McGuinn
Department
Benita Rothof Sociology
140 Commonwealth Ave.
Pearlman
103
State University
of New York, Binghamton
Boston College
Brandeis University
Chestnut Hill, MA 02467
Waltham, MA 02454
Course Description:
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[email protected]
With the opening up of social movement scholarship generated by 1960s and 1970s social
movements,
Lisa
Peñalozathe topic of gender in social movement politics
Sara Steen
has become particularly important.
Gender politics
College
of Business
are seen as impacting social movements
Department
generally,
of in
Sociology
so far as gender is a social
institution
Bus
468 (see Judith Lorber 1994, Paradoxes of Gender)
219 Ketchum
that is continuously
Hall
constructed by
social actors.
University
of Colorado
The politics of gender is part and parcel
University
of the strategies,
of Colorado
ideologies, and
Boulder,
effectiveness
CO 80309
of social movement politics.
Boulder, CO 80309
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[email protected]
In this course, we will consider primarily sociological work on the linked issues of feminism,
Jan
women’s
Phillips
movements, and gender politics in movement
Joelsettings.
Stillerman
(It should be noted that at BU,
Department
there are other
of courses
Social and
that consider women’s roles in
2166
social
AuSable
protest,Hall
but that they are based on
Behavioral
different scholarly
Scienceliteratures). We will touch on core
Grand
concerns
Valley
of State
political
University
sociology, such as
University
the constitution
of Southern
of power,
Maine/
polity, protest, and the state,
Allendale,
and we will
MI 49401
consider the linked issues of
feminism, women’s
movements, and gender [email protected]
in movement and institutional settings.
Lewiston-Auburn
College
Using literature
drawn from sociology, history and women’s studies, we will consider how the
Lewiston,
ME 04240
inclusion of analyses of gender politics adds to knowledge
Deborah
of Thorne
political contention generally.
[email protected]
Department of Sociology and
Assessment:
This
is a seminar, which means that students
Anthropology
should be prepared to read and
Meghan
Ashlin
Rich
participate. of
In Sociology
fact, the success
of the course lies with
students.
Accordingly, I will ask for two
Ohio
University
Department
and Criminal
presentations: one based on a week’s set of course readings
second based on a student’s
Justice
Athens,and
OHa45701
chosen topic
their paper, as described immediately
below. These presentations should NOT
University
offor
Delaware
[email protected]
be longerDE
than19716
20 minutes, and must do more than simply summarize course readings. They
Newark,
should present issues in the literature and end with questions
class discussion.
[email protected]
Melanie for
Wallendorf
Department of Marketing
Eller College of Management
George Ritzer
One 15-20 page paper will be required, and students will be asked to turn in a draft/outline/or
Department of Sociology
University of Arizona
whatever they have at the midway point of the seminar. The paper topic should be chosen in
University of Maryland
Tucson, AZ 85721
consultation with me, and should ideally both focus more intently on one course theme and target
College Park, MD 20742
[email protected]
a student’s research interests. That is to say, I will work with students so that they write more in
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depth on a topic that is both germane to the course and reflects their own research agendas. I
Frederick Wherry
would expect the paper to be a relatively extensive literature review of a particular theme, with a
J. Michael Ryan
Department of Sociology
critical assessment of debates and lacunae within the literature. Alternatively, and with my
Department of Sociology
University of Michigan
permission, those students currently involved in activism would be encouraged to use that
University of Maryland
Ann Arbor, MI 48109
experience in concert with course reading to analyze that experience. I would also be open to
College Park, MD 20742
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projects that provide a critical assessment of popular media’s response to women and social
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protest (i.e. the examination of film, television, etc.), again, as long at the project is approved.
Readings: Assigned books, articles, chapters, and other readings appear under the weekly topics
in the course schedule. They are all available on electronic and regular reserve. In some cases
we will read an entire book and in other cases, selections, TBA.
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Laura
Miller
COURSE
SCHEDULE
519 McGuinn
Department of Sociology
WEEK ONE: Logistics/overview of course/introductions/choosing presentations
140 Commonwealth Ave.
Pearlman 103
Boston
College
WEEK
BrandeisTWO:
University
SHIFTING CONDITIONS OF SOCIAL
PROTEST/CHANGING
Chestnut Hill, MA 02467
Waltham,
MA 02454 OF SOCIAL MOVEMENT THEORY
PARADIGMS
[email protected]
[email protected]
Readings:
McCarthy, John D. and Mayer N. Zald. “Resource
Mobilization and Social
Movements: A Partial Theory.” American Journal of Sociology 82:6.
-Lisa
Jenkins,
Peñaloza
J. Craig. 1983. “Resource Mobilization Theory
Sara Steen
and the Study of Social Movements.”
CollegeAnnual
of Business
Review of Sociology 9:527-53.
Department of Sociology
-Bus
Gamson,
468 William A. 1992. “The Social Psychology
219
ofKetchum
CollectiveHall
Action.” In Morris, Aldon
University
D. and
of Colorado
Carol McClurg Mueller, editors. Frontiers
University
in Social
of Colorado
Movement Theory. New
Boulder,Haven
CO 80309
and London: Yale University Press. Boulder, CO 80309
[email protected]
-- Cohen, Jean L. 1985. “Strategy or Identity: New Theoretical
[email protected]
Paradigms and Contemporary
Social Movements.” Social Research 52:4 (Winter).
Jan Phillips
Joel Stillerman
WEEK
Department
THREE:
of Social
THE
and“WHAT IS FEMINISM” DEBATE
2166 AuSable Hall
Readings:
Behavioral Science
Mohanty, Chandra Talpade. 2003. Feminism
Grand
Without
ValleyBorders:
State University
Decolonizing Theory,
University
Practicing
of Southern
Solidarity.
Maine/Durham, NC: Duke University
Allendale,Press.
MI 49401
-- Rupp, Leila andCollege
Verta Taylor, 1999. “Forging Feminist
Identity in an International
Lewiston-Auburn
[email protected]
Movement:
A Collective Identity Approach to Twentieth-Century Feminism.” Signs:
Lewiston,
ME 04240
Winter 1999; 24, 2: 363-386.
Deborah Thorne
[email protected]
-- Offen, Karen. 1988. “Defining Feminism: a Comparative
Department
Historical
of Sociology
Approach.”
and Signs 14:1
Anthropology
Meghan(Autumn):119.
Ashlin Rich
-DuBois, Ellen
Carol, Karen
Offen and Nancy F. Cott.
“Comment on Karen Offen’s
Ohio1989.
University
Department
of Sociology
and Criminal
Approach.”
(Two comments each with
Justice `Defining Feminism: a Comparative Historical
Athens,
OH 45701
reply).
Signs 15:1 (Autumn):195.
University
of Delaware
[email protected]
-- ChapterDE
One,
“Forms of Female Revolt” in Chafetz, Janet S. and Anthony Gary Dworkin.
Newark,
19716
1986. Female Revolt: Women’s Movements inMelanie
World and
Historical Perspective. Totowa,
[email protected]
Wallendorf
NJ: Rowman and Allenheld.
Department of Marketing
-Chapter
One, “Reconstructing Social Protest fromEller
a Feminist
Perspective.”
In West, Guida and
College
of Management
George
Ritzer
Rhoda
Blumberg, editors. 1990. WomenUniversity
and SocialofProtest.
New York and Oxford:
Department
of Lois
Sociology
Arizona
Oxford
University Press.
University
of Maryland
Tucson, AZ 85721
College Park, MD 20742
[email protected]
WEEK
FOUR: SECOND WAVE WOMEN’S MOVEMENTS AND THE PROBLEM OF
[email protected]
ALLEGIANCE
Frederick Wherry
J. Michael Ryan
Readings:
Roth, Benita. 2004. Separate Roads to Feminism:
Black,
Chicana, and White
Department
of Sociology
Department
of Sociology
Feminist
Movements in America’s Second Wave.
New York:
Cambridge University
University
of Michigan
University
of Maryland
Press.
Ann Arbor, MI 48109
College Park, MD 20742
[email protected]
[email protected]
-Garcia, Alma. 1990. "The Development of Chicana Feminist Discourse, 1970-1980." In
Unequal Sisters: A Multicultural Reader in U.S. Women's History, edited by Ellen Carol
DuBois and Vicki L. Ruiz. New York and London: Routledge.
-- Gluck, Sherna et al. 1998. Whose feminism, whose history? Reflections on excavating the
history of (the) US women’s movement(s). In Community Activism and Feminist
Politics: Organizing Across Race, Class, and Gender, edited by Nancy A. Naples.
Philadelphia: Temple University Press.
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Juliet
SchorThe Interstitial Politics of Black
Laura
-Springer,
MillerKimberly. 2001. “Practicing Politics in the
Cracks:
519 McGuinn
Department
Feminist
of Sociology
Organizations” Meridians 1:2
140 Commonwealth Ave.
Pearlman 103
Boston College
Brandeis
WEEK FIVE:
University
GENDER AND REPRODUCING EVERYDAY
LIFE IN SOCIAL
Chestnut Hill, MA 02467
Waltham,
MA 02454
MOVEMENTS
[email protected]
[email protected]
Readings: Payne, Charles. 1990. "Men Led: but Women
Organized: Movement Participation of
Women in the Mississippi Delta." In Women in the Civil Rights Movement: Trailblazers
Lisa Peñaloza
& Torchbearers 1941-1965, edited by Vicki L.
Sara
Crawford,
Steen Jacqueline Anne Rouse, and
CollegeBarbara
of Business
Woods. Bloomington & Indianapolis:
Department
Indiana University
of Sociology
Press.
Bus
Baca468
Zinn, Maxine. 1975. "Political Familialism: Toward
219 Ketchum
Sex RoleHall
Equality in Chicano
University
Families."
of Colorado
Aztlán 6:13-26.
University of Colorado
Boulder,
Chapter 6,CO
“Let
80309
the People Decide,” and Chapter 7, “The
Boulder,
Failure
COof
80309
Success – Women in the
[email protected]
Movement,” in Evans, Sara. 1979. Personal Politics:
[email protected]
The Roots of Women's Liberation in
the Civil Rights Movement and the New Left. New York: Vintage Books.
Chapter
Jan Phillips
1, “Rethinking Social Movement Theory: Race,
Joel Class,
Stillerman
Gender and Culture,” and
Department
Chapter
of Social
2, “Exclusion,
and
Empowerment and Partnership;
2166 AuSable
RaceHall
Gender Relations,” in
Robnett,
Belinda. 1997. How Long? How Long?:
Women in the
Behavioral
Science
GrandAfrican-American
Valley State University
Struggle
for Civil
Rights. New York and Oxford:
OxfordMI
University
University
of Southern
Maine/
Allendale,
49401 Press.
Lewiston-Auburn College
[email protected]
WEEK
SIX:
QUESTION OF MATERNALISM
Lewiston,
METHE
04240
Readings:
Bayard de Volo, Lorraine. 2001. MothersDeborah
of Heroes
and Martyrs: Gender Identity
Thorne
[email protected]
Politics in Nicaragua, 1979-1999. Baltimore Department
& London: The
Johns Hopkins
of Sociology
and University
Anthropology
MeghanPress
Ashlin Rich
-Kaplan, Temma.
1982. and
"Female
Consciousness and
Collective
Action: The Case of Barcelona,
Ohio
University
Department
of Sociology
Criminal
Justice 1910-1918." Signs 7:3 (Spring):545-566.
Athens, OH 45701
-Rita K. Noonan.
1997. “Women Against the State:[email protected]
Political Opportunities and Collective
University
of Delaware
Frames in Chile’s Transition to Democracy.” Pages 252-267 in Doug McAdam
Newark,Action
DE 19716
and David A. Snow, editors. Social Movements:
Readings
on their Emergence,
[email protected]
Melanie
Wallendorf
Mobilization, and Dynamics. Los Angeles: Roxbury
Publishing
Company.
Department
of Marketing
Eller College of Management
George Ritzer
WEEK
SEVEN:
GENDER, SOCIALIST MOVEMENTS
ANDof“TRANSITIONS”
Department
of Sociology
University
Arizona
Readings:
Gal,
Susan, and Gail Kligman. 2000. TheTucson,
PoliticsAZ
of Gender
University of
Maryland
85721 after Socialism: A
Essay. Princeton, NJ:[email protected]
Princeton University Press
CollegeComparative-historical
Park, MD 20742
-Lavrin, Asuncíon. “Women, Labor and the Left: Argentina and Chile, 1890-1925.” Journal
[email protected]
of Women’s History (Fall 1989).
Frederick Wherry
J.
RyanWood, Elizabeth. 1996. “Class and Gender
-- Michael
Chapter 12–
at Loggerheads
in the Early Soviet
Department
of Sociology
Department
Sociology
State:ofWho
Should Organize the Female Proletariat
and of
How?”
and Chapter 13 – Weitz,
University
Michigan
University
EricofD.Maryland
“The Heroic Man and the Ever-Changing
Ann Woman:
Arbor, MIGender
48109and Politics in
CollegeEuropean
Park, MDCommunism,
20742
1917-1950.” In Frader,
Laura L, and Sonya O. Rose, editors.
[email protected]
[email protected]
Gender and Class in Modern Europe. Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press.
Landes, Joan B., “Marxism and `the Woman Question,’” and Waters, Elizabeth, “In the Shadow
of the Comintern: The Communist Women’s Movement, 1920-43. “ In Kruks, Sonia,
Rayna Rapp and Marilyn B. Young, editors. Promissory Notes: Women in the Transition
to Socialism. New York: Monthly Review Press.
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Juliet Schor
Laura Miller
WEEK
EIGHT: WOMEN IN THE LABOR MOVEMENT
519 McGuinn
Readings: Cobble,
Department
of Sociology
Dorothy Sue. 2004. The Other Women’s
Movement: Workplace Justice and
Ave. Press.
Pearlman
Social
103 Rights in Modern America. Princeton,140
NJ: Commonwealth
Princeton University
Boston
College
Brandeis
-- Kingsolver,
University
Barbara. 1996 (1983). Holding the Line:
Women
in the Great Arizona Mine Strike
Chestnut Hill, MA 02467
Waltham,
MA 02454
of 1983.
Ithaca and London: ILR Press.
[email protected]
[email protected]
-- Milkman, Ruth. 1985. “Women Workers, feminism
and the labor movement since the 1960s,”
from Milkman, editor. Women, Work and Protest: A Century of US Women’s Labor
Lisa Peñaloza
History. Boston: Routledge and Kegan Paul.Sara Steen
College–of1990.
Business
“Gender and Trade Unionism in Historical
Department
Perspective.”
of Sociology
In Tilly, Louise and
Bus 468Patricia Gurin, editors. Women, Politics, and 219
Social
Ketchum
Change.
Hall
New York: Russell Sage
University
Foundation.
of Colorado
University of Colorado
Boulder,
-- Kessler-Harris,
CO 80309
Alice. 1985. “Problems of Coalition-Building:
Boulder, COWomen
80309 and Trade Unions in
[email protected]
the 1920s.” In Milkman, ibid.
[email protected]
-- Cameron, Ardis. 1985. "Bread and Roses Revisited: Women's Culture and Working Class
Jan Phillips
Activism in the Lawrence Strike of 1912." InJoel
Milkman,
Stillerman
ibid.
Department
-- Aulette, Judy
of Social
and Trudy
and Mills. 1988. "Something Old,
2166Something
AuSable Hall
New: Auxiliary Work in the
1983-1986
(Summer).
Behavioral
ScienceCopper Strike." Feminist Studies 14:2
Grand
Valley State University
University of Southern Maine/
Allendale, MI 49401
WEEK NINE: THE
INSTITUTIONALIZATION OF
FEMININE/FEMINIST SPACE
Lewiston-Auburn
College
[email protected]
Readings:ME
Katzenstein,
Lewiston,
04240 Mary F. 1998. Faithful and Fearless: Moving Feminist Protest inside the
Church and Military. Princeton, New Jersey: Deborah
PrincetonThorne
University Press.
[email protected]
-- Zippel, Kathrin S. 2006. The Politics of Sexual Harassment:
Comparative
Study of the
DepartmentAof
Sociology and
Anthropology
Cambridge: Cambridge University
MeghanUnited
AshlinStates,
Rich the European Union, and Germany.
Press.of Sociology and Criminal
Ohio University
Department
-- Roth, Benita. 2006. "Gender Inequality and Feminist
Activism
in Institutions: Challenges of
Justice
Athens,
OH 45701
Marginalization
chapter in collection entitled The Politics of
University
of Delaware and Feminist Fading." Book [email protected]
Interests: New Comparative Perspectives, edited by Louise Chappell and Lisa
Newark,Women's
DE 19716
Hill. New York and London: Routledge Press.
[email protected]
Melanie Wallendorf
Department of Marketing
WEEK
TEN: ACCOUNTING FOR WOMEN IN RIGHT
WING of
MOVEMENTS
Eller College
Management
George Ritzer
Reading:
Blee,
Kathleen M. 1991. Women of the Klan:
Racismofand
Gender in the 1920s.
Department
of Sociology
University
Arizona
Berkeley,
Los Angeles, and London: University
of California
Press.
University
of Maryland
Tucson,
AZ 85721
-- Susan Park,
E. Mannon.
2006. “Love in the Time of Neo-Liberalism:
Gender, Work, and Power in a
College
MD 20742
[email protected]
Costa Rican Marriage.” Gender & Society 20:4 (511-530).
[email protected]
-- Kandiyoti, Deniz. 1988. “Bargaining with Patriarchy.”
Gender
& Society 2:3 (274-290).
Frederick
Wherry
J. Michael Ryan
Department of Sociology
Department of Sociology
University of Michigan
University
of Maryland
WEEK ELEVEN:
GLOBAL FEMINIST ISSUES Ann Arbor, MI 48109
College
Park,
MD 20742
Readings:
– Marx
Ferree, Myra and Aili Mari [email protected]
2006. Global Feminism: Transnational
[email protected]
Women’s Activism, Organizing, and Human Rights. New York: NYU Press.
-- Aguilar, Delia D. 1989. “Third World Revolution and First World Feminism: Toward a
Dialogue.” In Kruks, Sonia, Rayna Rapp and Marilyn B. Young, editors. Promissory
Notes: Women in the Transition to Socialism. New York: Monthly Review Press.
-- Johnson-Odim. 1991. “Common Themes, Different Context: Third World Women and
Feminism.” In Mohanty, Chandra, et al. editors. Third World Women and the Politics of
Feminism. Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press.
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Laura
-Gilliam,
Miller
Angela. 1991 “Women’s Equality and National
Liberation.” In Mohanty, ibid.
519 McGuinn
-- Accad, Evelyne.
Department
of Sociology
1991. “Sexuality and Sexual Politics:
Conflicts and Contradictions for
140
Commonwealth
Ave.
Pearlman
Contemporary
103
Women in the Middle East.” In
Mohanty,
ibid.
-- DuBois,University
Brandeis
Ellen Carol. 1991. “Woman Suffrage andBoston
the LeftCollege
– an International SocialistChestnut Hill,
MA 02467
Waltham,
MA 02454
Feminist
Perspective.” New Left Review (March-April,
N186):20-45.
[email protected]
[email protected]
WEEK TWELVE: WOMEN AND COMMUNITY ORGANIZING
Readings:
Lisa
Peñaloza
Naples, Nancy, editor. 1998. Community Sara
Activism
Steenand Feminist Politics: Organizing
CollegeAcross
of Business
Race, Class and Gender. New York and
Department
London: of
Routledge.
Sociology
Bus
-- Townsend
468
Gilkes, Chery. 1980. “’Holding Back the
219Ocean
Ketchum
withHall
a Broom’: Black Women and
University
Community
of Colorado
Work. In The Black Woman, edited
University
by La Frances
of Colorado
Rodgers-Rose. Newbury
Boulder,Park,
CO CA:
80309
Sage Publications.
Boulder, CO 80309
[email protected]
-- Kaplan, Temma. 1997. Crazy for Democracy: Women
[email protected]
in Grassroots Movements. New York
and London: Routledge Press.
Jan Phillips
Joel Stillerman
Department
WEEK THIRTEEN:
of Social and
THE FUTURE OF GENDER2166
ANDAuSable
SOCIALHall
PROTEST
SCHOLARSHIP
Behavioral
Science
Grand Valley State University
Readings: Chappell,
Louise
and Lisa Hill, editors. 2006.
The Politics
of Women's Interests: New
University
of Southern
Maine/
Allendale,
MI 49401
Comparative
Perspectives. Routledge [email protected]
Lewiston-Auburn
College
-- Morris, Aldon
D. 1992. "Political Consciousness and Collective Action." In Frontiers in Social
Lewiston,
ME 04240
Movement Theory, edited by Morris and Carol
McClurg
Mueller. New Haven and
Deborah
Thorne
[email protected]
London: Yale University Press.
Department of Sociology and
-- Turbin,Ashlin
Carol,Rich
Laura L. Frader, Sonya O. Rose, Evelyn
Anthropology
Nakano Glenn and Elizabeth Faue. “A
Meghan
Roundtable
On Gender,
Race, Class, Culture Ohio
and Politics:
Where Do We Go From
University
Department
of Sociology
and Criminal
Justice Here?” Social Science History (Spring 1998).Athens, OH 45701
University of Delaware
[email protected]
Newark, DE 19716
[email protected]
Melanie Wallendorf
Department of Marketing
Eller College of Management
George Ritzer
Department of Sociology
University of Arizona
University of Maryland
Tucson, AZ 85721
College Park, MD 20742
[email protected]
[email protected]
Frederick Wherry
J. Michael Ryan
Department of Sociology
Department of Sociology
University of Michigan
University of Maryland
Ann Arbor, MI 48109
College Park, MD 20742
[email protected]
[email protected]
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Laura Miller
519 McGuinn
Department
Sociology
Movementsof
and
Media in Latin America
140 Commonwealth Ave.
Pearlman
Markus S.103
Schulz
Boston College
Brandeis
University
New York
University
Chestnut Hill, MA 02467
Waltham, MA 02454
[email protected]
[email protected]
COMMENT: This is a syllabus for a graduate seminar
on social movements that I taught at New
York University’s Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies. The course content is ‘nonLisa
traditional’
Peñaloza
in several aspects. Its case material focuses
Sara
heavily
Steen on Latin America, rather than just
College
the United
of States.
Business
Accordingly, the readings are not exclusively
Departmentby
of North
Sociology
American scholars but
Bus
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are by Latin American and European authors. The
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required readings
Hall
are limited to what is
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Colorado
University
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but many of the recommended readings
areofinColorado
other languages. Particular
Boulder,
attention CO
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80309
to the relation between movementsBoulder,
and media,
COthe
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latter including not only
[email protected]
mass media and the Internet but also graffiti, music, [email protected]
and dance. Movements are explored in the
context of broader historical transformations of the region, to which movements have contributed
Jan
and Phillips
by which they are also shaped.
Joel Stillerman
Department of Social and
2166 AuSable Hall
Behavioral
Science
Grand Valley State University
Course Description
University
of Southern seminar
Maine/ introduces students toAllendale,
49401of social movements
This research-oriented
the majorMI
theories
Lewiston-Auburn
College
[email protected]
and contentious politics, including perspectives on resource mobilization, political process,
Lewiston,
ME 04240
collective identity
and expression. Particular attention will be paid to the relationship between
Deborah Thorne
[email protected]
movements and media in the production of political cultures in their often uneasy transition from
Department
of Sociology
and to the
‘cultures of fear’ to ‘cultures of participation’. Special
consideration
will be given
Anthropology
Meghan
Ashlin
Rich
economics of movement-media dynamics. Some of the main questions the course will address
Ohio University
Department
of do
Sociology
and emerge
Criminaland on what conditions
include: How
movements
does their success depend on?
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Athens,
OH
What role do movements play in transitions to and consolidations45701
of democracy? How do
University
Delaware
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music, mouth-to-mouth propaganda, graffiti, flyers, newspapers,
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movements?ofHow
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change with
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state control and the dedifferentiation of media and market?
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The aim of the course is to provide students with a solid grounding in movement theory,
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economic,
political, and cultural
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interactive and research-oriented [email protected]
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designed to provide students with a broad overview of the different approaches to movements
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context of selected cases. The readings and cases could be amended, depending on student
interests. Students are encouraged to form groups to research primary sources on selected cases
of interest and present findings in class. An electronic discussion board will be installed to
facilitate communication and foster student collaboration. Course members are invited to
circulate preparation materials for class and exchange thoughts on course-related matters in this
electronic extension of the class-room.
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term paper is meant
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to develop their own research project
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(e.g.:
a review
of a historical movement using one or more analytical concepts discussed in the
Lewiston,
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course;
a case study of the role of different media within
a movement;
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Thorne the impact of one medium
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on different movements; the impact of media opening
on movements
in a specific
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and country; a
cross-country
comparison;
or, alternatively, a detailed
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research proposal). The paper should be
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The paper must follow scholarly practicesAthens,
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Newark,you
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provide
an orientation. You are free to use a different citation style as long as you use it
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coherently
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consult also
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Elements of Style and the more comprehensive Chicago
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style. Howard Becker’s superb Writing forEller
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Course Plan
1.
Introduction to Social Movements Research and Course Overview
" Bring to class a brief statement on your research interests (1-2 pages)
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Laura
2. Miller
International Research Perspectives on Movements
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McClurg
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103
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3-25. College
Chestnut
Hill, MA
02467
Waltham,
MA
02454 Alberto. 1996. Challenging Codes:
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Age, Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University
Press, “Introduction,” pp. 1-10.
McAdam, Doug. 1982. Political Process and the Development of Black Insurgency,
Lisa Peñaloza
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Ch. 1-3, pp. 5-59.
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Tarrow, Sidney. 1998. Power in Movement,
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University and
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Paul Lawrence. 1997. “Social Movements
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p. 291-322.of Michigan
University of Maryland
Ann Arbor, MI 48109
College Park,
MDJosé
20742
Perales,
Raúl. 2003. “Politics and Play:[email protected]
Sport, Social Movements, and
[email protected]
Decolonization in Cuba and the West Indies.” In: Guidry, John A. / Kennedy, Michael
D. / Zald, Mayer N. (eds.): Globalization and Social Movements: Culture, Power, and
the Transnational Public Sphere. Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan Press, pp.
240-259.
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SchorWorld. Chicago: University of
Laura Miller
Casanova, José. 1994. Public Religions in the
Modern
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Department
Chicago
of Sociology
Press.
140 Commonwealth Ave.
Pearlman 103
College Catholicism. Princeton:
Brandeis Levine,
University
Daniel H. 1992. Popular Voices in Boston
Latin American
Chestnut Hill, MA 02467
Waltham,Princeton
MA 02454
University Press.
[email protected]
[email protected]
14. The Music of Movements
Lisa Peñaloza
Moreno, Albrecht. 1986. “Violeta ParraSara
and Steen
La Nueva Canción Chilena,” Vol. 5,
College ofpp.
Business
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108-126.
Bus 468 Mattern, Marc. 1997. “Popular Music and
219Redemocratization
Ketchum Hall
in Santiago, Chile
University1973-1989,”
of ColoradoSPLCS, Vol. 16, pp. 101-113.University of Colorado
Boulder, CO
80309 Paul / Urbizagástegui, Rubén.Boulder,
CO 80309
Almeida,
1999. “Cutumay
Camones: Popular Music
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[email protected]
in El Salvador’s Nacional Liberation Movement,”
Latin American Perspectives, Vol.
26, no. 4, pp. 13-42.
Jan Phillips
Joel Stillerman
Héau, Catherine. 2003. “The Musical Expression
of Social Justice: Mexican
Department
of Social
andEnd of the Nineteenth Century.”
2166 In:
AuSable
HallSusan E. / WickhamCorridos
at the
Eckstein,
Behavioral
ScienceTimothy P. (Eds.). 2003. Struggles
Grand
ValleyRights
State in
University
Crowley,
for Social
Latin America. New
UniversityYork:
of Southern
Maine/
Allendale, MI 49401
Routledge,
pp. 313-333.
Lewiston-Auburn
College
[email protected]
O'Connor,
Alan. 2003. “Punk Subculture
in Mexico and the Anti-Globalization
Lewiston,Movement:
ME 04240 A Report from the Front,” New Political Science, Vol. 25, 1, Mar, 43-53.
Deborah Thorne
[email protected]
RECOMMENDED
Department of Sociology and
Giménez,
Anthropology
la revolucion. Mexico City: Grijalba.
Meghan Ashlin
RichCatalina H. de. 1991. Asi cantaban
Ohio University
Department of Sociology and Criminal
Justice Dunn, Christopher. 2001. Brutality Garden:Athens,
Tropicália
OH 45701
and the Emergence of a
Counterculture. Chapel Hill: [email protected]
University of North Carolina Press.
UniversityBrazilian
of Delaware
Newark, DE 19716
[email protected]
Melanie
Wallendorf
Veloso, Caetano. 2002. Tropical Truth: A Story
of Music
and Revolution in Brazil.
Department
of Marketing
New York: Knopf [orig. in Brazil 1997: Verdade
tropical.
Saõ Paolo: Companhia das
Eller College of Management
George Ritzer
Letras].
Department of Sociology
University of Arizona
UniversityBraga-Pinto,
of MarylandCésar. 2000. “How to Organize
Tucson,
AZ 85721
a Movement:
Caetano Veloso’s Tropical
College Park,
MD
20742in Latin American Popular Culture,
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Path,”
Studies
Vol. 19, pp. 103-112.
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Frederick
Wherry
Mendoza, Zoila S. 2000. Shaping Society through
Dance:
Mestizo Ritual Performance
J. MichaelinRyan
Department
of Sociology
the Peruvian Andes. Chicago, Ill.: University
of Chicago
Press.
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University of Michigan
UniversityEyerman,
of Maryland
Arbor,Politics
MI 48109
Ron. 2002. “Music in Movement:Ann
Cultural
and Old and New Social
College Park,
MD 20742
[email protected]
Movements,”
Qualitative Sociology, Vol. 25,
3, fall, 443-458.
[email protected]
Paccini Hernandez, Deborah. 1998. “Dancing with the Enemy: Cuban Popular Music,
Race, Authenticity, and the World Music Landscape,” Latin American Perspectives,
Vol. 25, no. 3, pp. 110-125.
Eyerman, Ron / Jamison, Andrew. 1998. Music and Social Movements: Mobilizing
Traditions in the Twentieth Century. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
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Laura Miller
Street, John. 2003. “'Fight the Power': The Juliet
Politics
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Government
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and Opposition, Vol. 38, 1, winter,
113-130.
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CollegeFolk Music,” Qualitative
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University
William G. “Aesthetic Identity, Race,Boston
and American
Chestnut Hill, MA 02467
Waltham,Sociology,
MA 02454Vol. 25, 3, fall, 459-469.
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" Final term papers are due by December 16, 2004
Lisa Peñaloza
Sara Steen
College of Business
Department of Sociology
Bus 468
219 Ketchum Hall
University of Colorado
University of Colorado
Boulder, CO 80309
Boulder, CO 80309
[email protected]
[email protected]
Jan Phillips
Department of Social and
Behavioral Science
University of Southern Maine/
Lewiston-Auburn College
Lewiston, ME 04240
[email protected]
Joel Stillerman
2166 AuSable Hall
Grand Valley State University
Allendale, MI 49401
[email protected]
Deborah Thorne
Department of Sociology and
Anthropology
Ohio University
Athens, OH 45701
[email protected]
Meghan Ashlin Rich
Department of Sociology and Criminal
Justice
University of Delaware
Newark, DE 19716
[email protected]
Melanie Wallendorf
Department of Marketing
Eller College of Management
University of Arizona
Tucson, AZ 85721
[email protected]
George Ritzer
Department of Sociology
University of Maryland
College Park, MD 20742
[email protected]
Frederick Wherry
Department of Sociology
University of Michigan
Ann Arbor, MI 48109
[email protected]
J. Michael Ryan
Department of Sociology
University of Maryland
College Park, MD 20742
[email protected]
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Laura
SocialMiller
Movements in 20th Century Latin AmericaJuliet Schor
519 McGuinn
Department
of Sociology
Jeffrey
Rubin
140 Commonwealth Ave.
Pearlman
103
Boston
University
Boston College
Brandeis University
Chestnut Hill, MA 02467
Waltham, MA 02454
This
course
will
examine
the
relationship
between
culture
and politics in 20th Century Latin
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[email protected]
American social movements. We will examine the origins, actions, and effects of such
movements
as the Zapatistas and Villistas in MexicoSara
(during
the Mexican Revolution), the
Lisa
Peñaloza
Steen
Conservatives,
Liberals,
and
guerrillas
during
La
Violencia
in
Colombia,
the Pan-Mayan
College of Business
Department
of Sociology
movement
American
Bus
468 in Guatemala, the Zapatistas in Chiapas, and
219 Latin
Ketchum
Hall feminist movements.
We
will
also
examine
four
Brazilian
social
movements:
the
Movement
of Landless Rural
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University of Colorado
Workers,CO
the 80309
Participatory Budgeting project in PortoBoulder,
Alegre, CO
the 80309
Movement of Rural Women
Boulder,
Workers
in
Rio
Grande
do
Sul,
and
the
Afro-Reggae
Cultural
Group
in Rio de Janeiro.
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Throughout
onStillerman
culture, economic development, and
Jan
Phillips the course, we will relate theoretical work
Joel
democracy
to
the
day
to
day
activities
and
broader
trajectories
of theHall
movements we study. In so
Department of Social and
2166 AuSable
doing, we will
evaluate the ways in which such theoretical
Behavioral
Science
Grand perspectives
Valley State contribute
Universityto our
historical
understanding.
University of Southern Maine/
Allendale, MI 49401
Lewiston-Auburn College
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In
analyzing
social
movements,
we
will
consider
such
questions as: When do regional
Lewiston, ME 04240
movements provoke national processes of political and
cultural
change? When and why are
Deborah
Thorne
[email protected]
issues of race or gender highlighted in the activities of
social
movements
and when
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and are they
obscured?
HowRich
do social movements perpetuate forms
of exclusion and inequality? When do
Anthropology
Meghan
Ashlin
everyday
activities
constitute
"resistance"—and
resistance
to what?—and how do everyday
Ohio University
Department of Sociology and Criminal
forms of resistance relate to broader forms of historical
change?
How does culture "travel,"
Justice
Athens,
OH 45701
historically
and
geographically,
and
in
what
ways
can
original
cultural
University of Delaware
[email protected] in one place be
reproduced
another?
Newark, DEin19716
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Readings
Department of Marketing
The books available for purchase are:
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George Ritzer
John Womack, Jr., Zapata and the Mexican Revolution
Department of Sociology
University of Arizona
Mariano Azuela, The Underdogs
University of Maryland
Tucson, AZ 85721
Mary Roldán, Blood and Fire: La Violencia in Antioquia, Colombia (1946-1953)
College Park, MD 20742
[email protected]
Jeffrey Rubin, Decentering the Regime: Ethnicity, Radicalism, and Democracy in Juchitán,
[email protected]
Mexico
Frederick Wherry
Kay Warren, Indigenous Movements and Their Critics: Pan-Mayan Activism in Guatemala
J. Michael Ryan
Department of Sociology
Sonia Alvarez, Arturo Escobar, and Evelina Dagnino, eds., Cultures of Politics, Politics of
Department of Sociology
University of Michigan
Cultures: Re-Visioning Latin American Social Movements
University of Maryland
Ann Arbor, MI 48109
Sidney Tarrow, Power in Movement: Social Movements and Contentious Politics
College Park, MD 20742
[email protected]
John Burdick, Blessed Anastácia: Women, Race, and Popular Christianity in Brazil
[email protected]
Course Requirements
Students will be required to write three papers in the course of the semester, each of them
approximately five pages in length. One of the papers will discuss Chiapas and will be due on
October 9. Students will sign up at the beginning of the semester to do the other two papers for
weeks of their choice. Papers will be due in class on the day we discuss the readings. Late
papers will not be accepted. Assignments for the papers will vary, addressing a range of issues
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Laura
and
developing
Miller different analytic skills. One may beJuliet
a summary
519 McGuinn
involve comparing
Department
of Sociology
the way a particular issue is presented
in different readings or analyzing the
140 Commonwealth
Ave.or discussions.
readings for
Pearlman
103one week in light of ideas we have developed
in earlier readings
Boston College
Brandeis University
Students will
be required to bring to each class aChestnut
1-2 pageHill,
response
to the readings, in the
MA 02467
Waltham,
MAalso
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form
of
one
or
several
questions
that
the
student
would
like
to
see
addressed
in class, along with
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some thoughts about how to respond to that question. These 1-2 page responses will be
collected,
but they will not be graded. Students do not
need
to write response papers for the
Lisa
Peñaloza
Sara
Steen
weeks
for
which
they
are
writing
longer
papers.
Occasionally,
assignments may be
College of Business
Departmentdifferent
of Sociology
given468
for response papers.
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University of Colorado
University of Colorado
The
papers
count for 70% of the course grade and
class participation
Boulder,
COwill
80309
Boulder,
CO 80309 will count for 30%.
The
colloquium will be run as a focused, in-depth discussion.
During the first class, I will
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present guidelines for discussion and suggest ways in which students might develop their skills
in
discussion along and deepen it. In the
Janpreparing
Phillips for class and making comments that move
Joelthe
Stillerman
course
of
the
semester,
I
will
meet
with
students
who
would
like additional
guidance in these
Department of Social and
2166 AuSable
Hall
areas. EachScience
student’s participation will be graded onGrand
the basis
of how
and thoughtfully
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Valley
Stateactively
University
he
or
she
joins
in
the
discussion
University of Southern Maine/
Allendale, MI 49401
Lewiston-Auburn College
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Films
Lewiston, ME 04240
Several
films will be shown as part of the course. These
are aThorne
required part of the course and
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will be included in paper assignments.
Department of Sociology and
Anthropology
Meghan Ashlin Rich
Office
Hours
Ohio University
Department of Sociology and Criminal
IJustice
am available during office hours to speak to students
about OH
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aspect of the course or related
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interests.
If
you
are
having
difficulty
with
the
course
in
any
way,
you should be sure to come see
University of Delaware
[email protected]
me as soon
possible. You should also come see me if something intrigues or puzzles you, if
Newark,
DEas19716
you
would
like
to know more about a topic or talk about
it further,
etc. I can be particularly
[email protected]
Melanie
Wallendorf
helpful with ways to improve your ability to read andDepartment
understandof
theMarketing
material, prepare for and
carry
out
written
assignments,
and
participate
in
class
discussion.
If
you
are having trouble
Eller College of Management
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joining
in
the
class
discussion,
be
sure
to
speak
with
me
early
in
the
semester.
If you know in
Department of Sociology
University of Arizona
advance that
would like to see me, talk to me after
class or
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ofyou
Maryland
Tucson,
AZcontact
85721 me by email to make an
appointment,
which
will
generally
be
during
my
office
hours.
It
is
also fine to come to see me
College Park, MD 20742
[email protected]
during office hours without an appointment.
[email protected]
Frederick Wherry
September 6: Introduction
J. Michael Ryan
Department of Sociology
Department
of
Sociology
University
Part I Violent Rebellion in Mexico and Colombia, 1900
– 1960of Michigan
University
Ann Arbor,
MI 48109
September of
13:Maryland
The Zapatistas and the Mexican Revolution:
A Struggle
for Land and
College
Park,
MD
20742
[email protected]
Community?
[email protected]
John Womack, Jr., Zapata and the Mexican Revolution: Prologue, Chapter 1, 37-52, 61-69, 7696, Chapter 4, 159-178, 185-190, Chapter 7, 224-235, 240-255, 331-336, 346-370 (T)
September 20: The Villistas and the Mexican Revolution: Rebels and Bandits?
Mariano Azuela, The Underdogs (a novel) (T)
Samuel Brunk, “The Sad Situation of Civilians and Soldiers: The Banditry of Zapatismo in the
Mexican Revolution,” American Historical Review, April 1996
200
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Juliet
Schor
LauraAlonso,
Ana
Miller "U.S. Military Intervention, Revolutionary
Mobilization,
and Popular Ideology in
519
McGuinn
the Chihuahuan
Department
of Sociology
Sierra, 1916-1917" in Daniel Nugent,
ed.,
Rural Revolt in Mexico and U.S.
140 Commonwealth Ave.
Pearlman
103
Intervention
Boston College
Brandeis University
SeptemberMA
27: 02454
Conservatives, Liberals, and Guerrillas
in Colombia:
The
Circuitous Origins of
Chestnut
Hill, MA
02467
Waltham,
Grassroots
Mobilization
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[email protected]
Mary Roldán, Blood and Fire: La Violencia in Antioquia, Colombia (1946-1953): Introduction,
Chapter
1, Chapter 3 (T)
Lisa
Peñaloza
Sara Steen
College of Business
Department of Sociology
Part
II Indigenous Movements in Mexico and Guatemala,
1930-1995
Bus 468
219 Ketchum
Hall
University of Colorado
University of Colorado
October
At80309
the Borders of Violence: The ZapatistaBoulder,
Rebellion
Chiapas
Boulder,4:
CO
COin80309
FILM:
A
Place
Called
Chiapas
(October
2)
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[email protected]
newspaper and magazine articles, 1994-present
Zapatista
communiques--approx 19 pages
Jan Phillips
Joel Stillerman
NY
Times articles
from
Department
of Social
andthe beginning of the rebellion--4
2166pages
AuSable Hall
Mexico's
Poet
Rebel--ends
on
p
132,
before
the
end
of
the article
Behavioral Science
Grand
Valley State University
NY
Times
articles
from
later--15
pages
(optional)
University of Southern Maine/
Allendale, MI 49401
Chiapas
Times--2 College
pages--read "Major US Bank"
Lewiston-Auburn
[email protected]
Media
Recognition--Opportunities
and
Dangers--10
pages (optional)
Lewiston, ME 04240
The
War Within --pp. 6-21
Deborah Thorne
[email protected]
Rus, Mattiace, and Hernandez Chavez, a chronology,Department
1994-2002,ofpp.
15-23 (ONLY)
Sociology
and of the
Hernandez
reading.
text, not the pages in the Adobe Acrobat
Anthropology
Meghan Ashlin
RichThose are the pages marked on the
document.
(This
is
useful
for
a
general
overview
and
for
Ohio reference)
University
Department of Sociology and Criminal
George
Justice Collier, “Basta!”, Chapters 2 & 4
Athens, OH 45701
Lynn
Stephen,
"The Zapatista Army of National Liberation
and the National Democratic
University
of Delaware
[email protected]
Convention,"
Latin American Perspectives, Fall 1995
Newark, DE 19716
John
Womack,
Jr., "Chiapas, the Bishop of San Cristóbal,
andWallendorf
the Zapatista Revolt," in Rebellion
[email protected]
Melanie
in Chiapas
Department of Marketing
John
Ross,
“The Zapatistas at Ten,” in NACLA Report
onCollege
the Americas,
November/December
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of Management
George
Ritzer
2003
Department of Sociology
University of Arizona
University of Maryland
Tucson, AZ 85721
Documents:
College Park, MD 20742
[email protected]
“The
Mexican Revolution in Tzotzil: “When We Stopped Being Crushed,” 1914-1940”
[email protected]
“Migrant Labor on the Coffee Plantations: Debt, Lies,
Drink, Hard
Work, and the Union, 1920’s
Frederick
Wherry
–J. 1930’s)
Michael Ryan
Department of Sociology
“The
Church’s
New Mission in a De-Christianized Continent:
Ruiz in Medellín, 1968”
Department
of Sociology
University Bishop
of Michigan
“The
Proletarian
Line: From Torreón to the Canyons,
1976-77”
University
of Maryland
Ann
Arbor, MI 48109
October
11:
At
the
Borders
of
Violence:
Real-World
Complexity
in Chiapas
College Park, MD 20742
[email protected]
(PAPERS
DUE
IN
CLASS)
[email protected]
Rosalva Aída Hernández Castillo, “Between Civil Disobedience and Silent Rejection: Differing
Responses by Mam Peasants to the Zapatista Rebellion, in Jan Rus, Rosalva Aída Hernández
Castillo, and Shannan L Mattiace, eds., Mayan Lives, Mayan Utopias
Xóchitl Leyva Solano, “Regional, Communal, and Organizational Transformations in Las
Cañadas,” in Rus et. al., Mayan Lives, Mayan Utopias
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Juliet The
Schor
Laura
Jan
Rus,
Miller
"The 'Comunidad Revolucionaria Institucional':
Subversion of Native Government
519 McGuinn
in Highland of
Department
Chiapas,
Sociology
1936-1968, in Gil Joseph and Daniel
Nugent, eds., Everyday Forms of
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Pearlman
103
State Formation
Boston
Jeffrey Rubin,
Brandeis
University
"From Che to Marcos," Dissent, Summer
200College
Chestnut Hill, MA 02467
Waltham, MA 02454
[email protected]
[email protected]
October 18: From Culture to Politics: Zapotec Mobilization
and Democratization in Juchitán,
Mexico
FILM:
Lisa
Peñaloza
Blossoms of Fire (October 16)
Sara Steen
Jeffrey Rubin,
College
of Business
Decentering the Regime: Ethnicity, Radicalism,
Departmentand
of Sociology
Democracy in Juchitán,
Bus
Mexico,
468 1-9, 24-58, 64-237, 256-276 (T)
219 Ketchum Hall
University of Colorado
University of Colorado
Boulder, CO 80309
Boulder, CO 80309
[email protected]
October 25: In the Aftermath of Violence: The Pan-Mayan
[email protected]
Movement in Guatemala
FILM: Todos Santos: The Survivors (October 23)
Jan
KayPhillips
Warren, Indigenous Movements and Their Critics:
Joel Pan-Mayan
Stillerman Activism in Guatemala pp.
3-131, 194-210
Department
of Social
(T) and
2166 AuSable Hall
Charles R. Hale,
“Does Multiculturalism Menace? Governance,
Rights, and the Politics
Behavioral
Science
Grand ValleyCultural
State University
of Identity in
Journal of Latin AmericanAllendale,
Studies 34MI
(2002)
University
of Guatemala,”
Southern Maine/
49401
Lewiston-Auburn College
[email protected]
NovemberME
1: Theoretical
Interlude: Culture, Cycles, and Networks
Lewiston,
04240
Jeffrey W. Rubin, “Meanings and Mobilizations: A Deborah
Cultural Politics
Thorne Approach to Social
[email protected]
Movements and States,” Latin American Research Review,
2004.of Sociology and
Department
Sidney Tarrow,
Power in Movement: Social Movements
Anthropology
and Contentious Politics, Second
Meghan
Ashlin Rich
Edition, pp. of
1-25,
71-138and
(T)Criminal
Ohio University
Department
Sociology
Justice
Athens, OH 45701
Part III Social
Movements in Brazil, 1980 - 2000 [email protected]
University
of Delaware
Newark, DE 19716
November 8: Becoming the Government: Participatory
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Melanie
Budgeting
Wallendorf
in Porto Alegre, Brazil
Film: Capital Sins (November 6)
Department of Marketing
Film:
Budgeting: Here Popular Participation
Eller College
Speaks
of Management
(in class)
GeorgeParticipatory
Ritzer
Jeffrey
Department
Rubin,
of “Brazil:
SociologyThe Next Great Democratic University
Challenge,”ofmanuscript
Arizona
Maria
University
CeliaofPaoli
Maryland
and Vera da Silva Telles, “Social Rights:
Tucson,Conflicts
AZ 85721and Negotiations in
Contemporary
College Park, MD
Brazil,”
20742
in Alvarez et. al., Cultures [email protected]
Politics, pp. 64 - 69
Sérgio
[email protected]
Gregório Baierle, "The Explosion of Experience: The Emergence of a New Ethical
Political Principle in Popular Movements in Porto Alegre,
Frederick
Brazil,"
Wherry
in Alvarez et. al., Cultures of
J.
Michael
Politics,
pp.Ryan
124-136
Department of Sociology
Department
of Sociology
of Michigan
Abers, Rebecca..
"From Clientelism to Cooperation: University
Local Government,
Participatory Policy,
University
of Maryland
and Civic Organizing
in Porto Alegre, Brazil." Politics
Ann&Arbor,
SocietyMI26:4
48109
(December 1998)
College
Park,
MD 20742
Gianpaolo
Baiocchi,
“Emergent Public Spheres: Talking
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Politics in Participatory Governance,”
[email protected]
American Sociological Review 2003, Vol. 68
Jeffrey Rubin, “Participatory Budgeting: An Ethnographic View,” manuscript
November 15: Challenging the Government: Mobilization and Threat in the Movement of
Landless Rural Workers in Brazil
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Juliet Schor
Laura Miller
Films:
Land for Rose (November 13)
519 McGuinn
John Hammond,
Department
of Sociology
"Law and Disorder: The Brazilian Landless
Farmworkers' Movement," Bulletin
140 Commonwealth Ave.
Pearlman
103
of Latin American
Research
Boston
College
John Hammond,
Brandeis
University
“Land Occupations, Violence, and the
Politics
of Agrarian Reform in Brazil,”
Chestnut Hill, MA 02467
Waltham,
manuscriptMA 02454
[email protected]
[email protected]
Tim Padgett, "Brazil's Landless Rebels," Time, January
19, 1998
newspaper articles, 1997-98
Jonathan
Lisa
Peñaloza
Fox, "Democratic Rural Development: Leadership
Sara Steen
Accountability in Regional Peasant
Organizations,"
College
of Business
in Development and Change, Vol. 23,
Department
No. 2, 1992
of Sociology
(http://lals.ucsc.edu/faculty/jafox/PDFs/foxdevchange92.pdf)
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Boulder, CO 80309
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Democracy
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November 29: Music, Performance, and Resistance: The Afro-Reggae Cultural Group and Race
in Brazil
Jan
Phillips
Joel Stillerman
Film: FavelaofRising
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and
27)
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Olivia
Maria
Gomes da Cunha, "Black Movements and
the Valley
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of Identity'
in Brazil" (pp.
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231-246)
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Megan
Mylan, “The
Afro-Reggae Beat: A Weapon [email protected]
Against Drugs, Violence, and Racism in
Lewiston-Auburn
College
Rio,”
Changemakers.net
Journal, July 1998,
Lewiston,
ME 04240
http://www.changemakers.net/journal/98july/mylan.cfm
Deborah Thorne
[email protected]
John Burdick, Blessed Anastácia: Women, Race, andDepartment
Popular Christianity
of Sociology
in Brazil,
and
Anthropology
Meghan
Introduction,
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Chapters
Rich 3, 4, 5, pp. 185-191, Conclusion
(T)
Ohio University
Department
Emma Sokoloff-Rubin
of Sociology
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Jeffrey
Criminal
Rubin, “Favela Beat”
Justice
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Athens,
on the
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2004
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of Delaware
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Newark, DE 19716
December 6 : Latin American Feminisms and the Movement
[email protected]
Melanie Wallendorf
of Rural Women Workers in Brazil
Department
Marketing
Lynn Stephen, Women and Social Movements in Latin
America: of
Power
from Below, Chapters 2
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&
George
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Interview,
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of Marylandand Jeffrey Rubin, “MMTR Portraits”
Tucson, AZ 85721
Emma
Sokoloff-Rubin
Sonia
College
Alvarez,
Park, MD
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American Feminisms 'Go Global':
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Trends of the 1990s and Challenges for
the
[email protected]
New Millennium," in Alvarez et. al., eds., Cultures of Politics
Frederick Wherry
J. Michael Ryan
Department of Sociology
Department of Sociology
University of Michigan
University of Maryland
Ann Arbor, MI 48109
College Park, MD 20742
[email protected]
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Juliet Schor
Laura
Miller
Environmental
Politics
519 McGuinn
Department
of Sociology
Liam Leonard
140 Commonwealth Ave.
Pearlman
103
National University
of Ireland, Galway
Boston College
Brandeis University
Chestnut Hill, MA 02467
Waltham, MA 02454
[email protected]
[email protected]
This course will examine the emergence of the various
strands of environmental political discourse.
As societies modernise social and political responses to environmental degradation have become a
feature
Lisa
Peñaloza
of everyday life. These responses embrace a Sara
broadSteen
range of actors including institutions such
as the EU,
College
of internal
Businessstate agencies, local government and
Department
community
of Sociology
movements. While disputes
about468
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environmental issues may occur between policy
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makers
Ketchum
and Hall
concerned communities both may
claim to have
University
of Colorado
environmental perspectives.
University of Colorado
Boulder, CO 80309
Boulder, CO 80309
[email protected]
[email protected]
The nature of environmental disputes will be explored in an attempt to shed light on the manner in
which types of environmental orthodoxies are established as the state, local communities and the
Jan Phillips
Joel Stillerman
corporate sector all attempt to frame environmental issues in a way which supports their needs. An
Department of Social and
2166 AuSable Hall
understanding of environmental campaigns will be achieved through studies of the internal
Behavioral Science
Grand Valley State University
mobilisation of resources and the external exploitation of political opportunities by relevant
University of Southern Maine/
Allendale, MI 49401
institutional, governmental and community actors as such disputes are evolutionary and interwoven
Lewiston-Auburn College
[email protected]
with other social and political events. The aim of this course is to introduce students to the relevant
Lewiston, ME 04240
literature on environmentalism, reviewing an aspect this theory on a weekly basis.
Deborah Thorne
[email protected]
Department of Sociology and
Students will be asked to choose a relevant case study to build a research project around. The
Anthropology
Meghan Ashlin Rich
project will be based on one 2,000 word essay worth 60% with a presentation worth 20% and an
Ohio University
Department of Sociology and Criminal
examination worth 20%. Full attendance and discussion of topics set for each week is also required.
Justice
Athens, OH 45701
Relevant readings will be provided. Extensions are at the discretion of the Head of Department,
University of Delaware
[email protected]
professor Chris Curtin, Room 306, Tower 1, Dept. Political Science and Sociology. Essay
Newark, DE 19716
Submission Day: Monday, 26th November to Michael Donnelly, Moyola House
[email protected]
Melanie Wallendorf
Department of Marketing
The Key Texts for this course are: Leonard, L. (2006) Green Nation: The Irish Environmental
Eller College of Management
George Ritzer
Movement from Carnsore Point to the Rossport 5 Ecopolitics Series Vol. 1. Drogheda: Choice
Department of Sociology
University of Arizona
Publishing and Leonard, L. (2005) Politics Inflamed: GSE & the Campaign Against Incineration in
University of Maryland
Tucson, AZ 85721
Ireland. Ecopolitics Series Vol.1. Drogheda: Choice Publishing
College Park, MD 20742
[email protected]
[email protected]
Frederick Wherry
Course Content and Themes
J. Michael Ryan
Department of Sociology
Week One:
Introductory session
Department of Sociology
University of Michigan
University of Maryland
Ann Arbor, MI 48109
Week Two:
Environmental Thought:
College Park, MD 20742
[email protected]
Key Reading:
Leonard, L. (2006) Green Nation: the Environmental Movement from
[email protected]
Carnsore Point to the Rossport 5. Ecopolitics Series Vol. 2. Drogheda:
Choice
Week Three:
Key Reading:
Ecocentric Deep Green Thought and the Anthropocentric Shallow
Green Thought. ‘Realists vs. Fundamentalists’
Eckersley, R. (1992) Environmentalism and Political Theory London:
UCC Cambridge
200
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Juliet Schor
Laura Miller
Martel, L. (1994) Nature and Society
Cambridge: Polity.
519 McGuinn
Department of Sociology
140 Commonwealth
Ave.
Pearlman
103
Week Four:
Understanding Sustainable Development:
Sustainability
and EcoBoston College
Brandeis University modernisation
Chestnut
Hill, Environmental
MA 02467
Waltham,
MA 02454 Leonard, L. (2006) Green Nation:
Key
Reading:
The Irish
Movement
[email protected]
[email protected] Carnsore Point to The Rossport
5 Ecopolitics Series Vol. 2
Drogheda: Choice Publishing
Lisa Peñaloza
Leonard, L. (2005) Politics Inflamed:
Sara Steen
GSE & the Campaign Against
College of Business Incineration in Ireland. Ecopolitics
Department
Series of
Vol.1.
Sociology
Drogheda: Choice
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University of Colorado
University of Colorado
Boulder,
CO 80309 The Growth of Environmental
Boulder,
COThe
80309
Week
Five:
Protest.
Modernisation and
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[email protected]
Opportunities of Environmental
Movements
Key Reading:
Leonard,L. (2005) Politics Inflamed: GSE & the Campaign Against
Jan Phillips
Incineration in Ireland. Ecopolitics
Joel Stillerman
Series Vol.1. Drogheda: Choice
Department of Social and
2166 AuSable Hall
Publishing
Behavioral Science Martell, L. (1994) Nature andGrand
SocietyValley
Cambridge:
State University
Polity
University of SouthernDella
Maine/
Porta, D. and Diani, M. Allendale,
(1999) Social
MI Movements:
49401
An Introduction
London: Blackwell Chapters [email protected]
7 and 9.
Lewiston-Auburn College
Lewiston, ME 04240
DeborahThe
Thorne
[email protected]
Week Six:
Environmentalism and the Media.
Creation of Environmental
Department of Sociology and
‘Orthodoxy’
Anthropology
Key Reading:
Meghan
Ashlin Rich Leonard, L. (2005) Politics Inflamed:
GSE & the Campaign Against
Ohio University
Department of Sociology
Incineration
and Criminal
in Ireland. Ecopolitics
Vol. 1. Drogheda: Choice
Justice
Grove-White (1993) “Environmentalism:
Athens, OHA45701
New Moral Discourse for
Milton’s The View from Anthropology
University of DelawareTechnological Society?” in [email protected]
Newark, DE 19716 London: Routledge.
the Network
Society Oxford: Blackwell
[email protected] Castells, M. (2000) The Rise ofMelanie
Wallendorf
Department of Marketing
Eller College of Management
GeorgeSeven:
Ritzer
Week
The Corporate Response to Environmentalism
Key
Reading:
Roberts, J. (2004) Environmental
Policy Chapter
118
Department
of Sociology
University
of Arizona
University of Maryland
Tucson, AZ 85721
College Park, MD 20742
[email protected]
[email protected]
Week
Eight:
Creating Environmental Policies
Key Reading:
Taylor, G. (Ed) “Issues in IrishFrederick
Policy” Environmental
Policy in Ireland
Wherry
J. Michael Ryan
Chapter 4
Department of Sociology
Department of Sociology
Knill, C. and Lenschow, A. (Eds)
University
Implementing
of Michigan
EU Environmental Policy
University of MarylandManchester University Press. Ann
Chapters
1, MI
11 48109
Arbor,
College Park, MD 20742
[email protected]
[email protected]
Week
Nine:
Environmentalism in Ireland
Key Reading:
L. Leonard (2006) Green Nation: The Irish Environmental Movement
from Carnsore Point to the Rossport 5 Choice Publishing
Week Ten:
Case Study of an Environmental Dispute: Anti-Incinerator
Campaigns in Ireland and the US
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Juliet Schor
LauraReading:
Key
Miller
Leonard, L. (2005) Politics Inflamed:
GSE and the Campaign Against
519 McGuinn
Department of Sociology
Incineration in Ireland Ecopolitics
Series Vol.1 Drogheda: Choice
140 Commonwealth Ave.
Pearlman 103
Publishing
College
Brandeis University A. Szasz (1994) Eco-PopulismBoston
London:
University College London
Chestnut
Hill,Don’t
MA 02467
Waltham, MA 02454 E. Walsh, R. Warland and D. Smith
(1997)
Burn it Here:
[email protected]
[email protected] Challenges to Trash
Incinerators Pennsylvania University
Press
Lisa Peñaloza
Sara Steen
CollegeEleven:
of Business Case Study Methodologies Department of Sociology
Week
Key
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Reading:
L. Leonard (2005) Politics Inflamed:
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GSE &Hall
The Campaign Against
University of ColoradoIncineration in Ireland. Ecopolitics
University
SeriesofVol.
Colorado
1. Droghehda: Choice
Boulder, CO 80309
Boulder, CO 80309
[email protected]
[email protected]
Week
Twelve:
The Future of Environmental
Movements
Key Reading:
L. Leonard (2006) Green Nation: the Irish Environmental Movement from
Jan Phillips
Carnsore Point to the RossportJoel
5. Ecopolitics
Stillerman Series Vol. 2.
Department of Social and
Drogheda:Choice
2166 AuSable Hall
Behavioral Science
Grand Valley State University
University of Southern Maine/
Allendale, MI 49401
Lewiston-Auburn College
[email protected]
Lewiston, ME 04240
Deborah Thorne
[email protected]
Department of Sociology and
Anthropology
Meghan Ashlin Rich
Ohio University
Department of Sociology and Criminal
Justice
Athens, OH 45701
University of Delaware
[email protected]
Newark, DE 19716
[email protected]
Melanie Wallendorf
Department of Marketing
Eller College of Management
George Ritzer
Department of Sociology
University of Arizona
University of Maryland
Tucson, AZ 85721
College Park, MD 20742
[email protected]
[email protected]
Frederick Wherry
J. Michael Ryan
Department of Sociology
Department of Sociology
University of Michigan
University of Maryland
Ann Arbor, MI 48109
College Park, MD 20742
[email protected]
[email protected]
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Laura
Miller
Environmental
Movements in the United States Juliet Schor
519 McGuinn
Department
of Sociology
Robert Brulle
140 Commonwealth Ave.
Pearlman
103
Drexel University
Boston College
Brandeis University
Chestnut Hill, MA 02467
Waltham, MA 02454
[email protected]
[email protected]
Overview: This course provides an introduction to the
processes of social change, and the key
collective actors and institutions that are involved in the creation of U.S. environmental policies.
The aim
Lisa
Peñaloza
of this course is to provide an understandingSara
of the
Steen
historical and social processes by
College
which environmental
of Business policy is created and changed through
Department
a political
of Sociology
process among a number
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of different
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219 Ketchum
of theories
Hall of social change. It
University
then examines
of Colorado
the development of the various worldviews,
University
organizations,
of Colorado
and practices that
Boulder,
define U.S.
COenvironmental
80309
politics, including environmental
Boulder,advocacy
CO 80309
organizations and
[email protected]
foundations. It concludes with a consideration of [email protected]
status of the U.S. environmental
movement.
Jan Phillips
Joel Stillerman
Department
Course Requirements:
of Social andThis course has two course 2166
requirements
AuSableas
Hall
follows:
Behavioral Science
Grand Valley State University
University
1. Class Participation:
of Southern Maine/
The key to success for this course
Allendale,
is active
MI 49401
participation by all involved.
What is sought is to
develop a cooperative atmosphere
of mutual learning. The class should be
Lewiston-Auburn
College
[email protected]
seen as theME
cumulative
Lewiston,
04240 development of a group conversation. Active and meaningful
participation in the class discussions is thus required.Deborah
We wantThorne
to be able to use the time together
[email protected]
as a group to share and critique ideas. Accordingly, Department
the students of
should
Sociology
use theand
time between
classes toAshlin
read and
become conversant with the material.
Anthropology
A key part in learning new ideas is
Meghan
Rich
through theirofuse.
Each student
will be assigned to present
a number of the readings. Each
Ohio University
Department
Sociology
and Criminal
student presentation will consist of a brief descriptionAthens,
of the logic
of the article based on the
Justice
OH 45701
template handed
out in the first class session. This will
be followed by a second presentation by
University
of Delaware
[email protected]
another student
amplifying the first presentation by identifying several key questions for
Newark,
DE 19716
discussion. Each student will then be expected to askMelanie
a question
or make a comment about the
[email protected]
Wallendorf
readings. Participation in class will constitute 40% of
the course of
grade.
Department
Marketing
Eller College of Management
George Ritzer
2. Take Home
Exams: This course requires completion
of two of
take
home examinations in
Department
of Sociology
University
Arizona
response toof
written
questions provided by the instructor.
These
University
Maryland
Tucson,
AZquestions
85721 will be designed to
focus your
application
of the concepts covered in class,
and will be approximately 2,000 words
College
Park,
MD 20742
[email protected]
in length. You are expected to work independently. The two examinations will count for 60%
[email protected]
of the course grade. They will be handed out at the end
of classWherry
on April 30 and June 4, and will
Frederick
J.
Ryan
beMichael
due the following
week.
Department of Sociology
Department of Sociology
University of Michigan
University
of Maryland
Required Texts:
This course has five required textsAnn
that Arbor,
are listed
MIbelow.
48109 In addition, a series
College
Park,
MD 20742
of assigned
readings
are available on library [email protected]
[email protected]
Bernstein, S. 2001. The Compromise of Liberal Environmentalism. Columbia University Press:
New York
Brulle, Robert J. 2000, Agency, Democracy, and Nature: The U.S. Environmental Movement
from a Critical Theory Perspective, MIT Press: Cambridge
Buell, F. 2004. From Apocalypse to Way of Life. London: Routledge
200
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Juliet Schorat the Close of the Twentieth
Laura Miller
Dowie,
M. 1996. Losing Ground: American Environmentalism
519 McGuinn
Department
Century
of Sociology
MIT
140toCommonwealth
Ave.
Mythen, G.
2004. Ulrich Beck: A Critical Introduction
the Risk Society
Pearlman
103
Pluto Press
Boston College
Brandeis University
Chestnut Hill, MA 02467
Waltham,
MA
02454
Course Schedule:
[email protected]
[email protected]
Week 1: April 2, 2007 Introduction and Course Overview
Lisa Peñaloza
Sara Steen
College
Business
Department
of Sociology
Week 2:ofApril
9, 2007 The Policy Process and Social
Movements
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University
of Colorado
University
of and
Colorado
Sabatier, P.A.,
and Jenkins-Smith, Hank C. 1993 Policy
Change
Learning: An Advocacy
Boulder,Coalition
CO 80309
Boulder,
CO
80309
Approach, San Francisco: Westview, pp. 1-39
[email protected]
Rochon, Thomas R. 1998. Culture Moves. Princeton,[email protected]
N.J.: Princeton University Press. Chapters
1&2
Jan
Phillips
JoelChange,
Stillerman
Jenkins
and Form 2005. Social Movements and Social
pp. 331-349 in Janoski et. al.
Department
of
Social
and
2166
AuSable
Hall
The Handbook of Political Sociology Cambridge
Behavioral Science
Grand Valley State University
University
of Southern
Maine/
Allendale, MIMovement
49401
Week 3: April
16, 2007
Overview of the U.S. Environmental
Lewiston-Auburn College
[email protected]
Lewiston,
ME 04240
Brulle. Agency,
Democracy, and Nature, Chapters 5, 7- 9
Deborah Thorne
[email protected]
Rootes, C. 2005 Environmental Movements, in the Blackwell
Companion to Social Movements.
Department of Sociology and
Anthropology
Meghan
Rich
Week
4:Ashlin
April 23,
2007 The Environmental Movement
1980 - 2005
Ohio University
Department of Sociology and Criminal
Justice M. 1996. Losing Ground: American Environmentalism
Athens, OHat45701
Dowie,
the Close of the Twentieth
University
of Delaware
[email protected]
Century
MIT
Newark,
19716
Bernstein.DE2002
The Compromise of Liberal Environmentalism, chapters 2, 3, & 6
[email protected]
Melanie Wallendorf
Department of Marketing
Week 5: April 30, 2007 Anti - Environmental Movement
Eller College of Management
George Ritzer
Department
of Sociology
Brulle. Agency,
Democracy, and Nature, Chapter 6 University of Arizona
University
of
Maryland
Tucson,
85721Philanthropy of
Covington, S. 2005. Moving Public Policy to the Right:
The AZ
Strategic
CollegeConservative
Park, MD 20742
[email protected]
Foundations, pp. 89-114 in Faber,
Daniel and McCarthy, Debra,
[email protected]
Foundations for Social Change Lanham, N.J.: Rowman & Littlefield.
Frederick Wherry
Buell F. 2004. From Apocalypse to Way of Life; Environmental
Crisis in the American Century
J. Michael
Ryan
Department
of
Sociology
Routledge, Chapters 1-6
Department of Sociology
University of Michigan
University
of Maryland
Ann Arbor,Movement
MI 48109
Week
6: May
7, 2007 Foundations and the Environmental
College Park, MD 20742
[email protected]
[email protected]
Dowie,
M. 2002. American Foundations: An Investigative History, Chapter 5
Brulle, Robert J. and J. Craig Jenkins. 2005. “Foundations and the Environmental Movement:
Priorities, Strategies, and Impact” In Faber, D. and McCarthy, D. Foundations for Social
Change Lanham, N.J.: Rowman & Littlefield.
Dreiling, M. and Wolf, B. 2001 Environmental Movement Organizations and Political Strategy:
Tactical Conflicts over NAFTA Organization and Environment Vol. 14, No. 1
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Laura Miller
McGuinn
Department
of Sociology
Week 7: May
9/10, 2007 The Risk Society Class 519
Scheduled
on 9 or 10 May due to instructor
140 Commonwealth Ave.
Pearlman
103 on May 14, 2007
travel
Boston
College
Brandeis
Mythen, G.
University
2004. Ulrich Beck: A Critical Introduction
to the
Risk Society Pluto Press
Chestnut Hill, MA 02467
Waltham, MA 02454
[email protected]
[email protected]
Week 8: May 21, 2007 The Death of Environmentalism?
Shellenberger,
Environmentalism: Global Warming
Lisa
Peñaloza M., and Nordhaus, T. 2004. “The Death
SaraofSteen
in a Post-Environmental World.” El Department
Cerrito CA: ofThe
Breakthrough Institute
CollegePolitics
of Business
Sociology
Brulle,
Way to
Sustainability?”
Bus
468Robert J., and J. Craig Jenkins. 2006. “Spinning
219 our
Ketchum
Hall
Organization
& Environment 19:1-6
University
of Colorado
University of Colorado
Dunlap, Riley
E. 2006. Show Us the Data: The Questionable
Boulder,
CO 80309
Boulder, Empirical
CO 80309Foundations of the
[email protected]
'Death of Environmentalism' Thesis. Organization
[email protected]
and Environment Vol. 19
Jan
Phillips
Week
9: May 28, 2007, No Class (Memorial Day)Joel Stillerman
Department of Social and
2166 AuSable Hall
Behavioral
Science
Grand Valley
StateEcology
University
Week 10: June
4, 2007 Post Warming, Post Democracy,
and Post
University of Southern Maine/
Allendale, MI 49401
Hansen, J. 2005. A
Lewiston-Auburn
College
Slippery Slope: How Much Global
[email protected]
Warming Constitutes "Dangerous
Lewiston,
Anthropogenic
ME 04240 Interference"? An Editorial Essay Climatic Change, 68, 269-279.
Couch, C. 2004. Post-Democracy Polity Press Chapters
Deborah
1 & 2Thorne
[email protected]
Brulle, Robert J. forthcoming Civil Society and the Environment:
Department ofASociology
Critical Perspective
and
on the
MeghanU.S.
Ashlin
Environmental
Rich
Movement, in Moore, S.Anthropology
Trandisciplinary Nature, Island Press
Blühdorn, I. of
2005.
“Symbolic
Politics and the Politics
Ohio
of Simulation:
University Eco-political Practice in
Department
Sociology
and Criminal
Justice the Late-modern Condition” presented at the Athens,
ISA Conference
OH 45701
- Double Standards and
Simulation:
Symbolism, Rhetoric & Irony in [email protected]
Eco-Politics, Bath, UK, Sept 2005
University
of Delaware
Newark, DE 19716
[email protected]
Melanie Wallendorf
Department of Marketing
Eller College of Management
George Ritzer
Department of Sociology
University of Arizona
University of Maryland
Tucson, AZ 85721
College Park, MD 20742
[email protected]
[email protected]
Frederick Wherry
J. Michael Ryan
Department of Sociology
Department of Sociology
University of Michigan
University of Maryland
Ann Arbor, MI 48109
College Park, MD 20742
[email protected]
[email protected]
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Juliet Schor
Laura
SocialMiller
Movements in Health
519 McGuinn
Department
Phil Brown of Sociology
140 Commonwealth Ave.
Pearlman
103
Brown University
Boston College
Brandeis University
Chestnut
02467some exploration in
Waltham,
MAseminar
02454 centers on health social movements,
This graduate
butHill,
alsoMA
provides
[email protected]
general social movement theory and research, as [email protected]
as using some concepts from science and
technology studies (STS), and covering some core medical sociology concerns, such as health
inequalities,
Lisa
Peñalozapersonal experience of illness, and lay-professional
Sara Steen disputes over disease
identification,
College
of Business
causation, prevention, and treatment. We’ll
Department
be building
of Sociology
on and amplifying the
general
Bus
468theoretical model I have been developing around
219 Ketchum
health social
Hallmovements (HSMs),
while also assembling
University
of Coloradoas large a list as possible of allUniversity
HSMs, with
of Colorado
an attendant bibliography.
Boulder, CO 80309
Boulder, CO 80309
[email protected]
[email protected]
COURSE STRUCTURE
Since
it is likely that most people will not have takenJoel
a course
in social movements, it is
Jan
Phillips
Stillerman
necessary to of
provide
theory and research
Department
Socialsome
and background on general social
2166movement
AuSable Hall
methods. That
will be done by starting the seminar with
a focus
general
social movements,
Behavioral
Science
Grand
ValleyonState
University
while also studying
HSMs.
After the first few weeks,
we will shift
to a focus on HSMs, while
University
of Southern
Maine/
Allendale,
MI 49401
also reading one orCollege
two general social movement articles
each week. By continuing with general
Lewiston-Auburn
[email protected]
social movement
readings, we will have the opportunity to examine a variety of theories,
Lewiston,
ME 04240
methods, and applications, to see how useful social movement
scholarship is to HSMs, and to
Deborah Thorne
[email protected]
consider ways to expand social movement scholarship.
We will not,
however,and
be focused on
Department
of Sociology
showing Ashlin
how a specific
explain a particular HSM; indeed, we will
Meghan
Rich social movement theory can Anthropology
be examiningofhow
elements
multiple theories can Ohio
be applied
to any given HSM.
University
Department
Sociology
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Justice
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Each meeting
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presentations by one or two students. The
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of Delaware
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Newark,
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free to bring in additional readings as well.
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Department of Marketing
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a topic
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final presentations, which will occur along with regular
discussion
of readings.
Frederick
Wherry
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Department of Sociology
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of Michiganof articles and books
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web site, as a special section on HSMs, both alphabetically and by specific health movement.
[email protected]
REQUIRED READING:
Required reading consists of the books to be purchased, a reading packet available at Allegra
Printing [designated on the syllabus with an (R)], and readings on WebCT [designated with a
(W)].
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Bert Klandermans
Department
of Sociology
and Suzanne Staggenborg, Methods
Social Movement Research
140 Commonwealth Ave.
(Minnesota)
Pearlman 103
Sandra
Brandeis
Morgen,
University
Into Our Own Hands: The Women’sBoston
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Movement, 1969-1990 (Rutgers)
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Joseph
P. Shapiro,
No Pity: People with Disabilities Chestnut
Forging aHill,
NewMA
Civil
Rights Movement
Waltham,
MA 02454
[email protected]
(Three
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Rivers/Random House)
Steve Epstein, Impure Science: AIDS, Activism, and the Politics of Knowledge (California)
FrankPeñaloza
Fischer, Citizens, Experts, and the Environment
Lisa
Sara
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Business and David Rosner, Deceit and Denial:
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Sept. 13
2) Background in Social Movement Theory and Research/History and Theory of
Jan Phillips Health Social Movements
Joel Stillerman
Department
of Social
and – review essays and applications
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Hall
General social
movements
on major
theories and approaches
2004 (W)
David Meyer,
“Protest and Political Opportunities” Annual
ReviewState
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Behavioral
Science
Grand Valley
University
John McCarthy
and Mark
Wolfson, “Resource Mobilization
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Social
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of Southern
Maine/
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and Organization in the [email protected]
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Robert
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Social Movements: An
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of Sociology and
Overview and Assessment” Annual Review of Sociology
2000 (W)
Anthropology
Meghan Ashlin Rich
Ohio University
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Beatrix Hoffman,
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Melanie Wallendorf
Journal of Public Health. 2003; 93: 75-85 (W)
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Phil Brown, Steve Zavestoski, Sabrina McCormick, Department
Brian Mayer,ofRachel
Morello-Frosch, and
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Management
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Rebecca Gasior, “Embodied Health Movements: Uncharted Territory in Social Movement
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University
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Research”
of Health and Illness 2004 26:1-31
University of Maryland
Tucson, AZ 85721
College Park, MD 20742
[email protected]
[email protected]
Sept. 20
3) Background in Social Movement Theory and Research/Defining and
Frederick Wherry
Characterizing HSMs
J. Michael Ryan
Department of Sociology
Department
of
Sociology
of Michigan
General social movements -- review essays on majorUniversity
theories and
approaches; methods
University
of Maryland
Arbor,
48109
Francesca Polletta
and James M. Jasper, “Collective Ann
Identity
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Social
Movements” Annual
College
Park,
MD
20742
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Review of Sociology 2001 (W)
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The following in Bert Klandermans and Suzanne Staggenborg, Methods of Social Movement
Research:
Bert Klandermans and Suzanne Staggenborg, “Introduction”
Bert Klandermans and Jackie Smith, “Survey Research: A Case for Comparative Designs”
Hank Johnston “Verification and Proof in Frame and Discourse Analysis”
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Sociology
Phil Brown and Stephen Zavestoski,
eds.,
Social Movements in Health:
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Ave.
Phil
Brown
and Stephen Zavestoski, “Social Movements
in Health: An Introduction”
(W)
Pearlman
103
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Judith
Brandeis
Alsop,
University
Kathryn Jones, and Rob Baggott, “PainBoston
and Loss
Experiences as a Catalyst for
Chestnut Hill, MA 02467
Political
Waltham,Activism”
MA 02454
(W)
[email protected]
[email protected]
Chris
Ganchoff, “Regenerating Movements: Embryonic
Stem Cells, Social Movements, and the
Politics of Potentiality” (W)
Lisa Peñaloza
Sara Steen
College
of Business
Department of Sociology
Topic
selection
and presentations
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Sept.
University
27 of Colorado
4) Breast Cancer Activism and Abortion
University
Activism
of Colorado
Boulder, CO 80309
Boulder, CO 80309
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[email protected]
General social movements – methods
The following in Bert Klandermans and Suzanne Staggenborg, Methods of Social Movement
Research:
Jan
Phillips
Joel Stillerman
Kathleen Blee
Verta
in Social
Department
of and
Social
andTaylor, “Semi-structured Interviewing
2166 AuSable
Hall Movement Research”
Paul Lichterman
“Seeing Structure Happen: Theory-Driven
Participant
Behavioral
Science
Grand Valley
StateObservation”
University
David Snow
DannyMaine/
Trom, “The Case Study andAllendale,
the Study of
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Southern
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[email protected]
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04240
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The following in Phil Brown and Stephen Zavestoski,
Deborah
eds., Social
Thorne
Movements in Health:
[email protected]
Carole Joffe and Tracy Weitz, “Uneasy Allies: Prochoice
Department
Physicians,
of Sociology
Feministand
Health Activists,
Anthropology
and
Meghan
the Struggle
Ashlin Rich
for Abortion Rights” (W)
Ohio University
Emily
Department
Kolker,
of “Reaching
Sociology and
for Resources
Criminal and Recognition:
The Breast Cancer Movement” (W)
Maren
Justice Klawiter, “Breast Cancer in Two Regimes: The
Athens,
Impact
OH
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Social Movements on Illness
Experience”
University of(W)
Delaware
[email protected]
Newark, DE 19716
[email protected]
Melanie Wallendorf
Topic
selection and presentations (continued, if necessary)
Department of Marketing
Eller College
Oct.
George
4 Ritzer 5) Environmental Justice and Environmental
Healthof Management
Department of Sociology
University of Arizona
University
of Maryland
Tucson, AZ 85721
General
social
movements - methods
The
College
following
Park, MD
in Bert
20742
Klandermans and Suzanne Staggenborg,
[email protected]
Methods of Social Movement
Research:
[email protected]
Debra Minkoff, “Macro-Organizational Analysis” Frederick Wherry
Donatella
J.
Michaeldella
RyanPorta, “Comparative Politics and Social
Movements”
Department
of Sociology
Bert Klandermans,
Department
of Sociology
Suzanne Staggenborg, and SidneyUniversity
Tarrow, “Conclusion:
of Michigan Blending Methods
and Theories
University
of in
Maryland
Social Movement Research”
Ann Arbor, MI 48109
College Park, MD 20742
[email protected]
[email protected]
Health social movements - activists as scholars
The following from: Special issue of Annals of American Academy of Political and Social
Science: Phil Brown. ed., “Health and the Environment” 2000,Vol. 584:
Lois Gibbs, “Citizen Activism for Environmental Health” (W)
Jodi Sugerman-Brozan and Penn Loh, “Environmental Justice Organizing for Environmental
Health” (W)
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Laura Arquette
Mary
Miller et al., “Holistic Risk-Based Environmental
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Sociology Health Perspectives Supplement
2, 2002(W)
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Chestnut
Hill, MA
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following
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Academy
of Political
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[email protected]
Science: Phil Brown. ed., “Health and the Environment”
2000,Vol. 584:
Michael McCally, “Professionals’Activism for Environmental Health” (W)
Richard
Lisa
Peñaloza
Clapp, “Popular Epidemiology: “Citizen Health
Sara Steen
Surveys in Utah and Massachusetts”
(W)
College
of Business
Department of Sociology
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Environmental
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of Colorado
Health Movement (spring 2007, Columbia
University
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of Colorado
Press) (W)
Scott Frickel,
“Scientist Activism in Environmental Justice
Conflicts:
An Argument for
Boulder,
CO 80309
Boulder,
CO 80309
Synergy” Society and Natural Resources 2004 17:359-366
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[email protected]
(W)
Oct.
Jan Phillips
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6) Challenges to Knowledge and Lay-Professional
Joel StillermanDifferences
Department
of Social
and
2166 AuSable Hall
General social
movements
David Hess,Science
“Technology- and Product-Oriented Movements:
Approximating
Social Movement
Behavioral
Grand Valley
State University
Studies andofSTS”
Science,
Technology, and Human Allendale,
Values in press(W)
University
Southern
Maine/
MI 49401
Lewiston-Auburn College
[email protected]
Lewiston,
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04240
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Frank Fischer, Citizens, Experts, and the Environment
Deborah Thorne
[email protected]
Sara Shostak, “Environmental Justice and Genomics:Department
Acting on the
of Sociology
Futures ofand
Environmental
Meghan
Health” Science
Ashlin Rich
as Culture 2004 13:539-562 (W) Anthropology
Ohio University
Department of Sociology and Criminal
Oct.
Justice
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7) Women’s Health Movement
Athens, OH 45701
University
of Delaware
[email protected]
General social
movements – emerging social movement
groups
Newark,
Kathleen DE
M. Blee
19716and Ashley Currier, “Character Building: the Dynamics of Emerging Social
[email protected]
Movement Groups” Mobilization Volume 10, No. 1:Melanie
February
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2005 (R)
Department of Marketing
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University of Maryland
Tucson, AZ 85721
Oct.
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20742
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Nov. 1
8) AIDS Movement
Frederick Wherry
J.General
Michaelsocial
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Department of Sociology
The following
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of in
Sociology
Bert Klandermans and Suzanne Staggenborg,
of Social Movement
University Methods
of Michigan
University
Maryland
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Minkoff, “Macro-Organizational Ann
Analysis”
Arbor, MI 48109
College
Park, MD 20742
Bert Klandermans,
Suzanne Staggenborg, and [email protected]
Tarrow, “Conclusion: Blending Methods
[email protected]
and Theories in Social Movement Research”
Health social movements
Steve Epstein, Impure Science: AIDS, Activism, and the Politics of Knowledge
Nov. 15
9) Disability Rights Movement
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Miller
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social movements – emotions and culture Juliet Schor
McGuinn
Jeff Goodwin,
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University
Chestnut Hill, MA 02467
Waltham, MA 02454
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Francesco Polletta, “Culture in and Outside Institutions”
in Research in Social Movements,
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Conflicts, and Change 2004 25: 161-183 (Daniel Myers and Daniel Cress, eds., Authority in
Contention)
Lisa
Peñaloza
(R)
Sara Steen
College of Business
Department of Sociology
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Joseph P. Shapiro,
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of Colorado
No Pity: People with Disabilities University
Forging a New
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Civil Rights Movement
Boulder, CO 80309
Boulder, CO 80309
Nov.
[email protected]
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Thanksgiving vacation
[email protected]
Nov.
Jan Phillips
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10) Patients’ Rights Movements: Complementary
Joel Stillerman
and Alternative Medicine,
Mental
Patients,
Department
of Social
andAlzheimer’s Disease, Muscular
2166Dystrophy
AuSable Hall
Behavioral
Science
Grand Valley State University
General social
movements – Science movements
Kelly Moore,
“PoweredMaine/
by the People: Scientific Authority
in Participatory
University
of Southern
Allendale,
MI 49401 Science” (pp. 299323 in Scott Frickel
and Kelly Moore, eds. The [email protected]
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Scott Frickel and Neil Gross, “A General Theory of Scientific/Intellectual
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Movements”
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American Sociological Review 2005 70:204-232 (W)Department of Sociology and
Anthropology
Meghan Ashlin Rich
Ohio University
Department
Sociology and Criminal
Health socialofmovements
In Phil Brown and Stephen Zavestoski, eds., Social Movements
Justice
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Health:
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University
Hess,of“Scientific
Delaware Research Agendas and Health
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Social Movements” (W)
Melinda
Newark, Goldner,
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Renee
[email protected]
Beard, “Emergent Voices: Illness Experience,Melanie
Social Structure,
Wallendorf
and the Alzheimer’s
Disease Movement” (W)
Department of Marketing
Volona
Rabeharisoa, “The Struggle Against Neuromuscular
Eller College
Diseases
of Management
in France and the
George Ritzer
Emergence
Departmentof
ofthe
Sociology
‘Partnership Model” of Patient Organization.”
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Arizona
Science and Medicine
2003
57:2127-2136
(W)
University
of Maryland
Tucson, AZ 85721
College Park, MD 20742
[email protected]
Dec.
6
11) Occupational Safety and Health
[email protected]
Frederick Wherry
J. Michael
Ryanmovements: Outcomes
Department of Sociology
General
social
Selections
Departmentfrom
of Sociology
Marco Giugni, Doug McAdam, and University
Charles Tilly,
editors, How Social
of Michigan
University
Maryland
MovementsofMatter
(R)
Ann Arbor, MI 48109
College Park, MD 20742
[email protected]
[email protected]
Health social movements
Gerald E. Markowitz and David Rosner, Deceit and Denial: The Deadly Politics of Industrial
Pollution
Dec. 13
Presentations of student papers
Final papers due
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Schor
Laura
MillerDemocracy: Leadership, Community and
Practicing
Power
519 McGuinn
Department
of Sociology
Marshall Ganz
140 Commonwealth Ave.
Pearlman
103
Harvard University
Boston College
Brandeis University
Chestnut
MAof02467
Waltham,
MA
02454
"In democratic countries, knowledge of how to combine
is theHill,
mother
all other forms of
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knowledge; on its progress depends that of all the others."
de Tocqueville
Lisa
Peñaloza
Sara Steen
INTRODUCTION
College of Business
Department of Sociology
A. OBJECTIVES:
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Fulfilling
the
democratic
promise
of
equity,
inclusion
and accountability
requires the
University of Colorado
University
of Colorado
participation
of
an
"organized"
citizenry
with
the
power
to
articulate
and
Boulder, CO 80309
Boulder, CO 80309 assert its interests
effectively. Because access to political resources is unequal,
however, the voices many remain
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muted. Organizing – practicing democracy by mobilizing people to combine their resources to
act strategically
on behalf of common interests - is one
to confront this challenge.
Jan
Phillips
Joelway
Stillerman
Organizers
recruit,
identify,
and
develop
leadership;
build
community
Department of Social and
2166 AuSable Hallaround that leadership;
and
build
power
from
that
community.
How
does
this
work?Valley
Why do
some
efforts fail while
Behavioral Science
Grand
State
University
others succeed?
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really make a difference? Allendale, MI 49401
University
of Southern
Lewiston-Auburn College
[email protected]
In
this
seminar
students
explore
these
questions
by
learning
how to build organizations through
Lewiston, ME 04240
which
people
can
make
their
“voices”
heard.
By
analyzing
their
own leadership of an organizing
Deborah Thorne
[email protected]
project of their own choosing and for which they areDepartment
responsible,ofstudents
learnand
skills of
Sociology
reflective
practice.
Students
use
a
framework
to
map
power
and
interests,
develop
leadership,
Anthropology
Meghan Ashlin Rich
build relationships,
motivate
devise strategy
and mobilize resources to create
Ohio University
Department
of Sociology
andparticipation,
Criminal
organizations
and
win
campaigns.
Our
approach
is
equally
for community, electoral,
Justice
Athens,useful
OH 45701
union,
and social
movement organizing. As [email protected]
practitioners, students learn to analyze
University
of Delaware
their
experience
as
data
from
which
they
can
gain
insight
into their leadership skills, the
Newark, DE 19716
workings
of
their
organization,
the
issues
it
addresses,
and
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community within which it
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operates.
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Organizing
projects
have
three
requirements:
they
must
be rooted
the student’s values, they
Department of Sociology
University
of in
Arizona
must
focus
on
achieving
an
outcome
by
the
end
of
the
semester,
and
they must require engaging
University of Maryland
Tucson, AZ 85721
other people
achieve
a project on which they have been
College
Park,toMD
20742this outcome. Students may choose
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working,
design
a
new
project,
or
serve
as
an
“intern”
with
any
one of a wide variety of
[email protected]
advocacy organizations in the Greater Boston area. Projects
have
included campus based work
Frederick
Wherry
with
the
Campus
Political
Society,
Association
of
Black
Harvard
Women,
Phillips Brooks
J. Michael Ryan
Department of
Sociology
House,
Arab
Students’
Association,
Student
Labor
Action
Movement,
Progressive
Jewish
Department of Sociology
University of Michigan
Alliance, Harvard
Diabetes Network, Project Health;Ann
and Arbor,
community
based work with Centro
University
of Maryland
MI 48109
Presente,
the
Greater
Boston
Interfaith
Network,
Hotel
and
Restaurant
Employees Union, St.
College Park, MD 20742
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Marks RC Parish, St. Stephen’s Episcopal Parish, Temple Israel, the Boston Youth Organizing
[email protected]
Project, community development corporations in Chinatown, Allston-Brighton, Dorchester Bay,
Dudley Street and Jamaica Plain; and current electoral campaigns.
B. PARTICIPATION:
This course is intended for students interested in learning how to exercise leadership on behalf
of social change through collective action. There are no prerequisites. Students with a strong a
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Schor of which they are working will
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commitment
on behalf
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be most successful.
Department
of Sociology
140 Commonwealth Ave.
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Boston College
Brandeis
University
C. REQUIREMENTS:
Chestnut
Hill,
MA
02467 They may choose
Waltham,
MA
02454an "organizing project" upon which
1. Students
choose
to base
their
learning.
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a project on which they are already working, initiate [email protected]
a new project or serve with one of various
community or campus organizations. An “organizing project” involves mobilizing others to join
you inPeñaloza
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achieving a clear outcome that advances values
Sara
you
Steen
share by the end of the semester –
and should
College
of Business
average some 8 hours per week.
Department of Sociology
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University
of welcome
Coloradoto use their organizing project
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of work
Colorado
Students are
to advance
Boulder,
CO
80309
Boulder,
CO
80309
they are already doing on the campus or in the community.
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2. Getting Started. The course is front-loaded to give students the opportunity to acquire skills
Jan
Joel Stillerman
that Phillips
will be useful in their organizing projects.
Department
of
Social
and
AuSable Hall
• One-to-One Meetings. To facilitate the selection2166
of organizing
projects – and get acquainted
Behavioral
Science
Grand
Valley State
University
- students meet one-to-one with the instructor for 10 to 15 minutes
during
the first week of class.
th
University
of
Southern
Maine/
Allendale,
MI
49401
• A Conversation with Former Students. On Thursday, September 27 from 7:00 to 8:00
Lewiston-Auburn
PM, we invite youCollege
to meet with former students [email protected]
can share their experience of the class with
Lewiston,
ME 04240
you.
Deborah
Thorne skills useful in your
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• Action Skills Session. To acquaint you with a range
of organizing
of Sociology
and 29th from 9:00
projects, you are required to participate in a SaturdayDepartment
Skills Session
on September
Anthropology
Meghan
Ashlin
Rich
AM to 3:00 PM.
Ohio University
Department of Sociology and Criminal
Justice
Athens,weeks,
OH 45701
3. The seminar meets for 2 hours, once a week for thirteen
with the exception of the
University
of
Delaware
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week of Dec. 10, when class meets on Tuesday AND Thursday. Students use a learning
Newark, DEto19716
framework
integrate lectures and reading with critical reflection on their project experience. In
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each session, we divide the time between discussion Melanie
of reading
and of student projects. You are
Department
of Marketing
required to attend all sessions, do the reading and take
an active part
in discussions.
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George Ritzer
Department
of Sociology
University
of Arizona
4.
The reading
combines theory, practice, and history
and average
130 pages per week. An
University
of
Maryland
Tucson,
AZ
85721
introductory paragraph to each week's readings focuses attention and prioritizes readings.
College Park,
MD 20742
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Readings
designated
with “►” are particularly important
to focus on for class discussion. My
[email protected]
“organizing notes” frame the readings, explain the charts and offer a discussion framework.
Frederick
Wherry
Recommended readings are available for those who wish
to pursue
a topic more deeply and can
J.
Michael
Ryan
Department
of Sociology
be purchased as a separate reading packet.
Department of Sociology
University of Michigan
University
Maryland
Annsubmit
Arbor,"reflection
MI 48109 papers" of
5.
Studentsofkeep
field notes on the basis of which they
College
Park,
MD
20742
[email protected]
approximately 2 pages each week in which they analyze their experience of their own organizing
[email protected]
project.
At the end of each week's readings we pose questions to stimulate reflection. You are
required to submit 8 of 10 possible reflection papers. The first two (Oct. 16, 23), the one on
strategy (Nov. 20) and the last one (Dec. 13) are required. You may skip any two of the
remaining reflection papers without excuse. Reflection papers are to be submitted via email on
Monday by 6 pm to all of the participants in the class using the course web page (instructions
provided in class).
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Laura
6.
Each
Miller
student prepares a 10 to15 minute class presentation
during the semester. Students
McGuinn
Department
introduce themselves,
of Sociology
their project, and discuss how 519
the project
relates to the topic of the week.
140 Commonwealth
Ave.
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Presentations
103 conclude with questions for class discussion.
A sign-up sheet
for the presentations
Boston College
Brandeis
will be distributed
Universityduring the first week of class.
Chestnut Hill, MA 02467
Waltham, MA 02454
[email protected]
7. At the end of reading period, Friday, January 11,[email protected]
each student submits a 20-page final paper
in which they reflect on what they learned about “practicing democracy.” Students are evaluated
Lisa
not on
Peñaloza
whether their project is a “success”, but on their
Sara
ability
Steento analyze what happened and
College
why. Final
of Business
grades will be based on seminar participation
Department
(40%), of
weekly
Sociology
reflection papers (30%)
Bus
and final
468 report (30%).
219 Ketchum Hall
University of Colorado
University of Colorado
Boulder,
CO 80309
Boulder, CO 80309
D. MATERIALS:
[email protected]
The five books required for this course are available [email protected]
for purchase at the COOP and are on
reserve at the Lamont library.
Jan
a) Ellen
Phillips
Langer, Mindfulness, New York: Addison-Wesley,
Joel Stillerman
1989;
Department
b) Saul Alinsky,
of Social
Reveille
and for Radicals, New York: Vintage,
2166 AuSable
1989; Hall
c) Saul Alinsky,
Rules for Radicals, New York: Vintage,
Behavioral
Science
Grand1989;
Valley State University
d) Kim Bobo,
J. Kendall
and S. Max, Organizing for
Social Change:
Midwest Academy Manual
University
of Southern
Maine/
Allendale,
MI 49401
for Activists, New
York: Seven Locks, 2001;
Lewiston-Auburn
College
[email protected]
e) Mark Warren,
Dry Bones Rattling: Community Building to Revitalize American Democracy,
Lewiston,
ME 04240
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2001.
Deborah Thorne
[email protected]
Department of Sociology and
The otherAshlin
required
readings can be found in the SS98Anthropology
reading packet available for purchase at
Meghan
Rich
FlashPrint Copy,
99 Mt. Auburn
Street.
Ohio University
Department
of Sociology
and Criminal
Justice
Athens, OH 45701
Six recommended
books can be purchased at the COOP.
Required readings from these books are
University
of Delaware
[email protected]
in the course
pack:
Newark,
DE 19716
a) Jacqueline B. Mondros and Scott M. Wilson, Organizing
for Power and Empowerment, New
[email protected]
Melanie Wallendorf
York, Columbia University Press, 1994;
Department of Marketing
b) Clyde
Wilcox, Onward Christian Soldiers: The Religious
RightofinManagement
American Politics,
Eller College
George
Ritzer
Boulder,of
Westview
Press, 2000;
Department
Sociology
University of Arizona
c) Lani Guinier
and Gerald Torres, The Miner’s Canary,
Cambridge,
University
of Maryland
Tucson,
AZ 85721Harvard University Press,
2003;Park, MD 20742
College
[email protected]
d) Mike Gecan, Going Public, Boston, Beacon Press, 2002;
[email protected]
e) Charles Payne, I've Got the Light of Freedom: The
Organizing
Tradition and the Mississippi
Frederick
Wherry
J. Michael
Ryan
Freedom
Struggle, University of California Press,Department
1995.
of Sociology
Department
of Sociology
f) Dana Fisher,
Activism, Inc.: How the Outsourcing
of Grassroots
Campaigns is Strangling
University
of Michigan
University
of Maryland
Progressive
Politics in America, Stanford, Stanford
AnnUniversity
Arbor, MIPress,
481092006.
College Park, MD 20742
[email protected]
[email protected]
COURSE OUTLINE:
The following is the schedule of class meetings and reading assignments. The number of
pages/week is indicated in italics beside the date. Special due dates are noted in italics. Letters to
the right of each reading indicate whether the focus is theoretical (T), practical (P) or historical
(H).
INTRODUCING ORGANIZING
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Laura Miller
Week 1: What
Department
of Sociology
is Organizing? (September 25) (161519
pp.)McGuinn
140 Commonwealth
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This week we get acquainted, get an overview
of the course, setAve.
goals, answer
Boston
College
questions,University
Brandeis
and schedule interviews to discuss internships.
"What
is Organizing" frames the work
Chestnut Hill,contextualize
MA 02467 organizing
Waltham,
02454 Bellah, de Tocqueville, and Schattschneider
we will do.MA
Aristotle,
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[email protected]
within democratic politics. McKnight and Alinsky distinguish
between service provision and
organizing. Gunier and Torres challenge us to focus on how the structural divisions of race,
class,Peñaloza
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and gender interact with organizing. Woliver gives
Sara Steen
a snapshot of the mechanics of
community
College
of Business
organizing, and Skocpol locates organizing
Department
in debatesofabout
Sociology
civic engagement.
Bus
Gecan
468discusses different ways in which people “combine.”
219 Ketchum Hall
University of Colorado
University of Colorado
a)
Ganz, "What is Organizing" 2006. (T)
Available
on SS98 Webpage
Boulder,Marshall
CO 80309
Boulder,
CO 80309
[email protected]
b)
Charts and Questions (T) Available on SS98 [email protected]
Webpage
Aristotle, Politica, Book 1, Chapter 1-2 (pp.1127-1130). (T)
Jan Phillips
http://etext.virginia.edu/toc/modeng/public/AriPoli.html
Joel Stillerman
c)
Robert
et al, The Good Society, "Introduction:
We Live
Department
of Bellah,
Social and
2166 AuSable
HallThrough Institutions,"
(p.3-18)
(T)
Behavioral
Science
Grand Valley State University
d)
Alexis
De Tocqueville,
VolumeMI
II, 49401
Part II, Chapters 2-6, (pp.
University
of Southern
Maine/ Democracy in America,
Allendale,
506-517). (H/T)
http://xroads.virginia.edu/~HYPER/DETOC/toc_indx.html
Lewiston-Auburn
College
[email protected]
e)
►E.
E.04240
Schattschneider, The Semisovereign People: A Realist's View of Democracy in
Lewiston,
ME
America, "Introduction" xii-xvii; “The Contagiousness
Deborah Thorne
of Conflict", (1-19). (T)
[email protected]
f)
►Saul Alinsky, Reveille for Radicals, Chapter
1, (pp.3-23).
(P)
Department
of Sociology
and
g)
"Services are Bad for People,"
Anthropology
(pp.41-44). (T)
Meghan►John
AshlinMcKnight,
Rich
h)
MikeofGecan,
Going
Public,
“Chapter 10, Three
Ohio
Public
University
Cultures” (pp.151-166)
Department
Sociology
and
Criminal
Justice Lani Guinier and Gerald Torres, The Miner’sAthens,
i)
Canary,OH
“Political
45701 Race and Magical
University
Realism,
of Delaware
Chapter 1”, (pp.11-31) (T).
[email protected]
Newark,Laura
j)
DE 19716
R. Woliver, "Mobilizing and Sustaining Grassroots Dissent," Journal of Social
[email protected]
Issues, Vol. 52, No. 1, 1996, (pp.139-151). (P)
Melanie Wallendorf
k)
Theda Skocpol, "From Membership to Management”,
Department
Chapter
of Marketing
4 in Diminished
2003 (pp. 127-174). (H)
Eller College of Management
George Democracy,
Ritzer
Department of Sociology
University of Arizona
Week
2: Learning
in the Organizing Tradition (October
(229+
pp.)
University
of Maryland
Tucson,2)AZ
85721
This week
we MD
explore
both “how” we will learn [email protected]
the course of the semester using a
College
Park,
20742
pedagogy of “reflective practice,” and we consider the tradition in which organizing is rooted.
[email protected]
Thich Nhat Hanh reflects on uses and abuses of theory
Frederick
in learning
Wherry
practice. Fiske and Taylor
J.
Michael
explain
howRyan
we form theories, how they shape our learning,
Department
and of
how
Sociology
they inhibit learning.
Department
of Sociology
Langer challenges
us to engage critically with our own
University
theories.ofAnd
Michigan
Kierkegaard calls attention
University
of Maryland
to the fact that
learning practice takes emotional resources,
Ann Arbor,
as well
MIas48109
cognitive and behavioral
College
Park,shows
MD 20742
ones. Sitkin
us how failure is often a [email protected]
component of learning practice. Schon
[email protected]
spells out the meaning of “reflective practice.”
a) Marshall Ganz, “Notes on Learning to Organize” 2006 (T) Available on SS98 Webpage
Questions About Pedagogy Available on SS98 Webpage
b) Helpful Hint #1 Available on SS98 Webpage
►Thich Nhat Hanh, Thundering Silence: Sutra on Knowing the Better Way to Catch a
Snake, "The Raft is Not the Shore," (pp.30-33). (P)
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Schor 6, "Social Schemata," (pp.139Laura
c)
Susan
Miller
Fiske and Shelly E. Taylor, Social Cognition,
Chapter
519 McGuinn
Department
42, 171-181).
of Sociology
(T)
140
Ave.
Pearlman
d)
Ellen Langer,
103
Mindfulness, Chapter 3, "The Roots
of Commonwealth
Mindlessness," (pp.19-35);
Chapter 4,
Boston
College
Brandeis
"The Costs
University
of Mindlessness," (pp.43-55); Chapter
5, "The
Nature of Mindfulness," (pp.61Chestnut
Waltham,
MA 02454
77); Chapter
7, "Creative Uncertainty," (pp.115-129).
(P) Hill, MA 02467
[email protected]
[email protected]
e)
M.S. Kierkegaard, “When the Knower Has to Apply
Knowledge” from “Thoughts on Crucial
Situations in Human Life”, in Parables of Kierkegaard, T.C. Oden, Editor. (P)
Lisa►Sim
f)
Peñaloza
Sitkin, "Learning Through Failure: The Strategy
Sara Steen
of Small Losses", Research in
College
Organizational
of BusinessBehavior, Vol.14, 1992, (pp. 231-266).
Department
(T) of Sociology
g)
“From Technical
Rationality to
BusDonald
468 Schon, The Reflexive Practitioner, Chapter
2192,Ketchum
Hall
Reflection-in-Action”
University
of Colorado (pp.49-69). (T)
University of Colorado
Boulder, CO 80309
Boulder, CO 80309
In the West, popular, civic, and religious currents of [email protected]
the organizing tradition go back at least as
[email protected]
far as Exodus and, in the US, the American Revolution. Currents emerged elsewhere from
Gandhi’s
vision of nonviolent organizing that influenced
social change work in Asia, Africa,
Jan
Phillips
Joel Stillerman
North America,
and Eastern
ofHall
the Montgomery bus
Department
of Social
and Europe. Branch’s excellent
2166account
AuSable
boycott,
theScience
beginning of the modern Civil Rights Movement,
shows
how
organizing actually
Behavioral
Grand Valley
State
University
works.
In my
March blog,
I offer one view of the organizing
challenges
University
of Southern
Maine/
Allendale,
MI 49401we face today. (121+
Lewiston-Auburn College
[email protected]
pp.)
Lewiston, ME 04240
a)
The Bible, Exodus, Chapter 2-6, (pp.82-89). (H)
Deborah Thorne
[email protected]
http://www.bibleontheweb.com/Bible.asp Department of Sociology and
b)
The Glorious Cause, Chapter
Anthropology
11, "Resolution," (pp.221-239). (H)
MeghanRobert
AshlinMiddlekauff,
Rich
Ohio University
Department of Sociology and Criminal
Justice ►Taylor Branch, Parting the Waters, Chapter
c)
Athens,
5, "TheOH
Montgomery
45701
Bus Boycott," (p.120
University
- 205)
of Delaware
(H) http://spot.colorado.edu/%7Ewehr/5025B.TXT
[email protected]
Newark,►DE
d)
Marshall
19716 Ganz, “Organizing for Democratic Renewal”, TPM Café, March 27, 2007;
[email protected]
http://www.tpmcafe.com/blog/coffeehouse/2007/mar/27/organizing_for_democratic_rene
Melanie Wallendorf
Department of Marketing
wal
Eller College of Management
George Ritzer
For
Department
those interested
of Sociology
in exploring diverse currents of the
University
organizing
of Arizona
tradition further, you may
choose
University
among
of Maryland
the following OPTIONAL readings: Tucson, AZ 85721
a)
CollegeOPTIONAL:
Park, MD 20742
Louis Fischer, The Life of Mahatma
[email protected]
Gandhi, Chapter 31, "Drama at the
[email protected]
Seashore" (pp.263 -275). (H)
b)
OPTIONAL: Mark Warren, Dry Bones Rattling,
Chapter
2, “A Theology of
Frederick
Wherry
J. Michael
Organizing”,
Ryan
(p. 40-70). (H)
Department of Sociology
Department
of Sociology
c)
OPTIONAL:
Timothy Garton Ash, The Polish
University
Revolution:
of Michigan
Solidarity 1980-82,
University
of Maryland
Introduction,
Chapter 1 "Inside the Lenin Shipyard,"
Ann Arbor,
(pp.MI
1-67).
48109
(H)
CollegeOPTIONAL:
d)
Park, MD 20742
Margaret Keck and Kathryn Sikkink,
Activists Beyond Borders: Advocacy
[email protected]
[email protected]
Networks in International Politics, Chapter 1, Introduction (pp. 1-38) (H)
e)
OPTIONAL: Howard Spodek, “Review Article: The Self-employed Women’s
Association (SEWA) in India: Feminist, Gandhian Power in Development”, Economic
Development and Cultural Change 43 (1), Oct 1994, (pp. 193-202) (H)
http://www.jstor.org.ezp1.harvard.edu/view/00130079/ap040186/04a00080/0
f)
OPTIONAL: Clyde Wilcox, Onward Christian Soldiers? Chapter 1, (pp. 1-19), The
Christian Right in American Politics, Chapter 3, (pp.60-96) (H).
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Laura Miller
g)
OPTIONAL: Theda Skocpol, Marshall Ganz,
ZiadSchor
Munson, “Nation of Organizers: The
McGuinn
Department
Institutional
of Sociology
Origins of Civic Voluntarism in 519
the United
States”, American Political
140 Commonwealth Ave.
Pearlman
Science
103 Review, September, 2000. (H)
Boston College
Brandeis
http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=aph&AN=4161514&site=ehostUniversity
Chestnut Hill, MA 02467
Waltham,
live&scope=site
MA 02454
[email protected]
[email protected]
Week 3: Telling Your Public Story (October 9) (142 pp.)
This Peñaloza
week we focus on putting into words the sources
of your
Lisa
Sara
Steenmotivation to learn leadership,
organizing,
College
of Business
and social action. This is important to understand
Department
notof
only
Sociology
for its own sake, but
because
especially
in aHall
community other than one’s
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own, peopleofexpect
an account of who you are and why
you areof
there.
These questions of what I
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Colorado
University
Colorado
am calledCO
to do,
what the community is called to do, Boulder,
and whatCO
we 80309
are called to do now are at
Boulder,
80309
least
as old as Moses’ conversation with God at the Burning
Bush: Why me? asks Moses, when
[email protected]
[email protected]
he is called to free his people. And, who – or what - is calling me? And, why these people? Why
Jan Phillips
Joel Stillerman
here,
now, in this place?
Department of Social and
2166 AuSable Hall
Public
narrative
is the art of translating values into action.
is a discursive
process through
Behavioral
Science
GrandItValley
State University
which
individuals,
communities,
their identity,
make choices, and inspire
University
of Southern
Maine/ and nations construct
Allendale,
MI 49401
action.
Because it engages
can instruct and inspire - teaching
Lewiston-Auburn
College both “head” and “heart”, narrative
[email protected]
us
not onlyME
how04240
we should act, but moving us to act. Leaders use public narrative to interpret
Lewiston,
Deborah
Thorneand inspire others to act on
themselves
[email protected]
to others, engage others in a sense of shared
community,
challenges that community must face. It is learning toDepartment
tell a storyof
ofSociology
self, a story
and
of us, and a
story
Meghan
of now.
AshlinIt Rich
is not public speaking, messaging orAnthropology
image making. As Jayanti Ravi, MPA/MC
Ohiowithin,
University
07
Department
said, it’s learning
of Sociology
how and
to bring
Criminal
out their “glow” from
not how to apply a “gloss” from
Justice
Athens, OH 45701
without.
University of Delaware
[email protected]
1.
Newark,
Jerome
DEBruner,
19716 “Two Modes of Thought”, Chapter 2 in Actual Minds, Possible Worlds
[email protected]
(Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1986), p.11
Melanie
– 25. (T)
Wallendorf
2. George Marcus, The Sentimental Citizen: Emotion
Department
in Democratic
of Marketing
Politics, (University Park:
PennRitzer
State University Press, 2002), Chapter 4, “Becoming
Eller College
Reacquainted
of Management
with Emotion”
George
(pp.49-78)
Department
of (T)
Sociology
University of Arizona
3.
Martha of
Nussbaum,
Value”, AZ
Chapter
1 in Upheavals of Thought:
University
Maryland“Emotions and Judgments of Tucson,
85721
The Intelligence
of Emotions, (New York: Cambridge
University Press, 2001), (pp. 19-33).
College
Park, MD 20742
[email protected]
(T)
[email protected]
4. Drew Westen, Chapter 4, “The Emotions BehindFrederick
the Curtain”
(69-88), in The Political
Wherry
J. Michael
Ryan
Brain: the
Role of Emotion in Deciding the Fate Department
of the Nationof(Public
Affairs: 2007). (T)
Sociology
Department
of Sociology
5.
Jerome Bruner,
Making Stories, Chapter 3, “The University
Narrative Creation
of Self”, (pp.63-87). (T)
of Michigan
University
Maryland
6.
RichardofKearney,
“Narrative Matters”, Chapter 11
in On
Stories:
Thinking in Action (New
Ann
Arbor,
MI 48109
College
MD 20742
York:Park,
Routledge,
2006), p. 125-156.(T)
[email protected]
[email protected]
7.
William Gamson, “Political Consciousness”, Chapter 1 in Talking Politics (New York:
Cambridge University Press, 1992), p. 1 – 12. (T)
8. Barack Obama, Keynote Address, “The Audacity of Hope”, Democratic National
Convention, July 27, 2004, Boston, Massachusetts (7 min).
http://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/convention2004/barackobama2004dnc.htm
9. Marshall Ganz, “What Is Public Narrative?” (Working Paper), 2006. (P) Available on SS98
Website
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Laura
Miller Project Report Due
• Organizing
519and
McGuinn
Department
Sociology
• Completeofthe
Telling Your Public Story Worksheet
prepare 2 minute story to explain
140
Commonwealth
Ave.
Pearlman
103
why you’ve been called to undertake the project to which you’ve committed.
Boston College
Brandeis University
Chestnut Hill, MA 02467
Waltham,
MA
02454
INTRODUCING YOUR ORGANIZING PROJECT
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Week 4: Actors, Values and Interests (October 16) (68 pp.)
Lisa you
Peñaloza
Sara Steen
Can
“map” the social world in which your organizing
project is unfolding? Who are the
CollegeWhat
of Business
Department
of Sociology
actors?
do they want? And why? Are there leaders,
a constituency,
an opposition? What
Bus
468
219
Ketchum
Hall
needs, values, and interests are in play? And where do you fit into the picture? Bruner offers
University
Colorado
University
of Bruner
Colorado
some
ideas.ofWhat
do you think of Alderfer’s model of
our needs?
locates the sources of
Boulder,
CO
80309
Boulder,
CO
80309
our values in our cultures, and Weber explains how we turn them into interests. Do you agree?
[email protected]
Walker
explains why groups with common interests [email protected]
may not act on them, while Guinier and
Torres call attention to the political implications of how we understand “interests”. Mondros and
Jan
Phillips
Joel Stillerman
Wilson
describe the actors in a typical organizing campaign.
Department of Social and
2166 AuSable Hall
Behavioral
Science
Valley
State
University
a)
Marshall Ganz. “Notes on Actors, Values andGrand
Interests”
2006.
Available
on SS98
University
of Southern Maine/
Allendale, MI 49401
Webpage
Lewiston-Auburn
[email protected]
b)
Charts and College
Questions Available on SS98 Webpage
Lewiston,
ME 04240
c)
►Saul
Alinsky, Rules for Radicals, “A Word About Words,” (pp.48 - 62). (P)
Deborah
Thorne
[email protected]
d)
►Clayton Alderfer, Existence, Relatedness and
Growth,
Chapter 2, “Theory,” (pp.6-13).
Department of Sociology and
(T)
Anthropology
Meghan
AshlinBruner,
Rich Acts of Meaning, excerpt, Chapter
e)
Jerome
1, “The Proper Study of Man,” (pp.24Ohio University
Department
of Sociology and Criminal
30). (T)
Justice Max Weber, Economy and Society, Volume I,Athens,
45701 Action,” (pp.24-26). (T)
f)
“TypesOH
of Social
University
[email protected]
g)
JackofL.Delaware
Walker, Jr., Mobilizing Interest Groups
in America, Chapter 3, “Explaining the
Newark,Mobilization
DE 19716 of Interests,” (pp. 41-55). (T)
[email protected]
Melanie3,Wallendorf
h)
►Guinier and Torres, The Miner’s Canary, Chapter
“Race as Political Space”, (pp.
Department of Marketing
67– 82). (T)
College of Management
George Mondros
Ritzer and Wilson, Organizing for Power Eller
i)
and Empowerment,
Chapter 1, “Social
Department
of Organizations
Sociology
of Arizona
Action
and Power,” (pp. 1-10).University
(T)
of Maryland
85721
•University
Reflection
Paper # 1 (required): Actors, Values, Tucson,
InterestsAZ
Map
MDPresentation
20742
[email protected]
•College
FirstPark,
Student
[email protected]
Frederick
Week 5: Actors, Resources and Power (October 23)
(107 pp.)Wherry
J.
Michael
Department
Sociology
How
do weRyan
get the power to act on our interests? Power
emergesof
from
the interplay of resources
Department
of
Sociology
University
of
Michigan
and interests among actors: independence, dependency and domination, or interdependence.
University
of Maryland
Arbor, MIWho
48109
What resources
does you constituency need to act onAnn
its interests?
controls them? What are
College
Park,
MD
20742
[email protected]
their interests? Emerson, Loomer and Miller offer similar, but distinct, ways of looking at power
[email protected]
as
relational. They distinguish between “power with” others or the “power over” others that
Gaventa urges we look for below the surface. Ho shows how “power to” and “power over” work.
And the Living Wage case shows how power dynamics can work here at Harvard. Thucydides
challenges us to consider the links between power and right. Use the “four questions to track
down the power” to map power relations in which your project is situated.
a)
Marshall Ganz. “Notes on Actors, Resources, Power” 2006. Available on SS98 Webpage
200
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Laura Miller
Charts
and Questions Available on SS98 Webpage Juliet Schor
519 McGuinn
Department
b)
Richard
of Emerson,
Sociology“Power-Dependence Relations”,
American Sociological Review, 27:31140 Commonwealth Ave.
41. (T)
Pearlman
103(Available in JSTOR - http://www.jstor.org.ezp2.harvard.edu/search/)
Boston
College
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►Bernard
M. Loomer, “Two Kinds of Power,”
The D.R.
Sharpe Lecture on Social Ethics,
Brandeis
University
Chestnut
Hill, MA
October
1975, Criterion, Vol. 15, No.1, 1976
(pp. 11-29).
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Waltham,
MA 29,
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d)
Jean Baker Miller, Women’s Growth in Connection:
Writings from the Stone Center,
Chapter 11, “Women and Power,” (pp.197-205). (T)
Lisa Peñaloza
e)
►John Gaventa, Power and Powerlessness: Quiescence
Sara Steen and Rebellion in an Appalachian
College
Valley,
of Business
Introduction, (pp.3-32). (T)
Department of Sociology
f)
Mimi Ho, “Californians for Justice”, NYU Review
of Law and
Social Change, Volume 27,
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219 Ketchum
Hall
2001-2
(pp. 38 - 43). (H)
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of Colorado
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Living
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and (B) (18 pages); Kennedy
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80309
Boulder,
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School of Government, 20002. Available on SS98
Webpage
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[email protected]
h)
►Thucydides, The Peloponessian Wars, Book V, Chapter 7, “The Sixteenth Year – the
Melian Dialogue,” (pp.400-408). (H)
Jan Phillips
Joel Stillerman
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OPTIONAL:
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University
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Press, Maine/
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Reflection Paper
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Lewiston, ME 04240
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HOW ORGANIZING WORKS: LEADERSHIP, Deborah
RELATIONSHIPS,
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STRATEGY, AND ACTION
Organizers
mobilize
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new interpretations of what needs to be done and why. And we act by mobilizing
and deploying resources.
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Melanie Wallendorf
Department of Marketing
Week
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Developing Leadership (October 30) (154Eller
pp.) College of Management
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Where do leaders
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purposes.
Gardner draws attention to the role of our story in exercising leadership. And Freeman,
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Alinsky, and King challenge our assumptions about leadership
Frederick Wherry
so we can learn to lead more
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effectively.
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leadership by letting other
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claim one’s
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of Maryland
others to claim
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Ann Arbor, MI 48109
College Park, MD 20742
[email protected]
[email protected]
a)
Marshall Ganz. “Notes on Leadership” 2006. Available on SS98 Webpage
Charts and Questions Available on SS98 Webpage
b) Helpful Hint #2 Available on SS98 Webpage
c) James McGregor Burns, Leadership, Chapter 1, "The Power of Leadership," (p.9-28),
Chapter 2, “The Structure of Moral Leadership” (pp.29-46). (T)
d) Ronald Heifetz, Leadership Without Easy Answers, "Values in Leadership," Chapter 1, (pp.
13-27). (T/P)
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Laura
e)
J. Richard
Miller Hackman, Leading Teams: Setting theJuliet
StageSchor
for Great Performances, Chapter 7,
Department
“Imperatives
of Sociology
for Leaders” (pp.199 - 232) (T/P). 519 McGuinn
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Howard
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Gardner, “The Leaders’ Stories”, Chapter
3 in
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(New York: Basic
Boston College
Brandeis
Books,University
1995), p. 41 -65.
Chestnut
Hill,
MA 02467
Waltham,
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►Jo Freeman,
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"The Tyranny of Structurelessness,"
Berkeley
Journal
of Sociology, 1970,
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[email protected]
(pp.1-8). (P) http://www.anarres.org.au/essays/amtos.htm
h) Richard L. Moreland, "The Formation of Small Groups", in Group Processes, edited by
LisaKendrick,
Peñaloza C. (1987), (pp. 80-105). (T/P)
Sara Steen
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►Saul
Alinsky, Reveille for Radicals, Chapter 5,Department
"Native Leadership,"
(pp.64-75). (P)
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of Business
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Dr. M.L. King, Jr. A Testament of University
Hope, "TheofDrum
Colorado
Major Instinct," (p.25967). (H)
Boulder,
CO 80309
Boulder, CO 80309
[email protected]
l)
OPTIONAL: Boas Shamir and Galit Eilam, “What’s
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Your Story?” A life-stories approach to
authentic leadership development”, in The Leadership Quarterly 16, 2005, (pp. 395 – 417).
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Phillips
Joel Stillerman
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Grand Valley State University
Week 7: Mobilizing
Relationships
to Build Community
(November
6) (97 pp.)
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of Southern
Maine/
Allendale,
MI 49401
Organizers build relationships
to construct a “community
of interest”, a constituency. Through
Lewiston-Auburn
College
[email protected]
relationships
come to understand our interests and develop the resources to act upon them.
Lewiston,
MEwe
04240
Gladwell explains the power of relational networks –Deborah
with people
Thorne
“like us” and people not “like
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us” – in everyday life. Blau looks at relationships as Department
exchange while
of Sociology
Goffman and
views them as
Anthropology
Meghan
performances.
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Rich points to the role of our “story”
in entering into relationship with others.
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Department
Eccles and Nohria
of Sociology
distinguish
and Criminal
face-to-face relationships
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Athens,
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relationships can become resources – “social capital.”
Rosin,OH
Rondeau,
University
of Delaware
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organizers do
relational work. Bobo offers some hints
on recruiting.
Newark,Marshall
a)
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Ganz, “Notes on Relationships” 2006. Available on SS98 Webpage
[email protected]
Charts and Questions Available on SS98 Webpage
Melanie Wallendorf
b)
►Malcolm Gladwell, “Six Degrees of Lois Weisberg,”
DepartmentinofThe
Marketing
New Yorker, January 11,
Eller College of Management
George 1999
Ritzer(pp. 52-63). (T) http://www.gladwell.com/1999/1999_01_11_a_weisberg.htm
c)
PeterofM.Sociology
Blau, Exchange and Power in SocialUniversity
Life “Introduction.”
Department
of Arizona(pp.1-11). (T)
d)
Erving
Goffman, “On face-work: an analysisTucson,
of ritualAZ
elements
University
of Maryland
85721in social interaction,” in
Dynamics, edited by Bennis, [email protected]
al. (pp. 213-225, 229-231). (T)
CollegeInterpersonal
Park, MD 20742
e)
Richard Kearney, On Stories, “Where do Stories Come From” (pp.3-4)? (T)
[email protected]
f)
Robert Putnam, Making Democracy Work, “Social
Capital
and Institutional Success”,
Frederick
Wherry
J. Michael
Chapter
Ryan6, (p. 163-185) (T)
Department of Sociology
Department
of Rondeau
Sociologyand Gladys McKenzie, “A Woman’s
g)
►Kris
UniversityWay
of Michigan
of Organizing,” Labor Research
University
of Maryland
Review
#18, (pp. 45-59). (H/P)
Ann Arbor, MI 48109
College►Ian
h)
Park, Simmons,
MD 20742“On One-to-Ones,” in The Next
Steps of Organizing: Putting Theory into
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[email protected]
Action, Sociology 91r Seminar, (pp. 12-15) 1998. (P)
i)
Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed, Chapter 2, (pp. 57-74). (T)
http://www.webster.edu/~corbetre/philosophy/education/freire/freire-2.html
j)
Hanna Rosin, “People-Powered: In New Hampshire, Howard Dean's Campaign Has
Energized Voters”, Washington Post, Tuesday, December 9, 2003, p. C01.
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Mike
Gecan, Going Public, Chapter 1, “All Real
Living
Is Meeting”, (pp.19-32) (P)
Brandeis
University
Chestnut
Hill,
MA
02467
Waltham,
l)
OPTIONAL:
MA 02454 Robert Eccles and Nitin Nohria,
Networks
and
Organizations,
“Face-to-Face:
[email protected]
Making Network Organizations Work,” HBS,[email protected]
(pp. 288-308). (T)
m)
OPTIONAL: Mark Granovetter, “The Strength of Weak Ties,” American Sociological
Review, 78:6 (pp. 1360-79). (T) http://www- Sara Steen
Lisa Peñaloza
Collegepersonal.si.umich.edu/~rfrost/courses/SI110/readings/In_Out_and_Beyond/Granovetter.pdf
of Business
Department of Sociology
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Bus 468OPTIONAL: Jim Rooney, Organizing the South
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Hall 6, “Relational
Organizing:
Launching South Bronx Churches”,
(pp. 105-118).
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of Colorado
University
of Colorado
CO 80309
Boulder, CO 80309
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Reflection
Paper #4
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Week 8: Mobilizing Motivation: Values, Story, Celebration (November 13) (pp. 109)
We
reinterpret our world – and our roles within it – even
as we change it. As Bruner explains we
Jan Phillips
Joel Stillerman
understand
we should
We understand
Departmentwhy
of Social
and act, our motivation, as a story.
2166 AuSable
Hall how we can act, our
analysis,
as Science
strategy. This week, we reconsider the role
of motivation
in organizing
Behavioral
Grand
Valley State
University and the role
of
stories ofof“us”
and “now”
in particular in generating
action. Alinsky
argues organizing stories
University
Southern
Maine/
Allendale,
MI 49401
are
best drawn from
community traditions. We’ll look
at video examples people telling stories of
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College
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us
as a wayME
of expressing
community identities as well as a story of now as a call to action. Amy
Lewiston,
04240
Kober
brings the mission of American Rivers to life Deborah
and SusanThorne
Christopher does the same with
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participants in an electoral campaign. Our ‘story of now”
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is drawn
offrom
Sociology
Shakespeare,
and
whose
Anthropology
Henry
Meghan
V Ashlin
challenges
Richhis men to find the courage to act
despite seemingly hopeless odds. Reagan
Ohio tradition
University
and
Department
Cuomo draw
of Sociology
on distinct
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Criminal
within the American
to tell contrasting stories in
the
Justice
early 1980’s – a topic Westen take further in his chapter
Athens, on
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And, although he
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of Delaware
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doesn’t
explain
how a movement begins, Chong explains
why people become motivated to join
once
Newark,
it has
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19716
[email protected]
a)
Marshall Ganz, “Notes on Interpretation I: Story”
Melanie
2006.
Wallendorf
(P) Available on SS98 Webpage
b)
Charts and Questions Available on SS98 Webpage
Department of Marketing
c)
Alinsky, Chapter 6, Reveille for Radicals,
Eller
“Community
College of Traditions
Management
and
George Saul
Ritzer
Department
Organizations,”
of Sociology
(pp.76-88). (P)
University of Arizona
d)
Barbara
L. Fredrickson, “The Value of Positive
Emotions”
in American Scientist,
University
of Maryland
Tucson,
AZ 85721
91,20742
2003, (pp. 330 – 335).
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Park, MD
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http://ezp1.harvard.edu/login?url=http://search.epnet.com.ezp1.harvard.edu/login.aspx?di
[email protected]
rect=true&db=aph&an=10029857&scope=site
Frederick Wherry
J. Michael
e)
Joseph
Ryan
Davis, Stories of Change: Narrative and
Social Movements,
“Narrative and Social
Department
of Sociology
Department
Movements”
of Sociology
(pp. 10-29) (T)
University of Michigan
University
of Maryland
f)
Marshall
Ganz, “The Power of Story in Social
Movements”,
unpub. Paper (pp. 1-7). (H)
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Arbor, MI 48109
Collegehttp://ksghome.harvard.edu/~.MGanz.Academic.Ksg/MG%20POWER%20OF%20STOR
Park, MD 20742
[email protected]
[email protected]
Y.pdf
g)
Amy Kober, American River Story, December, 2006, Washington, D.C. (H) Available on
SS98 Webpage
h)
Susan Christopher, Story of Us, Camp Obama, Los Angeles, CA, July, 2007. (H)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z-WEM-taoG8
i)
William Shakespeare, Henry V, Act IV, Scene 3, “We Happy Few,” (pp. 140 –149). (H)
http://www.shakespeare-literature.com/Henry_V/20.html
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Schor
Laura Miller
j)
Dennis Chong, Collective Action and the Civil
Rights
Movement, Chapter 5, “Creating
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the Motivation
of Sociology
to Participate in Collective Action,”
(pp. 90-102).(T)
140 Commonwealth
Ave.(H)
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20, 1981, (7 pp.).
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Brandeis
http://www.bartleby.com/124/pres61.html
University
Chestnut
Hill, MA
02467 Convention, July
Waltham,
l)
Mario
MACuomo,
02454 “Two Cities,” Keynote Address
to Democratic
National
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[email protected]
17, 1984, (11 pp.). (H) http://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/cuomo1984dnc.htm
Also, there is audio here.
Lisa Peñaloza
m)
Drew Westen, Chapter 7, “Writing An Emotional
Sara Steen
Constitution” (p. 145-169), The
CollegePolitical
of Business
Brain: the Role of Emotion in Deciding
Department
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the Nation (Public Affairs,
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University
Processes,
of Colorado
Micromobilization, and
51, August
1986. (pp. 464-481) (T).
Boulder,Movement
CO 80309Participation,” American Soc. Review,
Boulder,
CO 80309
[email protected]
(Available in JSTOR - http://www.jstor.org.ezp2.harvard.edu/search/)
[email protected]
Reflection Paper #5
Jan Phillips
Joel Stillerman
Department
Week 9: Mobilizing
of Social and
Power: Analysis, Strategy, Deliberation
2166 AuSable
(November
Hall
20) (134 pp.)
Behavioral
Strategy is how
Science
we turn what we have into what we need
GrandtoValley
get what
State
weUniversity
want. It is both analytic
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and imaginative,
of Southern
figuring
Maine/
out how we can use our resources
Allendale,
to achieve
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our goals. We reflect on a
Lewiston-Auburn
“classic” tale of strategy
Collegerecounted in the Book of Samuel:
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the story of David and Goliath, a tale
Lewiston,
that arguesME
resourcefulness
04240
can compensate for lack of resources by developing “strategic
[email protected]
capacity”. Mintzberg’s view that strategy is a “verb”Deborah
is drawnThorne
from business while Kahn’s view
Department
Sociology
andstrategy and
comes from organizing. Alinsky and Bobo offer some
“how to’s”offor
organizing
Anthropology
Meghan
Ashlin
Richout how to make deliberation work
tactics. Bobo
spells
by holding good meetings.
a)
Marshall
Ganz. “Notes
on Interpretation II: Strategy”
Ohio University
2006. (P)Available on SS98
Department
of Sociology
and Criminal
Justice Webpage Charts and Questions Available onAthens,
SS98 Webpage
OH 45701
University
Helpful
of Delaware
Hint #3 Available on SS98 [email protected]
Newark,►The
b)
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[email protected]
http://www.bibleontheweb.com/Bible.asp Melanie Wallendorf
c)
►Marshall Ganz, from “Why David Sometimes
Department
Wins: Strategic
of Marketing
Capacity in Social
Rethinking Social Movements (pp.
Eller
1-10).(T)
College of Management
George Movements”
Ritzer
Department
http://www.shatil.org.il/data/Why%20David%20Sometimes%20Wins.pdf
of Sociology
University of Arizona
d)
Henry
Mintzberg, “Crafting Strategy,” Harvard
Business
Review, July 1987, (pp. 66-74).
University
of Maryland
Tucson,
AZ 85721
College(T)
Park, MD 20742
[email protected]
e)
►Si Kahn, Organizing, Chapter 8 “Strategy,” (pp.155-174). (P)
[email protected]
f)
Marshall Ganz. “Resources and Resourcefulness:
Strategic
Capacity in the Unionization
Frederick
Wherry
J. Michael
of California
Ryan
Agriculture, 1959-1966”, American
Journalof
ofSociology
Sociology, January 2000,
Department
Department
(pp.1003-1005;
of Sociology
1019-1044). (T/H)
University of Michigan
University
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of Maryland
Ann Arbor, MI 48109
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Park, MD 20742
[email protected]
[email protected]
g)
Saul Alinsky, Rules for Radicals, Tactics, (pp. 126-136, 148-155, 158-161). (P)
h)
Kim Bobo, Organizing for Social Change, Chapter 4 “Developing a Strategy” (pp.3047), Chapter 5, “A Guide to Tactics,” (pp.48-61); Chapter 12, “Planning and Facilitating
Meetings,” (pp.128-139). (P)
i)
Saul Alinsky, Reveille for Radicals, Chapter 4, “The Program” (pp.48-54). (P)
• Reflection Paper #6, (required) 3-4 pages answering these questions:
1) My project is working because….
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Laura Miller
2) My project is not working because…
519 McGuinn
Department of Sociology
140
Commonwealth
Ave.
Week 10:103
Mobilizing Resources: Action (November
27)
(53 pp.)
Pearlman
Boston
College
Brandeis
Organizers
University
mobilize and deploy resources to take action
based
on commitments they secure from
Chestnut
Hill, MA
02467 how we can
Waltham,
others. As MA
Oliver
02454
and Marwell argue, the way we mobilize
resources
influences
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[email protected]
deploy them and vice-versa. But whatever the constraints,
acting to make change involves risk,
and risk requires courage. Before moving on we return to the “now” piece of our public story,
Lisa
illustrated
Peñaloza
by Shakespeare’s account of how Henry VSara
wasSteen
able to inspire his “happy few” to face
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their fear.
ofHackman
Business argues that the way we organizeDepartment
the action can
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itself enhance our capacity
for action
tactics
together
strategically.
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Ketchum
Hall
University
a)
Marshall
of Colorado
Ganz. “Notes on Action” 2006. Available
University
on SS98
of Colorado
Webpage
and Questions Available on SS98 Webpage
Jacques
Levy, Cesar Chavez,
Boulder,Charts
CO 80309
Boulder,
CO 80309
[email protected]
Prologue, (pp. xxi-xxv). (H)
[email protected]
b)
Pamela Oliver and Gerald Marwell, “Mobilizing Technologies for Collective Action,”
Chapter 11, (pp 251-271), in Frontiers in Social
Jan Phillips
JoelMovement
StillermanTheory, edited by Morris and
Mueller.
(T) and
Department
of Social
2166 AuSable Hall
c)
KimScience
Bobo, Organizing for Social Change, Chapter
“Designing
Actions,” (pp.70-79),
Behavioral
Grand 7,
Valley
State University
Chapter
21, “Grassroots
(P)MI 49401
University
of Southern
Maine/ Fundraising,” (pp. 276-286).
Allendale,
d)
Richard Hackman,
and for Groups”, adapted from J.R.
Lewiston-Auburn
College “Designing Work for Individuals
[email protected]
Hackman,
Work Design in J.R. Hackman & J.L. Suttle (Eds.) Improving Life at work:
Lewiston,
ME 04240
Behavioral science approaches to organizational
Deborah
change.
Thorne
Santa Monica: Goodyear
[email protected]
Publishing Company, 1977. (pp. 242-255). Please
Department
take special
of Sociology
note of pages
and 242-244,
248-250
Anthropology
and how to use it.
Meghanand
Ashlin
Richand the Job Characteristics Model
e)
Creating
a Cultureand
of Commitment,
Leadership
Ohio
Development
University Project, Sierra Club, 2007.
Department
of Sociology
Criminal
Justice (5 pp)
Athens, OH 45701
of Delaware
[email protected]
•University
Reflection
Paper #7
Newark, DE 19716
Week 11: Communities in Action: Campaigns (December
[email protected]
Melanie 4)
Wallendorf
(pp. 115)
Organizers conduct campaigns to build organizations,
Department
and build organizations
of Marketing capable of running
Eller
College
of Management
George
campaigns.
Ritzer
Campaigns are rhythms of activity growing
out
of a foundation,
targeted on specific
Department
outcomes, beginning
of Sociology
with a "kick-off", gathering momentum,
Universityand
of Arizona
culminating in a peak moment
University
of mobilization
of Maryland
when the campaign is won or lost. Gersick
Tucson,
explains
AZ 85721
"rhythms" of organizational
College
development.
Park, Levy
MD 20742
recounts how the farm workers’ campaign
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“peaked” after five years, while
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Meyerson focuses on a shorter – but more recent – campaign. Read one of the following three
starred (***) cases: the “Orange Hats” case that focuses
Frederick
on neighborhood
Wherry
self-help, “Cold
J.
Michael
Anger”
on Ryan
city-wide claims making, and the UFW onDepartment
a national campaign.
of Sociology
Department
of Sociology
a)
Marshall
Ganz. “Notes on Campaigns” 2006.University
Available of
onMichigan
SS98 Webpage
University
of Maryland
Charts
and Questions. Available on SS98 Webpage
Ann Arbor, MI 48109
CollegeConnie
b)
Park, MD
Gersick,
20742"Pacing Strategic Change: The
Case of a New Venture," Academy of
[email protected]
[email protected]
Management Journal, February 1994 (pp. 9-14, 36-42). (T) (Available in JSTOR http://www.jstor.org.ezp2.harvard.edu/search/)
c)
***Jacques Levy, Cesar Chavez: Autobiography of La Causa; “Boycott Grapes”
(pp.263-271), “The Miracle of the Fast”, (pp. 272-293); Book IV, Book V, "Victory in
the Vineyards," Chapters 6-14, (pp.294-325).
d)
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Neighborhood Battles Drugs,” (pp. 1-18). (H) Available on SS98 Webpage.
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SchorThem Alone. They’re
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“Leave
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(pp. 105-126). (H)
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Ave. 11, No. 15, June
Pearlman
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103 Meyerson, “A Clean Sweep”, The American
Prospect, Volume
Boston-College
Brandeis
19,University
2000 (pp.24-29). (H) (Available in Lexis-Nexis
http:/web.lexisChestnut Hill, MA 02467
Waltham,
MA 02454
nexis.com.ezp2.harvard.edu/universe/form/academic/s_guidednews.html)
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Autobiography of Nelson
Bus 468Mandela, Chapter 14 (pp. 121-140). (H)
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University
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of ColoradoMartha Chen, "Engendering World
University
Conferences:
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the International
Boulder,Women's
CO 80309
Movement and the United Nations",Boulder,
Third World
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Quarterly, Vol. 16, No. 3,
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1995, (pp. 477-491).
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Lewiston-Auburn
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Johnson,
Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 1999, (pp.135-150). (H)
Lewiston,
ME 04240
Deborah Thorne
[email protected]
• Reflection Paper #8
Department of Sociology and
Meghan
Ashlin
Rich
Week 12a:
Communities
in Action: OrganizationsAnthropology
(December 11) (104 pp.)
Ohio University
Department
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and Criminal
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campaigns
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But creating organizations that
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continue to respond, change, and adapt requires learning
howOH
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dissent. Wallendorf
Kahn focuses on the nuts and bolts
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of organization. And Warren focuses on the challenge
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Ritzer
religious, and economic lines.
Department of Sociology
University of Arizona
University
of Maryland
Tucson,
AZ 85721
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Marshall
Ganz. “Notes on Organizations” 2006.
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on SS98 Webpage
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Park, MD
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Questions. Available on SS98 Webpage
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b)
►Kenwyn Smith and David Berg, "A Paradoxical Conception of Group Dynamics",
Frederick
Human Relations, Vol. 40:10, 1987, (pp. 633-654).
(T) Wherry
J. Michael
Ryan
Department of Sociology
http://hum.sagepub.com.ezp1.harvard.edu/cgi/content/abstract/40/10/633
Department
of Sociology
of Michigan
c)
►Irving
Janis, "Groupthink", in PerspectivesUniversity
on Behavior
in Organizations, edited by
University
Maryland1983, (pp. 378-384). (T)
Ann Arbor, MI 48109
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College
MD
20742
[email protected]
d)
SiPark,
Kahn,
Organizing,
Chapter 3, "Organizations,"
(pp. 55-77). (P)
[email protected]
e)
►Mark Warren, Dry Bones Rattling, from “Four, Bridging Communities Across Racial
Lines” (98-100; 114-123) and “Five, Deepening Multiracial Collaboration,” (pp. 124132; 152-155). (H)
f)
Marion McCollom, Groups in Context: A New Perspective on Group Dynamics, edited
by Marion McCollum and Jonathon Gillette. Chapter 2, “Group Formation: Boundaries,
Leadership and Culture” in, Lanham MD: University Press of America, 1995, (pp.35-48).
(T)
200
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•Laura Miller
Reflection Paper #9
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Commonwealth
Ave.
Week 12b:
Becoming a Good Organizer (December
13)
(112 pp.)
Pearlman
103
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weekUniversity
we reflect on organizing as a craft, art, andBoston
vocation:
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grow?
Heifetz discusses the challenge of accepting responsibility
for leadership. Langer reflects
on how to work "mindfully." Addams, Chavez, and Alinsky describe how they came to terms
with Peñaloza
Lisa
these challenges.
Sara Steen
a)
College
Ronald
of Business
Heifetz, Leadership Without Easy Answers,
Department
Chapter
of Sociology
11, "The Personal
Bus 468Challenge," (pp. 250-276). (P)
219 Ketchum Hall
b)
University
Ellen
of Langer,
Colorado
Mindfulness, Chapter 8, "Mindfulness
University
on the
of Colorado
Job," (pp.133-148). (P)
c)
Cesar
Chavez, "The Organizer's Tale," Ramparts
Magazine,
July 1966, (pp. 43 - 50). (P)
Boulder,
CO 80309
Boulder,
CO 80309
d)
[email protected]
Saul Alinsky, Rules for Radicals, "The Education
[email protected]
of the Organizer," (pp.63-80). (P)
e)
Charles M. Payne, I’ve Got the Light of Freedom, “Chapter 8: Slow and Respectful
Work,” (pp.236-264). (H)
Jan Phillips
Joel Stillerman
f)
Jane of
Addams,
Twenty Years at Hull House, Chapters
4-5, (pp.
60-89). (P)
Department
Social and
2166 AuSable
Hall
http://digital.library.upenn.edu/women/addams/hullhouse/hullhouse.html
Behavioral
Science
Grand Valley State University
University of Southern Maine/
Allendale, MI 49401
g)
OPTIONAL:
Mondros and Wilson, Organizing
for Power and Empowerment, Chapter
Lewiston-Auburn
College
[email protected]
2, "The
Organizers," (pp.11-35). (P)
Lewiston,
ME 04240
Deborah Thorne
•[email protected]
Reflection Paper #10 (required)
Department of Sociology and
Anthropology
Week
Meghan
13:Ashlin
Conclusion,
Rich Evaluation Where Do We Go
From Here? (December 18) (189 pp.)
Ohio University
Department
of Sociology
and Criminal
Note:
Class will
be scheduled
for 3 hours.
So
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what does organizing contribute to public life? After
Athens,
reflecting
OH 45701
on the “big picture” today,
we’ll hear from
University
of Delaware
everyone about what they learned from
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their participation in the course. Did we
meet individual
Newark,
DE 19716
and group goals? How could the course be improved? Alinsky's call for broader
participation in democratic governance is as timely now
[email protected]
Melanie
as when
Wallendorf
it was written in 1946.
Skocpol, Grieder, Weir, and I argue a need for greater
Department
participation.
of Marketing
Judis describes a world of
advocacy
without participants, while Reed describesEller
his organizing
College ofsuccesses.
Management
Keck and Sikkink
George Ritzer
point
Department
to the promise
of Sociology
of transnational social movement
University
organizing.
of Arizona
Skocpol suggests future
directions
Universityfor
of Maryland
democracy.
Tucson, AZ 85721
a)
College
Alinsky,
Park,Reveille
MD 20742
for Radicals, Chapter 11, (pp. 190-204).
[email protected]
(P)
b)
[email protected]
►Ralph Reed, Politically Incorrect, 1996, Chapter 13, "Miracle at the Grassroots," (pp. 189202); Chapter 17, "What is Right about America:Frederick
How YouWherry
Can Make a Difference," 1996,
J. Michael
Ryan (H).
(pp.249-267).
Department of Sociology
Department
Sociology
University
of Michigan
c)
William of
Greider,
Who Will Tell the People?, Chapter
10, "Democratic
Promise," 1993, (pp.
University
of Maryland
222-241).
(H
Ann Arbor, MI 48109
College
MD "The
20742Pressure Elite: Inside the Narrow
d)
JohnPark,
B. Judis,
[email protected]
World of Advocacy Group Politics,"
[email protected]
The American Prospect, #9, Spring 1992, (pp. 15-29). (H)
e) Margaret Keck and Kathryn Sikkink, Activists Beyond Borders, Chapter 6, “Conclusions,”
1996, (pp.199-217) (T)
f) ►Margaret Weir and Marshall Ganz, "Reconnecting People and Politics," in The New
Majority: Toward a Popular Progressive Politics, 1999, (pp. 149-171). (H)
http://ksghome.harvard.edu/~mganz/publications.htm
200
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Juliet Schor to Management in American
Laura
g)
Theda
Miller
Skocpol, Diminished Democracy: From Membership
519Democracy,”
McGuinn 2003, (pp. 254-293).
Department
Civic Life,
of Chapter
Sociology
7, “Reinventing American Civic
140 Commonwealth
Ave.
h) Dana Fisher,
Pearlman
103 “The Activism Industry”, in The American
Prospect, September
14, 2006.
Boston College
Brandeis
http://www.prospect.org/web/page.ww?section=root&name=ViewWeb&articleId=11993
University
Chestnut
Hill,
MA 02467
i)
Zack Exley,
“Stories and Numbers – a Closer Look
at Camp
Obama”,
Huffington Post,
Waltham,
MA 02454
[email protected]
August 29, 2007. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/zack-exley/[email protected]
c_b_62278.html
Lisa Peñaloza
Sara Steen
College
of Business
FINAL PAPER
due Friday, January 11 at 4 pm. Department of Sociology
Bus 468
219 Ketchum Hall
University
of Colorado
University of Colorado
RESOURCES
Boulder, CO 80309
Boulder, CO 80309
A. Required Reading
[email protected]
[email protected]
1.
Ellen Langer, Mindfulness, Addison-Wesley, 1989.
2.
Jan Phillips
Saul Alinsky, Reveille for Radicals, Vintage,Joel
1989.
Stillerman
3.
Department
Saul of
Alinsky,
Social Rules
and for Radicals, Vintage, 1989.
2166 AuSable Hall
4.
Behavioral
KimScience
Bobo, Jackie Kendall and Steve Max, Organizing
Grand Valley
for Social
State University
Change: Midwest
University
Academy
of Southern
Manual
Maine/
for Activists, Seven Locks, Allendale,
2001.
MI 49401
5.
Lewiston-Auburn
Mark Warren,
College
Dry Bones Rattling: Community
[email protected]
Building to Revitalize American
Lewiston,
Democracy,
ME 04240Princeton University Press, 2001.
6.
[email protected]
PAL 177 Readers, available at FlashPrint. Deborah Thorne
7.
PAL 177 Organizing Notes, available online.Department of Sociology and
Anthropology
Meghan Ashlin Rich
Ohio University
Department
of Sociology
and Criminal
B.
Recommended
Reading
Justice
Athens, OH
45701 and Empowerment,
1.
Jacqueline B. Mondros and Scott M. Wilson, Organizing
for Power
University
of Delaware
[email protected]
Columbia
University Press, 1994.
Newark,
DE 19716
2.
Lani Guinier
and Gerald Torres, The Miner’s Canary, Harvard University Press, 2003.
[email protected]
3.
Mike Gecan, Going Public, Beacon Press, 2002. Melanie Wallendorf
Department
ofTradition
Marketingand the Mississippi
4. Charles Payne, I've Got the Light of Freedom: The
Organizing
College of Management
George
Freedom
RitzerStruggle, University of California Press,Eller
1995.
Department
of Sociology
of Arizona
5.
Clyde Wilcox,
Onward Christian Soldiers?: TheUniversity
Religious Right
in American Politics,
University
Westview
of Maryland
Press, 2000.
Tucson, AZ 85721
6.
College
DanaPark,
Fisher,
MDActivism,
20742 Inc.: How the Outsourcing
[email protected]
of Grassroots Campaigns is Strangling
Progressive Politics in America, Stanford, Stanford University Press, 2006.
[email protected]
Frederick Wherry
J. Michael
Department of Sociology
C.
LifetimeRyan
Reading
Department
of are
Sociology
The
following
accounts of organizing campaignsUniversity
in a varietyofofMichigan
settings recommended as
University ofreading
Maryland
background
for those with particular areas ofAnn
interest
- orMI
as 48109
a lifetime reading list.
Arbor,
College Park, MD 20742
[email protected]
[email protected]
1.
Organizing in General
a)
Davis, Gerald, Doug McAdam, W. Richard Scott, Mayer N. Zald eds., Social Movements
and Organization Theory, (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2005).
b)
Faber, Daniel R. and Deborah McCarthy, eds. Foundations for Social Change: Critical
Perspectives on Philanthropy and Popular Movements (Rowman & Littlefield, 2005).
c)
Smock, Kristina, Democracy In Action: Community Organizing and Urban Change,
(New York: Columbia University Press, 2003).
200
72
Juliet Schor
Laura Miller
d)
Baker, Colin, Alan Johnson, and Michael Lavalette,
eds. Leadership and Social
519 McGuinn
Department
Movements
of Sociology
(Manchester: Manchester University
Press, 2001).
Commonwealth
Ave.
Pearlman
e)
Freeman,
103 Jo and Victoria Johnson eds. Waves140
of Protest:
Social Movements
Since the
Boston
College
BrandeisSixties,
University
(Lanham, Md: Rowland and Littlefield,
1999).
Chestnut and
Hill,Changing
MA 02467
Waltham,
f)
Rochon,
MA 02454
Thomas R.; Culture Moves: Ideas, Activism,
Values (Princeton,
[email protected]
[email protected]
1998).
g)
Langer, Ellen J., The Power of Mindful Learning, (New York: Addison-Wesley, 1997).
Lisa Peñaloza
h)
McAdam, Doug, John D. McCarthy, and Mayer
SaraN.Steen
Zald eds., Comparative Perspective
Collegeon
of Social
Business
Movements, (Cambridge: Cambridge
Department
UniversityofPress,
Sociology
1996).
i)
Movements
Bus 468Johnston, Hank and Bert Klandermans eds. Social
219 Ketchum
Halland Culture.
(Minneapolis:
1995). of Colorado
University
of ColoradoUniversity of Minnesota Press,University
j)
William, The Strategy of Social Protest,
(Belmont:
Wadsworth Publishing,
Boulder,Gamson,
CO 80309
Boulder,
CO 80309
1990).
[email protected]
[email protected]
k)
Horwitt, Sanford, Let Them Call Me Rebel: Saul Alinsky, (New York: Knopf, 1989).
l)
Gamson, William A., Bruce Fireman, and Steven
Rytina, Encounters with Unjust
Jan Phillips
Joel Stillerman
Authority,
(Homewood:
The Dorsey Press, 1982).
Department
of Social
and
2166 AuSable Hall
Behavioral Science
Grand Valley State University
University
of Southern
Maine/
Allendale, MI 49401
2.
Labor
Movement/Populism
a)
Fantasia, College
Rick and Kim Voss, Hard Work: Remaking
the American Labor Movement,
Lewiston-Auburn
[email protected]
UC Press, 2004).
Lewiston,(Berkeley:
ME 04240
b)
Milkman, Ruth and Kim Voss eds., Rebuilding
Deborah
Labor:
Thorne
Organizing and Organizers in
[email protected]
the New Union Movement, (Ithaca: Cornell University
DepartmentPress,
of Sociology
2004). and
c)
Meghan Milkman,
Ashlin Rich
Ruth ed., Organizing Immigrants:Anthropology
The Challenge for Unions in
Ohio University
Department
Contemporary
of Sociology
California,
and Criminal
(Ithaca: Cornell University
Press, 2000).
Justice Clawson, Dan; The Next Upsurge: Labor and
Athens,
OHSocial
45701Movements (Ithaca: ILR
d)
the New
University
of Delaware
[email protected]
Press,
2003).
Newark, Bronfenbrenner,
DE 19716
e)
Kate, Sheldon Friedman, Richard W. Hurd, Rudolph A. Oswald, and
[email protected]
Ronald L. Seeber eds., Organizing to Win: New
Melanie
Research
Wallendorf
on Union Strategies, (Ithaca:
Department of Marketing
ILR Press, 1998).
f)
Zieger, Robert, The CIO, 1935-1955, (Chapel
Eller
Hill:
College
University
of Management
of North Carolina Press,
George Ritzer
Department
1995).
of Sociology
University of Arizona
g)
Geoghegan,
Thomas, Which Side Are You On?:
Trying
Be For Labor When It's Flat
University
of Maryland
Tucson,
AZto
85721
on It'sMD
Back,
(New York, Plume, 1991).
College Park,
20742
[email protected]
h)
Cohen, Lizabeth, Making a New Deal, (London: Cambridge University Press, 1990).
[email protected]
i)
Goodwyn, Lawrence; The Populist Moment,Frederick
(New York:
Oxford University Press,
Wherry
J. Michael
Ryan
1978).
Department of Sociology
Department
of Sociology
j)
Dubovsky,
Melvyn and Warren Van Tine, John
University
L. Lewis,
of Michigan
A Biography, (Urbana:
University
of Maryland
University
of Illinois Press, 1977).
Ann Arbor, MI 48109
College Park,
MD 20742
k)
McKenney,
Ruth; Industrial Valley, (New York:
Greenwood Press, 1939).
[email protected]
[email protected]
l)
Steinbeck, John; In Dubious Battle, (Blue Ribbon Books, New York, 1937).
3.
a)
Civil Rights Movements
Skocpol, Theda, Ariane Liazos, and Marshall Ganz; What A Mighty Power We Can Be:
African American Frateral Groups and the Struggle for Racial Equality (Princeton,
2006).
200
73
Juliet
Schor The Mississippi Civil Rights
Laura Miller
b)
Andrews, Kenneth T., Freedom is a Constant
Struggle:
519 McGuinn
Department
Movement
of Sociology
and It’s Legacy, (Chicago: University
of Chicago Press, 2004).
140King
Commonwealth
Ave.(New York: Simon
PearlmanBranch,
c)
103 Taylor, Pillar of Fire: America in the
Years, 1963-65,
Boston College
Brandeisand
University
Schuster, 1999).
02467 Straight Allies,
Waltham,Wood,
d)
MA 02454
Dan, ed., Friends and Family: True Chestnut
Stories ofHill,
Gay MA
America’s
[email protected]
[email protected]
(Los Angeles: Alyson, 1999).
e)
Halberstam, David, The Children, (New York: Random House, 1998).
Lisa Peñaloza
f)
Lewis, John; Walking With the Wind: A Memoir
Sara Steen
of the Movement, (New York: Simon
College of
andBusiness
Schuster, 1998).
Department of Sociology
g)
Social
Justice Movements in
Bus 468 Anner, John, ed., Beyond Identity Politics: Emerging
219 Ketchum
Hall
Communities
1996).of Colorado
University
of Coloradoof Color (Boston: Southend Press,
University
h)
John, Local People: The Struggle for
Civil Rights
in Mississippi, (Chicago:
Boulder, Dittmer,
CO 80309
Boulder,
CO 80309
University of Illinois Press, 1995).
[email protected]
[email protected]
i)
Skerry, Peter, Mexican Americans: the Ambivalent Minority, (Cambridge: Harvard
University Press, 1993).
Jan Phillips
Joel Stillerman
j)
Takaki,
Ronald,
Shore:AuSable
A History
of Asian Americans; (New
Department
of Social
andStrangers from a Different 2166
Hall
York:
Penguin, 1989).
Behavioral
Science
Grand Valley State University
k)
Branch,
Taylor,Maine/
Parting the Waters: America
in the King
University
of Southern
Allendale,
MIYears,
494011954-63, (New York:
Simon andCollege
Schuster, 1988).
Lewiston-Auburn
[email protected]
l)
Randy. And the Band Played On: Politics, People and the AIDS Epidemic, (New
Lewiston,Shilts,
ME 04240
York: Penguin, 1987).
Deborah Thorne
[email protected]
m)
Morris, Aldon, Origins of the Civil Rights Movement:
Communities
DepartmentBlack
of Sociology
and Organizing
Change,
Meghan for
Ashlin
Rich (New York: Free Press, 1984). Anthropology
n)
McAdam,
Doug, and
Political
Process and the Development
Ohio University
of Black Insurgency, 1930Department
of Sociology
Criminal
Justice 1980 (Chicago: University of Chicago Press,Athens,
1982). OH 45701
University of Delaware
[email protected]
Newark,
DE 19716
4.
Political
Movements
[email protected]
a)
Goss, Kristin A., Disarmed: The Missing Movement
Melanie Wallendorf
for Gun Control in America,
Department of Marketing
(Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2006).
b)
Hacker, Jacob and Paul Pierson, Off Center:Eller
The College
Republican
of Management
Revolution & the Erosion
George Ritzer
Department
of American
of Sociology
Democracy, (New Haven: YaleUniversity
UniversityofPress,
Arizona
2005).
c)
Micklethwait,
The Right
University
of MarylandJohn and Adrian Wooldridge,Tucson,
AZNation:
85721 Conservative Power in
America,
College Park,
MD (New
20742York: Penguin, 2004).
[email protected]
d)
Green, Donald P. and Alan S. Gerber, Get Out the Vote: How to Increase Voter Turnout
[email protected]
(Brookings Institute Press, 2004).
Frederick Wherry
J. Michael
e)
Trippi,
Ryan Joe. The Revolution Will Not Be Televised:
Democracy,
the Internet, and the
Department
of Sociology
Department
Overthrow
of Sociology
of Everything (Regan, 2004). University of Michigan
University
of Maryland
f)
Skocpol,
Theda, Diminished Democracy: From
to Management in
Ann Membership
Arbor, MI 48109
College Park,
MD 20742
American
Civic Life, (Norman: Oklahoma University
Press, 2003).
[email protected]
[email protected]
g)
Green, John C., Mark J. Rozell, and Clyde Wilcox, eds.; The Christian Right in
American Politics: Marching to the Millennium (Georgetown University Press, 2003).
h)
Perlstein, Rick, Before the Storm: Barry Goldwater and the Unmaking of the American
Consensus, (New York: Hill and Wang, 2001).
i)
Schier, Steven; By Invitation Only: the Rise of Exclusive Politics in the United States
(University of Pittsburgh, 2000)
200
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Laura Miller
j)
Skocpol, Theda and Morris P. Fiorina, eds.,Juliet
CivicSchor
Engagement in American Democracy,
519 McGuinn
Department
(DC:
ofRussel
Sociology
Sage, 1999).
140 Commonwealth
Ave.
PearlmanCostain,
k)
103
Anne N. and Andrew McFarland, Social
Movements and
American Political
BrandeisInstitutions
University (Rowman Littlefield, 1998). Boston College
Chestnut
MA 02467
Waltham,Foner,
l)
MA 02454
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(Norton,Hill,
1998).
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[email protected]
m)
Clemens, Elisabeth, The People's Lobby: Organizational
Innovation and the Rise of
Interest Group Politics in the United States, 1890-1925, (Chicago: University of
Lisa Peñaloza
Chicago Press, 1997).
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Reed,
Ralph, Politically Incorrect: The Emerging
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Factor
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University
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Hertzke,
of Colorado
Alan, Echoes of Discontent, (Washington:
University
CQofPress,
Colorado
1993).
p)
Todd, The Sixties, (New York: Bantam
Books,CO
1989).
Boulder, Gitlin,
CO 80309
Boulder,
80309
[email protected]
q)
Crawford, Alan, Thunder on the Right, (New
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80309
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Syracuse University Press, 1997).
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Batistiana, Ma. Brenda S. and Denis Murphy,
Joel
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Social and(Quezon City: COTRAIN, 1996).
2166 AuSable Hall
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Thomas ed., Bringing Transnational
Relations
in: Non-State
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Science
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Structures and International
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University Press, 1995).
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Hanspter, Ruud Koopmans, Jan Willem Dyvendak, and Marco G. Giugni,
Lewiston,
ME 04240
New Social Movements in Western Europe, Deborah
(Minneapolis:
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[email protected]
Minnesota Press, 1995).
Department of Sociology and
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Lopa, Singing the Same Song: Reflections
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Justice Sheila Rowbotham and Swasti Mitter, Dignity
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OH Bread:
45701 New forms of
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DE 19716
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of Sociology
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The Roots of Solidarity: A Political
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to Creating Groups That Can Solve Problems and Change the World (Arlington:
200
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Juliet Schor
Laura Miller
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519 McGuinn
3.
Department
Staples,
of Sociology
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organizing (Westport:
140 Commonwealth Ave.
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Foundation Materials
2166 AuSable Hall
12.
AFL-CIO
Organizing Institute Materials
Behavioral
Science
Grand Valley State University
13.
Campaign
Materials
University
of Southern
Maine/
Allendale, MI 49401
Lewiston-Auburn College
[email protected]
Lewiston,
ME 04240
E.
Some Films
1.
Grapes of Wrath, Ford, 1940.
Deborah Thorne
[email protected]
2.
Meet John Doe, Capra, 1941.
Department of Sociology and
3.
Salt of Rich
the Earth, Bibberman, 1953.
Anthropology
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4.
TheofOrganizer,
1963.
Ohio University
Department
SociologyMonicelli,
and Criminal
5.
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Justice Encounter with Saul Alinsky, National FilmAthens,
OHCanada,
45701 1967.
6.
Saul
Alinsky Went to War, National Film Board
of Canada, 1968.
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of Delaware
[email protected]
7.
Pontecorvo, 1969.
Newark, Burn,
DE 19716
8.
FIST, Jewison, 1978.
[email protected]
Melanie Wallendorf
9.
Norma Rae, Ritt, 1979.
Department of Marketing
10.
Northern Lights, Nillson, 1979.
Eller College of Management
George Ritzer
11.
Gandhi,
Attenborough, 1982.
Department
of Sociology
University of Arizona
12.
The
and Times of Harvey Milk, EpsteinTucson,
and Schmiechen,
University
of Life
Maryland
AZ 85721 1984.
13.
Revolution,
Hudson, 1985.
College Park,
MD 20742
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[email protected]
15.
Matewan, Sayles, 1987.
Frederick Wherry
J. Michael
Ryan of Hope, Dudley Street, 1994.
16.
Streets
Department of Sociology
Department
of Sociology
17.
Freedom
on My Mind, Fields, 1994.
University of Michigan
University
of Maryland
18.
Il Postino,
Radford, 1995.
Ann Arbor, MI 48109
College Park,
MD 20742
19.
The Fight
in the Fields, Paradigm, 1997. [email protected]
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20.
The Apostle, 1998.
21.
The Democratic Promise: Saul Alinsky and his Legacy, PBS, 1999.
22.
Bread and Roses, 2000.
23.
A Force More Powerful, PBS, 2000.
200
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Laura Miller
Department of Sociology
Pearlman 103
Brandeis University
Waltham, MA 02454
[email protected]
Juliet Schor
519 McGuinn
140 Commonwealth Ave.
Boston College
Chestnut Hill, MA 02467
[email protected]
Lisa Peñaloza
College of Business
Bus 468
University of Colorado
Boulder, CO 80309
[email protected]
Sara Steen
Department of Sociology
219 Ketchum Hall
University of Colorado
Boulder, CO 80309
[email protected]
Jan Phillips
Department of Social and
Behavioral Science
University of Southern Maine/
Lewiston-Auburn College
Lewiston, ME 04240
[email protected]
Joel Stillerman
2166 AuSable Hall
Grand Valley State University
Allendale, MI 49401
[email protected]
Deborah Thorne
Department of Sociology and
Anthropology
Ohio University
Athens, OH 45701
[email protected]
UNDERGRADUATE SOCIAL MOVEMENTS
SYLLABI
Meghan Ashlin Rich
Department of Sociology and Criminal
Justice
University of Delaware
Newark, DE 19716
[email protected]
Melanie Wallendorf
Department of Marketing
Eller College of Management
University of Arizona
Tucson, AZ 85721
[email protected]
George Ritzer
Department of Sociology
University of Maryland
College Park, MD 20742
[email protected]
Frederick Wherry
Department of Sociology
University of Michigan
Ann Arbor, MI 48109
[email protected]
J. Michael Ryan
Department of Sociology
University of Maryland
College Park, MD 20742
[email protected]
200
Schor
Laura
Miller Social Movements, and Contentious Juliet
Revolutions,
Politics
519 McGuinn
Department
of Sociology
Charles Tilly
140 Commonwealth Ave.
Pearlman
Columbia103
University
Boston College
Brandeis University
Chestnut Hill, MA 02467
Waltham,
MA 02454
Course Plan
[email protected]
[email protected]
This course should help undergraduates who already have a background in social science and/or
modern
Lisa
Peñaloza
history to think systematically about contentious
Sara politics
Steen – processes in which people
make conflicting
College
of Business
collective claims on each other or on
Department
third parties
of –Sociology
as they participate in them,
observe
Bus
468 them, or learn about how they are happening219
elsewhere.
KetchumWe
Hall
will spend little time
reviewing theories
University
of Colorado
of political contention or methodsUniversity
for gathering
of Colorado
and analyzing evidence. We
will
Boulder,
spendCO
most
80309
of our time examining how such forms
Boulder,
of contention
CO 80309
as social movements,
revolutions,
[email protected]
nationalist mobilization, and ethnic conflict
[email protected]
have worked in different times and
places, as well as thinking through parallels and differences among them. Most sessions will
operate
Jan Phillips
as lecture-discussions.
Joel Stillerman
Department of Social and
2166 AuSable Hall
For
Behavioral
their own
Science
inquiries, students will choose some current
Grandsite
Valley
of contention,
State University
use a standard
source
University
(for of
example,
Southern
a daily
Maine/
newspaper or online reports
Allendale,
of human
MI 49401
rights agencies) to catalog
episodes
of contention
occurring in that site during the
semester, then write three memoranda as
Lewiston-Auburn
College
[email protected]
they
go: brief
and interpretations of the patterns of contention they discover, with
Lewiston,
MEsummaries
04240
connections
to the required course readings.1 We willDeborah
have short-answer
Thorne
midterm and final
[email protected]
examinations. Examinations will draw on class sessions,
Department
requiredofreading,
Sociology
andand
memoranda.
Anthropology
Grades will
Meghan
Ashlin
depend
Richon memorandum 1 (10%), memorandum
2 (10%), memorandum 3 (25%),
Ohio University
midterm examination
Department
of Sociology
(25%),
andand
Criminal
final examination (30%),
with upward nudges for overall
improvement and/or stellar class participation.
Justice
Athens, OH 45701
University of Delaware
[email protected]
Students DE
Newark,
should
19716
buy these paperback books:
Beth Roy, Some Trouble with Cows. Berkeley: University
[email protected]
Melanie
of Wallendorf
California Press, 1994.
Department
Marketing
Charles Tilly, Social Movements, 1768-2004. Boulder:
ParadigmofPress,
2004.
Eller
CollegeParadigm
of Management
Charles
George Ritzer
Tilly and Sidney Tarrow, Contentious Politics.
Boulder:
Press, 2006.
Department of Sociology
University of Arizona
University of Maryland
Tucson, AZ 85721
A. Claims, Politics, and Contention
College Park, MD 20742
[email protected]
Read
Charles Tilly & Sidney Tarrow, Contentious Politics, chapters 1-3
[email protected]
17 January
introduction to contentious politics and
this course
Frederick
Wherry
22Michael
January Ryan
forms of government and of politics Department of Sociology
J.
24 January of how
contention works and changes University of Michigan
Department
Sociology
University of Maryland
Ann Arbor, MI 48109
B. Who,Park,
How,MD
and20742
What?
College
[email protected]
Read
Beth
Roy,
Some
Trouble
with
Cows
[email protected]
29 January
networks, boundaries, and identities; Ernesto Castañeda lectures
1
Ambitious students may propose different inquiries, just so long as they are at least equally valuable and difficult;
subject to the instructor’s prior approval, for example, students might a) interview social-movement activists, b)
report participant observation in contentious politics, c) compare reporting of some particular stream of contention
in two different media, or d) reconstruct the history of a significant contentious episode or a cluster of connected
episodes.
200
80
Juliet Schor
Laura
31
January
Miller ethnicity, race, religion, and nationality
519
McGuinn
5 February of identity
Department
Sociology
politics; memorandum #1 due:
brief
report (maximum 1,000 words) on
140 Commonwealth
Ave. a paragraph on
Pearlman 103 plan for collecting and analyzing contentious
episodes; include
Boston
College
Brandeis University
likely strengths and weaknesses of your
sources
Chestnut Hill, MA 02467
Waltham, MA 02454
[email protected]
[email protected]
C. Mobilization, Demobilization, and Struggle
Read Tilly & Tarrow, Contentious Politics, chapters 4-6, plus Appendices A & B
Lisa
7 February
Peñaloza opportunities, threats, and constraints Sara Steen
College
12 February
of Business
mobilization processes
Department of Sociology
Bus
14 February
468
contentious repertoires
219 Ketchum Hall
University
19 Februaryof Colorado
how forms of contention vary and change
University of Colorado
Boulder, CO 80309
Boulder, CO 80309
[email protected]
D. Social Movements and Other Forms of Contention
[email protected]
Read Tilly, Social Movements, chapters 1-4
21 February
Jan
Phillips social movements in history
Joel Stillerman
26 February of how
Department
Social
people
and get involved
2166 AuSable Hall
28 FebruaryScience
Behavioral
social movements across the world Grand Valley State University
5 March of Southern
University
review Maine/
Allendale, MI 49401
7 March
Lewiston-Auburn
midterm
College
examination
[email protected]
12-14 March
Lewiston,
ME 04240
No Classes: Spring Holidays
Deborah Thorne
[email protected]
Department of Sociology and
E. Contention and Democratization
Read Tilly,
Social
Movements, chapters 5-6
Anthropology
Meghan
Ashlin
Rich
19
March of regimes
andand
democracy
Ohio University
Department
Sociology
Criminal
21
Justice
March
waves of democratization; Ernesto Castañeda
Athens, OH
lectures
45701
26
March of Delaware
struggle and democratization
University
[email protected]
28
MarchDE 19716
democracy today and tomorrow; memorandum #2 due: brief report (maximum
Newark,
1,000 words) on progress of contentious
episodes
project
[email protected]
Melanie
Wallendorf
Department of Marketing
F.
WarRitzer
and Revolution
Eller College of Management
George
Read Tilly &ofTarrow,
Department
Sociology
Contentious Politics, chapters University
7 and 8 of Arizona
2University
April
of Maryland
violent specialists
Tucson, AZ 85721
4College
April Park, MD
interstate
20742wars
[email protected]
[email protected]
April
civil wars
11 April
revolutions
Frederick Wherry
J. Michael Ryan
Department of Sociology
Department
of Sociology
G. Contention
Today and Tomorrow
University of Michigan
University
Maryland
Read
Tilly,of
Social
Movements, chapter 7 and Tilly &Ann
Tarrow,
Arbor,
Contentious
MI 48109 Politics, chapter 9
College
20742transnational, and international
16 AprilPark, MD
national,
[email protected]
[email protected]
18 April
globalization and contention; Ernesto Castañeda lectures
23 April
violence, terror, and politics
25 April
the present and future of contentious politics
30 April
conclusions and challenges; memorandum #3 due: report (maximum 3,000 words,
not including appendices) on contentious episodes project
? May
FINAL EXAMINATION
200
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Millerof Social Protest (Freshman Seminar) Juliet Schor
The Roots
519 McGuinn
Department
Susan Olzakof Sociology
140 Commonwealth Ave.
Pearlman
Stanford 103
University
Boston College
Brandeis University
Chestnut Hill, MA 02467
Waltham, MA 02454
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Syllabus
Why do people protest? Does protest matter to the political system? What are the issues that
mobilize
Lisa
Peñaloza
groups to protest, and why do social movements
Sara Steen
decline? These are some of the key
questionsofwe
College
Business
will be covering in this seminar. Each student
Department
will write
of Sociology
a final paper on some
example
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present
Hall
research results in class
during the last
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of Colorado
two weeks of class.
University of Colorado
Boulder, CO 80309
Boulder, CO 80309
Course Requirements: Requirements will include active
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participation in class discussions
(50%), and an in-class presentation discussing an example of collective action or a social
Jan
movement
Phillips(20%), and a written term paper (30%). The
Joelterm
Stillerman
paper will examine a social
Department
movement orofprotest
Socialcampaign
and
and must use one or more
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the leading
Hall sociological theories,
Behavioral
arguments, Science
or set of concepts from the readings.
Grand Valley State University
University of Southern Maine/
Allendale, MI 49401
The Term Paper College
(suggested length 10-12 pages) focus
on one or more concepts or theories
Lewiston-Auburn
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from the readings
and discuss how the evidence either fits or does not fit the theory. Examples of
Lewiston,
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broad theoretical perspectives would include resource
Deborah
mobilization,
Thorneorganizational theories, or
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theories about strategies of protest (framing, identity,Department
cultural resonance).
of Sociology
The and
last two weeks of
class willAshlin
be devoted
Anthropology
of your social movement paper and
Meghan
Rich to brief (15-20 minute) presentations
analysis, using
some of theand
sociological
concepts
from the course readings. In the
University
Department
of Sociology
Criminal theories andOhio
past, students have written term papers on the gay-marriage
Justice
Athens, movement,
OH 45701 race riots in LA, the
Native American
movement, the international anti-globalization
movement, the anti-abortion
University
of Delaware
[email protected]
movement,
Newark,
DEamong
19716other topics.
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Melanie Wallendorf
Important Dates:
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Assignment
1: Paper Topic Due October 11, in class,Eller
one College
paragraph
your topic.
of describing
Management
George
Ritzer
Assignment of
2: Sociology
Research Question, Due November 8.University
Outline main
research question
Department
of Arizona
Term Paper,ofDue
Friday, December 7
University
Maryland
Tucson, AZ 85721
College Park, MD 20742
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Readings marked “JSTOR” below are available through Stanford library services. First, go to:
[email protected]
(http://library.stanford.edu/), then click on “Databases,”
scroll down
to the “j” and click on jstor.
Frederick
Wherry
J.
Michael
Ryan
Click
on E-Resources
(http://www11.tdnet.com/frames.asp)
, under
library databases for journal
Department
of Sociology
Department
of Sociology
articles published
more recently (since 2003 or so). Both
of the of
books
listed below will be on
University
Michigan
University
of Maryland
reserve at Green
Library.
Ann Arbor, MI 48109
College
Park, Information:
MD 20742 Click on this website, and
Coursework
enter our course number (soc 22N) for
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updated information (https://coursework.stanford.edu). All readings marked “coursework” are
available on the website under “materials” as pdf files that can be downloaded and printed.
University Policy Students with Disabilities: Students who have a disability which may
necessitate an academic accommodation or the use of auxiliary aids and services in a class must
initiate the request with the Disability Resource Center (DRC). The DRC will evaluate the
request with required documentation, recommend appropriate accommodations, and prepare a
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to arrange for appropriate
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accommodations.
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The DRC is located in 123 Meyer 519
Library
(phone 723-1066)
140 Commonwealth Ave.
Pearlman 103
Boston College
Brandeis
University
Book Ordered
Hill,inMA
02467 Oxford Press.
Waltham,
MAS.
02454
Meyer, David
2007. The Politics of Protest: SocialChestnut
Movements
America.
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[email protected]
Topics and Readings
Lisa Peñaloza
Sara Steen
Week 1 Introduction
College
of Business – September 25 & 27
Department of Sociology
I. What
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different
Ketchum
fromHall
other forms of political
action?
University
of Colorado
University of Colorado
Boulder,A.CO
Definitions
80309 and Distinctions: Social Movements,
Boulder,Collective
CO 80309Action and Protest
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B. Dimensions of Social Movements: Emergence,
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Dynamics, and Consequences
Meyer, Chapter 1 “America and Political Protest,” pp. 7-22.
Jan Phillips
Recommended: Turner and Killian, “TowardJoel
a Theory
Stillerman
of Social Movements,”
Department
HANDOUT
of SocialINand
CLASS
2166 AuSable Hall
Behavioral Science
Grand Valley State University
Week 2 – October
2 & 4Maine/
University
of Southern
Allendale, MI 49401
II. Who Protests and
Why?
Lewiston-Auburn
College
[email protected]
Meyer,
Chapter 2, “Why Protest?” pp. 23-43
Lewiston,
ME 04240
Meyer, Chapter 3, “Becoming an Activist,” pp.
44-59 Thorne
Deborah
[email protected]
Department of Sociology and
Week 3 –Ashlin
October
9 & 11
Anthropology
Meghan
Rich
III. Explaining
the Dynamics
Protest: SociologicalOhio
Theory
University
Department
of Sociology
and of
Criminal
Justice A. Resource Mobilization Theory
Athens, OH 45701
McCarthy
John D. and Mayer Zald. 1977. “Resource
Mobilization and Social
University
of Delaware
[email protected]
Newark,Movements:
DE 19716 A Partial Theory.” The American Journal of Sociology 82: 1212-1241. IN
COURSEWORK “MATERIALS” pdf file. Melanie Wallendorf
[email protected]
Department of Marketing
Importance of Social Movement Organizations
(SMOs) of Management
Eller College
George B.
Ritzer
Meyer,
Ch 4 “Individuals, Movements, Organizations
pp. 60-79
Department
of Sociology
Universityand
of Coalitions,”
Arizona
University of Maryland
Tucson, AZ 85721
Assignment
Topic
of Term Paper (1-2 [email protected]
and 2 articles or book references, due in
College Park,1:MD
20742
class
Oct 11. In one paragraph, describe your term paper topic. Look up at least two citations of
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published articles or books by sociologists using JSTOR
and/orWherry
Socrates that you will use as key
Frederick
J.
Michael for
Ryan
references
your paper.
Department of Sociology
Department of Sociology
University of Michigan
University
of Maryland
Week 4 – October
16 & 18
Ann Arbor, MI 48109
College
20742Tactics
IV. ThePark,
Role MD
of Protest
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Meyer, Ch 5 “The Strategy and Tactics of Protest,” pp. 80-101
McAdam, Doug. 1983. “Tactical Innovation and the Pace of Insurgency.” American
Sociological Review 48: 735-754. IN COURSEWORK “MATERIALS” pdf file.
Week 5 –October 23 & 25
V. Framing Theory and Theories of Cultural Resonance
A. Frame Alignment Theory
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David A. Snow, et al., “Frame Alignment Processes,
Micromobilization, and Movement
McGuinn
Department
Participation.”
of Sociology
1986. American Sociological 519
Review
51, pp. 464-81. IN COURSEWORK
140 Commonwealth Ave.
Pearlman 103 “MATERIALS” pdf file.
Boston College
Brandeis University
Chestnut
Hill, MA
02467
Waltham,
02454 Movement Histories: The Role
B. MA
Constructing
of Collective
Memory
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Elizabeth Armstrong and Suzanna M. Crage. [email protected]
2006. “Movements and Memory: The
Making of the Stonewall Myth.” American Sociological Review 71: 724-751. IN
Lisa Peñaloza
COURSEWORK “MATERIALS” pdf file. Sara Steen
College of Business
Department of Sociology
Week
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6 – October 30 & November 1
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University
C. The
of Colorado
Role of Identity As a Cause and Consequence
University
of of
Protest
Colorado
Boulder,McAdam,
CO 80309
Doug. 1986. “Recruitment to High-Risk
Boulder,
Activism:
CO 80309
The Case of Freedom
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Summer.” The American Journal of Sociology
[email protected]
92: 64-90 IN COURSEWORK
“MATERIALS” pdf file.
Jan Phillips
Joel Stillerman
Department
VertaofTaylor
Socialand
andNicole Raeburn. 1995. “Identity
2166 Politics
AuSableasHall
High Risk Activism: Career
Consequences for Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual
Sociologists.”
Social Problems 42:
Behavioral Science
Grand Valley
State University
252-273.Maine/
IN COURSEWORK “MATERIALS”
University of Southern
Allendale, pdf
MI file.
49401
Lewiston-Auburn College
[email protected]
Lewiston, ME 04240
Week 7 – November 6 & 8
Deborah Thorne
[email protected]
VI. The Trajectory of Protest Cycles
Department of Sociology and
Movement
MeghanA.Ashlin
Rich and Counter-movement CyclesAnthropology
Tarrow,
Sidney, “Cycles
of Collective Action:
Between
Moments of Madness and the
Ohio
University
Department
of Sociology
and Criminal
17:OH
281-307.
Justice Repertoire of Contention.” Social Science History
Athens,
45701 IN COURSEWORK
“MATERIALS”
University
of Delaware pdf file.
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Newark, DE 19716
B. Explanations of Decline
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Melanie Wallendorf
Meyer, Ch 8 “When Everyone Protests,” pp. Department
144-161. of Marketing
Eller College of Management
George Ritzer
Assignment
2: Sociology
Research Questions Due in Class, November
8: of Arizona
Department of
University
Outline
your
research question. Some examplesTucson,
are: Why
the protest erupt when (or
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ofmain
Maryland
AZdid
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where)
did? MD
What20742
was the trajectory of this movement?
What were the key “oppositional”
CollegeitPark,
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identities?
What was the goal of the movement and were these goals attained? What role did
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tactics play in the movement? Who were the main supporters
participants?
Frederickand
Wherry
J. Michael Ryan
Department of Sociology
Department
of Sociology
Week 8 – November
13 & 15
University of Michigan
University
Maryland
VII. FutureofTrends
Ann Arbor, MI 48109
CollegeAPark,
MD 20742and Anti-globalization Movements
Transnational
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[email protected]
Smith, Jackie and Dawn Wiest. 2005. “The Uneven Geography of Global Civil Society:
National and Global Influences on Transnational Association.” Social Forces 84: 621652. IN COURSEWORK “MATERIALS” pdf file.
B. Policy and Protest: Does Protest Matter?
Meyer, Ch 9 & 10 “The Policy Connection” and “Protest and Politics: What’s Next” pp.
162-188.
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Thanksgiving
Department
ofWeek:
Sociology
No classes November 19-23
Pearlman 103
Week 9 –University
Brandeis
November 27 & 29
Waltham, MA 02454
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November 27: Panel 1--Student Presentations
Juliet Schor
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140 Commonwealth Ave.
Boston College
Chestnut Hill, MA 02467
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Lisa Peñaloza
November
29: Panel 2--Student Presentations
Sara Steen
College of Business
Department of Sociology
Week
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219 Ketchum Hall
University of Colorado
University of Colorado
DecemberCO
Boulder,
4: 80309
Panel 3--Student Presentations
Boulder, CO 80309
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December 6: Panel 4--Student Presentations
Jan Phillips
Joel Stillerman
ALL FINALofPAPERS
Department
Social and
are due Friday, December 7, in
2166
Professor
AuSable
Olzak's
Hall office or mailbox by
4:00 pm. (Sociology
p.m.).
Late State
papersUniversity
will not be accepted
Behavioral
Science Department Office Closes at 4:00
Grand
Valley
for gradingof
this
quarter.Maine/
University
Southern
Allendale, MI 49401
Lewiston-Auburn College
[email protected]
Lewiston, ME 04240
Deborah Thorne
[email protected]
Department of Sociology and
Anthropology
Meghan Ashlin Rich
Ohio University
Department of Sociology and Criminal
Justice
Athens, OH 45701
University of Delaware
[email protected]
Newark, DE 19716
[email protected]
Melanie Wallendorf
Department of Marketing
Eller College of Management
George Ritzer
Department of Sociology
University of Arizona
University of Maryland
Tucson, AZ 85721
College Park, MD 20742
[email protected]
[email protected]
Frederick Wherry
J. Michael Ryan
Department of Sociology
Department of Sociology
University of Michigan
University of Maryland
Ann Arbor, MI 48109
College Park, MD 20742
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[email protected]
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Protest,
Contention & Social Movements
519 McGuinn
Department
Jim Conley of Sociology
140 Commonwealth Ave.
Pearlman
103
Trent University
Boston College
Brandeis University
Chestnut Hill, MA 02467
Waltham,
MA 02454
Introduction
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The course focuses on four aspects of social movements:
i) the social organizational bases of
mobilization; ii) cultural framing and collective identities; iii) political opportunities and
Lisa
interactions
Peñaloza
among allies, opponents and state agencies;
Saraiv)
Steen
the dynamics of contentious action
College
itself. Case
of Business
studies are used to illustrate general mechanisms
Department
and of
processes:
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in the first half a
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of revolutions in 19th Century Paris; in the second
219 Ketchum
half, a study
Hallof global justice
University
mobilization
ofin
Colorado
Europe. The objective of the course University
is to develop
of participants’
Colorado understanding of
Boulder,
social movements
CO 80309through sociological theory and research,
Boulder,and
COto80309
encourage informed
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reflection on their own activities or observations of protest,
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contention and social movements.
Students are encouraged to link their own interests to the course content through a journal, and if
Jan
theyPhillips
wish in a research paper based on participant observation,
Joel Stillerman
documentary investigation, or
Department
other methods.
of Social and
2166 AuSable Hall
Behavioral
Texts (available
Science
at the Trent Bookstore)
Grand Valley State University
University
Tilly, Charles
of Southern
and Sidney
Maine/
Tarrow. 2006. ContentiousAllendale,
Politics. Boulder:
MI 49401
Paradigm Publishers.
Gould, Roger V. 1995.
Insurgent Identities: Class, Community,
and Protest in Paris from 1848
Lewiston-Auburn
College
[email protected]
to the Commune.
Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
Lewiston,
ME 04240
della Porta, Donatella, Massimiliano Andretta, Lorenzo
Deborah
MoscaThorne
and Herbert Reiter. 2006.
[email protected]
Globalization from Below: Transnational Activists and
Department
Protest Networks.
of Sociology
Minneapolis:
and
University
of Minnesota
Press, 2006.
Anthropology
Meghan
Ashlin
Rich
Ohio University
Department of Sociology and Criminal
Justice
Athens, OH 45701
Note on readings:
Lecture andofseminar
readings are listed separately. Both
are required, and it is assumed that you
University
Delaware
[email protected]
will haveDE
done
both before the seminar.
Newark,
19716
Students are responsible for all material presented inMelanie
lectures Wallendorf
and seminars, including videos. If
[email protected]
you cannot attend, you should make arrangements toDepartment
get notes from
others in the class or
of Marketing
seminar.
Copies of lecture outlines will be available Eller
on theCollege
website,
they are no substitute for
ofbut
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attending
in of
person.
Department
Sociology
University of Arizona
University of Maryland
Tucson, AZ 85721
College Requirements
Park, MD 20742
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Course
1)
Seminar participation
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Each member of the class is expected to participate in
seminar Wherry
discussions, after having done the
Frederick
J.
Michael
Ryan
readings
and
thought about them. Students will also be
expected of
to bring
examples of episodes,
Department
Sociology
Department
Sociology
mechanisms of
and
processes of contention to seminarsUniversity
for possible
ofdiscussion
Michigan (possibly after
University
of Maryland
having written
about them in their journal - see below).
grade
be based on both the
AnnThe
Arbor,
MIwill
48109
College
MD 20742
quantity Park,
and quality
of seminar participation, with emphasis
on the latter. Value: 15%
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2) Journal
Everyone in the course will be required to keep a protest, contention, and social movement
journal in which to a) write down observations, comments, questions and reflections on the
readings; b) introduce new examples from other reading, experiences and observations, media
reports, etc. and analyze them using ideas from this course. The journal will be graded on the
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extent
to which it shows that you are learning the material
and are able to apply it to new cases.
519on
McGuinn
Department
Journals willofbeSociology
due on February 16, 2007, and again
April 9, 2007. Value: 45%
140 Commonwealth Ave.
Pearlman

103
Boston
Brandeis
3) Research
University
Essay or final Exam (Due no later than
AprilCollege
25, 2007)
MA 02467
Waltham,
MA the
02454
Students have
choice of writing a final take-homeChestnut
exam onHill,
the course,
or a research paper on
[email protected]
[email protected]
a topic of their choice. Value: 40%
Research essay
Lisa
The essay
Peñaloza
should examine some aspect of a social movement,
Sara Steenprotest campaign, or episode of
College
contention.
of Business
The essay must be preceded by a research
Department
proposal —
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brief (3-4 page) statement of
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research essay topic, the concepts to be used
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and the methods
Hall to be followed to
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investigate of
it. Colorado
The research proposal is due no later than
University
Marchof
23,Colorado
2007, and will be worth 10%
Boulder,
of the final
COgrade.
80309
If no research proposal is received,Boulder,
you willCO
be required
80309 to write the final
[email protected]
exam. Submission of a proposal does not commit [email protected]
to doing the research essay – you can
change your mind and opt for the take-home exam at any time.
Jan Phillips
Joel Stillerman
Department
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Syllabus of Social and
Behavioral
1. Introduction.
Science
Jan. 12
Grand Valley State University
University
Lecture reading:
of Southern
None Maine/
Allendale, MI 49401
Seminar: brief meeting
to get acquainted & organized
Lewiston-Auburn
College
[email protected]
Lewiston, ME 04240
2. Thinking about protest, contention, & social movements
DeborahJan.
Thorne
19
[email protected]
Film: Berkeley in the 60s
Department of Sociology and
Lecture &
Seminar
Anthropology
Politics, Ch. 1-2
Meghan
Ashlin
Richreading: Tilly and Tarrow, Contentious
Seminar: How
we useand
Tilly
and Tarrow to analyse
Ohio
theUniversity
events in the film? How does this
Department
of can
Sociology
Criminal
differ from other approaches?
Justice
Athens, OH 45701
University of Delaware
[email protected]
3. Identities
Mobilization Jan. 26
Newark,
DEand
19716
Lecture & Seminar reading: Gould, Insurgent Identities,
Ch.1-2
[email protected]
Melanie
Wallendorf
Seminar: What can revolutions in 19th century Paris Department
tell us aboutofcollective
identities, social
Marketing
networks,
critical events & mobilization for contentious
action?
Ellercollective
College of
Management
George
Ritzer
Department of Sociology
University of Arizona
4. Political of
Opportunities
2
University
Maryland & Contentious Action Feb.Tucson,
AZ 85721
Film: Power:
College
Park, One
MD River,
20742 Two Nations
[email protected]
Lecture & Seminar reading: Tilly and Tarrow, Contentious Politics, Ch. 3
[email protected]
Seminar: Describe the Cree campaign against Great Whale
in terms
of processes and
Frederick
Wherry
J.
Michael Ryan
mechanisms
examined so far. How did political regimes
and political
opportunities shape the
Department
of Sociology
Department
movement? of Sociology
University of Michigan
University of Maryland
Ann Arbor, MI 48109
College
MDidentities,
20742 Interaction Feb. 9
5. SocialPark,
Change,
[email protected]
[email protected]
Lecture reading: Gould, Insurgent Identities, Ch.3-5
Seminar Reading: Tilly and Tarrow, Contentious Politics, Ch. 4
Seminar: Describe the actors in the episodes of contention examined so far. Bring additional
examples to the seminar for discussion.
6. Shifting Scales of contention Feb. 16
Lecture reading: Gould, Insurgent Identities, Ch. 6-7
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Seminar
Reading: Tilly and Tarrow, Contentious Politics,
Ch. 5
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Department
Seminar: How
of do
Sociology
we explain mobilization of identities
face-to-face interactions?
140 Commonwealth Ave.
Pearlman 103
Boston College
Reading Week
Brandeis
University
Feb. 19-23
Chestnut Hill, MA 02467
Waltham, MA 02454
[email protected]
[email protected]
7. Globalization and social movements March 2
Film: View From the Summit
Lisa
Lecture
Peñaloza
& Seminar reading: della Porta et al., Globalization
Sara Steen
from Below, Ch. 1
Seminar:ofWhat
College
Business
is globalization and how do its components
Department
affectofprotest,
Sociology
contention and social
movements?
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University of Colorado
University of Colorado
8. A global
Boulder,
COmovement?
80309
March 9
Boulder, CO 80309
Lecture reading: della Porta et al., Globalization [email protected]
[email protected]
Below, Ch. 2
Seminar Reading: Tilly and Tarrow, Contentious Politics, Ch. 6
Jan
Seminar:
Phillips
What distinguishes social movements fromJoel
other
Stillerman
forms of contention? Under what
Department
conditions are
of they
Social
possible?
and
2166 AuSable Hall
Behavioral Science
Grand Valley State University
9. Frames &ofidentities
Global Justice March 16 Allendale, MI 49401
University
Southernof
Maine/
Lecture & SeminarCollege
reading: della Porta et al., Globalization
from Below, Ch. 3-4
Lewiston-Auburn
[email protected]
Seminar: How
does neo-liberalism work as a master frame shaping mobilization and identities?
Lewiston,
ME 04240
How has the internet affected contemporary contention,
compared
to previous communication
Deborah
Thorne
[email protected]
technologies?
Department of Sociology and
Anthropology
Meghan Ashlin Rich
10. Repertoires
of contention
Protest Policing March
23
Ohio University
Department
of Sociology
and and
Criminal
Film: Weather Underground
Justice
Athens, OH 45701
Lecture & Seminar
reading: a. della Porta et al., Globalization
from Below, Ch. 5-6
University
of Delaware
[email protected]
b. reviewDE
Tilly
and Tarrow, Contentious Politics, Ch. 3-4
Newark,
19716
Seminar: How does the interaction of protesters and Melanie
police affect
the strategies of each?
[email protected]
Wallendorf
Department of Marketing
11. Social
movements and Democracy March 30 Eller College of Management
George
Ritzer
Lecture & Seminar
reading: a. Tilly and Tarrow, Contentious
Ch. 7-9
Department
of Sociology
UniversityPolitics,
of Arizona
b. della Porta
et al., Globalization from Below, Ch. 8Tucson, AZ 85721
University
of Maryland
Seminar:Park,
Do the
same
processes explain peaceful [email protected]
violent forms of politics? What explains
College
MD
20742
the different forms? Are there any lessons for the future of social movements and other forms of
[email protected]
contention?
Frederick Wherry
J.
Michael
2nd
JournalRyan
Due Monday, April 9, 2007
Department of Sociology
Department
of Sociology
Final Take-home
Exam distributed April 5, 2007 University of Michigan
University
Due: April of
25,Maryland
2007
Ann Arbor, MI 48109
College Park, MD 20742
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[email protected]
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Laura
SocialMiller
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519 McGuinn
Department
of Sociology
Ziad Munson
140 Commonwealth Ave.
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103
Lehigh University
Boston College
Brandeis University
Chestnut
Hill,
MAand
02467
Waltham,
02454society are enmeshed in powerful
IndividualsMA
in every
political,
social
economic systems
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[email protected]
that are resistant to change. Occasionally, however, people
do band together and challenge these
systems: they picket, they march, they strike, they sit-in, they form protest organizations and
demand
Lisa
Peñaloza
change. Such occasions, while rare, are important
Sara Steen
moments because they represent the
rare opportunity
College
of Business
for the normally powerless to challenge
Department
the normally
of Sociology
powerful. This course
offers
Bus
468
an exploration of such moments. It examines the
219origins,
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dynamics,
Hall and consequences of
social movements
University
of Colorado
through both sociological theory and
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empirical
of case
Colorado
studies.
Boulder, CO 80309
Boulder, CO 80309
Over the course of the semester, we will address the [email protected]
[email protected]
questions of what constitutes a social
movement, when and where they occur, who joins social movements and why, how they are
organized,
Jan
Phillipswhat strategies they use, how they are affected
Joel Stillerman
by institutions like the state and the
media, and what
Department
of Social
impacts
andthey have on individuals and
2166
on society.
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answering these questions,
we
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will haveScience
the opportunity to look at a wide range Grand
of historically
Valley State
important
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cases, including the
Civil Rightsofmovement,
University
Southern Maine/
labor movement, farmworkers’
Allendale,
movement,
MI 49401
women’s movement,
American Indian movement,
environmental movement, pro-life
Lewiston-Auburn
College GLBT rights movement,
[email protected]
movement,ME
pro-choice
Lewiston,
04240 movement, anti-drunk driving movement, white supremacy movement,
and anti-war movements in the United States. We will
Deborah
also look
Thorne
at cases such as the Iranian
[email protected]
revolution, the Chinese student democracy movement,
Department
and the transnational
of Sociologyanti-globalization
and
movement
outside
the U.S.
Anthropology
Meghan Ashlin
Rich
Ohio University
Department of Sociology and Criminal
Studying
reflectOH
on 45701
more general questions about
Justice social movements will allow us to ultimately
Athens,
the
nature of
power, conflict, and legitimacy,
as well as the relationship between human
University
ofpolitical
Delaware
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agency,
structure, and historical change.
Newark,social
DE 19716
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Melanie Wallendorf
Understanding social movements requires knowledgeDepartment
of both abstract
principles that apply
of Marketing
across
of theofspecific
details of particular
Eller College
Management
Georgemany
Ritzerdifferent times and places along rich knowledge
movements
contexts. This year we will continually
return to
'cases' in order to flesh out
Department and
of Sociology
University
oftwo
Arizona
our
study ofofmovements.
movement.
Much of the research that has
University
Maryland The first is the Civil RightsTucson,
AZ 85721
been
done
on social
movements over the last forty years
has been rooted in our evolving
College
Park,
MD 20742
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understanding
of this movement, one of the most important in twentieth century America. A
[email protected]
basic understanding of the Civil Rights movement thus
serves as
an intellectual backbone with
Frederick
Wherry
J. Michael
Ryan
which
we can
ask key questions about social movements
more generally.
The second case we
Department
of Sociology
Department
will
focus onofisSociology
the social movement growing up hereUniversity
in our own
ofbackyard-Michigan in South
University ofabout
Maryland
Bethlehem-the establishment of a large casino
andArbor,
redevelopment
Ann
MI 48109of Bethlehem Steel
College
Park,are
MD
land.
There
no20742
readings on the syllabus about this
contemporary movement, but we will
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[email protected]
focus
on this case a lot in our discussions and your own written work will apply the lessons you
learn in class to this rapidly evolving new case.
Course Requirements
This is a seminar course in which material is presented and analyzed through class discussion
rather than lecture. Preparation, attendance, and participation is thus especially important.
200
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Laura Miller
Students
are expected to attend all class sessions, complete
all assigned readings, and actively
prepare for and
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of Sociology
participate in classroom discussions. 519 McGuinn
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Boston
College
Every student
Brandeis
University
will also be required to write a final term
paper
of 15-20 pages using the concepts
Hill, MAorganization
02467
Waltham,
MA 02454
from the course
to investigate and understand a localChestnut
social movement
in South
[email protected]
Side Bethlehem. We will talk much more about [email protected]
paper over the course of the semester. For
now, keep in mind that it will require that you collect data and work with a local organization
weekly
Lisa
Peñaloza
over the course of the semester, and that working
Sara Steen
with other students in the course to
improve of
College
theBusiness
quality of your paper will be required. IDepartment
am also open
of to
Sociology
creative alternatives for
meeting
Bus
468 the requirements of this component of the course.
219 Ketchum
So, for Hall
example, if you were
interested inofproducing
University
Colorado a documentary film about an University
organization,
of Colorado
or writing a grant application
for
Boulder,
an organization,
CO 80309 these kinds of projects might serve
Boulder,
as a substitute
CO 80309
for the normal term paper.
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[email protected]
There will be a take home exam at the conclusion of the course designed to test your completion
of the
Jan
Phillips
coursework (especially the course readings) and
Joel
your
Stillerman
understanding of the most important
concepts in the
Department
of Social
study of
andsocial movements. We will 2166
discuss
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the details
Hallof the exam in class.
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Grand Valley State University
Course grades
will be determined
University
of Southern
Maine/ as follows:
Allendale, MI 49401
30% class preparation,
attendance, and participation [email protected]
Lewiston-Auburn
College
40% term paper
on South Side social movement
Lewiston,
ME 04240
30% take-home exam
Deborah Thorne
[email protected]
Students must pass each of these three grading areas Department
in order to pass
the courseand
as a whole.
of Sociology
Anthropology
Meghan Ashlin Rich
Two other important
notesand
regarding
requirements for
the University
course:
Ohio
Department
of Sociology
Criminal
Justice
• Any student who has a documented disabilityAthens,
and is in
OH
need
45701
of academic
University
accommodations
of Delaware should notify me and/or Cheryl
[email protected]
Ashcroft, Director of the Office of
Newark,Academic
DE 19716Support Services (610-758-4152). Accommodations will be individualized and
[email protected]
in accordance with Section 504 of the Rehabilitation
MelanieAct
Wallendorf
of 1973 and the Americans with
Disabilities Act of 1992.\
Department of Marketing
• Plagiarism
and cheating are both forbidden byEller
University
Collegepolicy.
of Management
Ideas as well as every
George
Ritzer
Department
wordofinSociology
your writing must be your own unless
University
properly cited.
of Arizona
This includes text taken
University
fromofthe
Maryland
Web. Plagiarism or cheating will, atTucson,
minimum,
AZresult
85721in an F for the entire
Collegecourse
Park, MD
along
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with other sanctions by the university.
[email protected]
If you have questions or concerns
about acceptable ways to use and cite outside material in your writing, please see me; I’m
[email protected]
happy to help. So too is Susan Lantz in the Academic
FrederickSupport
WherryServices office (610-758J. Michael
Ryan
4159).
Lehigh also has a special website devoted
Department
to academic
of Sociology
integrity:
Department
of Sociology
http://www.lehigh.edu/~indost/integrity.html.
University of Michigan
University of Maryland
Ann Arbor, MI 48109
College
Park, MD 20742
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Readings
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The following required books have been ordered from the Lehigh University Bookstore (7583374) and are also available at a considerable discount from online retailers such as
amazon.com:
•
Meyer, David S. 2007. The Politics of Protest: Social Movements in America. New
York: Oxford University Press. (ISBN 0-19-517353-8)
200
90
Juliet
Schor
Laura
McAdam, Doug. 1988. Freedom Summer. New
York:
Oxford University Press. (ISBN
• Miller
519 McGuinn
Department
0-19-506472-0)
of Sociology
140 Commonwealth Ave.
Pearlman 103
Boston
College
AdditionalUniversity
Brandeis
readings are fully cited in the class schedule
below
and are available online in the
Waltham,
02454
“Readings”MA
section
of the course Blackboard site. Chestnut Hill, MA 02467
[email protected]
[email protected]
Class Schedule
Readings
Lisa
Peñaloza
listed under the heading for each week should
SarabeSteen
done before the class meetings held
during that
College
of Business
week. Generally plan to read each text inDepartment
the order listed
of Sociology
in the schedule, half before
Bus
Monday's
468 meeting and the other half before Wednesday's
219 Ketchum
meeting.Hall
Student involvement and
University
ownership over
of Colorado
class discussion are important elements
University
of this course,
of Colorado
however. As a result the
Boulder,
followingCO
schedule
80309for the course is only a starting point.
Boulder,
While
COwe
80309
may stick to this schedule
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very closely, I am also open to making substantial modifications
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as the semester develops to
accommodate specific student interests or the direction of class discussion. Students are
Jan
responsible
Phillips for noting any changes to the schedule announced
Joel Stillerman
in class and preparing for or
Department
fulfilling anyofnew
Social
requirements
and
that might be added.2166 AuSable Hall
Behavioral Science
Grand Valley State University
University
of Southern
Allendale, MI 49401
Part I: Studying
SocialMaine/
Movements
Lewiston-Auburn
College in Historical Perspective
[email protected]
Week 1: Social Movements
• "America
and Political Protest: Political Institutions and Dissent" (chapter 1 of Meyer
Lewiston,
ME 04240
text).
Deborah Thorne
[email protected]
• Tilly, Charles. 2004. “Social Movements as Politics,”
chapter
1 in Social
Department
of Sociology
andMovements,
Boulder, CO: Paradigm Press. Anthropology
Meghan1768-2004.
Ashlin Rich
• Thoreau,
Henry David.
1849. "Resistance to Civil
Ohio Government,"
University
selection in American
Department
of Sociology
and Criminal
Justice Protest Literature, Zoe Trodd, ed. Cambridge
Athens,
MA: Harvard
OH 45701
University Press (2006).
University of Delaware
[email protected]
Newark,
Week 2: DE
The19716
American Civil Rights Movement as an Orienting Case
[email protected]
• Blumberg, Rhoda Lois. 1984. Civil Rights: The
Melanie
1960sWallendorf
Freedom Struggle, excerpt taken
Department
Marketing
from The Social Movements Reader (2003), Jeff
Goodwinofand
James M. Jasper, eds.
Eller College of Management
George New
Ritzer
York: Blackwell.
• Morris,
Aldon. 1981. "Black Southern Student
Sit-In Movement:
An Analysis of Internal
Department
of Sociology
University
of Arizona
Organization."
46:744-776.
University
of MarylandAmerican Sociological ReviewTucson,
AZ 85721
College
• Killian,
Park, MD
Lewis.
20742
1984. "Organization, Rationality
[email protected]
and Spontaneity in the Civil Rights
Movement," American Sociological Review 49:770-783.
[email protected]
• King, Martin Luther, Jr. 1963. "Letter from aFrederick
Birmingham
Jail."
Wherry
J. Michael Ryan
Department of Sociology
Department
FILM: "Ain't
of Sociology
Scared of Your Jails"
University of Michigan
University of Maryland
Ann Arbor, MI 48109
College
MD 20742
[email protected]
Part II: Park,
The Causes
and Consequences of Becoming
an Activist
[email protected]
Week 3: Freedom Summer 1964
• McAdam, Doug. 1988. Freedom Summer. New York: Oxford University Press.
• Malcolm X. 1964. "The Ballot or the Bullet," selection in American Protest Literature,
Zoe Trodd, ed. Cambridge MA: Harvard University Press (2006).
FILM: "Freedom on My Mind"
Week 4: Networks and Differential Recruitment
200
91
Laura
"Becoming an Activist" (chapter 3 of Meyer Juliet
text) Schor
• Miller
519 McGuinn
Department
• Freeman,
of Sociology
Jo. 1973. "The Origins of the Women's
Liberation Movement," American
140 Commonwealth Ave.
Journal
Pearlman
103 of Sociology 78(4): 792-811.
Boston
Collegein American Protest
• Stanton,
Elizabeth Cady. 1892. "Solitude of Self,"
reprinted
Brandeis
University
ChestnutUniversity
Hill, MA 02467
Literature,
Zoe Trodd, ed. Cambridge MA: Harvard
Press (2006).
Waltham,
MA 02454
[email protected]
[email protected]
• Blee, Kathleen. 2003. "The Racist Self," chapter
1 in Inside Organized Racism: Women
in the Hate Movement. Los Angeles: University of California Press. NOW AVAILABLE
Lisa• Peñaloza
Munson, Ziad. 2002. “The Relationship Between
Sara Pro-Life
Steen Beliefs and Action,” chapter 3
CollegeinofBecoming
Business an Activist: Believers, Sympathizers,
Department
and Mobilization
of Sociology
in the American ProBus 468Life Movement, PhD dissertation, Harvard University.
219 Ketchum
NEW;
Hall
READ BY 9/19
University
• Fisher,
of Colorado
Dana R. 2006. "The Man, the Message,
University
and the Members:
of Colorado
The 3Ms of Politics in
Today," chapter 1 in Activism, Inc. Stanford
Stanford University Press.
Boulder,America
CO 80309
Boulder, CA:
CO 80309
[email protected]
[email protected]
Week 5: Ideology and Values
Inglehart, Ronald. 1977. The Silent Revolution,
excerpt
taken from The Social Movements
Jan •Phillips
Joel
Stillerman
Reader
(2003),and
Jeff Goodwin and James M. Jasper,
eds. New
York: Blackwell.
Department
of Social
2166 AuSable
Hall
• Cotgrove,
Stephen and Andrew Duff. 1980. "Environmentalism,
Middle-Class
Behavioral
Science
Grand Valley State University
Radicalism
and Maine/
Politics," excerpt taken from Allendale,
The SocialMI
Movements
University
of Southern
49401 Reader (2003), Jeff
Goodwin and
James M. Jasper, eds. New York:
Blackwell.
Lewiston-Auburn
College
[email protected]
• Carson,
Rachel. 1962. Silent Spring. New York: Houghlin Mifflin.
Lewiston,
ME 04240
• Hirsch, Eric L. 1990. "Sacrifice for the Cause:
Deborah
Group Processes,
Thorne Recruitment, and
[email protected]
Commitment in a Student Social Movement."Department
American Sociological
of SociologyReview
and 55:243-254.
Anthropology
Meghan
FILM:Ashlin
"Occupation"
Rich
Ohio University
Department of Sociology and Criminal
Justice
Athens, OH 45701
Week 6: Frames and Narratives
University
• Snow,
of Delaware
David A., E. Burke Rochford, Jr., Steven
[email protected]
K. Worden, and Robert D. Benford.
Newark,1986.
DE 19716
"Frame Alignment Process, Micromobilization, and Movement Participation."
[email protected]
American Sociological Review 51 (August):464-81.
Melanie Wallendorf
• Zuo, Jiping and Robert D. Benford. 1995. "Mobilization
Department Processes
of Marketing
and the 1989 Chinese
Movement." The Sociological Quarterly
Eller College
36(1):131-56.
of Management
George Democracy
Ritzer
• Polletta,
Francesca. 2006. "'It Was Like a Fever...':
Whyof
People
Protest," chapter 2 in It
Department
of Sociology
University
Arizona
WasofLike
a Fever: Storytelling in Protest andTucson,
Politics.AZ
Chicago:
University
Maryland
85721 University of Chicago
CollegePress.
Park, MD 20742
[email protected]
• Packet of pro-life and pro-choice materials (to be distributed in class)
[email protected]
Frederick Wherry
J.
Michael
Ryan Movement Organization and Strategy
Department of Sociology
Part
III: Social
Department
of Sociology
University
Michigan Cycles
Week 7: Resource
Mobilization, Political Opportunities,
andofMovement
University
of Maryland
• "Why
Protest? The Origins of Movements, Opportunities,
and
Organizations" (chapter 2
Ann Arbor, MI
48109
CollegeofPark,
MDtext)
20742
Meyer
[email protected]
[email protected]
• McCarthy, John D. and Mayer N. Zald. 1977. "Resource Mobilization and Social
Movements: A Partial Theory." American Journal of Sociology 82:1212-41.
• Jenkins, Craig J. and Charles Perrow. 1977. "Insurgency of the Powerless: Farm Worker
Movements, 1946-1972." American Sociological Review 42 (April):249-68.
• J Craig Jenkins, David Jacobs, Jon Agnone. 2003. Political Opportunities and AfricanAmerican Protest, 1948-1997. The American Journal of Sociology, 109(2), 277-303.
200
92
Juliet
Schor9 in Power in Movement: Social
Laura
Tarrow, Sidney. 1998. “Cycles of Contention,”
chapter
• Miller
519 McGuinn
Department
Movements
of Sociology
and Contentious Politics. New York:
Cambridge University Press.
Commonwealth
Pearlman
• Minkoff,
103 Debra C. 1997. "The Sequencing of140
Social
Movements,"Ave.
American Sociological
Boston College
Brandeis
Review
University
62(5): 779-800.
Chestnut Hill, MA 02467
Waltham, MA 02454
[email protected]
[email protected]
Week 8: The Structure of Social Movements
• "Individuals, Movements, Organizations, and Coalitions" (chapter 4 of Meyer text)
Lisa• Peñaloza
Piven, Francis Fox and Richard A. Cloward. Sara
1977.Steen
“The Structuring of Protest,” chapter
College1ofinBusiness
Poor People’s Movements: Why They Succeed,
Department
How of
They
Sociology
Fail. New York: Vintage
Bus 468Books.
219 Ketchum Hall
University
• Clemens,
of Colorado
Elizabeth. 1993. "Organizational Repertoires
Universityand
of Colorado
Institutional Change:
Groups and the Transformation of U.S.
Politics,
1890-1920," American Journal
Boulder,Women's
CO 80309
Boulder,
CO 80309
[email protected]
of Sociology 98(4): 755-798.
[email protected]
• Verta Taylor. 1989. "Social Movement Continuity: The Women's Movement in
Abeyance." American Sociological Review 54Joel
(Oct):
761-775
Jan Phillips
Stillerman
• Friedan,
Betty.and
1963. The Feminine Mystique,2166
selection
in American
Protest Literature,
Department
of Social
AuSable
Hall
Zoe Science
Trodd, ed. Cambridge MA: Harvard University
Press (2006).
Behavioral
Grand Valley
State University
• Finnegan,
William.
2000. "After Seattle." TheAllendale,
New Yorker,
April 17: 40-51.
University
of Southern
Maine/
MI 49401
Lewiston-Auburn College
[email protected]
Lewiston,
ME 04240
Week 9: Strategy
and Tactics
• "The Strategy and Tactics of Social Protest" (chapter
Deborah5Thorne
of Meyer text)
[email protected]
• "Civil Disobedience" (chapter 6 of Meyer text)
Department of Sociology and
• Polletta,
Francesca. 2006. "Strategy as Metonymy:
Anthropology
Why Activists Choose the Strategies
Meghan
Ashlin Rich
TheyofDo,"
chapterand
3 inCriminal
It Was Like a Fever: Storytelling
Ohio University
in Protest and Politics. Chicago:
Department
Sociology
Justice University of Chicago Press.
Athens, OH 45701
University
• Ganz,
of Delaware
Marshall. 2000. "Resources and Resourcefulness:
[email protected]
Strategic Capacity in the
Newark,Unionization
DE 19716 of California Agriculture, 1959-1966," American Journal of Sociology
[email protected]
105(4): 1003-1062.
Melanie Wallendorf
• Bernstein, Mary. 1998. "Celebration and Suppression:
Department
The
ofStrategic
Marketing
Uses of Identity by
Lesbian and Gay Movement," American Journal
Eller College
of Sociology
of Management
103(3):531-565.
George the
Ritzer
• Newton,
Huey P. 1970. "The Women's Liberation
and Gay
Liberation Movements,"
Department
of Sociology
University
of Arizona
reprinted
in American Protest Literature, ZoeTucson,
Trodd, AZ
ed. 85721
Cambridge MA: Harvard
University
of Maryland
CollegeUniversity
Park, MD Press
20742(2006).
[email protected]
[email protected]
Frederick Wherry
Part IV: Social Movements, the Media, and the State
J.
Michael
Ryan
Department of Sociology
Week
10: Repression
& Confrontation
Department
of Sociology
• Carley,
Michael. 1997. “Defining Forms of Successful
UniversityState
of Michigan
Repression of Social
University
of Maryland
Movement
Organizations: A Case Study of the
Ann
FBI’s
Arbor,
COINTELPRO
MI 48109 and the American
CollegeIndian
Park, MD
20742 Research in Social Movements,
Movement,”
Conflict and Change 20:151-176.
[email protected]
[email protected]
• McPhail, Clark, David Schweingruber, and John McCarthy. 1998. "Policing Protest in
the United States: 1960-1995," pp.49-69 in Policing Protest, Donatella Della Porta and
Herbert Reiter, eds. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.
• Rasler, Karen. 1996. "Concessions, Repression, and Political Protest in the Iranian
Revolution." American Sociological Review 61(1, February):132-52.
200
93
Schor
Laura
Earl, Jennifer. 2005 “You Can Beat the Rap, Juliet
But You
Can’t Beat the Ride: Bringing
• Miller
519 McGuinn
Department
Arrests
of Sociology
Back into Research on Repression.” Research
in Social Movements, Conflicts and
140 Commonwealth Ave.
Pearlman
Change,
103 26:101-139.
Boston College
Brandeis University
Chestnut Hill, MA 02467
Waltham,
02454 & Social Control
Week 11: MA
Cooptation
[email protected]
• "The State and Protests: Institutionalization" [email protected]
(chapter 7 of Meyer text)
• "When Everyone Protests" (chapter 8 of Meyer text)
Lisa• Peñaloza
McCarthy, John D., David Britt, and Mark Wolfson.
Sara Steen
1991. "The Institutional Channeling
CollegeofofSocial
Business
Movements by the State in the United
Department
States." Research
of Sociology
in Social Movements,
Bus 468Conflicts and Change 13: 45-76.
219 Ketchum Hall
University
• Rosenberg,
of Colorado
Gerald N. 1991. The Hollow Hope:
University
Can Courts
of Colorado
Bring About Social Change?
University of Chicago Press. Read selections,
pp.1-8,
Boulder,Chicago:
CO 80309
Boulder, CO
80309pp.157-169, pp.247-265,
[email protected]
pp. 336-343.
[email protected]
Jan
Phillips
Joel Stillerman
Week
12: Social Movements and the Media
• Roscigno,
Vincent
2001.
“MediaHall
and Mobilization: The Case
Department
of Social
and J. and William F. Danaher.
2166
AuSable
of Radio
and Southern Textile Worker Insurgency,
to State
1934,”
American Sociological
Behavioral
Science
Grand 1929
Valley
University
Review
66(1):21-48.
University
of Southern
Maine/
Allendale, MI 49401
• Eyerman, Ron
and Andrew Jamison. 1998. Music
and Social Movements: Mobilizing
Lewiston-Auburn
College
[email protected]
Traditions
in the Twentieth Century. New York: Cambridge University Press. Read
Lewiston,
ME 04240
selections, pp.1-5, 168-173.
Deborah Thorne
[email protected]
• Gitlin, Todd. 1980. The Whole World is Watching,
excerptoftaken
from The
Department
Sociology
and Social
Reader (2003), Jeff Goodwin andAnthropology
James M. Jasper, eds. New York:
MeghanMovements
Ashlin Rich
Blackwell.
Ohio University
Department
of Sociology and Criminal
Justice
• McCarthy, John D. 1994. “Activists, Authorities,
Athens,
andOH
Media
45701
Framing of Drunk Driving,”
University
chapter
of Delaware
6 in New Social Movements: From Ideology
[email protected]
to Identity, Enrique Laraña, Hank
Newark,Johnston,
DE 19716
and Joseph R. Gusfield, eds. Philadelphia: Temple University Press.
[email protected]
• Oliver, Pamela E. and Daniel J. Myers. 1999.Melanie
"How Events
Wallendorf
Enter the Public Sphere:
of Marketing
Conflict, Location and Sponsorship in Local Department
Newspaper Coverage
of Public Events."
George American
Ritzer Journal of Sociology 105: 38-87 Eller College of Management
Department of Sociology
University of Arizona
University
of Maryland
Tucson, AZ 85721
Part
V: Social
Movement Impacts
College13:
Park,
20742
Week
TheMD
Globalization
of Social [email protected]
• Keck, Margaret E., and Kathryn Sikkink. 1998. Activists Beyond Borders : Advocacy
[email protected]
Networks in International Politics. Ithaca NY:
CornellWherry
Univ Press. (read chapter 1)
Frederick
J. Michael
• Smith,
Ryan
Jackie. 2001. "Globalizing Resistance:Department
The Battle of
of Sociology
Seattle and the Future of
Department
Social
ofMovements."
Sociology Mobilization 6(1): 1-19.University of Michigan
University
of Maryland
• Maney,
Gregory M. 2001. "Transnational Structures
and MI
Protest:
Linking Theories and
Ann Arbor,
48109
CollegeAssessing
Park, MDEvidence."
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Mobilization 6(1): 83-100.
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Week 14: Political Change
• "The Policy Connection: How Movements Matter" (chapter 9 of Meyer text)
• "Protest and American Politics: What's Next?" (chapter 10 of Meyer text)
• Andrews, Kenneth T. 2004. “Explaining the Consequences of Social Movements,”
chapter 2 in Freedom Is a Constant Struggle: The Mississippi Civil Rights Movement and
Its Legacy. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
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Rights Movement,” chapter 9 in
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Freedom
of Sociology
Is a Constant Struggle: The Mississippi
Civil Rights Movement and Its Legacy.
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Chicago:
103 University of Chicago Press.
College
• Polletta,
Francesca. 2006. "Remembering Dr.Boston
King on
the House and Senate Floor: Why
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University
Chestnut
Movements
Have the Impacts They Do" chapter
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WasMA
Like02467
a Fever: Storytelling in
Waltham,
MA 02454
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Protest and Politics. Chicago: University of Chicago
Press.
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15: Presentations
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University of Colorado
Boulder, CO 80309
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Sara Steen
Department of Sociology
219 Ketchum Hall
University of Colorado
Boulder, CO 80309
[email protected]
Jan Phillips
Department of Social and
Behavioral Science
University of Southern Maine/
Lewiston-Auburn College
Lewiston, ME 04240
[email protected]
Joel Stillerman
2166 AuSable Hall
Grand Valley State University
Allendale, MI 49401
[email protected]
Deborah Thorne
Department of Sociology and
Anthropology
Ohio University
Athens, OH 45701
[email protected]
Meghan Ashlin Rich
Department of Sociology and Criminal
Justice
University of Delaware
Newark, DE 19716
[email protected]
Melanie Wallendorf
Department of Marketing
Eller College of Management
University of Arizona
Tucson, AZ 85721
[email protected]
George Ritzer
Department of Sociology
University of Maryland
College Park, MD 20742
[email protected]
Frederick Wherry
Department of Sociology
University of Michigan
Ann Arbor, MI 48109
[email protected]
J. Michael Ryan
Department of Sociology
University of Maryland
College Park, MD 20742
[email protected]
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Laura
SocialMiller
Movements and Film
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Department
of Sociology
Beate Sissenich
140 Commonwealth Ave.
Pearlman
103
Indiana University
- Bloomington
Boston College
Brandeis University
Chestnut Hill, MA 02467
Waltham,
Overview MA 02454
[email protected]
[email protected]
This course explores social movements of race and ethnicity,
class, and gender in the US and
other countries. Through academic writings and films, we will investigate why movements
emerge
Lisa Peñaloza
when they do, what forms they take, and what
Sara
outcomes
Steen they produce. What does it take
to
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generate
of Business
sustained political contention? What makes
Department
individuals
of join
Sociology
protests? And why do
some
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situations not generate any contentious action at
219
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even if they
Hallseem to cry out for mass
protest?
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Why
of Colorado
are some movements local, while others
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spread across
of Colorado
many countries? Why are
some
Boulder,
movements
CO 80309
peaceful, whereas others resort to violence?
Boulder, CO
How
80309
do relations between the state
and
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society change in the course of contentious action?
[email protected]
Case
Jan Phillips
studies will include organized racism, the US civil
Joelrights
Stillerman
movement, labor, the Chinese
democracy
Departmentmovement,
of Social and
Islamic activism, and anti-colonialism.
2166 AuSable
The case
Hall material covers
democratic
Behavioral Science
and non-democratic forms of government,
Grand
as well
Valley
as a State
rangeUniversity
of conflict dimensions
such
University
as race,
ofclass,
Southern
and Maine/
gender. Special attention willAllendale,
be paid toMI
social
49401
movement tactics,
especially
the decision
to use violence.
Lewiston-Auburn
College
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Lewiston, ME 04240
The
course has four goals: 1) to familiarize students Deborah
with theories
Thorne
of political contention, both
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inside and outside of formal political institutions; 2) Department
to teach skills
ofof
Sociology
film analysis
and and criticism;
3)
to integrate
genres; and 4) to develop advanced writing
Meghan
Ashlinsocial
Rich science scholarship with visual Anthropology
and
communication
skills.and Criminal
Ohio University
Department
of Sociology
Justice
Athens, OH 45701
The
averageofreading
load for this course will be about
100 pages per week. In addition, students
University
Delaware
[email protected]
will
be required
to view films at the Main Library’s Kent Cooper Room. Because this is a
Newark,
DE 19716
writing-intensive
seminar, there will be a writing assignment
roughly every other week.
[email protected]
Melanie Wallendorf
Department of Marketing
Eller College of Management
George Ritzer
Requirements
depends
strongly on participants’
Participation:
% of the grade. The quality of this course
Department of30
Sociology
University
of Arizona
contributions.
In addition to doing the readings and viewing
University of Maryland
Tucson, the
AZfilms,
85721you are expected to share
your
questions
and20742
ideas in the classroom. Your second
and each additional unexcused absence
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Park, MD
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will
result in a loss of 5 points (out of a possible 30) on the participation grade.
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Frederick Wherry
Book
J.
Michael
and film
Ryanreviews: 30% of the grade. Over the course
of the of
semester,
you will be required
Department
Sociology
Department
to write two of
book
Sociology
reviews (due 2/2 and 2/16) and oneUniversity
film review
(due 3/30). Each review
of Michigan
University
should be approximately
of Maryland 500 words in length. See instructions
format
Ann Arbor,onMI
48109below.
College Park, MD 20742
[email protected]
[email protected]
Term paper: 40 % of the grade: For the term paper, you will be required to explore one
theoretical question, formulated by the instructor, through the lens of three films. You will
choose these three films from a list supplied by the instructor. The paper should be
approximately 5000 words in length and integrate social movement theory and case material as
presented in film. See instructions on format below. The tasks of the paper will be split up over
the course of the semester:
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- One-page paper proposal (research question,
working hypothesis, films to be
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Department of analyzed,
Sociologykey references), due 3/23, max.
5 points.
1404/6,
Commonwealth
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- Outline and annotated bibliography, due
max. 5 points.Ave.
Brandeis University
- First draft, due 4/13, max. 5 points. Boston College
Waltham, MA
02454draft, due 4/27, max. 25 points. Chestnut Hill, MA 02467
- Final
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[email protected]
Lisa
Peñaloza
Sara Steen
Resources
Movie
1) Basic of
College
information
Business about films is available at the Internet
Department
ofDatabase
Sociology
(http://www.imdb.com/).
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219 Ketchum Hall
2)
Film reviews
University
of Colorado
are available at
University of Colorado
New YorkCO
Times
Film Reviews (IU Main Library Reference:
.N532 or
Boulder,
80309
Boulder,PN1995
CO 80309
http://movies.nytimes.com/pages/movies/index.html)[email protected]
[email protected]
Variety Film Reviews (IU Main Library Reference: PN1995 .V34).
3) Some
Jan
Phillips
information on writing:
Joel Stillerman
Timothy Corrigan,
A Short
York:
Pearson Longman, 2004).
Department
of Social
and Guide to Writing About Film
2166(New
AuSable
Hall
Wayne Booth,
Gregory G. Colomb, and Joseph M. Williams,
The Craft
Research (Chicago:
Behavioral
Science
Grand Valley
State of
University
University of
of Southern
Chicago Press,
1995).
University
Maine/
Allendale, MI 49401
Lewiston-Auburn College
[email protected]
Lewiston,
ME 04240
Books
The following titles are available at the bookstore: Deborah Thorne
[email protected]
Kathleen M. Blee, Inside Organized Racism: WomenDepartment
in the Hateof
Movement
Sociology(Berkeley:
and
University
of California
Press, 2003).
Anthropology
Meghan
Ashlin
Rich
Ohio
University
Douglas McAdam,
Department
of Sociology
Freedom
andSummer
Criminal(Oxford: Oxford
University
Press, 1988).
James
JusticeMonaco, How to Read a Film: Movies, Media,Athens,
Multimedia
OH 45701
(Oxford: Oxford University
Press, 2000).
University
of Delaware
[email protected]
Frances Fox
Newark,
DE Piven
19716and Richard A. Cloward, Poor People’s Movements: Why They Succeed, How
They Fail (New York: Vintage, 1977).
[email protected]
Melanie Wallendorf
of Marketing
Arlene Stein, The Stranger Next Door: The Story of aDepartment
Small Community’s
Battle (Beacon Press,
2002)
Eller College of Management
George Ritzer
Charles
Department
Tilly,
ofSocial
Sociology
Movements, 1768-2004 (Boulder
University
and London:
of Arizona
Paradigm Publishers, 2004).
Other readings
will be on reserve at the Main Library.
University
of Maryland
Tucson, AZ 85721
College Park, MD 20742
[email protected]
[email protected]
Frederick Wherry
J. Michael Ryan
Department of Sociology
Department of Sociology
University of Michigan
University of Maryland
Ann Arbor, MI 48109
College Park, MD 20742
[email protected]
[email protected]
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Laura
Films Miller
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This course covers
Department
of Sociology
both documentaries and feature films.
Unless otherwise noted in the syllabus,
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Commonwealth
Ave.
you are required
Pearlman
103 to view the films at the library’s Media
Room/Kent-Cooper
Room.
Boston
College
Brandeis
You are encouraged
University to form groups for viewing films.
Do not
wait until the last minute to see
Chestnut Hill, MA 02467
Waltham,
MA 02454
assigned films,
as access may be difficult. Plan ahead.
[email protected]
[email protected]
Reading Guide/Guide for Book Reviews
Lisa
(adapted
Peñaloza
from Charles Tilly’s Questionnaire for Analysis
Sara Steen
and Criticism of Research Design, July
2000, Columbia
College
of Business
University)
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Please use the
University
of Colorado
following questions to guide your reading.
University
You will
of Colorado
be expected to respond to all
of these questions
Boulder,
CO 80309in seminar discussion. You shouldBoulder,
follow this
COguide
80309when writing your book
reviews.
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[email protected]
1. Summarize the main question/s addressed.
On what
Jan
Phillips
do you base your summary? Give concrete Joel
citations.
Stillerman
How important
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of Social
is/are the
andquestion/s? Why?
2166 AuSable Hall
Behavioral
2. To what
Science
previous body of work does the author
Grand
claim
Valley
to beState
contributing?
University
University
What does of
theSouthern
author claim
Maine/
to be contributing? DoesAllendale,
s/he claimMI
to 49401
Lewiston-Auburn
- fill College
an information gap?
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Lewiston, ME
- 04240
confirm accepted answers to old questions?
Deborah Thorne
[email protected]
- modify accepted answers to old questions?
Department of Sociology and
- confirm contested answers to old questions?
Anthropology
Meghan Ashlin
Rich
- challenge
accepted answers to old questions?
Department- of provide
Sociology
and
Criminal
new
answers
to old questions?Ohio University
Justice
Athens, OH 45701
- change accepted questions and answers?
University of
[email protected]
- Delaware
do something else altogether?
Newark,
DE 19716
Please explain.
[email protected]
Melanie
Wallendorf
How would you evaluate the author’s claims? Are they
accurate?
Why/why not?
Department
of Marketing
3.
What units of observation does the work adopt
for that phenomenon?
Eller College of Management
George Examples
Ritzer
include:
Department- of person
Sociology
University of Arizona
University of
- Maryland
household
Tucson, AZ 85721
College Park,
- MD
family
20742
[email protected]
- place
[email protected]
- event
Frederick Wherry
J. Michael Ryan
- action
Department of Sociology
Department- of transaction/exchange
Sociology
University of Michigan
University of
- Maryland
message
Ann Arbor, MI 48109
College Park, MD 20742
[email protected]
[email protected]
4. What methods does the work use to gather information about the phenomenon/phenomena
under investigation?
Examples of methods include:
- in-depth interview
- large-scale standardized survey
- participant observation
- event counts based on newspaper reporting
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- systematic textual analysis
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Sociology from published accounts 519 McGuinn
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- biography (individual or collective) 140 Commonwealth Ave.
Boston College
Brandeis University
- compilation of organizational statistics
Chestnut Hill, MA 02467
Waltham, MA
02454 research.
- archival
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[email protected]
5. Summarize the work’s major arguments and the form/s of evidence adduced in support of
Lisa Peñaloza
the arguments.
Sara Steen
College
6. How
of Business
plausible do you find the arguments in light
Department
of the evidence?
of Sociology
Does the evidence
Bus 468actually correspond to the arguments? Can you
219think
Ketchum
of better
Hallevidence in support of the
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author’s
of Colorado
arguments?
University of Colorado
Boulder, CO 80309
Boulder, CO 80309
[email protected]
[email protected]
Writing about Film
You are required to write one review of a single film. Furthermore, for the term paper you will
Jan
writePhillips
a critical essay incorporating your reading of three
Joel different
Stillerman
films. In both instances, the
Department
emphasis should
of Social
be onand
critique rather than mere review.
2166Here
AuSable
are some
Hallsuggestions on how to go
about this: Science
Behavioral
Grand Valley State University
1. When
viewing aMaine/
film, record your impressions
immediately.
University
of Southern
Allendale,
MI 49401
2. You may use
filmographic resources, but be sure
to cite properly.
Lewiston-Auburn
College
[email protected]
3. Assume
that your reader has seen the film. There’s thus no need for extensive plot
Lewiston,
ME 04240
summary—a short paragraph will do. Instead,Deborah
focus onThorne
central themes, questions,
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puzzles, and particularly striking scenes.
Department of Sociology and
4. Usually
film can be interpreted in multiple Anthropology
ways. Spell out your own interpretation as
Meghan
Ashlin aRich
well of
as Sociology
possible others
and discuss why you think
is the most plausible reading of
Ohio yours
University
Department
and Criminal
Justice the film.
Athens, OH 45701
5. With
films, consider whether you detect [email protected]
particular ideology underlying the film.
University
ofall
Delaware
is your evidence? Could the evidence be read another way? Discuss.
Newark,What
DE 19716
6. Why has the filmmaker chosen particular styles
and techniques
(e.g. black & white film,
[email protected]
Melanie
Wallendorf
camera angle, lay actors, interviews, stills, sound,
etc.). of Marketing
Department
7. What
caseCollege
study, of
compared
to the scholarly
Eller
Management
George
Ritzerdoes the visual source add to a particular
texts of
you’ve
read on the same topic? Do you University
detect parallel
themes and questions? Do
Department
Sociology
of Arizona
youof
seeMaryland
theoretical arguments about social movements
reflected
University
Tucson, AZ
85721 in the film?
College Park, MD 20742
[email protected]
[email protected]
Term Paper
Please write an analytical essay of approximately 5000
words on
one of the following questions.
Frederick
Wherry
J. Michael
1. How
Ryan
does violence affect political contention?
Keep in mind
that both societal actors and
Department
of Sociology
Department
the state
of Sociology
may be the source of violence. Consider
both scenarios,
and possible others, in
University
of Michigan
University
lightofofMaryland
theoretical arguments that you have encountered
semester.
Ann Arbor, this
MI 48109
2. Why
people
mobilize when they do? Specifically,
how do social movements
College
Park,doMD
20742
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[email protected]
overcome the free-rider problem that presents a basic obstacle to most collective action?
Consider both successful and unsuccessful mobilization in light of theoretical arguments
that you have encountered this semester.
3. How do social movements differ between democratic and non-democratic settings? How
does the prevailing political regime affect mobilization, movement strategies, repertoires,
and outcomes? Construct your argument based on the theories you have encountered this
semester.
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Lauramust
You
Miller
use at least six scholarly sources, three of which
must be from the reading assignments
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for this course.
Department
of Sociology
None of them may be online-only sources.
Choose three films to illustrate your
140 Commonwealth
arguments.
One of these may be a film discussed in class,
the others mustAve.
be selected from the
Pearlman 103
Boston College
under “Teaching”.
list
Brandeis
available
University
at my homepage (http://mypage.iu.edu/~bsisseni/)
Chestnut Hill, MA 02467
Waltham, MA 02454
[email protected]
Goals:
[email protected]
− to apply social movement theory to a salient question;
Lisa
Sara Steen
− toPeñaloza
analyze visual material as a source of data or interpretation;
College
of Business
Department
of Sociology
− to make
an interesting and original argument informed
by references
to concrete cases;
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468
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Hall
− to develop your analytical writing skills.
University of Colorado
University of Colorado
Boulder,
CO
80309
Boulder, CO 80309
Schedule:
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[email protected]
− One-page paper proposal (research question,
working hypothesis, films to be
analyzed, key references), due 3/23, max. 5 points.
Jan Phillips− Outline and annotated bibliography, due
Joel4/6,
Stillerman
max. 5 points.
Department of Social and
2166 AuSable Hall
− First draft, due 4/13, max. 5 points.
Behavioral Science
Grand Valley State University
− Final draft, due 4/27, max. 25 points.
University of Southern Maine/
Allendale, MI 49401
Suggested format:
Lewiston-Auburn College
[email protected]
Introduction
Lewiston, ME 04240
− State the problem/issue/controversy that your paper will examine.
Deborah Thorne
[email protected]
− Why/how is this problem relevant?
Department of Sociology and
−
Thesis
statement:
How did you arrive at it?
Anthropology
Meghan
Ashlin
Rich What is your answer to the question?
−
Define key
terms.
Ohio University
Department
of Sociology
and Criminal
−
What
evidence
will you need to find in order to confirm/disconfirm
Justice
Athens, OH 45701 your hypothesis?
−
Give a brief
overview of the paper.
University
of Delaware
[email protected]
Newark, DE 19716
[email protected]
Melanie Wallendorf
Body
Department of Marketing
−
StateRitzer
the arguments that support your thesis. Explain
arguments
using details from your
Ellerthese
College
of Management
George
sources. of
Use
direct quotes sparingly; instead, paraphrase
your
Department
Sociology
University
of sources
Arizonaand cite them properly.
University
Maryland that speak against your thesis.
Tucson,
AZ
85721
−
State theofarguments
Explain
these
arguments using details
fromPark,
your MD
sources.
Again, use direct quotes sparingly;
instead, paraphrase your sources and
College
20742
[email protected]
cite them properly.
[email protected]
Frederick
− Discuss three films that provide evidence and case
materialWherry
for and/or against your thesis. Do
J. Michael
Ryan
Department
of Sociology
not waste
time and space on plot summary and discussion
of actors.
Instead, analyze
Department
of
Sociology
University
of
Michigan
particular scenes, documentary or narrative techniques, and the filmmakers’ overall approach
University
of Maryland
Ann Arbor, MI 48109
to illustrate
your main argument.
College
Park,
MD
20742
[email protected]
− If you find one or more of your sources ideologically
biased, state this and provide evidence.
[email protected]
How does this bias the source’s credibility?
− Are there any issues/perspectives that are ignored by the sources under consideration? Please
provide evidence and discuss why these issues are important and why existing accounts do
not do justice to them.
− Is there a general tendency on the issue among your scholarly and visual sources? Or do they
disagree widely?
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100
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Laura Miller
Conclusion
519 McGuinn
Department
of Sociology
− Restate
your main position, focusing in particular
on why the counterarguments do
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not hold up to scrutiny.
Boston
College
Brandeis
− University
What potential implications does this issue,
and your
position on it, have for other
Chestnut Hill, MA 02467
Waltham, MA
02454
cases
not considered in your paper?
[email protected]
[email protected]
Resources:
− Using outlines: http://www.indiana.edu/~wts/pamphlets/outlines.shtml
Lisa
Peñaloza
Sara Steen
− How
should you use evidence? See
College
of Business
Department of Sociology
http://www.indiana.edu/~wts/pamphlets/using_evidence.shtml
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− What is plagiarism and how do you avoid it? See219 Ketchum Hall
University
of Colorado
University of Colorado
http://www.indiana.edu/~wts/pamphlets/plagiarism.shtml
Boulder,
CO
80309
Boulder, CO 80309
− How should you cite sources? See http://www.indiana.edu/~wts/pamphlets/mla_style.shtml
[email protected]
[email protected]
− How do you write a thesis statement? See http://www.indiana.edu/~wts/wts/thesis.html/.
Jan
Phillips
Joel Stillerman
Criteria
for evaluation:
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of
Social
and
2166 AuSable Hall
Successful papers will
Behavioral Science
Grand Valley State University
− use the required number and kind of sources
University of Southern Maine/
Allendale, MI 49401
− provide a clear thesis statement
Lewiston-Auburn College
[email protected]
−
answer
the
question(s)
posed
thoroughly
Lewiston, ME 04240
− support assertions well using sources
Deborah Thorne
[email protected]
− use proper citation of sources
Department of Sociology and
− be clearly
written.
Anthropology
Meghan
Ashlin
Rich
Ohio University
Department of Sociology and Criminal
Class Schedule
Justice
Athens, OH 45701
1/12
Introduction
University of Delaware
[email protected]
Newark, DE 19716
1/19 What Is a Social Movement? How Does It Differ
from Other
Forms of Claims-Making?
[email protected]
Melanie
Wallendorf
Case Study: Organized Racism
Department of Marketing
Tilly,
Paradigm
Publishers, 2004), 1-37
Eller College
of Management
GeorgeSocial
RitzerMovements, 1768-2004 (Boulder and London:
[Tilly].
Department of Sociology
University of Arizona
View
documentary
Hate.Com: Extremists on the Internet
by Vince
DiPersio and Bill Guttentag,
University
of Maryland
Tucson,
AZ 85721
2000
(on
reserve
at
B-Main:
E184.A1
H355
2000),
42
min.
College Park, MD 20742
[email protected]
1) What organizations and leaders does the film cover? 2) What are their main goals?
Questions:
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3) How do they defend their goals? 4) How do they mobilize
Frederickfollowers?
Wherry 5) What role does the
Internet
play
in
mobilization?
How
is
this
different
from
traditional
forms of mobilization? How
J. Michael Ryan
Department of Sociology
have
the actions
of the movement changed as a consequence?
are the specific idioms of
Department
of Sociology
University6)ofWhat
Michigan
worthiness,
unity,
numbers,
and
commitment
(see
Tilly)
used
by
the
neo-Nazi
movement?
University of Maryland
Ann Arbor, MI 48109
College Park, MD 20742
[email protected]
1/26
Case
Study:
Organized
Racism
(Cont’d)
[email protected]
Blee, Inside Organized Racism: Women in the Hate Movement (Berkeley: University of
California Press, 2003), entire.
2/2 Films as Source/ Case Study: Organized Racism (Cont’d)
*** Book review of Blee due. ***
James Monaco, How to Read a Film: Movies, Media, Multimedia (Oxford: Oxford University
Press, 2000) [Monaco], 22-65 and 152-225.
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(on reserve
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1999), 119 min.
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Lisa
role of
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Dr. Bob Sweeney and Murray, respectively? 6)
Sara
Does
Steen
Derek Vinyard succeed at
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persuading
of Business
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If so, how? If not, why not?
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[McAdam],
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and Carma Hinton, 1996 (on reserve
at
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Lewiston,
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Deborah Thorne
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4/20 Countermobilization
Anthropology
Meghan
Ashlin Rich
Arlene Stein,ofThe
Strangerand
Next
Door (Beacon, 2002).
Ohio University
Department
Sociology
Criminal
In-class screening of Ballot Measure 9 (avail. at B-Main,
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Athens,
HQ76.8
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.U5 B34 1996), 72 min.
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of Delaware
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Newark,
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55 min.
Melanie Wallendorf
Department of Marketing
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George Ritzer
Department of Sociology
University of Arizona
University of Maryland
Tucson, AZ 85721
College Park, MD 20742
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Frederick Wherry
J. Michael Ryan
Department of Sociology
Department of Sociology
University of Michigan
University of Maryland
Ann Arbor, MI 48109
College Park, MD 20742
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Social Miller
Change in Action
Department
of Sociology
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Brandeis University
Waltham,
MA 02454
Course Description
[email protected]
It is easy to feel overwhelmed by the problems of our times. What can ordinary people do to
Lisa
Sara Steeneffectively without sacrificing the
bringPeñaloza
about social change? How can they organize themselves
College
of Business
Sociology
very values
for which they are fighting? This course Department
combines: 1)ofreading,
discussion, and
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Hall
writing about strategies for social change; 2) workshops on practical organizing skills like
University
of decision-making,
Colorado
University
Coloradononviolent tactics,
participatory
publicity and outreach,
campaignofresearch,
Boulder,
CO
80309
Boulder,
CO
80309
alliance-building, etc.; and 3) a collective action project which the class will research, design,
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and carry out together. Students should have either prior
coursework in social issues/social
movements or activist experience.
Jan Phillips
Joel Stillerman
Department of Social and
2166 AuSable Hall
Course Format
Behavioral Science
Grand Valley State University
The
course
is
designed
to
have
a
strong
experiential
component.
It is
meant to give you practical
University of Southern Maine/
Allendale, MI
49401
knowledge of various
kinds of organizing skills and [email protected]
hands-on experience using them in a
Lewiston-Auburn
College
collective
project.
At
the
same
time,
we
will
be
discussing
these issues and the various options
Lewiston, ME 04240
we look at with an evaluative eye, considering the practical
ethical implications of various
Deborahand
Thorne
[email protected]
options available to organizers in terms of how to mobilize
people,
to dealand
with the media,
Department of how
Sociology
what strategies
social change work best, what tactics,
etc. Also, many of the options that have
Anthropology
Meghan
Ashlinfor
Rich
been
tried
historically
are
either
not
within
the
scope
of
this
course for us to try ourselves
Ohio University
Department of Sociology and Criminal
(developing a national coalition, for example) or are Athens,
ethically/morally
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OH 45701inappropriate to be
carrying
out
as
a
class
(e.g.
violent
tactics),
yet
it
is
important
from an intellectual standpoint to
University of Delaware
[email protected]
understand
has been tried in the past and what has or has not worked in different situations.
Newark,
DEwhat
19716
Consequently, the format of the course is designed soMelanie
that theWallendorf
experiential parallel to each other
[email protected]
over the course of the semester - in each class period,Department
we will spend
approximately half of the
of Marketing
time discussing
and
the other
half of the time working on
Eller
College
of Management
George
Ritzer more abstract questions in the readings
the
group
project.
In
order
for
us
to
complete
the
project/action
within
the scope of the semester,
Department of Sociology
University of Arizona
I have builtofa number
of benchmarks into the schedule
for progress
on the project.
University
Maryland
Tucson,
AZ 85721
College Park, MD 20742
[email protected]
Because of the collective nature much of what we will be doing this term, and because the goal
[email protected]
of the course is to allow you to grow in your capacityFrederick
to engageWherry
in issues of concern to you, I
have
designed
the course to have a somewhat emergent
character.ofWhile
some things are less
J.
Michael
Ryan
Department
Sociology
flexible thanof
others
(workshops done by outside trainers,
for example),
there is room in the
Department
Sociology
University
of Michigan
syllabus forofusMaryland
to customize the readings and topics as
theArbor,
courseMI
unfolds,
University
Ann
48109based on your needs
and interests
requirements of the project we choose.
Consequently, I have left some of
College
Park,and
MDthe
20742
[email protected]
the
reading
assignments
tentative
or
blank
for
now
and
after
about the third week, you will get an
[email protected]
updated syllabus based on the decisions we have made between now and then about the project
(the required books will not change). Likewise, in weeks 6 or 7, we will take a look at the
suggested topics for the last half of the course, and if the class has developed interests in other
questions, we can reorganize things to work them in.
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Course Requirements
140 Commonwealth Ave.
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Boston College
Brandeis University
especially
important
since so much of the
1)
Participation
and discussion questions. These areChestnut
Hill,
MA 02467
Waltham,
MA 02454
class
revolves
around
group
work.
I
will
not
be
taking
roll
each
week,
but
your classmates
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[email protected]
will need you to be there for the project to come together well, so absences will be noticed. If
have to miss a class, please make sure to getSara
notesSteen
from a fellow student and keep up
Lisayou
Peñaloza
with
all
readings
and
assignments.
Participation.
i.e.
my
assessment
of your overall level of
College of Business
Department
of Sociology
with the class, will constitute a significant
part of your
Busengagement
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219 Ketchum
Hall grade. Things you can do
to
ensure
a
good
participation
grade
include
contributing
to
class
discussions, email
University of Colorado
University of Colorado
correspondence,
attendingCO
lectures
Boulder,
CO 80309 coming to my office hours, and Boulder,
80309or events on campus that
pertain
to
the
course
and
coming
to
tell
me
about
them
or
writing
up a page summarizing the
[email protected]
[email protected]
event and giving your reactions. Also, three people each week will sign up to bring in
and that will count toward your
Jan discussion
Phillips questions which we will use to guide discussion,
Joel Stillerman
participation
gradeand
as well.
Department
of Social
2166 AuSable Hall
Behavioral
Science
Grand
Valleywill
State
2) 3-page concerns paper. For the third week of class,
everyone
be University
asked to write a short (3
University
of Southern
Allendale,
pages) paper
on the Maine/
social issue or problem you would
mostMI
like49401
to have the class address for
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College
the class project.
It should be something you are [email protected]
really concerned about and that you think
Lewiston,
ME
04240
you would be passionate about working on. This exercise will help us facilitate our selection
Deborah Thorne
[email protected]
of an issue and a goal for the class project.
Department of Sociology and
3)
Activist
biography/autobiography
report/presentation.
Each student will choose an activist
Anthropology
Meghan
Ashlin
Rich
they would
like to learn
more
about and read either
a biography
Ohio
Universityor autobiography on that
Department
of Sociology
and
Criminal
person
and
give
an
informal
report
to
the
class
about
that
person’s
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Athens, OH
45701life and your
impressions/thoughts
done either in pairs, in which case the
University
of Delaware about the book. This can [email protected]
presentation
should
be
about
10-15
minutes
long,
or
individually, in which case it should be
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5-7 minutes. Then you’ll turn in a short write-up Melanie
of the presentation.
[email protected]
Wallendorf We will figure out who
will do which activist during the second week of Department
class and sign
for presentation dates. I
of up
Marketing
have
compiled
a
list
of
as
many
activists
I
can
think
of
and
biographies
and autobiographies
Eller College of Management
George Ritzer
written about
them from which you can choose, or
talk to meofifArizona
you have another idea of
Department
of Sociology
University
someone
else
you
would
like
to
report
about.
Presentations
will
take place throughout the
University of Maryland
Tucson, AZ 85721
semester.
College
Park, MD 20742
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[email protected]
4) Action plan. Once we have chosen an issue and a goal for the action, the class will work in
Wherry
weeks 4-6 to create a detailed action plan, based Frederick
on a worksheet
with a series of questions to
J. Michael
Ryan
Department
of
Sociology
be answered about the issue, who the stakeholders are, what resources the class has, what
Department
of Sociology
of etc.
Michigan
exact action
will be carried out, when and how itUniversity
will happen,
The collectively written
University
of Maryland
Ann
MI 748109
action plan,
elaborating the details of the plan, will
beArbor,
due week
and everyone will get the
College
[email protected]
samePark,
gradeMD
for 20742
this assignment.
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5) Final reflections paper (10-12 pgs). At the end of the term, each student will write a 10-12
page final paper, reflecting on the action, your experiences in the group project aspect of the
course, and what you learned through the readings and discussion.
6) Individual group project grade. Lastly, everyone will get to suggest what grade they should
receive for their work on the group project by writing up a one-page report explaining what
role you played, what work you did on the project over the course of the semester, and what
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Miller
you think you deserve. I will then use theseJuliet
reports
to inform my assessment of each
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person’s of
contribution.
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Grading University
Brandeis
Chestnut
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Your finalMA
grade
for the course will be derived according
to theHill,
following
weighting of
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individual requirements:
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questions
LisaParticipation/discussion
Peñaloza
Concerns
paper
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of Business
presentation/report
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Action plan
(collective)
University
of Colorado
Final CO
reflections
Boulder,
80309 paper
Individual group project grade
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15%
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5%
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of Sociology
20%
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25%
University of Colorado
30%
Boulder, CO 80309
5%
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Academic
Jan
PhillipsIntegrity
Joel Stillerman
It is your responsibility
to understand and adhere to the
accepted
norms
Department
of Social and
2166
AuSable
Hall of intellectual honesty in
their academic
work. Any form of cheating, plagiarism,
dishonesty,
or collusion
in another’s
Behavioral
Science
Grand
Valley State
University
dishonesty of
is aSouthern
fundamental
violation of these normsAllendale,
and will beMI
handled
University
Maine/
49401 through the formal
disciplinary procedures
laid out by the College. To see
the College's policies in this area go to:
Lewiston-Auburn
College
[email protected]
http://www.bc.edu/integrity.
This includes proper citation of sources. Two good sources to
Lewiston,
ME 04240
consult about proper citation rules and exactly what constitutes
Deborah Thorne
a breach of policy are:
[email protected]
“Plagiarism Examples and Guidelines: A Quiz” at Department of Sociology and
http://www.bc.edu/schools/cas/polisci/integrity/quiz/#Example_four
Anthropology and the American
Meghan
Ashlin Rich
Sociologicalof
Association’s
“Quick
Style Guide” at Ohio University
Department
Sociology and
Criminal
http://www.asanet.org/page.ww?section=Sociology+Depts&name=Quick+Style+Guide).
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University of Delaware
[email protected]
A
Newark,
note about
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late papers. Papers are graded down by 5 percentage points for each day they are
late.
[email protected]
If you must turn a paper in late due to an emergency
Melanie
(i.e.Wallendorf
something that is both
unavoidable and unforeseen), make sure to contact me
Department
by email as
of soon
Marketing
as possible. If you know
about
unavoidable conflict ahead of time, let me know
Eller College
in advance,
of Management
and we can arrange an
GeorgeanRitzer
extension.
Department of Sociology
University of Arizona
University of Maryland
Tucson, AZ 85721
College Park, MD 20742
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Readings
[email protected]
There are 5 required books for this course:
Frederick Wherry
J.
Michael
Ryan
of Sociology
• Paul Rogat Loeb. 1999. Soul of a Citizen: LivingDepartment
with Conviction
in a Cynical Time. New
Department
of
Sociology
University
of
Michigan
York: St. Martin’s Griffin.
University of Maryland
Ann Arbor, MI 48109
• Kristina
2004. Democracy in Action. New
York: Columbia University Press.
College
Park,Smock.
MD 20742
[email protected][email protected]
Jason Salzman. 2003. Making the News: A Guide for Activists and Nonprofits. Boulder, CO:
Westview Press.
•
Ward Churchill with Mike Ryan. 1998. Pacifism as Pathology. Winnepeg, Manitoba:
Arbeiter Ring Publishing.
•
Michael Albert. 2002. The Trajectory of Change: Activist Strategies for Social
Transformation. Cambridge, MA: South End Press.
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These booksof
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will
Sociology
be available at the Bookstore and on
reserve
at O’Niell Library. All other
140 Commonwealth
Ave.home page
assigned readings
Pearlman
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are available through electronic reserves.
From the library
Boston
College
click on “course reserves”
under
“Find library materials,” log in,
(http://www.bc.edu/libraries/),
Brandeis
University
Chestnut
MAlast
02467
and look up
the02454
course under my name. Readings will
be listedHill,
by the
name of the author of
Waltham,
MA
[email protected]
the individual piece (rather than the author of an edited
book, for example).
[email protected]
Lisa
Peñaloza
Weekly
Schedule of Readings and Assignments Sara Steen
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Department of Sociology
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1.
Jan.
17
Introduction.
University of Colorado
University of Colorado
Boulder, CO 80309
Boulder, CO 80309
[email protected]
2. Jan. 24 Motivation – Obstacles to [email protected]
• Workshop: Consensus Decisionmaking
Jan •Phillips
Joel
Stillerman
Sign up for Activist Biography/Autobiography
assignment
Department of Social and
2166 AuSable Hall
• Sign up for Discussion Questions week.
Behavioral Science
Grand Valley State University
• Soul of a Citizen, Chapters 1, 2, and 4.
University of Southern Maine/
Allendale, MI 49401
Lewiston-Auburn College
[email protected]
3. Jan. 31
Motivation – Overcoming Cynicism
Lewiston, ME 04240
• Concerns papers due.
Deborah Thorne
[email protected]
• Decide on goal/issue for group project.
Department of Sociology and
• Soul
of aRich
Citizen, Chapters 3, 5, 6, 7.
Anthropology
Meghan
Ashlin
Ohio University
Department of Sociology and Criminal
4.
Feb. 7
Organizing Models I
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•
Democracy
in
Action,
Chapters
1-3
University of Delaware
[email protected]
Newark, DE 19716
5. Feb. 14
Organizing Models II
[email protected]
Melanie Wallendorf
• Democracy in Action, Chapters 7-9
Department of Marketing
Eller College of Management
George Ritzer
6.
Feb.
21
Action
Forms.
Department of Sociology
University of Arizona
Hip-hop culture, cognitive liberation,
and AZ
environmental
justice organizing.
• Workshop:
University
of Maryland
Tucson,
85721
Mike
Cermak,
guest
trainer.
College Park, MD 20742
[email protected]
• Amory Starr. 2005. Global Revolt: A Guide to the Movements Against Globalization.
[email protected]
New York: Zed Books. From Part IV. “Tactics,”
pp. 173-245.
Frederick
Wherry
J. Michael
Ryan
Department
of Sociologyfrom Rocking the
• Gwyn
Kirk. “Our Greenham Common: Feminism
and Nonviolence”
Department
of
Sociology
University
of
Michigan
Ship State, Adrienne Harris and Ynestra King, eds. Boulder,
CO: Westview Press. pp.
University
of Maryland
Ann Arbor, MI 48109
115-130.
College
Park,Cavanagh
MD 20742
[email protected]
• John
& Jerry Mander, eds. Alternatives
to Economic Globalization: A Better
[email protected]
World is Possible. San Francisco: Berrett-Koehler Publishers, Inc. Chapter 11. “Global to
Local: What You Can Do,” pp. 333-345.
• Albert Einstein Institution. “198 Methods of Nonviolent Action” www.aeinstein.org.
7. Feb. 28
•
Movement Democracy: Organizational Structure & Decision-making
Group Action Plan due.
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Laura
• Miller
Jo Freeman. 1984. “The Tyranny of Structurelessness”
and Cathy Levine “The Tyranny
519Anarchism
McGuinn and Organization. London:
Department
of Sociology
of Tyranny”
from Untying the Knot: Feminism,
140 Commonwealth Ave.
Pearlman
103Star/Rebel Press. pp. 5-23.
Dark
Boston
College
Brandeis
University
• Rhoda
Linton. “Seneca Women’s Peace Camp:
Shapes
of Things to Come” from Rocking
Chestnut
Hill,Boulder,
MA 02467
Waltham,
theMA
Ship02454
of State, Adrienne Harris and Ynestra
King, eds.
CO: Westview Press.
[email protected]
[email protected]
pp. 239-261.
• Amory Starr. 2005. Global Revolt: A Guide to the Movements Against Globalization.
Lisa Peñaloza
Sara Steen
New York: Zed Books. “Participatory Democracy:
the World Social Forum, pp.47-52
College
of
Business
Department
of Sociology
• Starhawk. 2002. Webs of Power: Notes from the Global Uprising.
“The Practice of Direct
Bus 468Democracy” pp.169-178.
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of Colorado
Colorado
• Francesca
Polletta. 2005. “How ParticipatoryUniversity
DemocracyofBecame
White and Other
Boulder,Stories
CO 80309
Boulder,
CO
80309
of Organizational Choice.” Mobilization 10(2):271-288.
[email protected]
[email protected]
May 6
NO CLASS – SPRING BREAK
Jan Phillips
Joel Stillerman
Department
of
Social
and
2166 AuSable Hall
8. Mar. 13
Building Alliances Across Race & Class
Behavioral
Science
Valley Betsy
State University
• Workshop: Diversity/Alliance Building with Grand
guest trainer,
Leondar-Wright
University of Southern Maine/
Allendale, MI 49401
• Betsy Leondar-Wright. 2005. Class Matters. [email protected]
New Society Publishers. pp. 13-15, 29-33,
Lewiston-Auburn College
55-63, 69-75, 89, and 106.
Lewiston, ME 04240
• from the Class Matters website:
Deborah Thorne
[email protected]
http://www.classmatters.org/working_definitions.php
Department of Sociology and
Anthropology
Meghanhttp://www.classmatters.org/reality_check.php
Ashlin Rich
http://www.classmatters.org/resources/tips/
Ohio University
Department of Sociology and Criminal
Justice http://www.classmatters.org/bios/stout.php Athens, OH 45701
http://www.classmatters.org/2004_11/invisible_walls.php
University
of Delaware
[email protected]
Newark,http://www.classmatters.org/2004_11/stout_interview.php
DE 19716
• John Anner. 1996. Beyond Identity Politics: Emerging
Social Justice Movements in
[email protected]
Melanie Wallendorf
Communities of Color. South End Press. Introduction,
John
pp.5-17, and Chapter
Department
of Anner,
Marketing
5.
“How
the
Empress
Gets
Her
Clothes:
Asian
Immigrant
Women
Fight
Fashion
Eller College of Management
George Ritzer
Designer
Jessica McClintock,” Gary Delgado,University
pp. 81-97.of Arizona
Department
of Sociology
University of Maryland
Tucson, AZ 85721
Mar.
20
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College Park, MD 20742
[email protected]
[email protected]
9. Mar. 27
Media Work
Frederick Wherry
Guest
trainer, Char Ryan.
• Workshop:
J. Michael
Ryan Using the Media in Grassroots Campaigns.
Department
of Sociology
• Making
the News, selections.
Department
of Sociology
University of Michigan
University of Maryland
Ann Arbor, MI 48109
10. Apr.Park,
3 MD
Strategy
College
20742I: Historical Alternatives [email protected]
[email protected]
Readings:
• Barbara Epstein. 1991. Political Protest and Cultural Revolution. Berkeley: University of
California Press. Chapters 1, “Protest in the 1960s and 1980s: the Blocked Cultural
Revolution,” pp. 21-57.
• Randy Shaw. 1999. Reclaiming America: Nike, Clean Air, and the New National
Activism. Berkeley: University of California Press. Chapter 1. “Just Don’t Buy It:
Challenging Nike and the Rules of the Global Economy,” pp. 13-96.
200
108
Juliet Schor
Laura Miller
Department
11. Apr. 10 of Sociology
Strategy II: Parameter Questions 519 McGuinn
140 Commonwealth Ave.
Pearlman 103
Boston College
Readings:University
Brandeis
Chestnut Hill, MA 02467
Waltham,
MAChurchill.
02454 Pacifism as Pathology.
• Ward
[email protected]
[email protected]
• George Lakey. “Nonviolent Action as the Sword
That Heals: Challenging Ward
Churchill’s ‘Pacifism as Pathology’” from
Lisa Peñaloza
Sara Steen
http://globalsolidarity.transcend.org/articles/nonviolent.pdf
College
of Business
of Sociology
• Audre
Lorde. 1984. “The Master’s Tools WillDepartment
Never Dismantle
the Master’s House”
Bus 468from Sister Outsider. Trumansburg, NY:Crossing
219 Ketchum
Hall
Press. pp.110-113.
University
of Colorado
University
of Colorado
• Starhawk.
“Quebec City: Beyond Violence and
Nonviolence”
from
Boulder,http://www.starhawk.org/activism/activism-writings/quebeclessons.html
CO 80309
Boulder, CO 80309
[email protected]
[email protected]
Jan
Phillips
12. Apr.
17
Strategy: What Is To Be Done? Joel Stillerman
Department of Social and
2166 AuSable Hall
Behavioral
Science
Grand Valley State University
Readings:
University
of Southern
Allendale,
MI 49401
• Michael
Albert. Maine/
The Trajectory of Change: Activist
Strategies
for Social Transformation.
Lewiston-Auburn
College
[email protected]
• Starhawk. July 2002. “Turning the Trolls to Stone: Strategy for the Global Justice
Lewiston,
ME 04240from http://www.starhawk.org/activism/activism-writing/trollstostone.html
Movement”
Deborah Thorne
[email protected]
13. Apr. 24 Debriefing, Wrap-up Discussion Department of Sociology and
Anthropology
Meghan Ashlin Rich
• Final Reflections Papers due.
Ohio University
Department of Sociology and Criminal
Justice
Athens, OH 45701
University of Delaware
[email protected]
Newark, DE 19716
[email protected]
Melanie Wallendorf
Department of Marketing
Eller College of Management
George Ritzer
Department of Sociology
University of Arizona
University of Maryland
Tucson, AZ 85721
College Park, MD 20742
[email protected]
[email protected]
Frederick Wherry
J. Michael Ryan
Department of Sociology
Department of Sociology
University of Michigan
University of Maryland
Ann Arbor, MI 48109
College Park, MD 20742
[email protected]
[email protected]
200
109
Juliet Schor
Laura
Miller for Activist Lives Assignment
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519 McGuinn
Department of Sociology
140 Commonwealth Ave.
Pearlman
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19th and early
Boston College
Brandeis University
Chestnut
Hill,
MAto02467
Waltham,
Frederick Douglass.
MA 02454Born a slave and escaped to freedom
in the
North
become a famous
orator, author, and one of the most influential [email protected]
[email protected]
of the abolitionist movement.
McFeely, William S. 1991. Frederick Douglass. Simon & Schuster.
Lisa Peñaloza
Sara Steen
College
of Business
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of Sociology
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actor, professional
football player,
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02454
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protest songs.
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Dorothy Day.
Pacifist, anarchist, Catholic journalist,University
anti-poverty
Boulder,
CO
80309
Boulder,
CO
80309
homeless during the Great Depression. Founded the Catholic Workers movement and
[email protected]
[email protected]
started a string of “houses of hospitality” and communal
farms for the poor.
Coles,
Robert. 1989. Dorothy Day: A Radical Devotion.
Capo Press.
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Press.
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Grand Valley State University
University
of Southern
Maine/
Allendale,
MIlate
49401
Theologian,
educator, socialist, and founder
in the
1930s of the Highlander
Myles Horton.
Lewiston-Auburn
College
[email protected]
Folk School, an organizer training center where many leaders of the civil rights and
Lewiston,
ME farm-workers
04240
southern
movements were trained, including Rosa Parks and Martin Luther
Deborah Thorne
[email protected]
King, Jr.
Department of Sociology and
Horton, Myles,
The Long Haul: An Autobiography.
Meghan
Ashlin Judith
Rich Kohl, and Herbert Kohl. 1997.Anthropology
Teachers’
College Press.
Ohio University
Department
of Sociology
and Criminal
Justice
Athens, OH 45701
Dorothy
Healey.
Well-known
labor
organizer
in
California
with a 40-year career. Eventually a
University of Delaware
[email protected]
national
leader
of
the
American
Communist
Party.
Strong
advocate for the rights of Black
Newark, DE 19716
and Chicano farm and factory workers.
[email protected]
Melanie Wallendorf
Department
of Marketing
Healey, Dorothy and Maurice Isserman. 1990. Dorothy
Healey Remembers:
A Life in the
Eller
College
of
Management
George
Ritzer
American Communist Party. Oxford University Press.
Department of Sociology
University of Arizona
University of Maryland
Tucson, AZ 85721
College
Park,
MDLeft
20742
[email protected]
The
1960s:
New
& Civil Rights Activists
[email protected]
Frederickactivist.
WherryFounder of Students for a
Tom Hayden. Student civil rights, anti-war, and anti-poverty
J. Michael
Ryan
Department
of Sociology
Democratic Society (SDS), the largest student activist organization
in US history.
Department
of
Sociology
University
of
Michigan
Defendent in the Chicago 8 conspiracy trial, who later became
a California State
University
of Maryland
Ann Arbor, MI 48109
Congressman.
College Park, MD 20742
[email protected]
Hayden,
Tom.
2003.
Rebel:
A
Personal
History
of
the
1960s. Red Hen Press.
[email protected]
Abbie Hoffman. Colorful co-founder of the countercultural anarchist group, the “Yippies.” Antiwar activist and one of the Chicago 8 defendants.
Hoffman, Abbie. 2000. Autobiography of Abbie Hoffman 2 Ed. Perseus Books.
Bill Ayers. Member of SDS turned co-founder of the Weather Underground Organization.
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Laura Miller
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Bill. 2003. Fugitive Days: A Memoir. PenguinJuliet
Books.
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Ave.
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Black Power movement,
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Boston College
Brandeis
in 1965.
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Chestnut Hill, MA 02467
Waltham, MA 02454
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[email protected]
[email protected]
Books.
Lisa
Peñaloza
Sara Steen
Martin
Luther King, Jr. Does he need an introduction?
College of Business
Department of Sociology
King,468
Jr., Martin Luther. 2001. The Autobiography of219
Martin
Luther
King, Jr. Grand Central
Bus
Ketchum
Hall
Publishing.
University of Colorado
University of Colorado
Boulder, CO 80309
Boulder, CO 80309
Early
civil
rights
activist
in
the
Student Nonviolent Coordinating
Stokely
Carmichael.
[email protected]
[email protected]
Committee (SNCC) turned militant leader who sparked the Black Power movement.
Jan
Phillips Stokely. 2005. Ready for Revolution: The
Joel
Stillerman
Carmichael,
Life
and Struggles of Stokely Carmichael
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of
Social
and
2166
AuSable Hall
(Kwame Ture). Scribner.
Behavioral Science
Grand Valley State University
Johnson,
Jacqueline.
1990.
Stokely
Carmichael:
The
Story of Black
Power. Silver Burdett Press.
University of Southern Maine/
Allendale,
MI 49401
Lewiston-Auburn College
[email protected]
Civil
rights
and
anti-war
activists from the 1960s-1990s, Christian
Daniel
and
Phillip
Berrigan.
Lewiston, ME 04240
anarchists,
co-founders
of
the
Ploughshares
movement.
Deborah Phillip
ThorneBerrigan was a Josephite
[email protected]
Priest and Daniel Berrigan is a Jesuit Priest. Both
served time
in prison for
Department
of Sociology
andrepeated acts of
civil
disobedience,
Phillip
served
a
total
of
11
years
at
different
times.
Anthropology
Meghan Ashlin Rich
Ohio
UniversityThe Radical Life and Times
Department
of Sociology
and Criminal
Polner, Murray
and Jim O’Grady.
1998. Disarmed and
Dangerous:
Justiceof Daniel and Philip Berrigan, Brothers in Religious
Athens,Faith
OH 45701
and Civil Disobedience.
University
of Delaware
[email protected]
Westview
Press.
Newark, DE 19716
Berrigan, Daniel. 2007. To Dwell in Peace: An Autobiography.
Wipf & Stock Publishers.
[email protected]
Melanie Wallendorf
Department of Marketing
Black Panthers
Eller College of Management
George
Ritzer
Department of Sociology
University of Arizona
Co-founder of the Black Panther Party
for Self
Defense.
Huey
P. Newton.
University
of Maryland
Tucson,
AZ 85721
College
MD
[email protected]
Jeffries, Park,
Judson
L. 20742
2002. Huey P. Newton: The Radical
Theorist. University Press of Mississippi.
[email protected]
Frederick
Assata Shakur. Charismatic speaker, East Coast leader
of BPP,Wherry
jailed for armed robbery, escaped
J. Michael
Ryan
Department of Sociology
to exile
in Cuba, mother of Tupac Shakur.
Department of Sociology
University of Michigan
Shakur, Assata. 2001. Assata: An Autobiography. Lawrence Hill Books.
University of Maryland
Ann Arbor, MI 48109
College Park, MD 20742
[email protected]
Elaine Brown. Leader of BPP for a time while Huey Newton was in prison.
[email protected]
Brown, Elaine. 1993. A Taste of Power: A Black Woman's Story. Anchor Press.
Angela Davis. BPP member, orator, political candidate in Oakland. Now a leading Black
intellectual and academic.
Davis, Angela Y. 1989. Angela Davis: An Autobiography. International Publishers.
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Schorradio personality, convicted of
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murdering
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Waltham, MA 02454
Publishing House.
[email protected]
[email protected]
The American Indian Movement
Lisa Peñaloza
Sara Steen
College
Business
Department
of Sociology
A leader of the American Indian Movement
(AIM),
tried and convicted of
Leonardof
Peltier.
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Hall
murdering two FBI agents in controversial trial. Serving life in prison. Also focus of worldUniversity
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Boulder, CO 80309
Boulder, CO 80309
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Leonard.
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Writings:
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Sun Dance. St. Martin's Griffin.
[email protected]
[email protected]
Dennis
Banks. Early leader of AIM.
Jan
Phillips
Joel Stillerman
Department
of
Social
and
2166 AuSable
Banks, Dennis and Richard Erdoes. 2005. Ojibwa Warrior:
Dennis Hall
Banks And The Rise Of The
Behavioral
Science
Grand
Valley
State
University
American Indian Movement. University of Oklahoma Press.
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Allendale, MI 49401
Lewiston-Auburn
College
[email protected]
Russell Means. Early leader of AIM.
Lewiston, ME 04240
Means, Russell. 1996. Where White Men Fear to Tread:
The Autobiography
of Russell Means.
Deborah
Thorne
[email protected]
St. Martin's Griffin.
Department of Sociology and
Anthropology
Meghan Ashlin Rich
After
the
1960s
Ohio University
Department of Sociology and Criminal
Justice
Athens, OH 45701
Ann
Hansen.
Militant
punk/anarchist
activist
from
Canada.
University of Delaware
[email protected]
Newark,
DE
19716
Hansen, Ann. 2002. Direct Action: Memoirs of an Urban Guerrilla. AK Press.
[email protected]
Melanie Wallendorf
Department of Marketing
International
Eller College of Management
George Ritzer
Department
ofAuthor,
Sociology
Universityand
of Arizona
Marxist leader of the Cuban revolution,
revolutionary activist in many
Che
Guevara.
University
of
Maryland
Tucson,
AZ
85721
countries in Central and South America. Killed in Bolivia in 1967.
College Park, MD 20742
[email protected]
Anderson, Jon Lee. 1998. Che Guevara: A Revolutionary Life. Grove Press.
[email protected]
Frederick Wherry
Subcommandante
Zapatista
movement for autonomy of
J.
Michael Ryan Marcos. Masked leader of the Mexican
Department
of Sociology
indigenous
peoples
of
Mexico,
famous
orator
who
drew
lots
of
media attention and built an
Department of Sociology
University of Michigan
international
network in support of the movement.
University
of Maryland
Ann Arbor, MI 48109
College
Park, 2007.
MD 20742
[email protected]
Henck, Nick.
Subcommander Marcos: The Man
and the Mask. Duke University Press.
[email protected]
Nelson Mandela. Leader of the resistance to Apartheid in South Africa. Served 20 years in prison
and emerged to become the first president of South Africa after Apartheid fell.
Mandela, Nelson. 1995. Long Walk to Freedom: The Autobiography of Nelson Mandela. Back
Bay Books.
Mandela, Nelson. 1996. Mandela: An Illustrated Autobiography. Little, Brown and Company.
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Juliet leader
Schor of the anti-colonial
Laura Miller
Mohandas
Gandhi. Author, activist, spiritual and political
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Department
independence
of Sociology
movement in India. Pioneer of nonviolent
philosophy of Satyagraha and
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Ave.
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103 of mass civil disobedience. Assassinated
in 1948.
Boston College
Brandeis
UniversityKaramchand (Mahatma) and Mahadev
Gandhi, Mohandas
H. Desai. 1993. Gandhi An
Chestnut Hill, MA 02467
Waltham, MA 02454
Autobiography: The Story of My Experiments With Truth. Beacon Press.
[email protected]
[email protected]
Lisa Peñaloza
College of Business
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University of Colorado
Boulder, CO 80309
[email protected]
Sara Steen
Department of Sociology
219 Ketchum Hall
University of Colorado
Boulder, CO 80309
[email protected]
Jan Phillips
Department of Social and
Behavioral Science
University of Southern Maine/
Lewiston-Auburn College
Lewiston, ME 04240
[email protected]
Joel Stillerman
2166 AuSable Hall
Grand Valley State University
Allendale, MI 49401
[email protected]
Deborah Thorne
Department of Sociology and
Anthropology
Ohio University
Athens, OH 45701
[email protected]
Meghan Ashlin Rich
Department of Sociology and Criminal
Justice
University of Delaware
Newark, DE 19716
[email protected]
Melanie Wallendorf
Department of Marketing
Eller College of Management
University of Arizona
Tucson, AZ 85721
[email protected]
George Ritzer
Department of Sociology
University of Maryland
College Park, MD 20742
[email protected]
Frederick Wherry
Department of Sociology
University of Michigan
Ann Arbor, MI 48109
[email protected]
J. Michael Ryan
Department of Sociology
University of Maryland
College Park, MD 20742
[email protected]
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Juliet Schor
Laura
Social Miller
Movements Across Time and Space
519 McGuinn
Department
of Sociology
Mona El-Ghobashy
140 Commonwealth Ave.
Pearlman
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Barnard College,
Columbia University
Boston College
Brandeis University
Chestnut Hill, MA 02467
Waltham,
MA 02454
Introduction
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Originally considered ephemeral forms of interest aggregation
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compared to parties and interest
groups, social movements have developed into central modes of political participation in both
authoritarian
examines
Lisa Peñalozaand democratic regimes. This colloquium
Sara
Steen the origins, trajectories, and
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to 19th century
Iran to late 20th century
effects
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remaining parts of the course
Boulder,
CO 80309developed by leading scholars in the
Boulder,
CO 80309
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focus on three analytical questions: what is the relationship
[email protected]
between social movements and their
most important interlocutors, states and political parties? Do social movements promote or
Jan
undermine
Phillipsdemocratization? And how do we define Joel
the “success”
Stillermanof social movements?
Department of Social and
2166 AuSable Hall
Behavioral
The colloquium
Science
has three goals: (1) to survey the diversity
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casesState
where
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in their societies, (2) to study [email protected]
the main analytical approaches developed
Lewiston-Auburn
College
Lewiston,
by (overwhelmingly
ME 04240American) social scientists to understand and explain social movements,
Deborah
Thorne
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and (3) to develop expository writing and research skills
through
five analytical position papers
Department of Sociology and
and a substantial research paper.
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based on a thorough
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of Maryland
will hurt your grade for the course.
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Presentation: Everyone is expected to come to class having digested the readings and ready to
explain and critique them. Each week, one student will
Frederick
start class
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with a 7-10 min. presentation
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Ryan As you might expect, an effective and
onMichael
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lively presentation
of Sociology
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of Michigan
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premium on analytical reading and writing skills. The position papers (to be submitted at the
beginning of class) should provide a succinct analysis of a specific aspect of one or more
readings. They should never be summaries or lists of quotes from the readings but instead offer
your reasoned interpretation of what you read, supported by page references.
200
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challenge the author’s definition of his/herJuliet
termsSchor
or analysis of his/her case, raise
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relevant questions
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issue under examination, or discuss a common
analytical trait or
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in the different
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readings for a particular week.
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You must write a total of five position papers throughout
the semester on readings of your
choice, but two papers must be handed in by the end of February. It’s important to pace yourself
to
avoid
handing in your position papers in the final Sara
weeksSteen
of the semester! You may write a
Lisa
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position
College of
paper
Business
on the same topic as your presentation.
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of Colorado
This requirement is designed to have
University
you explore
of Colorado
in-depth a social movement
or
movements
that are of particular interest to you. The
only requirement
Boulder,
CO 80309
Boulder,
CO 80309 for the research paper
is
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that it make use of comparison in some way. You can
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either compare two social movements in
one country or across two countries during the same time period (synchronic comparison), or
compare
one social movement at different points in time
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Joel (diachronic
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two
Department
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of Social and
in two countries during the same
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or over time.
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Grand Valley State University
An
effectiveofand
feasible
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in a very
specific and focused
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Southern
Maine/
Allendale,
MI 49401
question.
Papers should
focus on as narrow a question
or puzzle as possible. Broad and general
Lewiston-Auburn
College
[email protected]
topics
rarely
for successful papers. See the course schedule below for important dates
Lewiston,
MEmake
04240
Deborahpapers,
ThorneI will work with you closely
relating
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to the paper. While I will not read drafts of research
at each step of the process to help you produce papers
Department
that are both
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doable andand
mutually
instructive
for both
Anthropology
Meghan Ashlin
Richyou and I.
Ohio University
Department of Sociology and Criminal
Justice
Athens, OH 45701
Required
Texts
The following
required books have been ordered at the
University bookstore and also placed on
University
of Delaware
[email protected]
reserve. All
readings are available via the class Courseworks page. You must bring the
Newark,
DEother
19716
readings with you to class since we will often refer toMelanie
specificWallendorf
quotes during discussions.
[email protected]
™ Charles Tilly, Social Movements, 1768-2004 Department
(Boulder, CO:
of Marketing
Paradigm Publishers, 2004).
™ Doug
eds.,College
Comparative
of Management
Perspectives on Social
George
RitzerMcAdam, John McCarthy, Mayer Zald,Eller
Department
of Sociology
University
of Arizona
Movements:
Political Opportunities, Mobilizing
Structures,
and Cultural Framings
University
(Cambridge:
of Maryland
Cambridge University Press, 1996)
Tucson, AZ 85721
College
™ Misagh
Park, MD
Parsa,
20742
States, Ideologies, & Social Revolutions:
[email protected]
A Comparative Analysis of Iran,
[email protected]
Nicaragua, and the Philippines (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2000)
™ Javier Auyero, Contentious Lives: Two Argentine
Women,
Two Protests, and the Quest
Frederick
Wherry
J. Michael
for Recognition
Ryan
(Durham, NC: Duke University
Press, 2003).
Department
of Sociology
Department of Sociology
University of Michigan
University
of Maryland
Ann Arbor, MI 48109
Course Schedule
January Park,
College
16: Introduction,
MD 20742 Overview of the Colloquium
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Part I. The Study of Social Movements: History Meets Sociology
Week 1: January 23
™ Charles Tilly, Social Movements 1768-2004 (Boulder, CO: Paradigm Publishers, 2004).
Week 2: January 30
19th Century Social Movements
200
116
Schor
Laura
Craig Calhoun, “New Social Movements” of Juliet
the Early
Nineteenth Century,” Social
™ Miller
519 McGuinn
Department
Science
of Sociology
History 17:3 (1993): 385-427.
Commonwealth
Ave.Knew about Other
Pearlman
™ Nader
103 Sohrabi, “Global Waves, Local Actors:140
What
the Young Turks
Boston
College
Brandeis
Revolutions
University and Why it Mattered,” Comparative
Studies
in Society and History (2002):
Chestnut Hill, MA 02467
Waltham,
MA 02454
45-79.
[email protected]
[email protected]
™ Hilda Sabato, “Citizenship, Political Participation,
and the Formation of the Public
Sphere in Buenos Aires 1850s to 1880s,” Past and Present 136 (1992).
Lisa Peñaloza
Sara Steen
Part II. Analytical
College
of BusinessPerspectives on Social Movements
Department of Sociology
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219 Ketchum Hall
Week 3: February
University
of Colorado
6
Political OpportunityUniversity
Structuresof Colorado
™ Herbert
Kitschelt, “Political Opportunity Structures
and
Political
Boulder,
CO 80309
Boulder,
CO
80309 Protest: Anti-Nuclear
Movements in Four Democracies,” British Journal
of Political Science 16:1 (January
[email protected]
[email protected]
1986): 57-85.
Sidney Tarrow, “States and Opportunities: The
political
structuring of social
Jan™Phillips
Joel
Stillerman
movements,”
McAdam, McCarthy, and Zald,
eds.,
Comparative
Department
of Socialin
and
2166
AuSable
Hall Perspectives on
Social
Movements, 41-61.
Behavioral
Science
Grand Valley State University
™ Doug
“On the International Origins
of Domestic
Political Opportunities,” in
University
of McAdam,
Southern Maine/
Allendale,
MI 49401
Anne Costain
and Andrew McFarland, eds., Social
Movements and American Political
Lewiston-Auburn
College
[email protected]
Institutions
(Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield, 1998), 251-67.
Lewiston,
ME 04240
™ Eitan Alimi, “Constructing Political Opportunity:
Deborah
1987—The
Thorne Palestinian Year of
[email protected]
Discontent,” Mobilization 11:1 (February 2006):
Department
67-80. of Sociology and
Anthropology
Meghan Ashlin Rich
Ohio University
Week
Department
4: February
of Sociology
13
and Organization
Criminal
and Resource
Mobilization
Justice
™ John McCarthy and Mayer Zald, “Resource Mobilization
Athens, OH 45701
and Social Movements: A
University
Partial
of Delaware
Theory,” American Journal of Sociology
[email protected]
82:6 (May 1977): 1212-41.
Newark,
™ Marshall
DE 19716
Ganz, “Why David Sometimes Wins: Strategic Capacity in Social Movements,”
[email protected]
in Jeff Goodwin and James Jasper, RethinkingMelanie
Social Movements:
Wallendorf Structure, Meaning,
Department
of Marketing
and Emotion (Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield
Publishers,
2004), 177-200.
™ Kim
Voss, “The Collapse of a Social Movement:
Ellerthe
College
interplay
of Management
of mobilizing structures,
George
Ritzer
Department
framing,
of Sociology
and political opportunities in the Knights
University
of Labor,”
of Arizona
in McAdam, McCarthy,
University
and of
Zald,
Maryland
eds., Comparative Perspectives on Tucson,
Social Movements,
AZ 85721 227-260.
College
™ Francesca
Park, MDPolletta,
20742 “How Participatory Democracy
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Became White: Culture and
[email protected]
Organizational Choice,” Mobilization (June 2005): 271 – 288.
Frederick Wherry
J.
Michaelresearch
Ryan paper proposal and 10-item annotated
One-page
Department
bibliography
of Sociology
Department
of Sociology
due in class February
13
University of Michigan
University of Maryland
Ann Arbor, MI 48109
College
MD 20
20742
Week 5:Park,
February
“Framing”: Identity, [email protected]
Ideology, Emotions
[email protected]
™ Mayer Zald, “Culture, ideology, and strategic framing,” in McAdam, McCarthy, and
Zald, eds., Comparative Perspectives on Social Movements, 261-74.
™ Rachel Einwohner, “Opportunity, Honor, and Action in the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising of
1943,” American Journal of Sociology 109:3 (November 2003): 650-676.
™ Mustafa Emirbayer and Chad Alan Goldberg, “Pragmatism, Bourdieu, and Collective
Emotions in Contentious Politics,” Theory and Society (2005) 34: 469-518.
200
117
Juliet
Schorand social networks: the process
Laura
Rachel Schurman and William Munro, “Ideas,
thinkers,
™ Miller
519 McGuinn
Department
of grievance-construction
of Sociology
in the anti-genetic engineering
movement,” Theory and Society
140 Commonwealth Ave.
Pearlman
35:1
103(February 2006): 1-38.
Boston College
Brandeis University
Chestnut Hill, MA 02467
Waltham,
MA 02454 Parties, and States
Part III. Movements,
[email protected]
[email protected]
Week 6: February 27
Are Movements Alternatives
to or Precursors of Political Parties?
™ Ronald Aminzade, “Between Movement and Party: The Transformation of MidNineteenth-Century French Republicanism,” Sara
in Craig
Jenkins and Bert Klandermans, The
Lisa Peñaloza
Steen
CollegePolitics
of Business
Department
of Sociology
of Social Protest: Comparative Perspectives
on States
and Social Movements
1995).
Bus 468(Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press,219
Ketchum Hall
University
™ JohnofK.
Colorado
Glenn, “Parties Out of Movements: Party
University
Emergence
of Colorado
in Postcommunist Eastern
in Jack Goldstone, ed., States, Parties,
and Social
Movements (Cambridge:
Boulder,Europe,”
CO 80309
Boulder,
CO 80309
[email protected]
Cambridge University Press, 2003), 147-69. [email protected]
™ Mona Harb and Reinoud Leenders, “Know Thy Enemy: Hizbullah, “Terrorism,” and the
Politics of Perception,” Third World Quarterly
(February
2005): 173-197.
Jan Phillips
Joel
Stillerman
™ Herbert
Kitschelt,
Intermediation:
Department
of Social
and “Landscapes of Political Interest
2166 AuSable
Hall Social Movements,
Interest
Groups, and Parties in the Early Twenty-First
Century,”
Pedro Ibarra, ed.,
Behavioral
Science
Grand Valley
State in
University
Social
Movements
and Democracy (New York:
PalgraveMI
Macmillan,
University
of Southern
Maine/
Allendale,
49401 2003), 81-103.
Lewiston-Auburn College
[email protected]
February 27
is 04240
the last week to hand in your second position paper
Lewiston,
ME
Deborah Thorne
[email protected]
Week 7: March 6
Movements and States
Department of Sociology and
™ Dingxin
Zhao, “State-Society Relations and the
Anthropology
Discourses and Activities of the 1989
Meghan
Ashlin Rich
Beijing
Student Movement,”
American Journal
Ohio
of University
Sociology 105:6 (May 2000): 1592Department
of Sociology
and Criminal
Justice 1632.
Athens, OH 45701
University
™ Ruud
of Koopmans,
Delaware “Movements and Media: Selection
[email protected]
Processes and Evolutionary
Newark,Dynamics
DE 19716in the Public Sphere,” Theory and Society (June 2004): 367-91.
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™ Mary Bernstein, “Celebration and Suppression:
Melanie
the Strategic
Wallendorf
Uses of Identity by the
Department
of Marketing
Lesbian and Gay Movement,” American Journal
of Sociology
(November 1997): 531-65.
™ Dan
Lainer-Vos, “Social Movements and Citizenship:
Eller College
Conscientious
of Management
Objection in
George
Ritzer
Department
France,
of Sociology
the United States, and Israel,” Mobilization
University
11:3of
(October
Arizona2006): 357-75.
University of Maryland
Tucson, AZ 85721
CollegeBreak
Park, March
MD 20742
[email protected]
Spring
12-16
[email protected]
Week 8: March 20
Movements and States:
Frederick
Dynamics
Wherry
of Repression
J. Michael
™ David
Ryan
Cunningham, “State Versus Social Movement:
FBIofCounterintelligence
Against
Department
Sociology
Department
the New
of Sociology
Left,” in Goldstone, ed., States, Parties,
and Social
Movements,
University
of Michigan
University
of Maryland
™ Vincent
Boudreau, “State Repression and Democracy
Protest
in Three Southeast Asian
Ann Arbor,
MI 48109
CollegeCountries,”
Park, MD 20742
in Meyer et al eds., Social Movements:
Identity, Culture, and the State (New
[email protected]
[email protected]
York: Oxford University Press, 2002).
™ Gilda Zwerman et al, “Disappearing Social Movements: Clandestinity in The Cycle of
new Left Protest in The U.S., Japan, Germany, and Italy,” Mobilization 5:1 (Spring
2000): 85-104.
™ Myra Marx Ferree, “Soft Repression: Ridicule, Stigma, and Silencing in Gender-Based
Movements,” in Christian Davenport et al, eds., Repression and Mobilization
(Minneapolis: the University of Minnesota Press, 2005), 138-155.
200
118
Juliet Schor
Laura Miller
519 McGuinn
One-page paper
Department
of Sociology
progress report due in class March 20
140 Commonwealth Ave.
Pearlman 103
Boston College
Part IV. Do
Brandeis
University
Social Movements Promote or Hinder Democratization?
Chestnut Hill, MA 02467
Waltham, MA 02454
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[email protected]
Week 9: March 27
™ Charles Tilly, “When Do (and Don’t) Social Movements Promote Democratization?” in
Ibarra, ed., Social Movements and DemocracySara
(2003),
Lisa Peñaloza
Steen21-45.
™ Judith
Adler Hellman, “Mexican Popular Movements,
Clientelism,
and the Process of
College
of Business
Department
of Sociology
(Spring
1994): 124-42.
Bus 468Democratization,” Latin American Perspectives
21921:2
Ketchum
Hall
University
™ Diane
of Colorado
Davis and Christina Rosan, “Social Movements
Universityinofthe
Colorado
Mexico City Airport
the Power
of 80309
Distance,” Mobilization 9:3
Boulder,Controversy:
CO 80309 Globalization, Democracy, and Boulder,
CO
[email protected]
(October 2004): 279-93.
[email protected]
™ Margaret Power, “Class and Gender in the anti-Allende Women’s Movement: Chile
1970-1973,” Social Politics (Fall 2000): 289-308.
Jan Phillips
Joel Stillerman
Department of Social and
2166 AuSable Hall
Week 10: April
3
Movement Diffusion Grand Valley State University
Behavioral
Science
™ Debra
Minkoff, Maine/
“The Sequencing of Social Movements,”
University
of Southern
Allendale, MIAmerican
49401 Sociological Review
62:5 (October
1997): 779-799.
Lewiston-Auburn
College
[email protected]
™ Margaret
Keck and Kathryn Sikkink, “Historical Precursors to Modern Transnational
Lewiston,
ME 04240
Social Movements and Networks,” in John Guidry
Deborah
et al,
Thorne
eds., Globalizations and Social
[email protected]
Movements: Culture, Power, and the Transnational
Department
Public
ofSphere
Sociology
(Ann
and
Arbor: The
of Michigan Press, 2000), 35-53. Anthropology
MeghanUniversity
Ashlin Rich
™ SarahofSoule,
“The and
Student
Divestment Movement
Ohio University
in the United States and Tactical
Department
Sociology
Criminal
Justice Diffusion: The Shantytown Protest,” Social Forces
Athens,75OH
(March
457011997): 855-883.
University
™ Sean
ofChabot
Delaware
and Jan Williem Duyvardak, “Globalization
[email protected]
and transnational diffusion
Newark,between
DE 19716
social movements: Reconceptualizing the dissemination of the Gandhian
[email protected]
repertoire and the “coming out” routine,” Theory
Melanie
and Wallendorf
Society 31 (2002): 697-740.
Department of Marketing
Part
V. Ritzer
What is Social Movement “Success”?
Eller College of Management
George
Department of Sociology
University of Arizona
Week
University
11: April
of Maryland
10
Policy Change
Tucson, AZ 85721
College
™ Elisabeth
Park, MDClemens,
20742 “Organizational Repertoires
[email protected]
and Institutional Change: Women’s
[email protected]
Groups and the Transformation of U.S. Politics, 1890-1920,” American Journal of
Sociology 98 (1993): 755-98.
Frederick Wherry
J. Michael
™ Katrin
Ryan
Uba, “Political Protest and Policy Change:
The Direct
Impacts of Indian AntiDepartment
of Sociology
Department
Privatization
of Sociology
Mobilizations, 1990-2003,” Mobilization
(October 2005): 383-96.
University10:3
of Michigan
University
of Maryland
™ Theda
Skocpol et al, “Women’s AssociationsAnn
and Arbor,
the Enactment
of Mothers’ Pensions in
MI 48109
Collegethe
Park,
MD States,”
20742 American Political Science
United
Review 87:3 (September 1993): 686-701.
[email protected]
[email protected]
™ Kelly Moore, “Political Protest and Institutional Change: The Anti-Vietnam Movement
and American Science” in Marco Giugni, ed., How Social Movements Matter
(Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1999), 97-115.
Week 12: April 17
Regime Change
™ Misagh Parsa, States, Ideologies, & Social Revolutions: A Comparative Analysis of Iran,
Nicaragua, and the Philippines (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2000).
200
119
Juliet Schor
Laura Miller
519 McGuinn
Department of Sociology
140 Commonwealth Ave.
Week 13: 103
Pearlman
April 24
Justice
Boston
College
™ Javier
Auyero, Contentious Lives: Two Argentine
Women,
Two Protests, and the Quest
Brandeis
University
Chestnut
MA 02467
forMA
Recognition
Press, Hill,
2003).
Waltham,
02454 (Durham, NC: Duke University
[email protected]
[email protected]
Research Paper Due on Tuesday May 8 at Noon
Lisa Peñaloza
Sara Steen
College of Business
Department of Sociology
Bus 468
219 Ketchum Hall
University of Colorado
University of Colorado
Boulder, CO 80309
Boulder, CO 80309
[email protected]
[email protected]
Jan Phillips
Department of Social and
Behavioral Science
University of Southern Maine/
Lewiston-Auburn College
Lewiston, ME 04240
[email protected]
Joel Stillerman
2166 AuSable Hall
Grand Valley State University
Allendale, MI 49401
[email protected]
Deborah Thorne
Department of Sociology and
Anthropology
Ohio University
Athens, OH 45701
[email protected]
Meghan Ashlin Rich
Department of Sociology and Criminal
Justice
University of Delaware
Newark, DE 19716
[email protected]
Melanie Wallendorf
Department of Marketing
Eller College of Management
University of Arizona
Tucson, AZ 85721
[email protected]
George Ritzer
Department of Sociology
University of Maryland
College Park, MD 20742
[email protected]
Frederick Wherry
Department of Sociology
University of Michigan
Ann Arbor, MI 48109
[email protected]
J. Michael Ryan
Department of Sociology
University of Maryland
College Park, MD 20742
[email protected]
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120
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Laura
SocialMiller
Justice in a Global Context
519 McGuinn
Department
of Sociology
Mathew Williams
140 Commonwealth Ave.
Pearlman
103
Boston College
Boston College
Brandeis University
Chestnut Hill, MA 02467
Waltham,
MA 02454
Course Description
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This class is structured around a teaching game, the Global
Justice Game, developed (with some
help from me and others) by Bill Gamson, a professor emeritus here at BC. (All materials
necessary
Lisa
Peñaloza
to play the game are available at the Global
Sara
Justice
Steen
Game website,
http://www.globaljusticegame.mrap.info/)
College
of Business
Although Department
playing it should
of Sociology
be fun, it should also be a
meaningful
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219toKetchum
simulateHall
various real-world social
dynamics
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Colorado
you better understand them. Specifically,
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the game
of Colorado
deals with economic
globalization
Boulder, CO 80309
and the global justice movement (often--and
Boulder,
somewhat
CO 80309
incorrectly--known as the
anti-globalization
[email protected]
movement). In addition to [email protected]
you understand the forces of globalization,
this game should also help you understand some bigger sociological concepts. The game and
class
Jan Phillips
come from what is known in sociology as a “critical”
Joel Stillerman
perspective--that is, one that believes
sociologists
Department of
should
Social
focus
and on questions connected to social
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justice and
Hall
support movements
working
Behavioral
forScience
social justice. Thus the game is designedGrand
not only
Valley
to help
State
students
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learn about the
sociology
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Southern Maine/
but to help activists learnAllendale,
to think strategically.
MI 49401 Students of any
political
persuasionCollege
are welcome to take the class--and
to challenge me--but you should be aware
Lewiston-Auburn
[email protected]
of
this basic
political
Lewiston,
ME
04240 orientation when you decide if this class is one you will enjoy.
Deborah Thorne
[email protected]
We will start with a couple classes centered around lectures,
Department
in which
of Sociology
we will go
andover the basics
about
economic
globalization, the global justice movement
Anthropology
and the mass media. Though most of
Meghan
Ashlin Rich
the
readings of
will
be from aand
progressive
be readings representing all sides
Ohio will
University
Department
Sociology
Criminal perspective, there
of
the globalization debate. There will be a fair amount
of reading
during these first few weeks.
Justice
Athens,
OH 45701
Once
we have
completed these introductory lectures,[email protected]
we will begin to play the Global Justice
University
of Delaware
Game.
The
Newark,
DEGame
19716is made up of seven scenarios, of which we will play six. The first five will
take
two-and-a-half sessions to play, which will be followed
one-and-a-half classes of lecture
[email protected]
Melanie by
Wallendorf
and discussion, for a total of four classes per scenario.
The sixth and
final scenario, which is
Department
of Marketing
structured
slightly differently, will take only two classes
play, with
one class set aside for class
EllertoCollege
of Management
George Ritzer
discussion.
scenario has game-related material University
you will need
to read, plus more scholarly
DepartmentEach
of Sociology
of Arizona
readings
that
build on the introductory material, Tucson,
to give you
progressively more in-depth
University
of will
Maryland
AZ a85721
picture
economic
globalization and the global justice
movement. The amount of reading
Collegeof
Park,
MD 20742
[email protected]
during
this second part of the class shouldn’t be as heavy as during the first few weeks.
[email protected]
Frederick Wherry
J.
Michael
The
GlobalRyan
Justice Game is a role-playing game--forDepartment
each scenario,
a group of you will be
of Sociology
Department
of Sociology
assigned to play
a particular organization, such as a branch
of the
government, a corporation,
University
of US
Michigan
University
of government,
Maryland an activist organization, orAnn
a third-world
a media
outlet.
Which team you will play
Arbor,
MI 48109
College
20742to scenario, so by the end of [email protected]
will varyPark,
fromMD
scenario
the semester, you will have played a wide
[email protected]
range of roles. Each team has its own distinct set of success indicators; these success indicators
represent real-world social forces that the real-life equivalent of your organization would need to
worry about, such as the price of stock for corporations or popular support for activist groups. As
you play each scenario, you want to strategize about not only how to achieve your goals in the
scenario, but how to raise your success indicators--indeed, your success indicators should give
you a good sense of what your goals are. Some teams (such as corporations or the World Trade
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Organization)
scores
than others (activist groups or thirdMcGuinn
world countries),
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of Sociology
reflecting the inequalities in power519
of the
real world.
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goals of this class is for you to come awayBoston
with aCollege
better understanding of how social
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structures shape
the decisions people make in the realChestnut
world. People
form
goals and make
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decisions that affect the course of events, but they [email protected]
not make them with total freedom--they
form goals and make decisions under pressure from larger structural forces over which no one
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in the Global
of Sociology
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of stock
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of Hall
financial markets on
corporations
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help you understand
of Coloradohow inequalities in
power
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play
COout
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in the real world--even as people decide
Boulder,
on goals
COand
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make decisions under
pressure,
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some have an easier time achieving their goals
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because the social structure is organized
in such a way that in favors them and their goals. Finally, this class should help you think about
how
Jan Phillips
social justice movement can best strategize to achieve
Joel Stillerman
their goals--what means are effective
for
Department
pressuring
of governments
Social and and corporations to change
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social
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inequalities in power and social change
areValley
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of sociology, which
Behavioral
Science
Grand
University
will
be looking
at specifically
globalization
and the global justice
University
of Southern
Maine/in the context of economic
Allendale,
MI 49401
movement.
For anyCollege
of you actively involved in [email protected]
justice movements, this will also help you
Lewiston-Auburn
think
aboutME
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challenges and opportunities your group faces.
Lewiston,
Deborah Thorne
[email protected]
Department of Sociology and
Readings
Anthropology
Meghan Ashlin Rich
Ohio University
Department of Sociology and Criminal
Books
The
following books will be used in the class and areAthens,
available
the BC bookstore; they will
Justice
OHat45701
also
be on course
reserve at the library:
University
of Delaware
[email protected]
DE 19716 & Jerry Mander (editors), Alternatives to Economic Globalization: Another
•Newark,
John Cavanagh
[email protected]
Melanie Wallendorf
World is Possible (2nd ed.) (San Francisco, Berrett-Koehler
Publishers, 2004)
Department
of Perspective
Marketing (3rd ed.)
• Philip McMichael, Development and Social Change:
A Global
Eller
College
of
Management
George
Ritzer
(Thousand Oaks CA, Pine Forge Press, 2004)
of Sociology
University
of Arizona
•Department
David Meyer,
The Politics of Protest: Social Movements
in America
(New York, Oxford
University
of
Maryland
Tucson,
AZ
85721
University Press, 2007)
College
Park,
MDGlobal
20742Revolt: A Guide to the Movements
[email protected]
• Amory
Starr,
Against Globalization (New York,
[email protected]
Zed Books, 2005)
Wherry
• Joseph Stiglitz, Globalization and Its DiscontentsFrederick
(New York,
W.W. Norton, 2002)
J. Michael Ryan
Department of Sociology
Department
of Sociology
University of Michigan
On-Line
Course
Reserve
University
Maryland
Arbor,
MI 48109
Many
of theofreadings
will be available in PDF formatAnn
in the
library’s
on-line course reserve
College
Park,
MD
20742
[email protected]
system. While this may be less convenient than a pre-printed coursepack, it is also considerably
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cheaper.
Web
A few of the readings will be available on the internet. The URLs for each reading are provided
in the syllabus.
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519
Your final grade
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of Sociology
will be calculated as follows: each of
theMcGuinn
three written assignments will be
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worth 25%103
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of your grade, class participation worth 20%,
and attendance worth
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Brandeis University
Chestnut Hill, MA 02467
Waltham,
MA
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Attendance
and
Class Participation
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[email protected]
Attendance is required for this class and will be worth
5% of your grade. In order to learn from
this class and do the written assignments, you must be present to play the game. Additionally,
sincePeñaloza
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you will be playing in teams, your absence willSara
takeSteen
away from others’ experience of the
game. of Business
College
Department of Sociology
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For the same
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of reasons
Colorado
that attendance is important, soUniversity
is class participation.
of ColoradoTherefore class
participation
Boulder, CO will
80309
be worth 20% of your grade. Your Boulder,
class participation
CO 80309grade will be based both
on
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your involvement in the game and class discussion.
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I know some students are shy about
speaking up in class, therefore for the class discussion component, you have two options. You
can
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participate orally in class or you may participate Joel
in the
Stillerman
Global Justice Game’s on-line forum,
accessible
Departmentatof
http://www.globaljusticegame.mrap.info/.
Social and
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those who
Hallchoose the later option, I
will
Behavioral
post questions
Sciencein response to the results of each Grand
scenario,
Valley
to which
Stateyou
University
may respond. You
may,
University
of course,
of Southern
participate
Maine/
both in class and on-line. Allendale, MI 49401
Lewiston-Auburn College
[email protected]
Lewiston,Assignments
ME 04240
Written
Deborah
NOTE:
[email protected]
This part of the syllabus is subject to revision,
as I amThorne
still trying to fine tune what the
written assignments will look like. I do not plan, however,
Department
on departing
of Sociology
dramatically
and from what
Anthropology
is
Meghan
laid outAshlin
here. Rich
Ohio University
Department of Sociology and Criminal
All
Justice
three of the written assignments will be in response
Athens,
to a scenario
OH 45701
you play from the Global
Justice Game.
Each will be an 8-12 page essay, drawing
on 1) your experience playing the game,
University
of Delaware
[email protected]
2) the readings
assigned for that scenario, and 3) the readings from the appropriate unit from the
Newark,
DE 19716
first part of the class (see below). Your first two assignments
will be written in response to your
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Melanie Wallendorf
choice among the first five scenarios, with some limitations
as described
below. For all five,
Department
of Marketing
there will
be a set of three questions for you to choose
among.
Which
question you can answer in
Eller
College
of Management
George
Ritzer
response to any
given scenario will depend on whichUniversity
team you are
playing. If you are playing a
Department
of Sociology
of Arizona
governmentof(first
or third world), a multilateral organization
IMF, EU, etc.) or corporation,
University
Maryland
Tucson, (the
AZ 85721
you will Park,
draw MD
on the
unit on “Neoliberalism and Its Discontents”.
If you are playing a social
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[email protected]
movement organization, you will draw on the unit on “Globalization from Below”. If you are
[email protected]
playing a journalist team, you will draw on the unit “The
MassWherry
and Alternative Media”. Since
Frederick
J.
Michael
Ryan
you
may not
answer the same question twice, you will
need to plan
ahead to make sure that you
Department
of Sociology
Department
of Sociology
don’t find yourself
in a position where you can’t complete
both of
assignments.
University
Michigan For the third
University
assignment,ofallMaryland
of you will be required to write a response
to the MI
final48109
scenario. I will pass out
Ann Arbor,
College
Park, MD 20742the actual questions--later [email protected]
more details--including
in the semester, as we begin playing the
[email protected]
game.
The due dates will be as follows:
Factory Fire in Fabrikistan: Thursday, February 22
Biopiracy in Plantanoguay: Tuesday, March 13
Cancer Alley: Thursday, March 29
Strip-Mining Banglabush: Thursday, April 12
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Selling
Green in Fabrikistan: Tuesday, May 1
519 McGuinn
Making a Better
Department
of Sociology
World (required): Friday, May 11 (during
the exam period)
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Boston College
Brandeis
University
Paper format
ChestnutPlease
Hill, MA
02467
Waltham,
02454 should be typed and double-spaced.
All writtenMA
assignments
number
your pages and use
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12-point type in a common font such as Times or Courier.
The quality of your writing counts-papers should use proper grammar, be well organized and be written in a clear style. Please
provide
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Peñaloza
citations to all sources you cite. Citations should
Sara be
Steen
provided not only for direct quotes,
but for also
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of Business
any facts or ideas you have taken from someone
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else’s
of writings.
SociologyFailure to do so
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constitutes
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University of Colorado
Boulder,
CO 80309
Boulder, CO 80309
Course Schedule
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NOTE: This schedule is subject to revision. I will inform
[email protected]
you of any changes, both in class and
by e-mail.
Jan Phillips
Joel Stillerman
Department
of Social and
2166 AuSable Hall
Part I: Introduction
Behavioral
During the first
Science
part of the class, please try to have asGrand
muchValley
of the reading
State University
as you can done by the
University
first day of of
theSouthern
unit. Maine/
Allendale, MI 49401
Lewiston-Auburn College
[email protected]
January 16,ME
Introduction
Lewiston,
04240
Movie (in-class): Deadly Embrace: Nicaragua, the World
Deborah
Bank,
Thorne
and the IMF
[email protected]
No reading--first day of class
Department of Sociology and
Anthropology
Meghan Ashlin Rich
January 18 &of23,
Neoliberalism
and its Discontents Ohio University
Department
Sociology
and Criminal
Justice
Athens, OH 45701
World-Systems Theory
McMichael,ofchs.
1, 4-5
University
Delaware
[email protected]
Newark,
DE
19716
Keynesian
Theory
Stiglitz, ch. 3
[email protected]
Melanie Wallendorf
Department of Marketing
Neoclassical/Neoliberal Theory
Course Reserve:
Diminished?”
(pp. 51-67), In Defense
EllerorCollege
of Management
George
Ritzer Jagdish Bhagwati, “Poverty: Enhanced
of Globalization
(New York, Oxford University Press,
2004) of Arizona
Department
of Sociology
University
University
of Maryland
Tucson, AZ 85721
Recommended
College
Cavanagh
Park,
& Mander,
MD 20742
chs. 1-3
[email protected]
McMichael, ch. 6
[email protected]
Stiglitz, ch. 1
Frederick Wherry
J. Michael Ryan
Department of Sociology
Department
Sociology
January 25 &of30,
Globalization from Below
University of Michigan
University
Maryland
Ann Arbor, MI 48109
The Globalof
Justice
Movement
College
Park,
Starr, chs.
2-3,MD
8-9,20742
12-15, 18-19, 22-26
[email protected]
[email protected]
Political Process Theory
Meyer, chs. 2, 4-5
Recommended
McMichael, ch. 7
Meyer, ch. 6
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February
1, The Mass and Alternative Media
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of Sociology
The Mass Media
Ave. (ch. 1), The
Course reserve:
Pearlman
103 Ben H. Bagdikian, “Common Media140
for Commonwealth
an Uncommon Nation”
Boston
College
New Media
Brandeis
University
Monopoly (2nd ed.) (Boston, Beacon Press,
2004)
Chestnut
Hill, MA
02467
Waltham,
MA 02454
Course Reserve:
Charlotte Ryan, “Getting Framed: How
the Media
Shape
Reality” (ch. 3), Prime
[email protected]
[email protected]
Time Activism (Boston, South End Press, 1991)
The Alternative Media
Lisa
Course
Peñaloza
reserve: Laura Stein, “Access Television andSara
Grassroots
Steen Political Communication in the
College
United States”
of Business
(ch. 20), Radical Media, by John D.H.Department
Downing (Thousand
of Sociology
Oaks CA, Sage
Bus
Publications,
468
2001)
219 Ketchum Hall
University
Starr, ch. 20of Colorado
University of Colorado
Boulder, CO 80309
Boulder, CO 80309
[email protected]
[email protected]
Part II: The Global Justice Game
During the second part of the class, you should have the readings done by the third day of the
Jan
unit,Phillips
when we will begin class discussion.
Joel Stillerman
Department of Social and
2166 AuSable Hall
February 6,Science
8, 13 & 15, Factory Fire in Fabrikistan Grand Valley State University
Behavioral
University
of the
Southern
Maine/
Allendale, MI 49401
The IMF and
Debt Crisis
Stiglitz, chs. 2 & 8College
Lewiston-Auburn
[email protected]
Starr, ch. 4ME 04240
Lewiston,
Deborah Thorne
[email protected]
Transnational Corporations
Course reserve: Charles Derber, “The End of the Century”
Department
& “The
of Mouse,
Sociology
Mickey
and Mouse, and
Meghan
Baby Bells”
Ashlin
(chs.
Rich
1 & 3), Corporation Nation (New Anthropology
York, St. Martin’s Griffin, 1998)
Ohio University
Department
of Global
Sociology
and Criminal
Labor and the
Factory
Justice
Athens, OH 45701
McMichael, ch. 3
Course reserve:
University
of Delaware
Kim Moody, “Looking South” & “Rank-and-File
[email protected]
Internationalism” (chs. 9 &
11), Workers
Newark,
DE 19716
in a Lean World (New York, Verso, 1997)
[email protected]
Course Reserve: Ethel Brooks, “Transnational Campaigns
Melanie
Against
Wallendorf
Child Labor” (pp. 121-139),
Coalitions Across Borders, edited by Joe Bandy and Department
Jackie Smithof(Lanham
Marketing
MD, Rowman &
Littlefield,
2005), pp. 121-139
Eller College of Management
George
Ritzer
Department of Sociology
University of Arizona
February 20,
27 & March 1, Biopiracy in Plantanoguay
University
of 22,
Maryland
Tucson, AZ 85721
College
Park,
MDOrganization
20742
[email protected]
The World
Trade
Course reserve: Lori Wallach & Patrick Woodall, “It’s Not About Trade” & “The WTO’s
[email protected]
Operating Procedures and Enforcement System” (pp.Frederick
1-17, 239-261),
WherryWhose Trade
J.
Michael Ryan(2nd ed.) (New York, The New Press,Department
Organization?
2004)
of Sociology
Department
of Sociology
University of Michigan
The Environment
and the Economy
University
of Maryland
Course reserve:
Herman E. Daly, “Moving to a Steady
Ann
State
Arbor,
Economy”
MI 48109
& “Elements of
College
Park, MD
20742
Environmental
Macroeconomics”
(chs. 1-2), [email protected]
Growth (Boston, Beacon Press, 1996)
[email protected]
Course reserve: Vandana Shiva, “Threats to Biodiversity” & “Biopiracy” (pp. 40-68), Protect or
Plunder? (New York, Zed Books, 2001)
The Environmental and Indigenous Rights Movements
Course reserve: Margaret E. Keck & Kathryn Sikkink, “Transnational Advocacy Networks in
International Politics” & “Environmental Advocacy Networks” (chs. 1 & 4), Activists Beyond
Borders (Ithaca NY, Cornell University Press, 1998)
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Laura Miller
March
6&8
519 McGuinn
NO CLASS--Spring
Department
of Sociology
Break
140 Commonwealth Ave.
Pearlman 103
Boston College
March 13,University
Brandeis
15, 20 & 22, Cancer Alley
Chestnut Hill, MA 02467
Waltham,
02454 (FTAs)
Free
TradeMA
Agreements
[email protected]
Course
reserve: Gus Van Harten, “Private Authority [email protected]
and Transnational Governance” (pp. 600623), Review of International Political Economy (vol. 12, no. 4, 2005)
Lisa
Peñaloza
Sara Steen
Social
Hierarchies: Race, Class and Gender
College
Course reserve:
of Business
Allan G. Johnson, “Privilege, Oppression,
Department
and Difference”
of Sociology
& “Capitalism, Class,
and the
Power,
and Difference
(2nd ed.) (Boston,
Bus
468Matrix of Domination” (chs. 2-3), Privilege, 219
Ketchum
Hall
University
McGraw Hill,
of Colorado
2006)
University of Colorado
Boulder,
80309
The LaborCO
and
Environmental Justice Movements Boulder, CO 80309
[email protected]
Course reserve: Rick Fantasia & Kim Voss, “Why Labor
[email protected]
Matters” & “Practices and Possibilities
for a Social Movement Unionism” (chs. 1 & 4), Hard Work (Berkeley, University of California
Press,
2004)
Jan
Phillips
Joel Stillerman
Course reserve:
Robertand
D. Bullard, “Environmentalism
andAuSable
Social Justice”
Department
of Social
2166
Hall & “Dispute
Resolution and
Toxics” (chs. 1 & 3), Dumping in Dixie
(3rdValley
ed.) (Boulder
CO, Westview Press,
Behavioral
Science
Grand
State University
2000)
University
of Southern Maine/
Allendale, MI 49401
Lewiston-Auburn College
[email protected]
March 27, ME
29 &04240
April 3, Strip-Mining Banglabush
Lewiston,
Deborah Thorne
[email protected]
The World Bank
Course reserve: Michael Goldman, “The Rise of the Department
Bank” & “Privatizing
Water,
of Sociology
and
Neoliberalizing
Civil Society” (chs. 2 & 6), ImperialAnthropology
Nature (New Haven CT, Yale University
Meghan
Ashlin Rich
Press, 2005)of Sociology and Criminal
Ohio University
Department
Justice
Athens, OH 45701
Development and Its Critics
McMichael,ofch.
2
University
Delaware
[email protected]
Course reserve:
Pam Simmons, “‘Women in Development’: A Threat to Liberation” (pp. 16-21),
Newark,
DE 19716
The Ecologist (vol. 22, no. 1, 1992)
[email protected]
Melanie Wallendorf
Course reserve: Al Geddicks, “Resource ColonialismDepartment
and Nativeof
Resistance”
Marketing(ch. 1), The New
Resource
Wars (Boston, South End Press, 1993)
Eller College of Management
George Ritzer
Course
reserve:
Majid Rahnema, “Towards Post-Development”
(pp.
377-403), The Post
Department
of Sociology
University of
Arizona
Development
edited by Majid Rahnema & Victoria
(Atlantic Highlands NJ, Zed
University
of Reader,
Maryland
Tucson,Bawtree
AZ 85721
Books, 1997)
College
Park, MD 20742
[email protected]
Starr, ch. 16
[email protected]
Frederick Wherry
J.
Michael
Ryan
April
5
Department of Sociology
Department
of Sociology
NO CLASS--Easter
Weekend
University of Michigan
University of Maryland
Ann Arbor, MI 48109
College
MD 20742
April 10,Park,
Strip-Mining
Banglabush continued
[email protected]
[email protected]
See above
April 12, 17, 19 & 24, Selling Green in Fabrikistan
Neoliberal Solutions and Their Critics
Course Reserve: Thomas Friedman “Demolition Man” (ch. 13), The Lexus and the Olive Tree
(New York, Anchor Books, 2000)
200
126
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Schor
Laura Miller
Course
reserve: Winifred Poster & Zakia Salime, “The
Limits
of Microcredit” (ch. 12), Women’s
519&
McGuinn
Activism andofGlobalization,
Department
Sociology edited by Nancy A. Naples
Manisha Desai (New York,
140 Commonwealth Ave.
Routledge,103
Pearlman
2002)
Boston
College
Course reserve:
Brandeis
University
Martha Honey, “Giving a Grade to Costa
Rica’s
Green Tourism” (pp. 39-46),
Waltham,
MA 02454
NACLA Report
on the Americas (May/June 2003) Chestnut Hill, MA 02467
[email protected]
[email protected]
Cultural Imperialism
On-line: Benjamin Barber, “Jihad vs. McWorld”, The Atlantic on-line (March 1992):
http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/199203/barber
Lisa
Peñaloza
Sara Steen
Course reserve:
College
of Business
Helena Norberg-Hodge, “The Pressure
Department
to Modernize
of Sociology
and Globalize” (ch. 3), The
Case
Bus 468
Against the Global Economy, edited by Jerry Mander
219 Ketchum
& Edward
HallGoldsmith (San Francisco,
Sierra
University
ClubofBooks,
Colorado
1996)
University of Colorado
Course
Boulder,reserve:
CO 80309
John Sinclair et al., “Peripheral Vision”
Boulder,
(ch. 1),
CONew
80309
Patterns in Global
Television
[email protected]
(New York, Oxford University Press, 1996)
[email protected]
The Other Movement Against Globalization: Islamic Fundamentalism
Course
Jan Phillips
reserve: Samuel Huntington, “The Clash of Civilizations?”
Joel Stillerman(pp. 22-49), Foreign Affairs
(vol.
Department
72, no. of
3, Social
1993) and
2166 AuSable Hall
Course
reserve:
Shireen Hunter, “Introduction” (pp. 1-30),
Future
Islam and the West
Behavioral
Science
Grand The
Valley
StateofUniversity
(Westport
Praeger Publishers,
1998)
UniversityCT,
of Southern
Maine/
Allendale, MI 49401
Lewiston-Auburn College
[email protected]
April
26, May
& 3, Making a Better World
Lewiston,
ME 104240
Deborah Thorne
[email protected]
Alternatives
to Neoliberalism
Cavanagh & Mander, chs. 4, 6, 9-10
Department of Sociology and
Stiglitz,
9 Rich
Anthropology
Meghan ch.
Ashlin
Ohio University
Department
of Sociology
and Criminal
Social
Movements
and Institutional
Change
Meyer,
Justice ch. 7
Athens, OH 45701
University of Delaware
[email protected]
Recommended
Cavanagh
Newark, DE
& 19716
Mander, ch. 5
McMichael,
[email protected]
ch. 8
Melanie Wallendorf
Meyer, ch. 7
Department of Marketing
Eller College of Management
George Ritzer
Department of Sociology
University of Arizona
University of Maryland
Tucson, AZ 85721
College Park, MD 20742
[email protected]
[email protected]
Frederick Wherry
J. Michael Ryan
Department of Sociology
Department of Sociology
University of Michigan
University of Maryland
Ann Arbor, MI 48109
College Park, MD 20742
[email protected]
[email protected]
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Laura
SocialMiller
Movements
519 McGuinn
Department
of Sociology
Paul Almeida
140 Commonwealth Ave.
Pearlman
103University
Texas A&M
Boston College
Brandeis University
Chestnut
Hill, MA
02467
Waltham,
MASocial
02454movements are a permanent feature
Description:
of politics
in the
modern world. We
[email protected]
will examine social movements defined as outsiders [email protected]
to institutional politics, that use
nonconventional strategies to exercise political influence, and that engage in sustained
interaction
Lisa
Peñaloza
with political and economic elites. SocialSara
movements
Steen vary widely in terms of their
size, strategies,
College
of Business
goals, organizational forms and success.
Department
For example,
of Sociology
analysts study social
movements
Bus
468
ranging from local chapters of environmental
219 Ketchum
organizations
Hall to national revolutionary
movementsofand
University
Colorado
international terrorist networks.
University of Colorado
Boulder, CO 80309
Boulder, CO 80309
Course Objectives: This course analyzes the dynamics
[email protected]
[email protected]
of social movements from their
ideological appeals, individual recruitment strategies, and mobilization features to their final
outcomes
Jan
Phillips
and demise. Specific attention is given to Joel
theories
Stillerman
of social movements, levels of
analysis of social
Department
of Social
movement
and activity, movement participation,
2166 AuSable
movement
Hall emergence/
Behavioral
mobilization,
Science
movement outcomes, social revolutions,
Grand
social
Valley
movements
State University
outside of advanced
University
capitalist democracies,
of Southern coercion
Maine/ and social movements,
Allendale,
and transnational
MI 49401 social movements.
Students will develop
a deeper understanding of the role
and impact of social movement activity
Lewiston-Auburn
College
[email protected]
in contemporary
democratic and nondemocratic societies.
Lewiston,
ME 04240
Deborah Thorne
[email protected]
Required Course Readings:
Department of Sociology and
1) McAdam,
Doug.
Anthropology
Process and the Development of Black
Meghan
Ashlin
Rich1982 [1999] (2nd Edition). Political
Insurgency,
Chicago:
University of Chicago
Ohio University
Press. (Available at MSC Bookstore)
Department
of 1930-1970.
Sociology and
Criminal
Justice
2) Schock, Kurt. 2005. People Power Movements in Athens,
Nondemocracies.
OH 45701Minneapolis: University
of Minnesota
Press. (Available at MSC Bookstore)[email protected]
University
of Delaware
3) Johnston,
Newark,
DE Hank
19716and Paul Almeida. (eds.) 2006. Latin American Social Movements:
Globalization, Democratization, and Transnational
Networks.
Lanham, MD: Rowman &
[email protected]
Melanie
Wallendorf
Littlefield. (Available at MSC Bookstore)
Department of Marketing
4) Almeida,
Paul D. 2008. Waves of Protest: PopularEller
Struggle
College
in El
of Salvador,
Management
1925-2005.
George
Ritzer
Department
Minneapolis:
of Sociology
University of Minnesota Press. (Available
University
at MSC
of Arizona
Bookstore)
5) Course Packet
University
of Maryland
Tucson, AZ 85721
Prerequisites:
College
Park, SOCI
MD 20742
205 – Introduction to [email protected]
[email protected]
Course Evaluation/Grades:
Frederick Wherry
J.
Michael
Ryan I 25% (February 20)
Mid
Term Exam
Department of Sociology
Department
of Sociology
Mid Term Exam
II 25% (April 2)
University of Michigan
University
of Maryland
Analytical Paper
20% (Due April 14)
Ann Arbor, MI 48109
College
Park,
MD(May
20742
Final Exam
30%
5)
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[email protected]
Course Attendance: I view attendance as very important. The lectures and class discussion offer
interpretation and in-depth exploration of course readings as well as critical background, concepts,
theories, and ideas that complement the readings. It will be difficult to pass the course with poor
attendance. In addition, strong note-taking skills will improve student performance. You may want to
obtain contact information from another student in class in the case that you miss a lecture (the
instructor does not provide a set of lecture notes on the Web).
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Laura
CourseMiller
Schedule:
519 McGuinn
Week 1: Course
Department
of Sociology
Introduction
140 Commonwealth
Ave.
Monday, January
Pearlman
103
14: Course Introduction: Course Requirements
and Expectations
(Read
Boston College
“MappingUniversity
Brandeis
the Terrain”)
Chestnut
Hill,of
MA
02467 Basic Terms and
Waltham,
MAJanuary
02454 16: Definition of Social Movements,
Wednesday,
Levels
Analysis,
[email protected]
[email protected]
Concepts (Read Rucht, Koopmans, and Neidhardt pages
7-16 “Introduction: Protest as a Subject
of Empirical Research”)
Lisa Peñaloza
Sara Steen
Week 2:of
College
Methods
Business
of Social Movement Research
Department of Sociology
Monday,
Bus
468 January 21: No Class in Honor of Social Movement
219 Ketchum
Leader
Hall
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
(Read Bert of
University
Klandermans
Colorado and Suzanne Staggenborg “Introduction”
University of Colorado
pages ix – xx)
Wednesday,
Boulder,
CO January
80309 23: Social Movement Methods Boulder,
(Read Almeida,
CO 80309
Paul D. and Mark I.
Lichbach. 2003. “To the Internet, from the Internet: Comparative
[email protected]
[email protected]
Media Coverage of
Transnational Protest.” pages 249-272).
Jan Phillips
Joel Stillerman
Department
Week 3: Social
of Social
Movement
and Theories
2166 AuSable Hall
Behavioral
Monday, January
Science
28: Early Models of Social Movement
Grand
Dynamics
Valley State
(Read
University
McAdam Book
University
Chapter 1).of Southern Maine/
Allendale, MI 49401
Wednesday, January
30: The Political Process [email protected]
(Read McAdam Book Chapter 2)
Lewiston-Auburn
College
Lewiston, ME 04240
Week 4: Social Movement Theories
Deborah Thorne
[email protected]
Monday, February 4: The Political Process Model II Department
(Read McAdam
of Sociology
Book Chapters
and 3-4)
Wednesday,
February
Anthropology
Process (Read Tarrow “Political
Meghan
Ashlin
Rich 6: Tarrow’s Version of Political
Opportunities
Constraints”
pages 71-90).
Ohio University
Department
ofand
Sociology
and Criminal
Justice
Athens, OH 45701
Week 5: Movement
Emergence
University
of Delaware
[email protected]
Monday, DE
February
Newark,
1971611: Forces Explaining the Initial Rise of Movements (Read McAdam Book
Chapter 5 and Putnam “Bowling Alone”).
[email protected]
Melanie Wallendorf
Wednesday, February 13: Film: Eyes on the Prize Part
I (Read McAdam
Book Chapters 6-7)
Department
of Marketing
Eller College of Management
George Ritzer
Week 6: Ideological
and Cultural Components of Movements:
Framing Process
Department
of Sociology
UniversityThe
of Arizona
Monday, February
18: The Framing Process and Mobilization
Appeals
University
of Maryland
Tucson, AZ
85721 (Read McAdam Book
ChaptersPark,
8-9).MD 20742
College
[email protected]
Wednesday, February 20: * Midterm Exam I
[email protected]
Frederick Wherry
J.
Michael
Ryan
Week
7: Movement
Recruitment/Participation.
Department of Sociology
Department
of Sociology
Monday, February
25: Why People Join Social Movements
(Read
McAdam, Doug. 1986.
University
of Michigan
University
of Maryland
“Recruitment
to High-Risk Activism: The Case of Freedom
Summer.”
American Journal of
Ann Arbor,
MI 48109
College
Park,
MD64-90).
20742
Sociology
92(1):
[email protected]
[email protected]
Wednesday, February 27: Individual Levels of Participation
Week 8: Social Movement Outcomes
Monday, March 3: Social Movement Outcomes I (read Almeida and Stearns)
Wednesday, March 5: Social Movement Outcomes II. Documentary: Store Wars (read Halebsky
“Explaining the Outcomes of Antisuperstore Movements”).
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Week
Miller
Spring Break March 10-14 (No Classes) Juliet Schor
519 McGuinn
Department of Sociology
140 Commonwealth Ave.
Week 10: 103
Pearlman
Social Revolutions
Boston
College
Monday, University
Brandeis
March 17: Social Revolutions (Read Goodwin
Chapter
1, pages 1-34).
Hill,
MA 02467
Waltham,
MA
0245419: Social Revolutions: The CaseChestnut
Wednesday,
March
of Central
America
(Read Goodwin
[email protected]
[email protected]
Chapter 5, pages 142-179)
Lisa Peñaloza
Week
11: Revolutions Continued
Sara Steen
Monday,ofMarch
College
Business
24: Social Revolutions part II. (ReadDepartment
Goodwin Chapter
of Sociology
9, pages 289-306).
Wednesday,
Bus
468
March 26: Social Revolutions Concluded:
219Documentary
Ketchum Hallon Nicaragua (Read
Schock book
University
of –Colorado
Introduction and Chapter 1).
University of Colorado
Boulder, CO 80309
Boulder, CO 80309
Week 12: State Repression and Mobilization
[email protected]
[email protected]
Monday, March 31: State Repression and Social Movements: Deterrent or Precipitant of
Protest?
Jan
Phillips
(Read Schock book – Chapters 2 and 3)
Joel Stillerman
Wednesday, of
Department
April
Social
2: *Midterm
and
II (Read Schock Chapter
21664)
AuSable Hall
Behavioral Science
Grand Valley State University
Week 13: Social
Movements
University
of Southern
Maine/in the Global South Allendale, MI 49401
Monday, April 7: Social
Movements outside of advanced
capitalist democracies: The Case of
Lewiston-Auburn
College
[email protected]
Anti-Austerity
Protests. (Read Schock book – Chapters 5-6)
Lewiston,
ME 04240
Wednesday, April 9: Austerity Protests in Latin America
(Read
Almeida and Johnston, Chapter
Deborah
Thorne
[email protected]
1 in Latin American Social Movements read ChapterDepartment
4, Almeida,ofinSociology
Latin American
and Social
Movements).
Anthropology
Meghan
Ashlin Rich
Ohio University
Department of Sociology and Criminal
Week 14: Transnational Social Movements
Justice
Athens, OH 45701
Monday, April
14: *Analytical Paper Due; Transnational
Social Movements Defined. (Read
University
of Delaware
[email protected]
Stewart Chapter
12 and Carty Chapter 13 in Latin American Social Movements book by
Newark,
DE 19716
Johnston and Almeida).
[email protected]
Melanie Wallendorf
Wednesday, April 16: Transnational Social Movements
II Film Clip
on the “Battle in Seattle”
Department
of Marketing
Eller College of Management
George Ritzer
Week
15: Transnational
Department
of SociologyMovements Continued
University of Arizona
Monday,
21: Islamic Social Movements (ReadTucson,
Paul Lubeck,
“The Islamic Revival:
UniversityApril
of Maryland
AZ 85721
Antinomies
ofMD
Islamic
Movements under Globalization”).
College Park,
20742
[email protected]
Wednesday,
April 23: International Terrorism (Read Jack A. Goldstone “States, Terrorists, and
[email protected]
the Clash of Civilizations”)
Frederick Wherry
J. Michael Ryan
Department of Sociology
Department
of Sociology
Week 16: Course
Summary
University of Michigan
University
of Maryland
Monday, April
28: Final Class (Course Summary) Ann Arbor, MI 48109
College Park, MD 20742
[email protected]
[email protected]
Week 17: Final Exam
Monday, May 5: 3:30pm-5:30pm *Final Exam
SOCI 413 Course Packet List
1. Snow, David, Sarah Soule and Hanspeter Kriesi. 2004. “Mapping the Terrain.” Pp. 3-16 in D.
Snow, S. Soule and H. Kriesi (eds.) The Blackwell Companion to Social Movements.
Oxford: Blackwell.
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Laura
2.
Rucht,
Miller
Dieter, Ruud Koopmans and Friedhelm Neidhardt
1999. “Introduction: Protest as
519Rucht,
McGuinn
Department
Subject
of Sociology
of Empirical Research.” Pp. 7-16 in D.
R. Koopmans, and F. Neidhardt,
140Study
Commonwealth
Ave.
Pearlman
eds.,
103Acts of Dissent: New Developments in the
of Protest. Lanham,
MD: Rowman
Boston College
Brandeis
and
University
Littlefield.
Chestnut
Hill, MA Pp.
02467
Waltham,
MA 02454
3. Klandermans,
Bert and Suzanne Staggenborg. 2002.
“Introduction.”
ix-xx in B.
[email protected]
[email protected]
Klandermans and S. Staggenborg (eds.) Methods
of Social Movement Research.
Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.
Lisa
4. Almeida,
Peñaloza
Paul D. and Mark I. Lichbach. 2003. “ToSara
the Steen
Internet, from the Internet:
CollegeComparative
of Business Media Coverage of Transnational
Department
Protest.” Mobilization
of Sociology 8(3): 249-272
Bus 468(October).
219 Ketchum Hall
University
5. Tarrow, Sidney.
of Colorado
1998. “Political Opportunities andUniversity
Constraints.”
of Colorado
Ch. 5 in Power in Movement.
Boulder,Cambridge:
CO 80309 Cambridge University Press. Boulder, CO 80309
6. Putnam, Robert. 2000. Bowling Alone: The Collapse
[email protected]
[email protected]
and Revival of American Community.
New York: Simon and Schuster. (pages 18-28).
7. McAdam,
Jan
Phillips Doug. 1986. “Recruitment to High-RiskJoel
Activism:
Stillerman
The Case of Freedom Summer.”
Department
American
of Social
Journal
and of Sociology 92(1): 64-90 2166 AuSable Hall
8. Almeida,Science
Paul and Linda Brewster Stearns. 1998. Grand
“Political
Opportunities
and Local
Behavioral
Valley
State University
Grassroots
Environmental
of Minamata.”
University
of Southern
Maine/ Movements: The Case
Allendale,
MI 49401Social Problems 45(1):
37-60.
Lewiston-Auburn
College
[email protected]
9. Halebsky,
Lewiston,
MEStephen.
04240 2006. “Explaining the Outcomes of Antisuperstore Movements: A
Comparative Analysis of Six Communities.” Deborah
Mobilization
11(4): 443-460.
Thorne
[email protected]
10. Goodwin, Jeff. 2001. No Other Way Out: States and
Revolutionary
Movements,
Department
of Sociology
and 1945-1991.
Anthropology
1, 5, and 9).
MeghanCambridge:
Ashlin RichCambridge University Press. (Chapters
11.
Lubeck, of
Paul
M. 2000.and
“The
Islamic Revival: Antinomies
of Islamic Movements under
Ohio University
Department
Sociology
Criminal
S. Rai (eds.)
Global Social Movements.
Justice Globalization.” Pp. 146-164 in R. Cohen andAthens,
OH 45701
London:
Althane Press.
University
of Delaware
[email protected]
12.
Goldstone,
Jack. 2002. “States, Terrorists, and the Clash of Civilizations.” Pp. 139-158 in C.
Newark,
DE 19716
Calhoun (ed.) Understanding September 11. New
York:
New Press.
[email protected]
Melanie
Wallendorf
Department of Marketing
Eller College of Management
George413
Ritzer
SOCI
Analytical Paper
Due:
Monday,
14 in Class
Department
of April
Sociology
University of Arizona
Value:
20%ofofMaryland
Course Grade
University
Tucson, AZ 85721
Read:
Paul
D. 2008. Waves of Protest: Popular
Struggle in El Salvador, 1925-2005.
CollegeAlmeida,
Park, MD
20742
[email protected]
[email protected]
Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press (Social Movements, Protest, and Contention
Frederick Wherry
Series).
J.
Michael Ryan
Assignment:
Write a 4-5 page (typed) paper analyzing
Department
chapters from
of Sociology
the above book. The paper
Department
of Sociology
should be organized
in the following manner: 1) provide
University
a brief of
summary
Michigan
of the book; 2) Detail
University
ofof
Maryland
the strengths
the book; and 3) Discuss weaknessesAnn
of the
book.MIBe
sure to identify any
Arbor,
48109
College
MD 20742
conceptsPark,
you learned
in class this semester such as political
opportunity, the bad news model,
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[email protected]
resources, movements in nondemocratic contexts, etc. Make sure to cite page numbers where
claims are made about particular aspects of the argument. Do not use any outside sources to
write the paper (including the internet). Rely only on the book. Finally, please refrain from
using quotations of more than a few words – this is too brief of a paper to use quotations. I want
your own words and analysis.
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Laura
SocialMiller
Movements
519 McGuinn
Department
of Sociology
Millie Thayer
140 Commonwealth Ave.
Pearlman
University103
of Massachusetts, Amherst
Boston College
Brandeis University
Chestnut Hill, MA 02467
Waltham,
Syllabus MA 02454
[email protected]
From free trade to women’s rights, from clean water [email protected]
access to sweatshop labor conditions, social
movements once rooted in the local are increasingly addressing global issues, using transnational
Lisa
strategies
Peñaloza
and adopting planetary perspectives. This Sara
course
Steen
takes a particular angle on the study
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of socialof
movements:
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Ketchumbrought
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globalization.
of Colorado
University of Colorado
Boulder, CO 80309
Boulder, CO 80309
[email protected]
In the last two decades, globalization has provoked conceptual
[email protected]
and practical controversy:
theorists have taken diverse approaches to analyzing global changes and activists have used a
Jan
widePhillips
variety of strategies to respond to them. Through
Joel
examining
Stillerman
a spectrum of theories and
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strategies MI
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visions.
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[email protected]
The courseME
is organized
Lewiston,
04240 around three different theoretical approaches to globalization: 1) those
that see it as a proliferation of powerful external forces
Deborah
whichThorne
increasingly encroach on local
[email protected]
communities; 2) those that follow the growing transnational
Department
connections
of Sociology
beingand
forged through
the movement
people, ideas, goods and capital around
Anthropology
the planet; and 3) those that stress the
Meghan
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ways diverseofimaginations
of Criminal
the global are awakened
andUniversity
deployed by a variety of social
Ohio
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Sociology and
actors. (Burawoy et al, Global Ethnography: Forces,Athens,
Connections
and Imaginations in a
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OH 45701
PostmodernofWorld,
(Berkeley: UC Press, 2000). [email protected]
each of the three major sections of the
University
Delaware
course, we
move from theory to the concrete forms globalization takes when seen from this
Newark,
DEwill
19716
perspective, and then to case studies of movements that
respond
to or draw on these particular
[email protected]
Melanie
Wallendorf
aspects of globalization. Though in the class we move
from theory
practice, it is important to
Department
of to
Marketing
note thatRitzer
the syllabus could have been organized in reverse—from
movement
to theory, since
Eller College of
Management
George
often it is movements
themselves that lead the way, stimulating
research,
Department
of Sociology
University of
Arizonaanalysis and the
constructionofofMaryland
theories.
University
Tucson, AZ 85721
College Park, MD 20742
[email protected]
Class sessions will include discussions, lectures, group work and role-plays, films and speakers.
[email protected]
Hands-on experience is also an important part of the Frederick
class. Everyone
Wherrywill be required to do 12
J.
Michael
Ryan work with a local social movement
hours
of volunteer
of your choice.
We will discuss research
Department
of Sociology
Department
of Sociology
techniques and
you will take fieldnotes on your experience
that of
will
serve as the basis for your
University
Michigan
University
Maryland
final paper.ofThose
who wish to earn an additional honors
credit may
do an internship with a
Ann Arbor,
MI 48109
College
Park, MDfor
20742
social movement
three hours a week and attend several
meetings during the semester to
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reflect on their experiences.
Required readings
Reading materials are all available online or in a coursepack, available for purchase at a local
bookstore.
Course Outline
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Laura Miller
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Department
Sociology
I. SOCIALof
MOVEMENTS
140 Commonwealth Ave.
Pearlman
Week #1: 103 Introduction/ Social Movements
Boston College
Tuesday:University
Brandeis
Introductions, review syllabus
Chestnut
MAUprising,
02467 (Gabriola
Waltham,
02454
Thursday:MA Selections
from Welton, Neva and Linda
Wolf,Hill,
Global
[email protected]
Island: New Society, 2001), 33-37, 99-103, 121-124,[email protected]
153-156, 216-220, 221-223, 232-233, 262264. (Read any 4.)
Lisa
McAdam,
Peñaloza
Doug and David Snow, “Introduction,” McAdam
Sara Steen
and Snow, Social Movements:
College
Readingsofon
Business
their Emergence, Mobilization, and Dynamics,
Department
(LosofAngeles:
Sociology
Roxbury, 1997),
Bus
xviii-xxvi.
468
219 Ketchum Hall
University
Film: Chicano!
of Colorado
Struggle in the Fields, National Latino
University
Communications
of Colorado
Center, (Los Angeles:
Boulder,
NLCC Educational
CO 80309 Media, 1996).
Boulder, CO 80309
[email protected]
[email protected]
Week #2:
Social Movements/ Globalization from Below
Jan
Tuesday:
Phillips Tarrow, Sidney, “Introduction” and “Collective
Joel Stillerman
Action and Social Movements,”
Department
in Power in Movement:
of Social and
Social Movements, Collective
2166
Action
AuSable
and Politics,
Hall (Cambridge:
Behavioral
Cambridge Science
University Press, 1995), 1-6, 9-27.
Grand Valley State University
University
Thursday:of Southern
Brecher,Maine/
Jeremy et al, "Globalization Allendale,
and Its Specter"
MI 49401
and "The Power of Social
Movements" in Globalization
from Below, (Cambridge:
South End, 2000 and 2002), 1-31.
Lewiston-Auburn
College
[email protected]
Lewiston, ME 04240
Deborah Thorne
[email protected]
***Initial proposal for fieldsite due.
Department of Sociology and
Anthropology
Meghan
Ashlin Rich
II. GLOBALIZATION
AS FORCES
Ohio University
Department
Sociology andfrom
Criminal
Week #3: of Globalization
Above
Tuesday:
Harvey, David, The Condition of Postmodernity,
Blackwell, 1990),
Justice
Athens, OH(Cambridge:
45701
132-140, 147-165.
University
of Delaware
[email protected]
Korzeniewicz,
Miguel, “Commodity Chains and Marketing Strategies,” in Lechner and Boli, The
Newark,
DE 19716
Globalization Reader, (Malden: Blackwell, 2004), 167-176.
[email protected]
Melanie Wallendorf
Thursday:
Klein, Naomi, “The Discarded Factory:
Department
Degradedof
Production
Marketingin the Age of the
Superbrand,”
(New York:
St. Martin’s, 1999),
Eller College
of Management
George
Ritzerin No Logo: Taking Aim at the Brand Bullies,
Department
195-229. of Sociology
University of Arizona
Film: Zoned
for Slavery, David Belle et al, NationalTucson,
Labor Committee,
University
of Maryland
AZ 85721 (New York: Crowing
Rooster Park,
Arts, 1995).
College
MD 20742
[email protected]
[email protected]
***Inventory of prior assumptions about your fieldsite due.
Frederick Wherry
J. Michael Ryan
Department of Sociology
Department
Sociology
University of Michigan
Week #4: of Anti-Sweatshop
Movements
University
Tuesday: of Maryland
Klein, Naomi, “Bad Mood Rising: The
New
Anticorporate
Ann
Arbor,
MI 48109Activism,” in No
College
Park, MD 20742
Logo, 325-343.
[email protected]
[email protected]
Lefkowitz, Joel, “Students, Sweatshops and Local Power,” in Shepard and Hayduk, From ACT
UP to the WTO: Urban Protest and Community Building in the Era of Globalization, (NY:
Verso, 2002), 74-80.
Thursday:
Esbenshade, Jill, “The Struggle for Independent Monitoring,” in Monitoring
Sweatshops: Workers, Consumers and the Global Apparel Industry, (Philadelphia: Temple,
2004), 165-197.
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Laura
Miller Transnational Challenges/ Debt andJuliet
Week #5:
Structural
McGuinnfrom a Gender Perspective,” in
Tuesday: of Bickham
Department
SociologyMendez, Jennifer, “Creating519
Alternatives
140 Commonwealth
Naples and103
Pearlman
Desai, Women’s Activism and Globalization,
(NY: Routledge,Ave.
2002), 121-141.
Boston College
Brandeis
University
***Plan of
Action due.
Chestnut
MA
02467
Film: Made
Thailand, Eve-Laure Moros and Linzy
Emery,Hill,
(New
York:
Women Make
Waltham,
MAin02454
[email protected]
Movies, 1999).
[email protected]
Thursday:
Elwood, Wayne, The No-Nonsense Guide to Globalization, (Oxford: New
Internationalist/Verso,
2001), 24-52.
Lisa Peñaloza
Sara Steen
Sparr,
“What is Structural Adjustment?” in Sparr,
Mortgaging
Women’s Lives, (Atlantic
CollegePamela,
of Business
Department
of Sociology
Highlands:
Bus 468 Zed, 1994), 1-12.
219 Ketchum Hall
University of Colorado
University of Colorado
Boulder,
Boulder, CO 80309
Week
#6:CO 80309
Resisting the Debt
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[email protected]
Tuesday:
NO CLASS.
Thursday:
Collins, Carole J.L., Zie Gariyo, and Tony Burdon, “Jubilee 2000: Citizen Action
across
the North-South Divide,” in Edwards and Gaventa,
Global Citizen Action, (Boulder:
Jan Phillips
Joel Stillerman
Lynne
Rienner,
2001),and
135-148.
Department
of Social
2166 AuSable Hall
Njehu,
Njoki,
“Cancel the Debt,” in Mertes, A Movement
Movements:
Is Another World Really
Behavioral
Science
GrandofValley
State University
Possible?
Verso, 2004),
University(NY:
of Southern
Maine/94-110.
Allendale, MI 49401
Film:
LifeCollege
and Debt, Stephanie Black, (NY:[email protected]
New Yorker Video, 2003).
Lewiston-Auburn
Lewiston, ME 04240
Deborah Thorne
[email protected]
Week
#7:
Rethinking North-South Relationships
Oct. 16:
Cuautémoc, Cuaicaipuro, “The Marshalltezuma
reprintedand
in Bigelow and
DepartmentPlan,”
of Sociology
Peterson,
Rethinking
Anthropology
Meghan Ashlin
Rich Globalization, 92-93.
Ohio University
Department
of MIDTERM
Sociology and Criminal
Oct.
18:
Justice
Athens, OH 45701
University
of Delaware AS CONNECTIONS
[email protected]
II.
GLOBALIZATION
Newark,
Week
#8:DE 19716
Networks in Theory and Practice
Tuesday:
Castells, Manuel, “The Network Society,”
in Held
and McGrew, The Global
[email protected]
Melanie
Wallendorf
Transformations Reader, 76-81.
Department of Marketing
Massey,
Doreen, “A Global Sense of Place,” in Space,
Place
and Gender,
(Minneapolis:
Eller
College
of Management
George Ritzer
University
DepartmentofofMinnesota,
Sociology 1994), 146-156.
University of Arizona
University of Maryland
Tucson, AZ 85721
***Fieldnotes
#1 due.
Thursday:
Keck,
Margaret E., and Kathryn Sikkink,
“Transnational Advocacy Networks in
College Park, MD
20742
[email protected]
International
Politics: Introduction,” in Keck and Sikkink, Activists beyond Borders: Advocacy
[email protected]
Networks in International Politics, (Ithaca: Cornell, 1998),
1-38.
Frederick
Wherry
J. Michael Ryan
Department of Sociology
Department
Sociology across Differences
University of Michigan
Week #9: of Networking
University
Oct. 30: of Maryland
Moghadam, Valentine, “TransnationalAnn
Feminist
Arbor,Networks:
MI 48109Collective Action in
College
MD 20742 International Sociology, 15:
an Era ofPark,
Globalization,”
1 (3/00), 57-85.
[email protected]
[email protected]
Film: The Shape of Water, Kum-Kum Bhavnani, 2006.
Nov. 1:
You will be assigned to read one of the following and make a group presentation:
Chun, Lin, “Finding a Language: Feminism and Women’s Movements in Contemporary China,”
in Scott et al, Transitions, Environments, Translations, (NY: Routledge, 1997), 11-20.
200
134
Schor Consciousness? Women’s
Laura
Corcoran-Nantes,
Miller
Yvonne, “Female Consciousness Juliet
or Feminine
519inMcGuinn
Consciousness
Department
of Sociology
Raising in Community-Based Struggles
Brazil,” in McCann and Kim, Feminist
Theory Reader,
Pearlman
103 (NY: Routledge, 2003), 126-137. 140 Commonwealth Ave.
College
Karides, Marina,
Brandeis
University
“Linking Local Efforts with GlobalBoston
Struggle:
Trinidad’s National Union of
Chestnut
Hill,
02467
Waltham,
MA 02454 in Naples and Desai, Women’s
Domestic Employees,”
Activism
andMA
Globalization,
(NY:
[email protected]
[email protected]
Routledge, 2002), 156-171.
Bates, Dawn and Maureen C. McHugh, “Zines: Voices of Third Wave Feminists,” in Reger,
Different
Lisa
Peñaloza
Wavelengths, (NY: Routledge, 2005), 179-194.
Sara Steen
Pande, Rekha,
College
of Business
“Solidarity, Patriarchy and Empowerment:
Department
Women’s
of Sociology
Struggles against Arrack in
India,”
Bus
468in Ricciutelli et al, Feminist Politics, Activism219
andKetchum
Vision, (NY:
Hall Inanna/Zed, 2004), 212226.
University of Colorado
University of Colorado
Turner,
Boulder,Terisa
CO 80309
E. and Leigh S. Brownhill, “The Curse
Boulder,
of Nakedness:
CO 80309
Nigerian Women in the Oil
War,”
[email protected]
in Ricciutelli et al, 169-191.
[email protected]
Jan Phillips
Joel Stillerman
Week
#10:
Feminist Connections and Disconnections
Department of Narayan,
Social andUma, “Cross-Cultural Connections,
2166 AuSable
Hall
Tuesday:
Border-Crossings,
and “Death by
Culture,” inScience
Behavioral
Dislocating Cultures, (New York: Routledge,
Grand1997),
Valley83-117.
State University
University
of Southern#2
Maine/
Allendale, MI 49401
***Fieldnotes
due.
Thursday:
Markowitz,
of Professionalization: Parallel
Lewiston-Auburn
College Lisa and Karen W. Tice, “Paradoxes
[email protected]
Dilemmas ME
in Women’s
Lewiston,
04240 Organizations in the Americas,” Gender and Society 16:6 (12/02), 941958.
Deborah Thorne
[email protected]
Department of Sociology and
Meghan
AshlinGlobal
Rich Feminisms/ Identity Politics Anthropology
Week # 11:
Tuesday: of Bunch,
Charlotte
et al, “International Ohio
Networking
for Women’s Human Rights,”
University
Department
Sociology
and Criminal
in Edwards and Gaventa, Global Citizen Action, (Boulder:
Rienner, 2001), 217-229.
Justice
Athens,Lynne
OH 45701
Film: Beyond
Beijing, Frogleap, Shirini Heerah [email protected]
Enrique Berrios, (New York: Women
University
of Delaware
Make Movies,
1996).
Newark,
DE 19716
Thursday:
Taylor, Verta and Nancy E. Whittier, Melanie
“Collective
Identity in Social Movement
[email protected]
Wallendorf
Communities: Lesbian Feminist Mobilization,” in Morris
and Mueller,
Frontiers in Social
Department
of Marketing
Movement
Theory, (New Haven: Yale, 1992), 104-129.
Eller College of Management
George
Ritzer
Department
of Sociology statement due.
University of Arizona
***Topic question/thesis
University of Maryland
Tucson, AZ 85721
College
Park, MD
20742
[email protected]
Week
#12:
Queer
Identities and Transnational Connections
Tuesday:
Gamson, Josh, “Must Identity Movements Self-Destruct? A Queer Dilemma,” in
[email protected]
Seidman, Queer Theory/Sociology, (Cambridge: Blackwell,
1996),
395-420.
Frederick
Wherry
Shephard,
J.
Michael Benjamin,
Ryan
“Culture-Jamming a SexPanic,”Department
in Shephard
Hayduk, From ACT UP
ofand
Sociology
to the WTO:of
Department
Urban
Sociology
Protest and Community BuildingUniversity
in the Eraof
ofMichigan
Globalization, (NY: Verso,
University
of Maryland
2002), 202-213.
Ann Arbor, MI 48109
College Park, MD 20742
[email protected]
[email protected]
***Fieldnotes #3 due.
Thursday:
[THANKSGIVING]
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Miller
III. GLOBALIZATION
AS IMAGINATIONS Juliet Schor
5191McGuinn
Department
Week #13: of Sociology
Social Movement Visions/ Water Wars
140
Commonwealth
Ave.at Large: Cultural
Pearlman
Tuesday:103 Appadurai, Arjun, “Here and Now,” in
Appadurai,
Modernity
Boston
College
Dimensions
Brandeis
University
of Globalization, (Minneapolis: Minnesota,
1997),
1-11; 32-37.
Chestnut Environmentalism,”
Hill, MA 02467
Waltham,Joshua,
MA 02454
Karliner,
“The Greening of Global Reach: Corporate
in The
[email protected]
Corporate Planet: Ecology and Politics in the Age [email protected]
Globalization, (San Francisco: Sierra Club,
1997), 30-57.
Thursday:
Lisa
Peñaloza Shiva, Vandana, Water Wars: Privatization,
Sara Steen
Pollution and Profit, (Boston: South
End,
College
2002),
of Business
19-37.
Department of Sociology
Flynn,
Bus 468Sean and Kathryn Boudouris, “Democratising219
theKetchum
Regulation
Hall
and Governance of Water in
the
University
US,” inof
Balanya
Colorado
et al (eds.), Reclaiming Public Water,
University
(Porto
ofAlegre:
Colorado
Transnational
Institute/Corporate
Boulder, CO 80309Europe Observatory, 2005), 73-84.
Boulder, CO 80309
[email protected]
[email protected]
***Reflections
on Readings assignment due.
Film: Thirst, Alan Snitow and Deborah Kaufman, (Oley, PA: Bullfrog, 2004).
Jan Phillips
Joel Stillerman
Department
Social Wars
and 2/ Challenging Globalization
2166 AuSable
Hall
Week #14: of Water
from Above
Tuesday: Science
Olivera, Oscar, “Privatization” and “Organization,”
in Olivera,
with Lewis,
Behavioral
Grand Valley State
University
Cochabamba!
Water War
in Bolivia, (Cambridge: South
End, 2004),
7-32.
University
of Southern
Maine/
Allendale,
MI 49401
Olivera, Oscar, “War,”
in Olivera, with Lewis, Cochabamba!
Water War in Bolivia, (Cambridge:
Lewiston-Auburn
College
[email protected]
South End,ME
2004),
33-49.
Lewiston,
04240
Deborah Thorne
[email protected]
Thursday:
Smith, Jackie, “Globalizing Resistance,”
in Johnston
and Smith,and
Globalization
Department
of Sociology
and Resistance:
Transnational Dimensions of SocialAnthropology
Movements, (Lanham: Rowman and
Meghan
Ashlin Rich
Littlefield, 2002),
207-227.
Ohio University
Department
of Sociology
and Criminal
Starhawk, “How We Really Shut Down the WTO,” in
Shephard
Hayduk, From ACT UP to
Justice
Athens,
OH and
45701
the WTO: Urban
Protest and Community Building [email protected]
the Era of Globalization, (NY: Verso,
University
of Delaware
2002), 52-56.
Newark,
DE 19716
[email protected]
Melanie Wallendorf
Department of Marketing
Week #15:
Contested Imaginations
Tuesday:
DC andofSeattle
Protests Unfocused
EllertheCollege
Management
George Ritzer Klein, Naomi, “The Vision Thing: Were
or
Are Critics
the Point?” in Shephard and Hayduk,
From
ACT UP to the WTO: Urban
Department
ofMissing
Sociology
University
of Arizona
Protest
andofCommunity
(NY:
Verso, 2002), 264-273.
University
Maryland Building in the Era of Globalization,
Tucson, AZ
85721
Ponniah,
Thomas
William F. Fisher, “Introduction:
The World Social Forum and the
College Park,
MDand
20742
[email protected]
Reinvention
of Democracy,” in Fisher and Ponniah, Another World Is Possible, (Zed, 2003), [email protected]
20.
Frederick Wherry
J. Michael Ryan
Department of Sociology
Department
of Sociology
of Michigan
You will be assigned
to read one of the following andUniversity
make a group
presentation:
Jubilee South,
University
of Maryland
“South-South Summit Declaration Towards
a Debt-Free
Milennium, in Broad,
Ann Arbor,
MI 48109
Global Backlash:
Economy, (Lanham: Rowman and
College
Park, MDCitizen
20742 Initiatives for a Just [email protected]
Littlefield,
2002), 275-276.
[email protected]
Subcomandante Marcos, “Our Word Is Our Weapon,” in Broad, 258-261.
Report of the Fourth World Conference on Women, Beijing, Sept. 4-15, 1995, (New York:
United Nations, 1996), 2-6.
Research Foundation for Science, Technology and Ecology, “Jaiv Panchayat: Biodiversity
Protection at the Village Level,” in Broad, 269-272.
200
136
Juliet Schor
Laura Miller
Durning,
Alan Thein, “How Much is ‘Enough’?” in Broad,
287-291.
519 McGuinn
Bello, Walden,
Department
of Sociology
“Toward a Deglobalized World,” in Broad,
292-295.
140 Commonwealth
Ave.
World Social
Pearlman
103 Forum, “Porto Alegre Call for Mobilization,”
in Lechner and
Boli, The
Boston College
Globalization
Brandeis
University
Reader, (Malden: Blackwell, 2000), 435-437.
Chestnut
Hill, MA
Waltham,
MAForum
02454on Globalization, “A Better World
International
Is Possible!
Ten02467
Principles for
[email protected]
[email protected]
Democratic and Sustainable Societies,” in Lechner and
Boli, 443-445.
Lisa
Peñaloza No reading. Bring rough drafts to class.
Sara Steen
Thursday:
College of Business
Department of Sociology
Bus
468 PAPERS AND ALL FIELDNOTES DUE,219
Ketchum
Hall
FINAL
4 PM,
FRIDAY!
University of Colorado
University of Colorado
Boulder,
CO 80309
Boulder, CO 80309
Requirements
[email protected]
1. Attendance/participation. Attendance is extremely
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important. Everyone is expected to attend
all sessions, be on time and have completed the assigned reading. More than two absences
Jan will
Phillips
affect your grade. Two late arrivals equal one
Joel
absence.
Stillerman
Department of Social and
2166 AuSable Hall
Behavioral
Activities will
Science
include discussions, group work, role Grand
plays, films
Valleyand
State
guest
University
speakers. In terms of
University
participation,
of Southern
what is important
Maine/ is whether you are making
Allendale,
an effort
MI 49401
to participate in discussions
and small group activities,
are “right.”
Lewiston-Auburn
College not whether or not your answers
[email protected]
Lewiston, ME 04240
Sociology touches on experiences which involve deeply
Deborah
felt aspects
Thorneof our identities. To have
[email protected]
good discussions of the material, it’s important that comments
Department
and
of disagreements
Sociology andbe expressed in
a respectful
wayRich
that allows everyone to feel safe about
Anthropology
sharing their ideas. Please come talk to
Meghan
Ashlin
me if there isofanything
in the
that is
University
making you feel uncomfortable or if
Department
Sociology
andclassroom
Criminal environmentOhio
you have any special needs that I should know about.Athens, OH 45701
Justice
University of Delaware
[email protected]
2. In-class
Newark,
DE midterm.
19716 The midterm will cover the reading, lectures, films, speakers, and
discussions for the first seven weeks of class. It will
be a Wallendorf
combination of essays and short
[email protected]
Melanie
answers.
Department of Marketing
Eller College of Management
George Ritzer
3. Quizzes. of
There
will be no final exam. Instead, weUniversity
will have of
popArizona
quizzes on the reading in the
Department
Sociology
latter half
of the semester. These will be graded: Tucson,
plus, check
check, check minus, zero. I
University
of Maryland
AZplus,
85721
will be
looking
for evidence that you have done the
reading and have some understanding of
College
Park,
MD 20742
[email protected]
the content.
[email protected]
Frederick Wherry
J.
Ryan As a final project, you’ll be requiredDepartment
4. Michael
Final paper.
to write a 10-12
page paper about a social
of Sociology
Department
of in
Sociology
movement
this area. Your paper will be basedUniversity
on 12 hours
volunteer field work during
of of
Michigan
University
of Maryland
the semester
with the movement of your choice AND
on classMI
readings
Ann Arbor,
48109 and secondary
College
Park,You
MDwill
20742
research.
get help on selecting a movement,
getting access as a volunteer, writing
[email protected]
[email protected]
field notes, and reflecting on what you learn.
5. Fieldwork. This part of your grade includes all the assignments related to the final project
including: proposal, inventory of assumptions, plan of action, reflections on readings, topic
question/thesis and a required meeting with the professor to discuss your project. Most
important, it will include your fieldnotes. These will be collected three times during the
semester. You will turn the entire packet of notes in again with your final paper.
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Department
GRADING of Sociology
1) Attendance/participation/presentations
Pearlman
103
2) QuizzesUniversity
Brandeis
Waltham,
3) MidtermMA 02454
[email protected]
4) Final paper
5) Fieldwork
Lisa Peñaloza
College of Business
Bus 468
University of Colorado
Boulder, CO 80309
[email protected]
Juliet Schor
519 McGuinn
140 Commonwealth Ave.
Boston College
Chestnut Hill, MA 02467
[email protected]
20%
15%
20%
25%
20%
100% Sara Steen
Department of Sociology
219 Ketchum Hall
University of Colorado
Boulder, CO 80309
[email protected]
Jan Phillips
Department of Social and
Behavioral Science
University of Southern Maine/
Lewiston-Auburn College
Lewiston, ME 04240
[email protected]
Joel Stillerman
2166 AuSable Hall
Grand Valley State University
Allendale, MI 49401
[email protected]
Deborah Thorne
Department of Sociology and
Anthropology
Ohio University
Athens, OH 45701
[email protected]
Meghan Ashlin Rich
Department of Sociology and Criminal
Justice
University of Delaware
Newark, DE 19716
[email protected]
Melanie Wallendorf
Department of Marketing
Eller College of Management
University of Arizona
Tucson, AZ 85721
[email protected]
George Ritzer
Department of Sociology
University of Maryland
College Park, MD 20742
[email protected]
Frederick Wherry
Department of Sociology
University of Michigan
Ann Arbor, MI 48109
[email protected]
J. Michael Ryan
Department of Sociology
University of Maryland
College Park, MD 20742
[email protected]
200
138
Juliet Schor
Laura Miller
519 McGuinn
Department
Sociologyof Social Movements
The PoliticalofEconomy
140 Commonwealth Ave.
Pearlman
103
Lesley Wood
Boston College
Brandeis
University
York University
Chestnut Hill, MA 02467
Waltham, MA 02454
[email protected]
[email protected]
“The anatomy of civil society is to be sought
in political economy” – Karl Marx
Lisa Peñaloza
Sara Steen
College
of Description
Business
Department of Sociology
Calendar
Bus
468
219 Ketchum Hall
Social
movements are intrinsic to societies
University
of Colorado
University of Colorado
characterized
by unequal access to property,
Boulder,
CO 80309
Boulder, CO 80309
political power,
and cultural resources. In this
[email protected]
[email protected]
course, the relevance of political economy to the study
of social movements will be critically
reviewed in relation to other approaches.
Jan Phillips
Joel Stillerman
Department
of Social and
2166 AuSable Hall
Fuller Description
Behavioral
Science
Valley
Statemovements
University with
This course compares a political economy approach Grand
to studying
social
University
Southern
Maine/ behaviour theory, resource
Allendale,
MI 49401theory, political process
approachesof
rooted
in collective
mobilization
Lewiston-Auburn
College
[email protected]
theory, and newer approaches that emphasize culture, networks, and recurrent processes and
Lewiston, ME 04240
mechanisms.
Deborah Thorne
[email protected]
Department of Sociology and
Format: Three hour seminar
Anthropology
Meghan Ashlin Rich
Ohio University
Department
of Sociology
Criminal
Learning
Objectives
of theand
course
Justice
45701economy and social
1. To be able to critically assess the relationshipAthens,
betweenOH
political
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of Delaware
[email protected]
movements
Newark,
2. ToDE
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able to identify different theoretical and methodological approaches to social
[email protected]
Melanie Wallendorf
movements
of Marketing
3. To be able to critically evaluate the different Department
theoretical approaches
to understanding
Eller College of Management
George social
Ritzermovements
Department
of Sociology
University
of Arizona
4. To gain
basic knowledge of Canadian anti-poverty
movements,
First Nations struggles,
University
of Maryland
Tucson,
AZ 85721
the US
civil rights movement, and contemporary
anti-globalization
and anti-war
Collegemovements
Park, MD 20742
[email protected]
[email protected]
5. To be able to write more effectively and critically
Frederick Wherry
6. To be able to lead group discussions more effectively
J. Michael Ryan
Department of Sociology
Department
of
Sociology
University of Michigan
Text (available at York Bookstore)
University
Maryland
Ann Arbor, MI 48109
SOCI
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Course
Reader
College Park, MD 20742
[email protected]
[email protected]
Evaluation
Final Paper
30
Final Paper Proposal
10
Show and tell
15
Facilitating the Discussion/Presentation of readings 15
Reading Responses and Questions
15
Participation
15
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Laura
Miller
Final paper
519 McGuinn
Use a particular
Department
of Sociology
theoretical approach to answer a question
about a social movement campaign or
140 Commonwealth Ave.
organization,
Pearlman 103and evaluate its usefulness.
Boston College
Brandeis University
Chestnut Hill, MA 02467
Waltham,
02454
Step
one –MA
choose
a campaign or organization to study
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[email protected]
Examples
of campaigns include:
The campaign against residential schools in First Nations communities
The
Lisa campaign
Peñaloza for the legalization of marijuana in Canada
Sara Steen
The
College
campaign
of Business
of Iraq Veterans Against the War against
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the War of
in Sociology
Iraq
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219 Ketchum Hall
Organizations?
University of Colorado
There are millions. Talk to me if you’re
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having difficulty.
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I’ll
Boulder,
link aCO
list 80309
of organizations on the moodle page. Boulder, CO 80309
[email protected]
[email protected]
Step two – Select a single clear question you have about that campaign or organization.
Jan Phillips
Joel Stillerman
Questions
Departmentmight
of Social
include
and
2166 AuSable Hall
Why
Behavioral
was that
Science
campaign or organization successful inGrand
changing
Valley
policy
StateorUniversity
relations of power?
Why
University
was itofa failure?
Southern Maine/
Allendale, MI 49401
Why
were the activists
able to mobilize their community?
Lewiston-Auburn
College
[email protected]
How
has identity
been important in a particular organization or campaign?
Lewiston,
ME 04240
How
have organizational dynamics played out?
Deborah Thorne
[email protected]
Department of Sociology and
Step
threeAshlin
– choose
Anthropology
that question
Meghan
Richtwo theoretical approaches to answering
Theoretical
include
Ohio University
Department approaches
of Sociology
and Criminal
Political
Justice economy approach
Athens, OH 45701
Collective
approach
University behaviour
of Delaware
[email protected]
Resource
mobilization
approach
Newark, DE
19716
Political
process approach
[email protected]
Melanie Wallendorf
New social movements approach
Department of Marketing
Network
approach
Eller College of Management
George Ritzer
Organizational
dynamics approach
Department of Sociology
University of Arizona
Dynamics
University of
of contention
Maryland approach
Tucson, AZ 85721
College Park, MD 20742
[email protected]
Step
four – evaluate the strengths and weaknesses of the two approaches for answering that
[email protected]
question.
Frederick Wherry
J. Michael Ryan
Department of Sociology
Department
Sociology
Example
of aofthesis
for this paper:
University of Michigan
University of Maryland
Ann Arbor, MI 48109
College
Park,
MD 20742
Final
paper
proposal
[email protected]
[email protected]
This
three page proposal will answer describe the campaign chosen, the question asked, and the
theoretical approaches being evaluated.
Movement Artifact Show and Tell (15%)
In order for us to keep our discussion grounded in movement cultures, we will be playing a game
of show and tell. Each week one or two of you will engage in a “show and tell” exercise with a
movement artifact
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Juliet Schor
Laura
The
artifact
Millermight be a button, a bumper sticker, a placard,
a speech, or call to action, a t-shirt, a
519tell
McGuinn
flyer, a pieceofofSociology
Department
music, art or something else. You will
us about this item, the context of its
140 Commonwealth
Ave.movement. You can
use and relation
Pearlman
103 to particular events, campaigns, organizations
and the larger
Boston
College
then suggest
Brandeis
University
how this artifact might (or might not) relate
to the
readings of the week.
Chestnut Hill, MA 02467
Waltham, MA 02454
[email protected]
[email protected]
Facilitating the Discussion
Each week two or three members of the class will lead the discussion about the readings.
On the
Lisa
Peñaloza
first day of class, we will divide up the readings.
Sara Steen
On the day
College
of Business
that it is your turn to facilitate the discussion,
Department
you should
of Sociology
know the readings very
well,
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and have developed a number of interesting questions
219 Ketchum
about them.
Hall Think about the readings
in terms of of
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comparisons,
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be evaluated
80309 for your preparation, and yourBoulder,
effort and
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ability
80309
to increase the level of
comprehension in the class.
[email protected]
[email protected]
Jan
Phillips
Joel Stillerman
Reading
Responses and Questions 15%
Department
Social
2166
AuSable
Hall
Three times of
during
theand
term you will write a two page
analysis
of one
of the readings in the
Behavioral
course and submit
Scienceit to the moodle discussion group.Grand
TheseValley
will beState
graded
University
by both me and your
University
peers for of Southern Maine/
Allendale, MI 49401
- engagementCollege
with the material
Lewiston-Auburn
[email protected]
- writing
and argument
Lewiston,
ME 04240
- use of comparisons or current events
Deborah Thorne
[email protected]
Each reading response is worth 5%
Department of Sociology and
The reading
responses
Anthropology
midnight on the Tuesday before each
Meghan
Ashlin
Rich for a particular week are due at
class.
Ohio University
Department
of Sociology and Criminal
Justice
Athens, OH 45701
University
of Delaware
[email protected]
Participation
15%
This classDE
is one
that demands your participation. Your participation grade is evaluated on the
Newark,
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basis of attendance, and active participation in discussions.
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Readings and
Discussions
College Park, MD 20742
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Frederick Wherry
J.
Michael
Ryan political economy
Sept
12 – Marxist
Department of Sociology
Department of Sociology
University of Michigan
University
of Maryland
Bantjes,
Rod. 2007. Ch 1 - Workers of the World
Social Movements in a
Ann Unite
Arbor,from
MI 48109
CollegeGlobalizing
Park, MD 20742
Context, CSPI, pp. 5-40 reader [email protected]
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Marx, Communist Manifesto, on moodle
Ash-Garner, R. and M. Zald (1987) ‘The Political Economy of Social Movement Sector,’
in Social movements in an organizational society : collected essays edited by Mayer Zald
and John McCarthy (1987): 293–317. reader
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Laura19Miller
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Theories of Social Movement Emergence –Juliet
other
theories
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Commonwealth
Ave. Movements: A
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Partial
University
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82 (1977):
1212-1241 ejournals
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Tarrow, Sidney. 1998. Power in Movement, Chapter
1, (pp-10-25) reader
Lisa Peñaloza
Louis A Zurcher and David A. Snow. 1981 “Collective
Sara Steen Behavior: Social Movements” pp.
College447-482
of Business
in Social Psychology: Sociological Perspectives,
Department ofedited
Sociology
by M. Rosenberg and
Bus 468R.H. Turner. reader
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University of Colorado
Boulder,
CO 80309
Boulder, CO 80309
Anti-Poverty
Movements Today
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Queen’s Park Station
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We’ll beof
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and
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examining
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who
Hall
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authorities,
relationships between activists, tactics,
strategies
frames.
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Valleyand
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week, we’ll
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media
coverage.
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If you are unable
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Deborah Thorne
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Reading: Piven and Cloward. 1977. “The Welfare
Rights of
Movement”
Department
Sociologyfrom
and Poor People’s
Anthropology
MeghanMovements,
Ashlin Richselection in reader.
Ohio University
Department of Sociology and Criminal
Oct 3 – Political Opportunities and constraints
Justice
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David
Meyer and Debra C. Minkoff . 2004 “Conceptualizing
Political Opportunity,”
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Forces 82: 1457 – 1492 (ejournals)
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Benford, Robert D. and David Snow. 2000. “Framing
Processes
and Social Movements”
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Department of Sociology
University of Arizona
Jasper,
James M. 2005. “A Strategic Approach
to Collective
Action: Looking for
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Tucson,
AZ 85721
in Social
9(1):1-16 reader
CollegeAgency
Park, MD
20742 Movement Choices” In Mobilization
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Community Organizing as a Strategy
J. Michael Ryan
Department of Sociology
Department
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Oct 10 Movement
Building – Community Organizing
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Ann Arbor, MI 48109
CollegeFreire,
Park, MD
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Paulo.
1993. Pedagogy of the Oppressed,
Chapter 1, 25-51. reader
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Knoche, Tom. 2004.Organizing Communities: Building Neighborhood Movements for
Radical Social Change, 287-310 in Globalize Liberation. Edited by David Solnit. reader
Domick, Brian. An Introduction to Dual Power Strategy. On moodle
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Laura Miller
Scott, James C. 1990 “The infrapolitics of subordinate
groups” from The Global
519 McGuinn
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Resistance
of Sociology
Reader (2005) Edited by Louie Amoore,
65-73. reader
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Brandeis
US
Civil University
Rights Movement
Chestnut Hill, MA 02467
Waltham,
MA 02454
Oct
17 – Cycles
of Movements
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Doug McAdam 1983 “Tactical Innovation and the Pace of Insurgency ASR 48:737-754.
Lisa Peñaloza
Sara Steen
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Bus 468Haines, Herbert. 1984. “Black Radicalization219
andKetchum
the Funding
Hallof Civil Rights: 1957University
1970”
of Colorado
in Social Problems 32:1, p. 31-43. ejournals
University of Colorado
Boulder, CO 80309
Boulder, CO 80309
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Polletta, Francesca.”A Band of Brothers Standing
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in a Circle of Trust: Southern Civil
Rights Organizing.” from Freedom is an Endless Meeting (2002), 55-87. reader
Jan Phillips
Joel Stillerman
Department
Morris,
of Social
Aldon.and
1989. “Black Southern Sit-In 2166
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Hall
Analysis of Internal
organization”
46:744-767.
Behavioral
Science American Sociological ReviewGrand
Valley ejournals
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and Unity
Lewiston-Auburn
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Proposal
Lewiston,
MEdue
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Thompson, Becky. “Will the Circle…” from Department
A Promise and
A Way of Life,
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and 2001. 45-73.
Anthropology
Meghanreader
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Department of Sociology and Criminal
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Black Protest Thought in the
Justice Rustin, Bayard. “The Great Lessons of Birmingham”
Athens, OH
Twentieth
Century. P. 332-341. reader
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of Delaware
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Newark, DE 19716
Williams, Robert F. For Effective Self Defense”
BlackWallendorf
Protest Thought in the
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BlackofPanther
Party, 1967. “What we want, what
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491-5. reader
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Sociology
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of Arizona
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Tucson, AZ 85721
CollegeMartinez,
Park, MDBetita.
20742Where Was the Color in Seattle?
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http://www.colorlines.com/printerfriendly.php?ID=82 Moodle
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Frederick Wherry
J.
Michael
Ryan
Department of Sociology
First
Nations
Struggles
Oct 31 – Emergence
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and Organization
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Alfred,
of Maryland
Taiaiake and Lana Lowe. Warrior Societies
in Contemporary
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MI 48109 Indigenous
CollegeCommunities
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Long, David Alan. “The Precarious Pursuit of Justice: Counterhegemony in the Lubicon
First Nation Coalition” from Organizing Dissent, 2nd ed. William K Carroll (1997) reader
Wilkes, Rima. The Protest Actions of Indigenous Peoples. A Canadian-U.S.
Comparison of Social Movement Emergence. American Behavioral Scientist, Vol. 50,
No. 4, 510-525 (2006) ejournals
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LeninofWhat
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is To be Done?
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Brandeis University
Chestnut Hill, MA 02467
Waltham,
MA 02454
Nov
7 – Global
Identities and cultures
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Hall, Thomas and James Fenelon. 2005. “Trajectories of Indigenous Resistance Before
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and After 9/11” in Podobnik and Reifer. Transforming
Sara SteenGlobalization. P. 95-100. reader
College of Business
Department of Sociology
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219 Ketchum
Hall
Transnational:
The Transformation
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Colorado Indigenous Rights Movement,”
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of Colorado
of aof
Guatemalan
Mobilization
9: 259-278 . reader
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Boulder, CO 80309
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Roundtable on the Six Nations Land Reclamation,
Upping the Anti 3. 135-167.
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Joel Stillerman
From
Anti-Globalization to Anti-War
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of Social and Organization
2166 AuSable Hall
Nov
14 – Emergence
Behavioral Science
Grand Valley State University
University
of Southern
Maine/2003. “Emergence: AnAllendale,
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Notes
from Nowhere.
IrresistibleMI
Global
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College
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Everywhere.
19-29. Moodle.
Lewiston, ME 04240
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Thorne
[email protected]
Della Porta, Donatella et al. “The Development
of a Global
Movement : Network
Departmentfrom
of Sociology
and 27-60 reader.
Strategies, Democracy, Participation “ in Globalization
Below. 2006.
Anthropology
Meghan Ashlin Rich
Ohio University
Department
of Sociology
and Criminal
Lainer-Vos,
Dani “Social
Movements and Citizenship:
Conscientious Objection
Justice Movements in France, US, and Israel. Mobilization
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Newark,Carty,
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Victoria and Jake Onyett. Protest, Cyberactivism and New Social Movements: The
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Reemergence of the Peace Movement Post 9/11
Social
Movement Studies; December
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2006; Volume 5 No. 3 Pages 229 – 249 . ejournals
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of Sociology
University of Arizona
Nov
21 – Outcomes
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Tucson, AZ 85721
CollegeKlein,
Park, MD
20742
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Naomi.
“The Vision thing: were the DC
and Seattle protests unfocused or are
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critics missing the point?” moodle
Frederick Wherry
J. Michael
Department Capitalism.
of Sociology2004 Eds. Yuen,
Roy,Ryan
Arundhati. Confronting Empire. From Confronting
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of
Sociology
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of
Michigan
Eddie et al. reader
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Ann Arbor, MI 48109
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Park, Marina.
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2004. “Waving Imagination and
Creation: The Future in the Present” in
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Uba, Katrin. “Political Protest and Policy Change: The Direct Impacts of Indian AntiPrivatization Moblizations 1990-2003” Mobilization. reader
Final paper due
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Waltham, MA 02454
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Juliet Schor
519 McGuinn
140 Commonwealth Ave.
Boston College
Chestnut Hill, MA 02467
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Lisa Peñaloza
College of Business
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University of Colorado
Boulder, CO 80309
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Sara Steen
Department of Sociology
219 Ketchum Hall
University of Colorado
Boulder, CO 80309
[email protected]
Jan Phillips
Department of Social and
Behavioral Science
University of Southern Maine/
Lewiston-Auburn College
Lewiston, ME 04240
[email protected]
Joel Stillerman
2166 AuSable Hall
Grand Valley State University
Allendale, MI 49401
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Deborah Thorne
Department of Sociology and
Anthropology
Ohio University
Athens, OH 45701
[email protected]
INSTRUCTIONAL MATERIALS
Meghan Ashlin Rich
Department of Sociology and Criminal
Justice
University of Delaware
Newark, DE 19716
[email protected]
Melanie Wallendorf
Department of Marketing
Eller College of Management
University of Arizona
Tucson, AZ 85721
[email protected]
George Ritzer
Department of Sociology
University of Maryland
College Park, MD 20742
[email protected]
Frederick Wherry
Department of Sociology
University of Michigan
Ann Arbor, MI 48109
[email protected]
J. Michael Ryan
Department of Sociology
University of Maryland
College Park, MD 20742
[email protected]
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Laura Miller
Designing Your Own SocialJuliet
Movement
519 McGuinn
Department of Sociology
140 Commonwealth Ave.
Emily A. Bowman
Pearlman
103
Boston College
Indiana University
Brandeis
University
Chestnut Hill, MA 02467
Waltham, MA 02454
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[email protected]
TEACHING/LEARNING OBJECTIVES & OUTCOMES
ILisa
havePeñaloza
used the following “design-your-own-social movement”
Sara Steen exercise essentially as a review
of a social
College
of movements
Business unit I teach in a broader course
Department
on social change.
of Sociology
Although I have used
roughly
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468 the same exercise as both an individual paper219
assignment
Ketchum and
Halla take-home essay exam
question, I think
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of Colorado
it really works best as a group project
University
assignment
of Colorado
that culminates in a classroom
presentation.
Boulder,
CO 80309
When used as a group assignment, I randomly
Boulder,place
CO 80309
students in groups (generally
consisting of 3 to 5 people depending on class size) by
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having them draw numbers from a hat.
Because the groups are randomly selected, group members often initially struggle in making
Jan
decisions
Phillips
about what type of social movement they want
Joel Stillerman
to create since they often have different
Department
political andof
social
Social
views.
and I find these initial group discussions
2166 AuSable
are Hall
quite interesting as group
Behavioral
Science
Valleyfind
State
University
members teach
each other about social problems theyGrand
personally
vexing.
University of Southern Maine/
Allendale, MI 49401
Lewiston-Auburn
Beyond spurring students
Collegeto discuss and teach each other
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about social problems, the assignment
Lewiston,
encouragesME
students
04240to use their creativity while motivating them to think of ways to
Deborah
Thorne discussion about these
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ameliorate/solve social issues. It also stimulates extensive
classroom
Department
of Sociology
and of
matters and the possibilities and pitfalls of social movement
activity
on the day(s)
Anthropology
Meghan
Ashlin
Rich I think this is an effective group
presentation.
Overall,
assignment because it forces students to
Ohio University
Department
place themselves
of Sociology
within a and
social
Criminal
movement, thus facilitating
a deeper understanding not only of
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social movement concepts and dynamics, but also ofAthens,
the interplay
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between structure and agency.
University of Delaware
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Newark, DE 19716
[email protected]
Melanie Wallendorf
EXERCISE
Department of Marketing
Eller College of Management
George
Ritzerto start your own social movement, huh?
So you want
Department of Sociology
University of Arizona
Describe your
plan for organizing and managing an ideal
social
In writing your
University
of Maryland
Tucson,
AZmovement.
85721
response,Park,
you MD
can either
or discuss the ways in which you would
College
20742create your own movement [email protected]
improve upon a present or past social movement. You need only briefly identify the movement;
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the overwhelming majority of your response should focus
Frederick
on demonstrating
Wherry
and applying your
J.
Michael Ryan
knowledge
of social movement dynamics. In constructing
Department
your response,
of Sociology
be sure to support your
Department
of Sociology
ideas with evidence
from the course readings and lecture
University
notes. ofYou
Michigan
will need to address the
University
of Maryland
following topics:
Ann Arbor, MI 48109
College Park, MD 20742
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[email protected]
(a) Think of a social movement you are interested in—be it currently in action, long since dead,
or just a figment of your own imagination. To do this, you may find it helpful to identify a
social problem you want to “fix.” Briefly identify that movement and its goals concerning
social change (e.g., What does the movement hope to accomplish? Is the movement focused
on promoting or resisting social change?)
200
146
Juliet Schor and antagonists associated
Laura
(b)
Identify
Millerand describe the adherents/participants, beneficiaries,
519 McGuinn
Department
with the of
movement.
Sociology
140 Commonwealth Ave.
Pearlman 103
BostonifCollege
(c) GivenUniversity
Brandeis
what you have learned about social movements,
you were to be the key figure(s) or
Hill, MA 02467
Waltham,
(humorMA
me 02454
here) the “mastermind(s)” behind thisChestnut
social movement,
what steps would you
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[email protected]
take to ensure (as much as you possibly could) success?
How would you convince,
encourage, and recruit people to participate in your movement? What strategies and nonLisainstitutional
Peñaloza tactics would you use to create opportunities
Sara Steen
for success? Why do you think
College
theseofstrategies
Businessand tactics are the best options? Department
What types of
of social
Sociology
movement
Busorganizations
468
(SMOs) would you want to become219
involved?
KetchumHow
Hallwould the strategies and
University
tactics used
of Colorado
by these organizations differ? In what
University
ways would
of Colorado
these organizations
Boulder,
complement
CO 80309
one another?
Boulder, CO 80309
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[email protected]
(d) In the end, how would you measure success or failure of your movement? (i.e.—What
Jan MUST
Phillipsbe accomplished in order for you to consider
Joel your
Stillerman
movement successful?) What
Department
barriers would
of Social
youand
face in achieving success? 2166 AuSable Hall
Behavioral Science
Grand Valley State University
University of Southern Maine/
Allendale, MI 49401
Lewiston-Auburn
College
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POTENTIAL
PITFALLS
Lewiston, ME 04240
One of the potential pitfalls of using this exercise in class
Deborah
is the
Thorne
issue of time. I try to give
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groups some initial time to work on the project in class,
Department
but mostof
ofSociology
the work on
andit will be done
outside ofAshlin
class time.
minute presentations, but find that students
Meghan
Rich I also try to limit groups to 15 Anthropology
often becomeofso
invested and
in and
excited about the project
Ohio that
University
they want more time to present
Department
Sociology
Criminal
their work. Another potential problem is that the exercise
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Athens,
in OH
some
45701
ways forces students to think
a bit simplistically
University
of Delaware
about major social issues. Although
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I am always prepared as the instructor to
remind students
that there are many other factors to consider when attempting to solve a social
Newark,
DE 19716
problem, I find that the students themselves usually make
[email protected]
Melanie
thisWallendorf
point either in their own
presentations or in response to the presentations of others.
Department of Marketing
Eller College of Management
George Ritzer
Department of Sociology
University of Arizona
University of Maryland
Tucson, AZ 85721
College Park, MD 20742
[email protected]
[email protected]
Frederick Wherry
J. Michael Ryan
Department of Sociology
Department of Sociology
University of Michigan
University of Maryland
Ann Arbor, MI 48109
College Park, MD 20742
[email protected]
[email protected]
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Juliet Schor
519 McGuinn
140 Commonwealth Ave.
Boston College
Chestnut Hill, MA 02467
[email protected]
Laura
Miller
Final Assignment:
Board Game
Department of Sociology
Neal Caren
Pearlman
103
Department
Brandeis
University
of Sociology
Waltham,
02454Carolina at Chapel Hill
UniversityMA
of North
[email protected]
Lisa Peñaloza
This
is the major assignment for the semester. Working
SarainSteen
your group, you will design a board
game about
College
of Business
the social movement that you have selected.
Department
This assignment
of Sociology
will require you to
apply468
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the theoretical concepts from the course to the 219
specifics
Ketchum
of your
Hallmovement. You will be
University
graded on your
of Colorado
use of social movement theory; your University
mastery of of
theColorado
facts surrounding the history
Boulder,
of your social
CO 80309
movement; your application of theory Boulder,
to the movement;
CO 80309and how well the game
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plays. Each member of the group will receive the same
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grade for this assignment. This
assignment is in place of both a final exam and a final paper. Plus, there will be a couple of you
Jan
working
Phillips
on it. As such, I expect something really, really
Joel Stillerman
good.
Department of Social and
2166 AuSable Hall
Behavioral
The Sociology
Science
(50% of Grade)
Grand Valley State University
As this is a of
sociology
the aspects of social movement
theory
that you incorporate into
University
Southernclass,
Maine/
Allendale,
MI that
49401
your
game is the most
important part of the project. [email protected]
The rules of your game should be based on
Lewiston-Auburn
College
your
sociologically
informed understanding of how social movements operate. You should not
Lewiston,
ME 04240
try
to cram everything we cover during the semester Deborah
into the game,
but rather the game should
Thorne
[email protected]
reflect your nuanced understanding of the most relevant
ideas. SoofifSociology
you were and
Doug McAdam in
Department
1982 building
board game on the civil rights movement,
Anthropology
you would focus largely on
Meghan
Ashlina Rich
indigenous organization
cognitive liberation,
Ohio
andUniversity
political opportunities, and not spend
Department
of Sociologystrength,
and Criminal
Justice
any time on framing. For building your game, you will
Athens,
probably
OH 45701
need to draw from more than
one author of
or Delaware
topic. For example, if your focus [email protected]
on the media and social movements, you
University
would also
to include things on framing. Finally, the game should not merely mimic what
Newark,
DEwant
19716
the authors we have read believe, but rather should be
based on
your critical understanding of
[email protected]
Melanie
Wallendorf
how movements actually function. Should frames beDepartment
divided between
of Marketing
diagnostic, prognostic and
motivational?
Eller
youCollege
do.
of Management
George
Ritzer Explain why you make the distinctions
Department of Sociology
University of Arizona
The Movement
(30% of Grade)
University
of Maryland
Tucson, AZ 85721
You should
beMD
very20742
familiar with the social movement
that your game is modeling. It will make
College
Park,
[email protected]
the game more interesting, and it is part of your grade. Your game can focus on the entire life
[email protected]
span of a movement, or upon a single campaign or event.
MostWherry
of the game should involve
Frederick
J.
events
Michael
that Ryan
actually occurred, but it might make senseDepartment
to also allow
for the path not taken.
of Sociology
Department
Movements of
thatSociology
succeed in real life might be able to University
fail in yourofgame.
At the end of your game
Michigan
University
Maryland
instructions,ofyou
should include a “Suggestions for further
reading”
including books and
Ann Arbor,
MI list,
48109
College
Park, MD
other resources
that20742
you found particularly helpful. Two
great places for including specific
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[email protected]
historic details are in the squares that players land on, and on the cards that they draw.
The Game (20% of Grade)
The third part of your grade is how well the game plays. This doesn’t mean that every player has
to have an equal chance of winning—my guess is that the communists will only take control of
Alabama during the depression 1 in 100 times—but it does mean everyone should have a chance
at winning. Most importantly, it means that the game should be fun.
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Julietas
Schor
Lauracould
You
Miller
use a wide variety of currently existing games
your model for this project, such as
519 McGuinn
Monopoly, Life,
Department
of Sociology
Risk or Chutes and Ladders. The game
can not be a merely a question and
Commonwealth
Ave.game like
answer game,
Pearlman
103 such as Trivial Pursuit or Scruples, and140
it can’t
be role playing
Boston how
College
DungeonsUniversity
Brandeis
& Dragons. You might want to start by thinking
you would adapt a current
Chestnut
Hill,game
MA 02467
Waltham,
MAcould
02454
game, or you
begin from scratch, importing ideas
from one
or another.
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[email protected]
Your game should either be a board game of the style of Life and Class Struggle, where you
movePeñaloza
Lisa
from the beginning to the end along a fixed path;
Saraa circular
Steen route in the style of Monopoly
where
Collegeplayers
of Business
encounter the same squares as they rotate
Department
along theofboard;
Sociology
or a map game, like
Risk.
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Players could represent either individuals who219
participate
Ketchum
in Hall
the movement, opposing
sides,
University
the government,
of Coloradomovement organizations, or just
University
about anything.
of Colorado
Think creatively.
Boulder, CO 80309
Boulder, CO 80309
For
[email protected]
me—and I grade these things—fun games generally
[email protected]
involve letting players make decisions.
Games where you simply moving along a fixed path based on the dice are generally boring.
Importantly,
Jan Phillips this is probably also true of good socialJoel
theory.
Stillerman
Theories where large structural
forces
Department
determine
of Social
everything,
and and individual action means
2166 nothing
AuSabledon’t
Hall describe the social world
very well. Movements
make decisions, and these decisions
have consequences.
Behavioral
Science
Grand Valley
State University
University of Southern Maine/
Allendale, MI 49401
Production qualityCollege
need only be high enough so that [email protected]
it won’t interfere with the game play.
Lewiston-Auburn
Lewiston, ME 04240
The final product should be playable without any member
of your
group present. This means
Deborah
Thorne
[email protected]
that not only do you have to include a board and pieces,
but you also
have to include
Department
of Sociology
and a manual.
The manual
is anRich
excellent opportunity for you to defend
Anthropology
your theoretical and empirical
Meghan
Ashlin
decisions, and
go into greater
detail. The full rulesOhio
for “Class
Struggle” are a great example of
University
Department
of to
Sociology
and Criminal
this. You should also have a list of five to ten resources
that OH
people
can turn to find out more
Justice
Athens,
45701
about the movement.
you must have a thorough manual.
University
of DelawareI can not say strongly enough that
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Pretend asDE
if your
Newark,
19716entire grade was based merely on the weight of your manual.
[email protected]
Melanie Wallendorf
Department of Marketing
The Group
This project
is a group assignment, and each memberEller
will College
receive the
same grade. This means
of Management
George
Ritzer
that each member
should be doing approximately theUniversity
same amount
of work. Groups should meet
Department
of Sociology
of Arizona
both in andof
outMaryland
of class. If there is any problem withTucson,
a groupAZ
member’s
University
85721 level of participation,
this should
be MD
brought
to the instructor’s attention [email protected]
soon as possible. The instructor may
College
Park,
20742
remove an individual from the group, and he or she will be required to complete his or her own
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game, based on a different social movement. No freeFrederick
riders. Wherry
J. Michael Ryan
Department of Sociology
Department
of Sociology
Some Example
that I made up
University of Michigan
University
of Maryland
“Political Process:
The Game”
Ann Arbor, MI 48109
College
Park,isMD
20742 American minister in a different
Each player
an African
city in the South, circa 1950. The
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[email protected]
object is to win full equality for all town residents. Players go through a board very similar to
the game of Life. Players attempt to collect enough Cognitive Liberation and Organizational
resources, so that when they land on a Political Opportunity square, they are able to capitalize on
it. At the end of the game, the player with the most Equality cards wins. While some Political
Opportunities squares apply to only the player who lands on them, some, such apply to all
players. [Note: I don’t actually like this game. It strikes me as too structural.]
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“Countermovements!”
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In this game,ofplayers
Department
Sociology
compete for the civil rights of lesbian
and gay Americans. This is for 2-4
140 Commonwealth
players, and
Pearlman
103is played on a map of the U.S. Players compete
to implementAve.
or revoke gay rights
Boston
College
in every state
Brandeis
University
across the country. The pro-gay team wins
when
they get equality legislation in 30
Chestnut
Hill,
MA 02467
Waltham,
02454
states; the MA
anti-gay
team when they repeal all but five.
With two
players,
one player is pro-gay,
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[email protected]
the other anti-gay. With more players, the anti-gay side
can be split between a secular movement
and a religious movement; the pro-gay side can be split between moderate and radical. The
boardPeñaloza
Lisa
starts reflecting current legislation, with some Sara
statesSteen
offering protection, but most not. In
any
College
given
ofturn,
Business
a player can either initiate a new stateDepartment
battle, attempt
of Sociology
grassroots organizing, or
simple
Bus
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219byKetchum
the dice Hall
rolling, with extra points
awarded forofa Colorado
University
variety of factors... (The model for this
University
game is the
of Colorado
WWII strategy game Axis and
Allies.) CO 80309
Boulder,
Boulder, CO 80309
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[email protected]
“Commitment”
In this
Jan
Phillips
game, players compete to see who can becomeJoel
theStillerman
most active in the animal liberation
movement.
Department of
TheSocial
playerand
who liberates the most animals
2166
from
AuSable
laboratories,
Hall factory farms, or fur
traps
wins. Science
The board is in the form of a calendar, and
players
move
through
the month, with
Behavioral
Grand
Valley
State
University
Action
spaces
every Wednesday.
sufficient socialization
University
of Southern
Maine/ Only players with Allendale,
MI 49401 or contact with other
activists
may participate
in actions, except those [email protected]
have been through a moral shock, who may
Lewiston-Auburn
College
begin
immediately
actions immediately. Every time a player lands on an Action and is able to
Lewiston,
ME 04240
participate, a dice is thrown. For those who have notDeborah
participated
in high-risk activism, a roll of
Thorne
[email protected]
1-3 draws a Low Risk Activism Card, a 4-5 draws a Department
High Risk Activism
Card,and
and a 6 draws a
of Sociology
Repression
Card.Rich
For those who have already committed
Anthropology
a high risk activity, a roll of 1 draws a
Meghan
Ashlin
Low Risk Activism
Card, and
a 2-4Criminal
draws a High Risk Activism
Card, and a 5-6 draws a Repression
Ohio University
Department
of Sociology
Card... [This is a little simplistic.]
Justice
Athens, OH 45701
University of Delaware
[email protected]
Newark, DE 19716
[email protected]
Melanie Wallendorf
Department of Marketing
Eller College of Management
George Ritzer
Department of Sociology
University of Arizona
University of Maryland
Tucson, AZ 85721
College Park, MD 20742
[email protected]
[email protected]
Frederick Wherry
J. Michael Ryan
Department of Sociology
Department of Sociology
University of Michigan
University of Maryland
Ann Arbor, MI 48109
College Park, MD 20742
[email protected]
[email protected]
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Laura
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Final Take-home
Exam
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Jim Conley
Pearlman
103
Boston College
Trent University
Brandeis
University
Chestnut Hill, MA 02467
Waltham, MA 02454
[email protected]
[email protected]
This exam is presented along with a file of news articles
on a particular struggle. These have not
been included in the collection.
Lisa Peñaloza
Sara Steen
College
Recommended
of Business
length of answers: 8-10 pages (2000-2500
Department
words).
of Sociology
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219 Ketchum Hall
University
of Colorado
University of Colorado
Final Take-home
Exam
Boulder,
This examCO
is designed
80309 to test your understanding of the
Boulder,
concepts,
CO 80309
theories, and case studies of
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protest, contention, and social movements examined [email protected]
in this course, by having you use them to
analyse an example of a stream of contention connected to anti-poverty and housing issues in
Jan
Vancouver,
Phillips BC, in the last 6 months (see the file of newspaper
Joel Stillerman
articles on Vancouver antiDepartment
poverty issues).
of Social and
2166 AuSable Hall
Behavioral Science
Grand Valley State University
University
Based on the
of 8Southern
steps recommended
Maine/
by Tilly & Tarrow
Allendale,
in Box A.3,
MI 49401
p. 207 of Contentious
Politics, your task College
is to analyse the 17 news reports from
that file under the following headings:
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1. Description: Specify the site of contention using descriptive
Deborah Thorne
concepts.
[email protected]
2. Summary: Summarize the stream of contention, identify
Department
its episodes
of Sociology
and specify
and the outcome
(which may
or may
contention).
Meghan
Ashlin
Richnot be connected to the stream ofAnthropology
3. Mechanisms
and Processes:
Describe the mechanisms
and processes that make a difference
Ohio University
Department
of Sociology
and Criminal
to the course of the episodes.
Justice
Athens, OH 45701
4. Comparisons:
Make comparisons with similar mechanisms
and processes elsewhere to
University
of Delaware
[email protected]
explain the
Newark,
DEcourse
19716of contention. “Elsewhere” here refers to: a) course readings, including Tilly
& Tarrow, Gould, and della Porta et al.; b) films. Melanie Wallendorf
[email protected]
Department of Marketing
There will
not always be sufficient information in these
reports
for you to identify all the
Ellernews
College
of Management
George
Ritzer
mechanisms of
and
processes necessary to construct a good
explanation.
Therefore, when
Department
Sociology
University
of Arizona
appropriate,ofyou
should specify what other information
you would
need to obtain (as if you were
University
Maryland
Tucson,
AZ 85721
engagedPark,
in a research
project) in order to confirm or [email protected]
disprove explanations.
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MD 20742
[email protected]
Please organize your paper under the 4 topics listed above,
andWherry
use the titles in bold as headings.
Frederick
J. Michael Ryan
Department of Sociology
Department
of Sociology
University of Michigan
Grading criteria:
University
Maryland
Arbor, MI 48109
• yourofunderstanding
of concepts and how theyAnn
fit together
College
Park,
MD
20742
[email protected]
• your ability to use concepts to interpret evidence
[email protected]
• your knowledge of relevant course materials
• coherence of your answer
As this is an exam you should:
• cite sources sparingly, by mentioning an author’s name when making an important
point (e.g., “Gould shows that …”). Refer to specific page numbers only if you are
quoting, but you should use your own words as much as possible,
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•Laura
you don’t
Millerneed a bibliography or list of references because
your answer should be
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based on course
Department
of Sociology
materials
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• if you need
Pearlman
103to, refer to the articles in Vancouver anti-poverty.pdf
use theAve.
article
Boston College
number, e.g.
Brandeis
University
(article 15)
Chestnut Hill, MA 02467
Waltham, MA 02454
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[email protected]
Lisa Peñaloza
College of Business
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University of Colorado
Boulder, CO 80309
[email protected]
Sara Steen
Department of Sociology
219 Ketchum Hall
University of Colorado
Boulder, CO 80309
[email protected]
Jan Phillips
Department of Social and
Behavioral Science
University of Southern Maine/
Lewiston-Auburn College
Lewiston, ME 04240
[email protected]
Joel Stillerman
2166 AuSable Hall
Grand Valley State University
Allendale, MI 49401
[email protected]
Deborah Thorne
Department of Sociology and
Anthropology
Ohio University
Athens, OH 45701
[email protected]
Meghan Ashlin Rich
Department of Sociology and Criminal
Justice
University of Delaware
Newark, DE 19716
[email protected]
Melanie Wallendorf
Department of Marketing
Eller College of Management
University of Arizona
Tucson, AZ 85721
[email protected]
George Ritzer
Department of Sociology
University of Maryland
College Park, MD 20742
[email protected]
Frederick Wherry
Department of Sociology
University of Michigan
Ann Arbor, MI 48109
[email protected]
J. Michael Ryan
Department of Sociology
University of Maryland
College Park, MD 20742
[email protected]
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Juliet Schor
Laura
MillerResearch Paper
Qualitative
519 McGuinn
Department of Sociology
140 Commonwealth Ave.
Angela Mertig
Pearlman
103
Boston College
Middle Tennessee
Brandeis
UniversityState University
Chestnut Hill, MA 02467
Waltham, MA 02454
[email protected]
[email protected]
OVERVIEW:
You are to conduct field observation and/or qualitative
Lisa Peñaloza
interviews of social movement actors in orderSara
to explore
Steen
Collegewhat
of Business
motivates movement participants to act—from
Department
theirof Sociology
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219 Ketchum Hall
University of Colorado
University of Colorado
DATA COLLECTION:
Boulder,
CO 80309
Boulder, CO 80309
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1) Choose an example (or two if you would [email protected]
to compare
http://academic.evergreen.edu/k/kenkat24/Grassr
ootshome.htm
two examples) of a social movement, group or individuals
Jan Phillips
that take some action on behalf of some socialJoel
movement
Stillerman
Department
causeof(defined
Social and
broadly—see me if you are unsure
2166 ifAuSable
your selection
Hall can be considered
Behavioral
reflective
Science
of a social movement).
Grand Valley State University
University of Southern Maine/
Allendale, MI 49401
Lewiston-Auburn
2) Choose a combination
College
of the following methods
[email protected]
to use:
Lewiston, ME
a. 04240
Field observation at a group meeting
Thorne
[email protected] i. Take extensive notes on what Deborah
you observe
at the meeting, paying
Department
of Sociology
and their reasons
particular attention to how people
at the meeting
talk about
Anthropology
Meghan Ashlin Rich for becoming involved
University
Department of Sociology
Criminal
ii. Theand
meeting
that you observe Ohio
should
last at least 1 hour (if it is less than 1
Justice
Athens,
OH 45701
hour, please engage in additional
observation
to get more information)
University of
[email protected]
b. Delaware
“Short” in-depth interview with an individual
activist
Newark, DE 19716i. Set up a time to meet with a particular individual at a location where there
[email protected] will be no (or minimal) interruptions
Melanie Wallendorf
Department
of Marketing
ii. Prepare a loose set of questions
that you will
use to ask the individual
Eller College
Management
George Ritzer
about their reasons for participating
in socialofmovement
activities (if you
Department of Sociology
University
of Arizona
would like, I can give you feedback
on your
questions ahead of time)
University of Maryland
iii. The interview should last for at
Tucson,
least 30AZ
minutes
85721
College Park, MD 20742
[email protected]
3) Conduct at least the equivalent of EITHER two field observations of a group meeting,
[email protected]
two interviews, OR a combination of the twoFrederick
methods (i.e.,
one field observation of a
Wherry
J. Michael
group
Ryan
meeting along with one interview). Department of Sociology
Department of Sociology
University of Michigan
MATERIALS
University of Maryland
TO TURN IN:
Ann Arbor, MI 48109
1) Any
collected through your data collection
College
Park,material
MD 20742
[email protected]
[email protected]
a. Field notes from field observation
b. “Transcripts” of interviews (while I do not expect that you will tape these
interviews and officially transcribe them, you will need to take very extensive
notes on what people say in response to your questions—try to get verbatim
quotes as much as is reasonably possible).
c. Any additional information that you think is pertinent (e.g., fliers, newspaper
articles)
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d. I will keep personal identities of people
youSchor
observe/interview confidential.
Department of However,
Sociology it is probably a good idea if519
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exclude personally identifying
140itCommonwealth
Ave.
Pearlman 103 information (to the extent possible—i.e.,
might be hard to
talk about the leader
Boston
Brandeis University
of a campus group without me knowing
how College
to find out who it is) when you turn
Chestnut Hill, MA 02467
Waltham, MA in
02454
your materials.
[email protected]
[email protected]
2) A brief paper (~3-5 pages) interpreting your results
Lisa Peñaloza
a. What did you learn about why peopleSara
participate
Steen in social movements?
College of Businessi. How does what you learned inDepartment
your observations/interviews
of Sociology
parallel
Bus 468
information discussed in class219
or inKetchum
the readings?
Hall
University of Colorado
ii. Use your data to support your University
arguments of
(e.g.,
Colorado
use quotes from the
Boulder, CO 80309 interviews that are particularlyBoulder,
enlightening;
CO 80309
use examples from your field
[email protected]
observation notes to point out [email protected]
something interesting)
b. Discuss your overall experience.
Jan Phillips
i. How did you find people to observe
Joel Stillerman
or interview?
Department of Social
ii. and
How did you feel conducting the
2166
research?
AuSableIfHall
you did field observation,
at a group
meeting?
How receptive were
Behavioral Science how did you feel taking notes Grand
Valley
State University
University of Southernpeople
Maine/to what you were doing?
Allendale, MI 49401
Do you think your method [email protected]
you to different conclusions than what you
Lewiston-Auburn iii.
College
Lewiston, ME 04240 might have gotten with a different approach?
to course
material?
Deborah
Thorne
[email protected]. Did you learn other things related
Department of Sociology and
Anthropology
Meghan Ashlin Rich
Ohio University
Department of Sociology and Criminal
Justice
Athens, OH 45701
University of Delaware
[email protected]
Newark, DE 19716
[email protected]
Melanie Wallendorf
Department of Marketing
Eller College of Management
George Ritzer
Department of Sociology
University of Arizona
University of Maryland
Tucson, AZ 85721
College Park, MD 20742
[email protected]
[email protected]
Frederick Wherry
J. Michael Ryan
Department of Sociology
Department of Sociology
University of Michigan
University of Maryland
Ann Arbor, MI 48109
College Park, MD 20742
[email protected]
[email protected]
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Schor
Laura
Miller Assignment: Evaluating Social Movement
Final Paper
519 McGuinn
Department of Sociology
140 Commonwealth Ave.
Gillian Murphy
Pearlman
103
Boston College
UniversityUniversity
Brandeis
of Washington
Chestnut Hill, MA 02467
Waltham, MA 02454
[email protected]
[email protected]
Even though we are covering a lot of ground in this course, there is one very important topic that
we will
Lisa
Peñaloza
not address directly – social movement outcomes.
Sara Steen
In general, this assignment asks you to
College
of Business
Department of Sociology
predict the
future.
Bus
468
Ketchum
Hall
Given what you know about social movements, what 219
do you
imagine
the future will bring for the
University
of Colorado
of Colorado
social movement
campaign advocating gay marriageUniversity
in the United
States? (and why is it called a
Boulder,
CO 80309
Boulder,
CO 80309
social movement
campaign anyway?) Do you think the
campaign
will achieve full success,
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[email protected]
partial success, or lose ground? What defines full success,
partial success or losing ground?
Which aspect of the social environment will have the greatest influence on the probable
Jan
Phillips
Joel Stillerman
outcome?
Department of Social and
2166 AuSable Hall
Behavioral
Science
GrandinValley
State(see
University
Organize your paper around the topics that we will cover
this course
below). In other
University
Southern
Maine/
Allendale,
49401 in general to a novel
words, this of
paper
asks you
to apply what you know about
socialMI
movements
Lewiston-Auburn
College
[email protected]
problem – the campaign
for gay marriage. You should
refer to (and cite) readings from the class.
Lewiston,
ME choose
04240 to refer to outside sources, such as journal articles, books, newspaper
You
may also
Deborah
Thorne
[email protected]
articles
and websites (see below). While this is in some
respects
an opinion paper, your opinion
Department
of Sociology
and material to
Use course
in this case must be informed by the literature on social
movements.
Anthropology
Meghan
Ashlin
Rich
bolster your argument.
Ohio University
Department of Sociology and Criminal
Justice
Athens,
OH 45701
It may be helpful to think of this paper as one that can
be tackled
in sections. Consider the impact
University
of Delaware
[email protected]
that each aspects
of social movements we have covered
this quarter will likely have on the future
Newark,
DE 19716
of the campaign.
[email protected]
Melanie Wallendorf
of Marketing
Example: What effect do you think that the framingDepartment
of the gay marriage
debate will have on the
Eller
College
of
Management
George
Ritzer
future of the campaign?
Department of Sociology
University of Arizona
University
of
Maryland
Tucson,
AZ 85721
You may have difficulty developing a prediction. If this
problem
arises, write about the dilemma
College
MD
[email protected]
you
face,Park,
noting
the20742
different approaches you could take
and how each is informed by the
[email protected]
literature.
Note areas in which the literature points to contradictory outcomes.
Frederick Wherry
J. Michael Ryan
Department of Sociology
1. Political opportunity structure
Department of Sociology
University of Michigan
2. Framing
University of Maryland
Ann Arbor, MI 48109
3. Strategy & Tactics
College Park, MD 20742
[email protected]
4. Culture
[email protected]
5. Identity
6. Non-movement actors (Government, publics, policymakers, etc)
7. Relationships among movement actors (coalitions, countermovements, etc)
PAPER GRADING
• Content (Each Topic): 7x10 = 70 points
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Laura Miller 10 : Excellent coverage of topic, references
relevant literature, largely free of
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Sociology
Commonwealth
Ave. few errors
Pearlman 103 8 : Good coverage of topic, adequate 140
references
to course content,
Boston
Collegecontent, obvious errors
Brandeis University
6 : Weak coverage of topic, missing links
to course
Chestnut Hill, MA 02467
Waltham,
02454 sources : 20 points
• UseMA
of outside
[email protected]
[email protected]
• Style (organization, clarity of expression, citations,
grammar, spelling) : 10 points
Lisa
Peñaloza
Sara
Important
Note: For the purposes of this assignment,
theSteen
only acceptable websites to use are
College
of Business
Department
of Sociology
those related
to organizations or institutions involved
in the campaign
advocating gay
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468
219
Ketchum
Hall
marriage.
University of Colorado
University of Colorado
Boulder, CO 80309
Boulder, CO 80309
[email protected]
[email protected]
Jan Phillips
Department of Social and
Behavioral Science
University of Southern Maine/
Lewiston-Auburn College
Lewiston, ME 04240
[email protected]
Joel Stillerman
2166 AuSable Hall
Grand Valley State University
Allendale, MI 49401
[email protected]
Deborah Thorne
Department of Sociology and
Anthropology
Ohio University
Athens, OH 45701
[email protected]
Meghan Ashlin Rich
Department of Sociology and Criminal
Justice
University of Delaware
Newark, DE 19716
[email protected]
Melanie Wallendorf
Department of Marketing
Eller College of Management
University of Arizona
Tucson, AZ 85721
[email protected]
George Ritzer
Department of Sociology
University of Maryland
College Park, MD 20742
[email protected]
Frederick Wherry
Department of Sociology
University of Michigan
Ann Arbor, MI 48109
[email protected]
J. Michael Ryan
Department of Sociology
University of Maryland
College Park, MD 20742
[email protected]
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Laura
MemoMiller
on Term Papers: The Roots of Social Protest
519 McGuinn
Department of Sociology
140 Commonwealth Ave.
Susan Olzak
Pearlman
103
Boston College
Stanford University
Brandeis
University
Chestnut Hill, MA 02467
Waltham, MA 02454
[email protected]
[email protected]
This memo outlines the sections for preparing a term paper in the area of social movements and
collective
Lisa
Peñaloza
protest.
Sara Steen
College of Business
Department of Sociology
Bus1.468Topic Statement
219 Ketchum Hall
University of Colorado
University of Colorado
Boulder,
This section
CO 80309
outlines the social movement or collective
Boulder,
action
CO 80309
for your term paper. One way
[email protected]
to organize this section would be to provide [email protected]
motivations for studying this issue: What
was its impact? Why is this form of collective action intrinsically important or interesting?
Jan Phillips
Joel Stillerman
Department
2. Research
of Social
Question(s)
and
2166 AuSable Hall
Behavioral Science
Grand Valley State University
University
For thisofsection,
Southern
youMaine/
should describe the single most
Allendale,
important
MI question
49401 that you want to
answer in yourCollege
research. In this section, you should
refer to specific theories and concepts
Lewiston-Auburn
[email protected]
from the
readings
Lewiston,
ME
04240 on our syllabus, plus any other readings by sociologists on your topic
found on JSTOR. Some examples of framing your
Deborah
research
Thorne
question are:
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a. Why
didRich
this social movement emerge whenAnthropology
it did? What theories in sociology literature
Meghan
Ashlin
address
the timing and
of the
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movement? What evidence will you
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b. What
are the underlying causes of this form of collective action? Who are the
Newark,
DE 19716
participants? What theories best explain the underlying
causes of your social movement?
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Melanie Wallendorf
If this topic is not a traditional social movement,
then discuss
why social movement
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of Marketing
of this institution
or organization.
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of Management
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factors can be traced to its
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of accounts
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build? Were elites in support or
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against this movement, or was this more of a grassroots movement?
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Frederick Wherry
J. Michael
Ryan
d. What
factors account for the decline of this social
movement?
Did the government
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repress
collective protest? Why did repressionUniversity
occur when
it did? Were there internal
of Michigan
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of Marylandconflicts that eroded support for
organizational
theArbor,
movement?
What theories suggest to
Ann
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Collegeyou
Park,
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why
this
movement failed?
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e. What were the consequences (in terms of government policy, cultural change, attitude
change in the public at large) of your social movement? What theories exist that explain
the conditions under which social movements will have success in terms of policy
outcomes? Does your social movement fit these theories?
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3. Miller
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that are relevant to your example of a social
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during the 1960s, you might
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ask: Were there more organizations at that time? [email protected]
Were there other kinds of opportunities
(where more women going into higher education, etc.)? Think about the evidence and
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Phillips or not it fits the arguments or hypothesesJoel
thatStillerman
are associated with the theories.
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Behavioral Science
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5. Conclusion
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of Southern Maine/
Allendale, MI 49401
Lewiston-Auburn College
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This section
could go in two different directions:
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Deborah Thorne
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a. Summary. Step back from the details here and Department
present someof general
implications
from
Sociology
and
your Ashlin
project.Rich
What surprised you about your research
Anthropology
findings? Were there any conventional
Meghan
assumptions
(from other
or books that your
work
contradicted or supported?) What
Ohio
University
Department
of Sociology
andarticles
Criminal
did you find most interesting about your research?
Justice
Athens, OH 45701
University of Delaware
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b. Implications
Newark,
DE 19716for expanding theory and research. What are the interesting implications from
your research? What would be the next step in studying
particular social movement?
[email protected]
Melanieyour
Wallendorf
What implications does your term paper have forDepartment
theories of why
collective action emerges,
of Marketing
increases
movement,
and why?
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College
of Management
George
Ritzerand/or declines? What is the future of your
Department of Sociology
University of Arizona
University of Maryland
Tucson, AZ 85721
College Park, MD 20742
[email protected]
[email protected]
Frederick Wherry
J. Michael Ryan
Department of Sociology
Department of Sociology
University of Michigan
University of Maryland
Ann Arbor, MI 48109
College Park, MD 20742
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[email protected]
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Juliet Schor
Laura
Miller Assignment 1—“Seeing” Social Movements
Imagination
519 McGuinn
Department of Sociology
140 Commonwealth Ave.
Stephen J.103
Pearlman
Scanlan
Boston College
Ohio University
Brandeis
University
Chestnut Hill, MA 02467
Waltham, MA 02454
[email protected]
[email protected]
An important component of studying social movements
is seeing their activities unfold. In this
regard one can explore their dynamics and outcomes, analyze their tactics, understand social
movement
Lisa
Peñaloza
organizations and participants, and get at Sara
the reasons
Steen for their mobilization and
beliefs. of
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Business
assignment is an effort to get you “intoDepartment
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you to “see” social
movement
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219 ways:
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1) Critically
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evaluating a film for
its significance
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of Colorado
to the study of social movements, be University
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of Colorado
of a social movement or
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it gives to a movement, or 2) Witnessing
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firsthand
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critically evaluating a social
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movement activity or collective action event.
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Phillips
Joel Stillerman
Option
1: Sociologically analyzing a film
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Behavioral
Film is not just
Science
a component of popular culture or key
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formValley
of massState
media;
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it is also an
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important voice
of Southern
that brings
Maine/
relevance to numerous political
Allendale,
issues
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debates occurring in
society. In addition
it is a viable means with which to
observe social movement activity when it
Lewiston-Auburn
College
[email protected]
is otherwise
unobservable
as when it occurred in the past, or in places other than in our own
Lewiston,
ME
04240
backyard. With this option, you are to observe a social
Deborah
movement
Thorne
depicted in film as if you were
[email protected]
“in the field” and analyze it using the theoretical perspectives,
Department
ideas,
of Sociology
and otherand
tools you have
developed
in sociology.
Anthropology
Meghan
Ashlin
Rich
Ohio University
Department of Sociology and Criminal
Justice
Athens, OH 45701
The details and write-up
University of Delaware
[email protected]
As when DE
observing
Newark,
19716 a real social movement, you want to watch the film and account for its events
as if you were trapped in celluloid with its actors andMelanie
witnessing
it as if reality. Thus, you must
[email protected]
Wallendorf
try to become engulfed in the activities, characters, images,
and themes
of the film so as to
Department
of Marketing
analyze Ritzer
the events from a sociological perspective. Eller College of Management
George
Department of Sociology
University of Arizona
In analyzingofthe
film you want to provide not only description
of 85721
events and background of the
University
Maryland
Tucson, AZ
social movement/protest
it by considering the following
College
Park, MD 20742activities but also must analyze
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guidelines and questions as appropriate:
[email protected]
Frederick Wherry
J. Michael
Ryan
1.
Can the actions depicted in the film beDepartment
consideredof
a social
movement or is
Sociology
Department
of Sociology
it more
an example of less permanent or transitory
collective
action events? How
University
of Michigan
University
doesofitMaryland
fit the definition and conceptualizationAnn
of social
Arbor,movements
MI 48109 that we have
Collegeexamined?
Park, MD 20742
Discuss, citing what evidence of [email protected]
ideology, organization, and tactics is
[email protected]
present in the protest activities. Make your argument citing clear evidence from
the film and tying it to course readings and the class.
2.
What theoretical perspective might best explain the movement as depicted
in the film? Explain, citing evidence as to how events in the film depict
theoretical claims. It may be that you have to borrow elements from multiple
perspectives to fully explain the film. Why might this be the case? What does
this say about sociology and the study of social movements?
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Juliet Schor
Laura
3. Miller Discuss a component of the social movement
dynamics as depicted in the
519 McGuinn
Department
film. ofThere
Sociology
are a large number of possible options
here, so be specific with what
140 what
Commonwealth
Ave.
Pearlman
best
103
fits your movement and film. For example,
role does institutional
Bostonactivities
College or how is the
Brandeis
authority
University
have in provoking or limiting movement
Hill,orMA
02467
Waltham,
MA 02454
movement
or events surrounding it framed byChestnut
participants
those
outside of the
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movement? Other options include [email protected]
decline/history, barriers to
mobilization, internal struggles and leadership, bureaucratization, cooptation,
Lisa Peñaloza
globalization, etc.
Sara Steen
College
4. of Business
Finally, briefly critique the film for itsDepartment
usefulness of
in capturing
Sociologythe essence
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study of Hall
social movements.
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What
of were
Colorado
its strengths and weaknesses? How
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close didofitColorado
depict reality as
Boulder,opposed
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to being merely “Hollywood fluff”? Boulder, CO 80309
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[email protected]
These are the essential points that you could consider in your paper, assuming their relevance to
the film
Jan
Phillips
of choice. Focus on the elements most appropriate
Joel Stillerman
for your analysis and feel free to
Department
include additional
of Social
extensions
and
as appropriate. There are
2166
multiple
AuSable
ways
Hallthat the write-up for this
assignment Science
can be done depending on the film and social
of interest
and the above
Behavioral
Grandmovement
Valley State
University
considerations
will be easier
to do for some films than
for others.
University
of Southern
Maine/
Allendale,
MI 49401
Lewiston-Auburn College
[email protected]
I have attached
a list of potential films from which you can select as an appendix to this
Lewiston,
ME 04240
document. I encourage you to select something that Deborah
reflects your
interest in a particular social
Thorne
[email protected]
movement. If you have questions about any of these Department
please let meofknow.
Also,and
this list is by no
Sociology
Anthropology
Meghan
Ashlin Rich
means exhaustive
and I am always searching for additional
options, so if you are interested in
viewing something
not on and
the list
or give me ideas forOhio
should
University
be on the list, please let me know.
Department
of Sociology
Criminal
Justice
Athens, OH 45701
University
Delaware analyzing a social movement
[email protected]
Option 2: of
Sociologically
or collective action event
Newark, DE 19716
For
this option you can take part at a couple of levels.Melanie
You can
either fully participate in the
[email protected]
Wallendorf
activity, thus doing what marchers and protestors do,Department
or you can simply
of Marketing
observe from the
sidelines.
This choice is yours. The most important Eller
thingCollege
is that you
enable yourself to become
of Management
George Ritzer
engulfed
in the
surroundings of the activities so as toUniversity
adequatelyofdescribe
Department
of Sociology
Arizonaand analyze the events
from
a sociological
perspective. This is what the essence
of fieldwork
University
of Maryland
Tucson,
AZ 85721to study social movements
is
all about!
College
Park, MD 20742
[email protected]
[email protected]
At the event you want to look for and record a number
of thingsWherry
including, but certainly not
Frederick
J. Michael
Ryan
limited
to the
following considerations:
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Department of Sociology
University of Michigan
University
1. HowofisMaryland
this event indicative of a social movement
as depicted
in course materials?
Ann Arbor,
MI 48109
CollegeThat
Park,is,MD
20742
what
makes it a movement? Does it [email protected]
fit with your expectations of what
[email protected]
you thought it was going to be? How is it similar to other movements/protest
activities? How is it unique? What is the role of conflict in their actions?
2. How big was the event? Describe the participants with regard to age, race,
gender, etc. How do they identify themselves? What are their
similarities/differences?
3. Describe what people are saying at the event, either in formal speeches or more
generally in signs and banners, on clothing, in flyers, or in conversation with
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participants. Why are people participating? Juliet
What are
their demands? Why are
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they of
here?
Sociology
Commonwealth
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Pearlman
4. Are103
there counter-protests? How do opposing140
sides
interact with each
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What
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claims do counter-protestors make? Boston College
MAWhat
02467role did the
Waltham,
MArole
02454
5. What
did institutional authorities play inChestnut
the day's Hill,
events?
[email protected]
police have? Were they a large presence? [email protected]
6. What kind of media presence was there? Did local news and mainstream media
Lisa Peñaloza
portray events differently than you observed?Sara Steen
College
7. How
of Business
do you feel about participating/observing?
Department
Why didofyou
Sociology
choose one option
Bus 468versus another?
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University of Colorado
University of Colorado
While in the
Boulder,
CO field
80309
you will want to record your observations
Boulder,asCO
carefully
80309 as possible, either with a
miniature voice recorder or small notebook. A digital
[email protected]
[email protected]
cameral is an excellent research tool as
well. Thorough field notes and visual or recorded material are essential because the human mind
retains
Jan
Phillips
vastly greater details of what is written down Joel
or captured
Stillerman
electronically as opposed to
what is just heard
Department
of Social
or seen.
and In addition to observations,
2166
interviewing
AuSable Hall
participants is also a
valuable
source
of information, enabling you to garner
a number
feelings
and perspectives on
Behavioral
Science
Grand
ValleyofState
University
the
event. Finally,
it is Maine/
also important to collect otherAllendale,
data and supplementary
materials
University
of Southern
MI 49401
associated
with theCollege
event including various flyers being
distributed, newspaper articles, and so
Lewiston-Auburn
[email protected]
forth.
Search
media coverage of the event prior to and after it takes place. Such archival
Lewiston,
MEfor
04240
material
has important stories to tell. The more details
you walk
away with from the days
Deborah
Thorne
[email protected]
events, the better your analysis will be so be a good scavenger.
Department of Sociology and
Anthropology
Meghan Ashlin Rich
Ohio University
Department
of Sociology
and Criminal
Writing
up your
observations
Justice
Athens, OH 45701
In
general, of
I expect
everyone to briefly answer the question
"what is a social movement?" using
University
Delaware
[email protected]
course materials
and observations from the day. Then, with regard to the events you witness,
Newark,
DE 19716
you should decide upon a theme to guide their observations
use this to write the remainder of
[email protected]
Melanieand
Wallendorf
the paper. See the questions above pertaining to films
for additional
ideas. This is what will
Department
of Marketing
make
theRitzer
paper scholarly and sociological, as opposed
to aCollege
mere reporting
of events. The social
Eller
of Management
George
movement
case andof
principle
Departmentorofcollective
Sociologyaction event will serve as your
University
Arizonadata source. The key
is
that you want
to make observations and use them as
evidence
support more analytical
University
of Maryland
Tucson,
AZto
85721
considerations.
College Park, MD 20742
[email protected]
[email protected]
Frederick Wherry
General guidelines for both options
J. Michael Ryan
Department of Sociology
Department
Sociology
The paper isof
due
in class on January 30 and is worthUniversity
a total of 50
points. Be certain to keep a
of Michigan
University
Maryland
disk or hardofcopy
of your work when turning in the paper.
If youMI
are48109
unable to turn the paper in
Ann Arbor,
College
Park,please
MD 20742
during class,
give it in to the administrative assistant
or student worker in the Department
[email protected]
[email protected]
of Sociology and Anthropology, Bentley Annex 162, so that they can stamp and/or sign it to
acknowledge receipt and put it my mailbox. It is especially important that you have a back-up
copy if not giving me the paper directly!
Papers should contain no more than 2-3 pages of text. They should be typed, double-spaced,
with one-inch margins all around. Font should be of legible size, no larger than 12, and no
smaller than 10 point (this document is 11 pt.). Papers should be stapled (please, no wasteful
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plastic
or cardboard covers) with a separate title pageJuliet
that Schor
contains your name, date, and title of
519end
McGuinn
the paper as of
Department
well
Sociology
as a separate bibliography page at the
to include scholarly references you
140
Commonwealth
Ave.page do not count
have used 103
Pearlman
(if any—these are not required). The cover
page
and bibliography
Boston College
against your
Brandeis
University
page total.
Chestnut Hill, MA 02467
Waltham, MA 02454
[email protected]
[email protected]
As stated in the syllabus, late papers will be accepted,
but only at the cost of a 2 point deduction
for each workday late. Completion of this and the other imagination paper is required to receive
creditPeñaloza
Lisa
for the course, regardless of the grade that would
SarabeSteen
received without doing the projects.
College of Business
Department of Sociology
Bus
468
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Some
final thoughts
University of Colorado
University of Colorado
Boulder,
I understand
CO that
80309
because it is the first part of the quarter
Boulder,
you will
CO 80309
not have all of the analytical
[email protected]
tools at your disposal that you will for the second assignment
[email protected]
and term paper. Therefore, this
paper will likely include more description and reflection upon the event than will be necessary in
Jan
latterPhillips
papers. In this regard, students should feel freeJoel
to use
Stillerman
whatever outside references
Department
necessary to of
provide
Socialcontext
and for the paper.
2166 AuSable Hall
Behavioral Science
Grand Valley State University
I am willingoftoSouthern
assist you
in any way possible duringAllendale,
the research
University
Maine/
MIprocess,
49401 be it deciding on a
film, discussing your
ideas, finding sources, or assistance
with any number of other questions
Lewiston-Auburn
College
[email protected]
you may have.
Please come to me with concerns and problems. Past experience has shown that
Lewiston,
ME 04240
students typically do better on papers when they consult
the instructor
Deborah
Thorne along the way. If you
[email protected]
need help, please do not hesitate to ask!
Department of Sociology and
Anthropology
Meghan Ashlin Rich
Good luck! of Sociology and Criminal
Ohio University
Department
Justice
Athens, OH 45701
University of Delaware
[email protected]
Newark, DE 19716
[email protected]
Melanie Wallendorf
Department of Marketing
Eller College of Management
George Ritzer
Department of Sociology
University of Arizona
University of Maryland
Tucson, AZ 85721
College Park, MD 20742
[email protected]
[email protected]
Frederick Wherry
J. Michael Ryan
Department of Sociology
Department of Sociology
University of Michigan
University of Maryland
Ann Arbor, MI 48109
College Park, MD 20742
[email protected]
[email protected]
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MillerA sample of social movement films:
Appendix:
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• American Standoff
Brandeis University
• And the Band Played On
Waltham, MA
02454 Farm
• Animal
[email protected]
• Beyond Rangoon
• Born on the Fourth of July
Lisa Peñaloza
• Bloody Sunday
College of Business
• Bread and Roses
Bus 468
• Breaking the Bank
University of Colorado
• 80309
Chicano! History of the
Boulder, CO
Mexican American Civil Rights
[email protected]
Movement
•
Jan Phillips Citizen Ruth
Freedom
Department•of Cry
Social
and
Do the Right Thing
Behavioral •Science
• Southern
Erin Brockavich
University of
Maine/
• Eyes
on the Prize (Part I or II)
Lewiston-Auburn
College
• 04240
Fight Back, Fight AIDS: 15
Lewiston, ME
Years of ACT UP
[email protected]
• Four Little Girls
Meghan Ashlin
Rich on My Mind
• Freedom
Department•of Get
Sociology
on the and
Bus Criminal
Justice
• Gandhi
University of
• Delaware
Hairspray
Newark, DE• 19716
Harlan County U.S.A.
[email protected]
• In Whose Honor?
• Iron Jawed Angels
George Ritzer
• Justice in the Coalfields
Department of Sociology
• Maryland
Las Madres: The Mothers of the
University of
Plaza de Mayo
College Park, MD 20742
[email protected]
Juliet Schor
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140 Commonwealth
Ave. Journey into Day
• Long Night's
Boston College
• The Lorax
Chestnut•Hill,
MA 02467
Malcolm
X
[email protected]
• Matewan
• The Milagro Beanfield War
Sara Steen
• Moving the Mountain
Department of Sociology
• A Place Called Chiapas
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• Romero
University of Colorado
• Schindler's List
Boulder, CO 80309
• Sir No Sir
[email protected]
• Some Mother's Son
• Stonewall
Joel Stillerman
• Store
2166 AuSable
HallWars: When Wal-Mart
to Town
Grand ValleyComes
State University
•
Sweat:
Allendale, MI 49401A Story of Solidarity
• The Big One
[email protected]
• The Birth of a Nation
Deborah•Thorne
The Boys in the Band
Department
of Sociology
and
• The
Burning Season
Anthropology
• The Power of One
Ohio University
• The Righteous Babes
Athens, OH
45701
• The
War at Home
[email protected]
• This is What Democracy Looks
Like
Melanie Wallendorf
• To Save the Land and People
Department of Marketing
• Union Maids
Eller College of Management
• ofWith
God on Our Side
University
Arizona
Tucson, AZ 85721
[email protected]
Frederick Wherry
Department of Sociology
University of Michigan
Ann Arbor, MI 48109
[email protected]
J. Michael Ryan
Department of Sociology
University of Maryland
College Park, MD 20742
[email protected]
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Laura
Miller Social Movements in the News
Assignment:
519 McGuinn
Department of Sociology
140 Commonwealth Ave.
Stephen J.103
Pearlman
Scanlan
Boston College
Ohio University
Brandeis
University
Chestnut Hill, MA 02467
Waltham, MA 02454
[email protected]
[email protected]
In this assignment you are to become a “media expert”
on a specific contemporary social
movement by examining coverage of it using media outlets in the United States or from around
the world.
Lisa
Peñaloza
You are responsible for compiling a collection/journal
Sara Steen of news, popular press or
alternative
College
of Business
media treatments and summarizing coverage
Department
of the social
of Sociology
movement and its key
components,
Bus
468
issues, actors, framing, dynamics, or other
219elements
KetchumofHall
interest. In total you are to
University
collect, analyze,
of Colorado
and synthesize at least 3 but no moreUniversity
than 7 treatments
of Colorado
discussing a social
Boulder,
movement
CO
of 80309
choice. The movement can be the same
Boulder,
one thatCO
you80309
are examining for your term
[email protected]
paper or another of interest.
[email protected]
Jan Phillips
Joel Stillerman
Department
Social and and the Media?
2166 AuSable Hall
Why Social of
Movements
Behavioral Science
Grand Valley State University
University
In an era ofofincreased
Southernaccess
Maine/
to various media and growing
Allendale,
public
MIawareness
49401
of and interest in
Lewiston-Auburn
numerous economic,
College
social, and political issues and the
[email protected]
activities of movements, it is essential to
critically evaluate
how the media portrays contentious politics. This is especially true because
Lewiston,
ME 04240
Thorne
[email protected]
the media is often the only source of information thatDeborah
a great many
citizens will have on these
issues. Print and television media outlets and electronic
Department
sources such
of Sociology
as the Internet
and are powerful
Anthropology
Meghan
forces in Ashlin
shapingRich
the public perception of social movement
concerns and the image of those
movements and
their participants.
In addition, the mainstream
Ohio University
media can potentially act as
Department
of Sociology
and Criminal
Justice
gatekeepers with regard to the importance of variousAthens,
social issues
OH 45701
and the movements that
address them.
It is therefore essential that social movement
scholars examine these outlets
University
of Delaware
[email protected]
critically DE
and19716
evaluate their role with regard to social movement dynamics. The popular media
Newark,
are most likely the primary source for peoples’ understanding
various issues and developing
[email protected]
Melanie Wallendorf
sympathy or disdain for the social movement and its Department
cause.
of Marketing
Eller College of Management
George Ritzer
Potential Media
Outlets
Department
of Sociology
University of Arizona
University of Maryland
Tucson, AZ 85721
For
this assignment
you are to use your sociological [email protected]
imagination to analyze examples of how the
College
Park, MD 20742
media
presents a social movement to the public. You will collect evidence from the public
[email protected]
record to which the media contributes and portrays aFrederick
social movement’s
Wherry image and activities.
There
J.
Michael
is a broad
Ryan range of sources that shape public perception
of of
theSociology
world’s social issues and
Department
the relationships
Department
of Sociology
that the social movements have to them.
Unlike
University
of academic
Michiganresearch that is
University
Maryland and theory akin to the scientific
grounded inofempiricism
media
and Internet presentation
Annmethod,
Arbor, MI
48109
of issuesPark,
College
have MD
the freedom
20742 to illicit more emotion and
social action, while at the same time
[email protected]
[email protected]
potentially
take some liberties with truth or reality. The media has more leeway to manipulate
those realities and sway public opinion. For this reason, good sociologists should examine media
content with a critical lens that challenges assumptions the public may have.
Students can start with any number of sources for evidence of how the media covers and portrays
a specific social movement to the public. Students will find the Internet to be an especially
valuable source for obtaining articles, video, and images. I suggest starting with a guided news
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Schor the library’s website
Laura Miller
search
on the LexisNexis Academic Database accessible
519 McGuinn
(http://www.library.ohiou.edu/find/articles-newspapers.html).
Department
of Sociology
LexisNexis is especially helpful
140 Commonwealth
Ave.
for
pulling103
articles on a specific movement from multiple
outlets in addition
to obtaining archival
Pearlman
articles
Brandeisspanning
University
more than three decades. Students Boston
can thenCollege
move to other archived and more
Chestnut Hill, MA 02467
recent
Waltham,
coverage
MA 02454
from specific outlets such as:
[email protected]
[email protected]
1. ABC News (http://abcnews.go.com/)
2. BBC Online (http://www.bbc.co.uk/)
Lisa Peñaloza
Sara Steen
College of Business
3. CBS News (http://www.cbsnews.com/)
Department of Sociology
4. CNN (http://www.cnn.com/) 219 Ketchum Hall
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5. The Economist (http://www.economist.com/index.html)
University of Colorado
University of Colorado
Boulder, CO 803096. Fox News (http://www.foxnews.com/)
Boulder, CO 80309
7. NBC News/MSNBC (http://www.msnbc.msn.com)
[email protected]
[email protected]
8. Newshour with Jim Lehrer (http://www.pbs.org/newshour/)
9. National Public Radio (http://www.npr.org/)
Jan Phillips
Joel Stillerman
10. and
Newsweek (http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3032542/site/newsweek/)
Department of Social
2166 AuSable Hall
Behavioral Science11. The New York Times (http://www.nytimes.com/)
Grand Valley State University
12. Reuters
University of Southern
Maine/ (http://today.reuters.com/news/home.aspx)
Allendale, MI 49401
13. Time (http://www.time.com/time/)
Lewiston-Auburn College
[email protected]
14. U.S. News and World Report (http://www.usnews.com/usnews/home.htm)
Lewiston, ME 04240
Deborah Thorne
[email protected]. The Washington Post (http://www.washingtonpost.com/)
Department of Sociology and
Anthropology
The above
Meghan
Ashlin
sources
Rich
are mainstream media outlets. For
an extensive list of alternative outlets you
Ohio University
may
Department
wish to of
consult
Sociology
the Alternative
and Criminal
Press Center’s suggestions
at
http://www.altpress.org/direct.html
Justice
or examine the offerings
Athens, OH
of the
45701
Independent Media Center
(http://www.indymedia.org/en/index.shtml)
University
of Delaware
and its numerous
[email protected]
links or the International
Progressive
Newark,
DEPublications
19716
Network (http://www.ippn.ws/). Finally, there are other specific print
and
[email protected]
electronic sources that might be helpful for locating
Melanie
both Wallendorf
feature and news length articles
Department
Marketing
including The Christian Science Monitor, In These Times,
MotherofJones,
Ms., The Nation, or The
Eller College of Management
Progressive
George Ritzer
among numerous others.
Department of Sociology
University of Arizona
You
University
are free
oftoMaryland
select articles from any combination Tucson,
of sources.
AZ You
85721
can concentrate on one
source
CollegeorPark,
examine
MD 20742
multiple outlets. You can compare
[email protected]
mainstream and alternative media outlets,
domestic
[email protected]
or international. Do what best suits your needs and provides the most in-depth and
detailed analysis of your social movement of choice.Frederick Wherry
J. Michael Ryan
Department of Sociology
Department of Sociology
University of Michigan
University
of Maryland
Ann Arbor, MI 48109
Doing the write-up
College Park, MD 20742
[email protected]
[email protected]
You are to write a synopsis and critique of how the social movement has been portrayed
in the media, being certain to synthesize, compare and contrast ideas from all of your
sources. Be certain to include the complete citation and/or URL for each of your articles
citing the author, date, title, and source of each of your articles. You may use the
bibliographic format of your choice. If you are not accustomed to using a specific
citation style, you can refer to the American Sociological Association Style Guide for
bibliographic format and appropriate methods for citing articles from the media or
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Internet.
This resource is available in the reference section
on the second floor of the
519 McGuinn
Alden Library
Department
of (call
Sociology
# HM586 .A54 1997x)
140 Commonwealth Ave.
Pearlman 103
College as presented in the
Your write-up
Brandeis
University
should be a critical assessment of the Boston
social movement
Chestnut
Hill,but
MAinstead
02467implies that
Waltham,
MA that
02454
media. Note
“critical” does not necessarily mean
“criticize”
[email protected]
you discuss the positive and negative features of [email protected]
the social movement has been
portrayed—that is, how the media has framed the movement, its actors, goals, tactics, and
so forth.
Lisa
Peñaloza
Note that articles about the same movementSara
from
Steen
various media outlets or other
sources may
College
of Business
provide alternative views of the movement’s
Department
activities,
of Sociology
thus making for
interesting
Bus
468 comparison. A key consideration for the 219
writeKetchum
up wouldHall
be whether the
movement is
University
of viewed
Colorado
sympathetically or critically byUniversity
the media outlet
of Colorado
and how this might
help or hinder
Boulder,
CO 80309
the movement. In other words, could Boulder,
the mediaCO
serve
80309
as an asset or a
barrier to social movement success?
[email protected]
[email protected]
Jan Phillips
Other
components of interest (though certainly all cannot
Joel Stillerman
be addressed given the
limitations ofofthe
Department
Social
paper)
andcould include differences between
2166 AuSable
mainstream
Hall versus alternative
media coverage
of a movement, how media sources inside
outside
country might
Behavioral
Science
Grand and
Valley
Statea University
portray the of
same
movement,
how social movement organizations
the
University
Southern
Maine/
Allendale, MIrepresenting
49401
movement might attempt
in the media, the
Lewiston-Auburn
Collegeto influence how they are portrayed
[email protected]
significance
of 04240
visual imagery (film, still photos) for presenting the movement, how
Lewiston,
ME
individuals (leaders or rank and file activists) within Deborah
the movement
Thorneare portrayed, the
[email protected]
political implications of the movement, how the media
is a platform
for movementDepartment
of Sociology
and
countermovement
dynamics, and so forth. There areAnthropology
countless other possibilities and you
Meghan
Ashlin Rich
should
feel free
to exploreand
what
you believe is most fitting
to your interests and the
Ohio University
Department
of Sociology
Criminal
movement
itself. Thus, you should feel free to modify
any ofOH
these
considerations, or
Justice
Athens,
45701
better
yet develop
your own creative way to synopsize/synthesize
your analysis of the
University
of Delaware
[email protected]
social
movement
as seen through the media. There is a lot of flexibility in the write-up,
Newark,
DE 19716
so
focus on what develops out of your media sources.Melanie Wallendorf
[email protected]
Department of Marketing
Finally,
feel free to use your media sources to complement
your term
paper research.
Eller College
of Management
George Ritzer
Although
your
term paper incorporate scholarly sources
familiarity
with articles from the
Department
of Sociology
University
of Arizona
media
will of
help
you to become an informed scholar and
contribute
greatly to your
University
Maryland
Tucson,
AZ 85721
understanding
not only
to the social movement of interest
but the media dynamics
College Park, MD
20742
[email protected]
surrounding
it.
[email protected]
Frederick Wherry
J. Michael Ryan
Department of Sociology
Department
of Sociology
University of Michigan
General
guidelines
University of Maryland
Ann Arbor, MI 48109
College
Park, MD
This
assignment
is 20742
due in class on February 27 and [email protected]
is worth a total of 75 points Be
[email protected]
certain
to keep a disk or hard copy of your work when turning in the paper. If you are
unable to turn the paper in during class, please give it in to the administrative assistant or
student worker in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Bentley Annex 162,
so that they can stamp and/or sign it to acknowledge receipt and put it my mailbox. It is
especially important that you have a back-up copy if not giving me the paper directly!
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Schor
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Papers
should contain no more than 2-3 pages of text.
They
should be typed, double-spaced,
McGuinn
with one-inch
Department
ofmargins
Sociology
all around. Font should be of519
legible
size, no larger than 12, and no
140should
Commonwealth
Ave. no wasteful
smaller than
Pearlman
10310 point (this document is 11 pt.). Papers
be stapled (please,
Collegeyour name, date, and title of
plastic or University
Brandeis
cardboard covers) with a separate title pageBoston
that contains
Chestnut
MA
02467The cover page and
Waltham,
MA
02454
the paper as
well
as a separate bibliography page at the
end asHill,
noted
above.
[email protected]
[email protected]
bibliography page do not count against your page total.
Lisa
As stated
Peñaloza
in the syllabus, late papers will be accepted,
Sara
butSteen
only at the cost of a 3 point deduction
College
for each of
workday
Business
late. Completion of this and the other
Department
imagination
of Sociology
paper is required to receive
Bus
credit468
for the course, regardless of the grade that would
219be
Ketchum
receivedHall
without doing the project.
University of Colorado
University of Colorado
Boulder,
COthoughts
80309
Boulder, CO 80309
Some final
[email protected]
[email protected]
I am willing to assist you in any way possible during the process of completing this assignment,
Jan
be itPhillips
locating articles, discussing your ideas, finding Joel
sources,
Stillerman
or assistance with any number of
Department
other questions
of Social
you may
andhave. Please come to me with
2166
concerns
AuSableand
Hall
problems. Past experience
has shown that
students typically do better on assignments
consult
the instructor along
Behavioral
Science
Grand when
Valleythey
State
University
the way. Ifof
you
need help,
please do not hesitate to ask!
University
Southern
Maine/
Allendale, MI 49401
Lewiston-Auburn College
[email protected]
Good luck!ME 04240
Lewiston,
Deborah Thorne
[email protected]
Department of Sociology and
Anthropology
Meghan Ashlin Rich
Ohio University
Department of Sociology and Criminal
Justice
Athens, OH 45701
University of Delaware
[email protected]
Newark, DE 19716
[email protected]
Melanie Wallendorf
Department of Marketing
Eller College of Management
George Ritzer
Department of Sociology
University of Arizona
University of Maryland
Tucson, AZ 85721
College Park, MD 20742
[email protected]
[email protected]
Frederick Wherry
J. Michael Ryan
Department of Sociology
Department of Sociology
University of Michigan
University of Maryland
Ann Arbor, MI 48109
College Park, MD 20742
[email protected]
[email protected]
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Miller
Student
activism exercise
519 McGuinn
Amory Starrof Sociology
Department
140 Commonwealth Ave.
Chapman 103
Pearlman
University
Boston College
Brandeis University
Hill,
MA 02467
Waltham,
MAcan
02454
This exercise
be used in any sociology class, notChestnut
just social
movements.
I have used it as an
[email protected]
[email protected]
alternative final exam in my courses on Food, Introduction
to Sociology, and Race Class &
Gender, as well as Social Movements. It could also be used as a course-long project, or in lieu of
Lisa
a term-paper.
Peñaloza
Sara Steen
College of Business
Department of Sociology
A few
prefatory notes:
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468
219 Ketchum Hall
University of Colorado
University of Colorado
1. This exercise
presumes that the instructor has fairly
advanced
skills. I don’t
Boulder,
CO 80309
Boulder,
COfacilitation
80309
recommend using this process without these skills. More
specifically, you need to be able to
[email protected]
[email protected]
completely withhold your own assessments of the problems and solutions being discussed and
yourPhillips
own recommendations. You need familiarity with
decision-making, and to
Jan
Joelconsensus-style
Stillerman
be
able
to
assist
the
group
in
a
highly
inclusive
and
accountable
method
Department of Social and
2166 AuSable Hall of choosing between
various proposals.
feelings
about
the process and you
Behavioral
ScienceYou need high sensitivity to participants’
Grand Valley
State
University
need
to
be
able
to
successfully
engage
people
at
moments
of
withdrawal,
as
University of Southern Maine/
Allendale, MI 49401 well as prevent
2
people
from
dominating
the
group.
Lewiston-Auburn College
[email protected]
Lewiston, ME 04240
2.
As David Croteau points out, social movements scholars
“are
at a distinct disadvantage in
Deborah
Thorne
[email protected]
pursuing mainstream academic careers”, finding lessDepartment
publication of
opportunities
since their subject
Sociology and
does
not Ashlin
lend itself
to large survey data sets nor to “incremental”
Anthropologycontributions to theoretical
Meghan
Rich
“paradigm
development”,
and
being
less
likely
to
receive
funding than other subfields,
Ohio external
University
Department of Sociology and Criminal
which
the eyes
educational institutions
Justice“marginalizes social movements scholarship in
Athens,
OHof45701
increasingly
fixated
on
externally
funded
research.”
While
“applied
sociological work…is less
University of Delaware
[email protected]
valued inDE
many
sociology departments than theory development and basic research”, some
Newark,
19716
subfields’
applied
to professions
(urban planning, policing,
[email protected] are acceptable when linked
Melanie
Wallendorf
social work). The activist industry neither demands nor
accommodates
professional graduates,
Department
of Marketing
and
the
suggestion
of
training
activists
makes
universities
quite
uncomfortable.
He points out
Eller College of Management
George Ritzer
that
“a
century
of
struggle
and
an
honor
roll
of
committed
scholars
have
failed
to
fundamentally
Department of Sociology
University of Arizona
change the of
barriers
facing scholar-activists in the academy.”
he warns that “refusal or
University
Maryland
Tucson, And
AZ 85721
inability
to
conform
to
the
dominant
disciplinary
conventions
means
greatly diminished job
College Park,
[email protected]
3 MD 20742
prospects.” There are a variety of professional risks in engaging students in activism. The
[email protected]
experiences of many of our elder colleagues are not representative
of what is happening to junior
Frederick Wherry
faculty
in universities
and on the job market today. Department of Sociology
J.
Michael
Ryan
I
have
participated
ways: [1] of
I sometimes
Department of Sociology in campus politics in threeUniversity
Michigan work as a regular
member of of
organizations
and faculty.
[2]48109
I use service-learning to
University
Maryland that include students, staff,Ann
Arbor, MI
provide
students
with
powerful
experiences
of
witness
and
participation
in local political
College Park, MD 20742
[email protected]
activity.
[3]
This
exercise
provides
guided
but
not
directed
experience
in
political organizing.
[email protected]
2
Resources: Center for Conflict Resolution: http://www.spunk.org/texts/consensu/sp000763.txt Quaker Foundations
of Leadership: http://www.earlham.edu/%7Econsense/role-clerk2.htm Reclaiming:
http://www.reclaiming.org/resources/consensus/
3
David Croteau, “Which Side Are You On? The Tension between Movement Scholarship and Activism” 20-40 in
David Croteau, William Hoynes, Charlotte Ryan, ed., Rhyming Hope and History: Activists, Academics, and Social
Movement Scholarship. 2005: U Minnesota Press: 25, 28, 29, 30, 32.
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Laura Miller
Despite
my clarity about the differences and limitations
of Schor
my roles, campus administration has
519activities
McGuinnwhen undertaken by groups of
accused
Department
me of
of masterminding
Sociology
and orchestrating student
Commonwealth
Ave.
which
Pearlman
I am103
only a normal member, as well as student140
activities
and organizations
with which I
Boston College
had
Brandeis
no connection
Universitywhatsoever (really). Once my connection
with student activism became
Chestnut
Hill,
MAcall
02467
Waltham,
MAwild
02454
known,
rather
rumours were generated. (My wearied
chair
would
me in and say “I’m
[email protected]
[email protected]
quite
sure you are not giving your students extra credit
for throwing bricks through Starbucks’
windows, but I suppose I have to ask because I got a call this morning from a Professor over
in...”)Peñaloza
Lisa
Sara Steen
CollegeFurthermore,
of Business my connections with student activism
Department
were of
widely
Sociology
interpreted as directive,
despite
Bus
468the fact that I have no history of political activity
219 Ketchum
or writingHall
which can be taken to
endorse hierarchical
University
of Colorado
organizations. I am continually University
puzzled by of
how
Colorado
my peers across the
campus, who
Boulder,
CO 80309
like me are frustrated by the failure of our
Boulder,
maximum
CO 80309
powers of manipulation at the
task of getting students to read, can imagine that I somehow
[email protected]
[email protected]
successfully manipulate students to
the inconveniences of activism.
Jan Phillips
Setting out as an assistant professor to do what
Joel
I thought
Stillerman
was “good sociology” by
forging
Department
connections
of Socialbetween
and
the issues in our books,2166
our campus,
AuSableand
Hallour society, I have been
taken
by surprise
when some of my colleagues, whose
ideologies
scholarly
focus differ little
Behavioral
Science
Grand
Valleyand
State
University
from
my own,
have taken
offense to my public exhortations
to action.
I was not aware that I was
University
of Southern
Maine/
Allendale,
MI 49401
engaging
in activity
that would be seen as professionally
inappropriate by colleagues in
Lewiston-Auburn
College
[email protected]
sociology
Lewiston, departments,
ME 04240 and by others across the campus who I would have assumed would be
allies,
based on the political content of their classes and
lectures
(as reported by students). A
Deborah
Thorne
[email protected]
colleague expresses the same problem: “They wantedDepartment
to hire a ‘political’
person,
of Sociology
andbut it has
become
that
the faculty is divided over what that
Anthropology
means, and few of them think _doing_
Meghan clear
Ashlin
Rich
politics is appropriate.
The
last
year has been eye-opening
for me as people I thought were
Ohio University
Department
of Sociology
and
Criminal
supportive of my political agenda appear to be far more
moderate
than I am… and I am no
Justice
Athens,
OH 45701
radical.” of Delaware
University
[email protected]
I giveDE
this19716
rather extensive prefatory note not to encourage self-censorship, but because I
Newark,
believe that activist-scholars should be aware of the institutional
interpretations of such work
[email protected]
Melanie Wallendorf
before embarking on it. At the very least, we need toDepartment
be savvy about
addressing these issues in
of Marketing
annual
a sense
of how
work is often
College
of such
Management
Georgereviews,
Ritzer etc., and in order to do that, we needEller
misinterpreted
used against people. The friend quoted
above of
goes
on to provide some strategic
Department of or
Sociology
University
Arizona
advice:
“The
I do it now is by wrapping myself Tucson,
in the rhetoric
of service learning/global
University
of way
Maryland
AZ 85721
citizenship/public
[email protected]
it in their orthodoxy…”
College Park, MD sociology/civic
20742
[email protected]
The exercise
Frederick Wherry
J. Michael Ryan
Department of Sociology
I usually startofby
asking the students if they would like
to have some
kind of participatory project
Department
Sociology
University
of Michigan
in
lieu
of
a
paper
or
an
exam.
They
usually
say
“yes”.
I
ask
them
what
they would like to do.
University of Maryland
Ann Arbor, MI 48109
They
usually
have
a
lot
of
good
ideas.
Several
students
usually
express
the desire to do
College Park, MD 20742
[email protected]
something about one (or all) of the social problems we have been studying during the semester. I
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ask them if they would like their exam/paper/final project to be actually doing something active
together about an issue from the class. Usually about ¾ of the class are enthusiastic about this.
(Note I do not lay out terms and conditions yet. Note, the hesitancy of the other ¼ will be
addressed later.)
I ask them to brainstorm what kinds of things they would like to work on and I write
everything they say on the board. (I shortening and clarifying what they say, but staying close to
the terms they use. Double-barreled proposals should be broken in two.) I let this go on for 20
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minutes
or so, eliciting LOTS of ideas and using participatory
methods of trying to hear from
McGuinn
nearly everyone
Department
of Sociology
instead of only the ones who have a 519
lot to
say. I do not react to any of the ideas.
Ave.
Once the board
Pearlman
103 is overflowing and I feel that they’ve140
runCommonwealth
out of ideas, I stop
and step back and
Boston
College
look at it with
Brandeis
University
them. This is a good time to mention how
great
it is that they care about all of
Waltham,
MA
these things
and02454
how many great ideas they have. Chestnut Hill, MA 02467
[email protected]
[email protected]
The things on the board will be of many different
types. Some will be a problem like
“racism” or a reference to a course reading. Some will be a recent event on campus, or a national
or international
Lisa
Peñaloza event. Some will be very specific action
Saraproposals.
Steen
Here I do two kinds of
filtering.ofFirst
College
Business
I draw connections (lines on the board,Department
or making another
of Sociology
list, without erasing
anything)
Bus
468 between groups of ideas. I try to get the 30219
items
Ketchum
on the board
Hall down to 5-8 issues that
capture almost
University
of Colorado
all of the original ideas. (Always, a few
University
outliers are
of Colorado
discarded. I am attentive to
not discarding
Boulder,
CO 80309
anything that was the only suggestionBoulder,
of a particular
CO 80309
student. I feel more
comfortable discarding ideas that were proposed as one
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[email protected]
of several by a single student.) I give
short names to each of these 5-8 ideas, each of which are jumbles of possibilities, different
Jan
levels,
Phillips
etc. Then I use some sort of democratic process
Joel
forStillerman
getting down to one or two of these.
Department
(Note that atof
this
Social
point,and
what they are choosing still contains
2166 AuSable
a lot ofHall
different possibilities.) I say
“one or two”
because at this point I have to make a judgment
aboutState
whether
enough of them are
Behavioral
Science
Grand Valley
University
going to beof
happy
with Maine/
one idea, whether there need Allendale,
to be two groups.
(Personally, I would work
University
Southern
MI 49401
with topics in multiples
of 20 students. In a class of 80,
I would have 4 topics. But if I had a class
Lewiston-Auburn
College
[email protected]
of 20 with ME
two 04240
really strong interests, I would probably let them have 2 groups.) Also sometimes
Lewiston,
one of the ideas is problematic because it is not closely
enoughThorne
related to course materials or I
Deborah
[email protected]
know that they will not have much to work with if they
take on that
issue. Sometimes
I get them
Department
of Sociology
and
down to three
I say that I reserve the right to choose
Anthropology
one of the three topics, and I’ll
Meghan
Ashlinand
Rich
announce myofdecision
next
class.
(The authority thatOhio
I reserve
as part of this process is not used
University
Department
Sociology
and
Criminal
as my political preference, but to try to make sure that
they will
a good organizing
Justice
Athens,
OHhave
45701
experience,ofwhich
means, that they will find some resources
to work with, they will be relatively
University
Delaware
[email protected]
safe, theyDE
will19716
be able to get something accomplished, etc. Sometimes I do not exercise my
Newark,
reserved authority at all, sometimes I do it several times
during
a project.)
[email protected]
Melanie
Wallendorf
At this point I let them know that I will be announcing
to of
them
the procedures, grading,
Department
Marketing
etc. for the
assignment and I emphasize that any student
becomes
uncomfortable with any
Ellerwho
College
of Management
George
Ritzer
aspect of theofprocess
at any time, can make a specialUniversity
arrangement
me to get their grade in a
Department
Sociology
of with
Arizona
different way
(more about this below.)
University
of Maryland
Tucson, AZ 85721
are chosen, its time for some [email protected]
background research and reflection. Betsy
CollegeOnce
Park,the
MDtopics
20742
Leondar-Wright of MRAP4 suggests having the students develop research questions about the
[email protected]
issue based on the course readings and class discussions.
Kim Bachechi
Frederick
Wherry of MRAP suggests
finding
J.
Michael
all of
Ryan
the organizations in the local area who Department
work on thisofissue,
and do a little
Sociology
comparison of
Department
of their
Sociology
approaches. (So as not to bother University
these organizations,
I would instruct the
of Michigan
students to of
University
justMaryland
do web research on this. More research
comes
later.)
Ann
Arbor,
MI 48109
CollegeThe
Park,
next
MD
phase
20742
of the process is action planning.
I use the attached “strategic action
[email protected]
planning” worksheet, which is a combination of several very similar documents gathered from
[email protected]
organizations who do community organizing training. Every student has a copy of this worksheet
4
This write-up comes on the heels of a fantastic discussion of such exercises by the Media Research and
Action Group (MRAP) of Boston College and I cannot resist including some ideas generated by that discussion. I
have cited each such idea, with permission of the author. I must note that I do not personally have experience with
using these ideas, but my experience leads me to include them because I think they would be useful.
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Laura
and
keeps
Miller
track of our progress through it, which may
spanSchor
2 or 3 class sessions. Please look at it
519 McGuinn
Department
now, as I amofgoing
Sociology
to continue this discussion assuming
that you are familiar with it.
140 Commonwealth Ave.
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Boston College
Brandeis University
Chestnut Hill, MA 02467
Waltham, MA 02454
[email protected]
[email protected]
Lisa Peñaloza
College of Business
Bus 468
University of Colorado
Boulder, CO 80309
[email protected]
Sara Steen
Department of Sociology
219 Ketchum Hall
University of Colorado
Boulder, CO 80309
[email protected]
Jan Phillips
Department of Social and
Behavioral Science
University of Southern Maine/
Lewiston-Auburn College
Lewiston, ME 04240
[email protected]
Joel Stillerman
2166 AuSable Hall
Grand Valley State University
Allendale, MI 49401
[email protected]
Deborah Thorne
Department of Sociology and
Anthropology
Ohio University
Athens, OH 45701
[email protected]
Meghan Ashlin Rich
Department of Sociology and Criminal
Justice
University of Delaware
Newark, DE 19716
[email protected]
Melanie Wallendorf
Department of Marketing
Eller College of Management
University of Arizona
Tucson, AZ 85721
[email protected]
George Ritzer
Department of Sociology
University of Maryland
College Park, MD 20742
[email protected]
Frederick Wherry
Department of Sociology
University of Michigan
Ann Arbor, MI 48109
[email protected]
J. Michael Ryan
Department of Sociology
University of Maryland
College Park, MD 20742
[email protected]
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Schor
Laura Miller
One of the most important lessons of this process
exercise is that goals must be
McGuinn
established before
Department
of Sociology
tactics. This is a difficult lesson to519
learn.
Tactics are fun and creative and
140 Commonwealth
Ave.be suggested during
Pearlman
exciting, and
103people have such fun coming up with them.
Lots of tactics will
Brandeis
the goals-setting
University
part of the process. Assign someoneBoston
to keepCollege
track of them. In the process, you
Chestnut
MA 02467
Waltham,
MA
02454 to distinguish between a goal and
are teaching
students
a tacticHill,
– a very
useful analytic process.
[email protected]
[email protected]
It may take several class sessions to get all the way through
the worksheet, and several parts of it
may require some research outside of class (such as finding out about what approaches have
Lisa
already
Peñaloza
been tried to addressing this problem). In mySara
experience,
Steen students volunteer for these
College
early research
of Business
tasks. You will probably establish a point
Department
system or
ofsomething
Sociology to track and reward
Bus
this activity,
468
as well as distribute the opportunities fairly.
219 Ketchum Hall
University
During
of Colorado
the action planning phase, I am a neutral
University
facilitator.
of Colorado
I do help identify when two
Boulder,
people areCO
saying
80309
the same thing in different ways, orBoulder,
when two
COconflicting
80309
proposals could be
[email protected]
seen as complementary (“you can do both!”). The most
[email protected]
interventionist thing that I do is try to
nudge them toward a semi-realistic scope of action in terms of time. Here again one of the major
Jan
things
Phillips
they are to learn in this process, is how long itJoel
all takes.
Stillerman
They will inevitably trip against
Department
this problem,ofand
Social
I doand
not want to rescue them from 2166
it entirely.
AuSable
However,
Hall I do try to rescue them
from it a little
bit, in the interest of their having a somewhat
satisfying
Behavioral
Science
Grand Valley
Stateexperience
Universityof collective
action. In the
successful scope, I might, only
if necessary,
provide my opinion during
University
of interest
SouthernofMaine/
Allendale,
MI 49401
an evaluation of various
tactical options. I would do [email protected]
this by saying “this one looks very do-able
Lewiston-Auburn
College
to me” or “that
will be quite hard to do in 5 weeks, but you can do a piece of it.” Or “this one
Lewiston,
ME 04240
requires fewer resources and is less dependent on getting
otherThorne
groups to do it with you, so it
Deborah
[email protected]
might be easier.” I should point out that I give opinions
in inverseofrelation
withand
my sense that the
Department
Sociology
group reveres
and will listen. (Ergo, if the group Anthropology
seems highly dependent and respectful, I
Meghan
AshlinmeRich
restrain my opinions
more.and
If ICriminal
feel confident that they
willUniversity
ignore me if they see fit, then I am
Ohio
Department
of Sociology
more comfortable sharing.) As a facilitator I do feel comfortable
them, frequently, of
Justice
Athens, OH reminding
45701
how much time
they have available.
University
of Delaware
[email protected]
the action plan is in place, we brainstorm a list of necessary working groups:
Newark,Once
DE 19716
Common working groups are:
[email protected]
Melanie Wallendorf
Department of Marketing
logistics
Eller College of Management
George •Ritzer
• media
Department
of Sociology
University of Arizona
University
Maryland
Tucson, AZ 85721
• of
research
& publications
College•Park,
MD 20742
[email protected]
artwork
[email protected]
• outreach to other groups
Frederick Wherry
• legal5
J. Michael Ryan
Department of Sociology
Department of Sociology
University of Michigan
5
I
have
extensive
training
as
a
legal
worker
with
regard
to activism
liberties, and am able to assess
University of Maryland
Ann
Arbor,and
MIcivil
48109
legal
situations
very
well.
If
you
are
in
doubt
exercise
caution,
but
also
educate
yourself
College Park, MD 20742
[email protected] free speech rights and
students’ rights on campus, to be sure you are not discouraging students from activities that are legal. Ask the legal
[email protected]
working group to read campus policies regarding free speech and use of various spaces on campus. Do not assume
that students need a permit and do not take the word of the campus police in this regard. Read the campus policies.
Be aware that while campus police may be poorly informed, city police can legally lie about the law, which they do
as a means of social control. Again, require the students to learn about free speech rights on private, public, and
federal property. Parks departments usually have their own set of rules and permissions. There may be state and
local ordinances regarding assembly without a permit (OK up to a certain number), and some jurisdictions have
student-specific ordinances linked to financial aid. The ACLU and the National Lawyers Guild provide excellent
summaries of federal law regarding speech, assembly, and dealing with police. Regardless of how tame and legal
your students’ activities are, you should also take the precaution of being prepared for questioning by police.
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Students freely choose whichever group theyJuliet
want Schor
to be part of. At this point I reiterate
519 McGuinn
that
Department
any students
of Sociology
who are not comfortable with the project,
the process, or who do not see a
140will
Commonwealth
group
Pearlman
they103
want to work with can be “sideliners”. They
make privateAve.
arrangements with me
Boston who
College
about
Brandeis
doing
University
comparable work. This also applies to students
have schedule constraints that
Waltham,
MA them
02454from working in a group outsideChestnut
would
prevent
of class. Hill, MA 02467
[email protected]
I keep a list of special tasks for sideliners [email protected]
other students who need special
arrangements, which I distribute according to their various issues and needs. Here are some
Lisa
tasks,Peñaloza
but you should watch for others (keep an ongoing
Saralist):
Steen
College of Business
Department of Sociology
• vibes-watcher.
This person is responsible for paying
the human dynamics of the
Bus
468
219 attention
Ketchumto
Hall
organizing
group and giving feedback about things
like people
dominating, people feeling
University
of Colorado
University
of Colorado
left out,
people being
too overloaded with work, etc.
Boulder,
COconflicts
80309 that were resolved badly, some Boulder,
CO 80309
they report to the group, not to the instructor. Their
mission is to encourage the group
[email protected]
[email protected]
process, not to police or report on freeloaders, etc. They will write a report on what they
(obviously
this is not a good job for a
Jan learned
Phillips from this job as their final piece of work.Joel
Stillerman
student who
is politically
opposed to the class project,
but it could
Department
of Social
and
2166 AuSable
Hallbe a good job for a student
who hasScience
severe schedule constraints, or a very quiet
student
who
feels
uncomfortable with
Behavioral
Grand
Valley
State
University
“contention”,
or an international
student, who is concerned
participate in anything
University
of Southern
Maine/
Allendale, not
MI to
49401
political.)
Lewiston-Auburn
College
[email protected]
Lewiston, ME 04240
• researchers. These are great jobs for “sideliners”,Deborah
particularly
students who are politically
Thorne
[email protected]
opposed to the class project. You can assign themDepartment
all kinds ofofhistorical
or and
organizational
Sociology
research
relevant
to the class. one person could
Anthropology
Meghan
Ashlin
Rich to the project, which they can present
research
how
this
issue
has
been
addressed
in
national
history,
another could look at it
Ohio University
Department of Sociology and Criminal
internationally, and another person or team couldAthens,
contactOH
community
Justice
45701 members who have
worked
on
this
issue.
(I
am
strongly
opposed
to
letting
students
loose on community
University of Delaware
[email protected]
organizations,
because
it
is
a
huge
burden
on
organizers’
time.
But
assigning one student or a
Newark, DE 19716
team of two to be responsible for doing some interviews
then bringing this information
[email protected]
Melanieand
Wallendorf
back to the group would be ok. I would encourage
them
to
interview
ordinary members,
Department of Marketing
rather
than leaders of organizations. In campus projects,
it would
be really useful to contact
Eller College
of Management
George
Ritzer
alumni
who
have
been
part
of
past
struggles.)
Department of Sociology
University of Arizona
University of Maryland
Tucson, AZ 85721
•College
notetaker
&
document
master.
This
person
might
be responsible for photocopying tasks for
Park, MD 20742
[email protected]
the
group,
and
keeping
track
of
documents
that
multiple
groups need to access.
[email protected]
Frederick Wherry
If I Ryan
have students who are really opposed to the
project, I of
usually
just ask them what
J. Michael
Department
Sociology
they’d
like
to
do
instead,
and
let
them
do
it.
It
might
e
a
media
report
on
some
Department of Sociology
University of Michigan aspect of the class
they disagreed
with, or even a term paper. I add someAnn
questions
criteria, usually to bring
University
of Maryland
Arbor, and
MI 48109
their
project
more
into
focus
of
course
material.
It’s
hard
for
them
to
complain disruptively if
College Park, MD 20742
[email protected]
you ask them what they want to do and then let them do it. With these people happy, I can focus
[email protected]
on helping the group and not worry about disruptive dissent. I do require people who are doing
their own projects to still attend all class sessions, including planning and debriefing so that they
can learn from the project. They are encouraged to give feedback to the project group, based on
their insights, so they are still valued and part of the class.
Please read these guidelines: Katya Komisaruk, “”What To Do If you are Approached for Questioning” 2003
http://www.adcsf.org/HandlingFBIDraft03-24-03.pdf.
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Schor
Laura Miller
Often, but not always, the projects in my classes
have
ended with some kind of action:
519 McGuinn
delivering petitions
Department
of Sociology
to the university president, leafleting
and doing street theater, meeting with
140
Commonwealth
Ave. that the students
an administration
Pearlman
103
official, organizing a campus event.
Since
I think it important
Boston
College
do not defer
Brandeis
University
to my wisdom and experience during these
events,
I often do not attend. I require
Hill,(aMA
Waltham,
MA
the students
to 02454
provide some minimal documentationChestnut
of the event
few02467
photographs), and
[email protected]
[email protected]
report on it during a debriefing. They also show me any
posters and educational material that
they created. When the student organizing is clearly strong enough that I am not worried they
Lisa
will turn
Peñaloza
to ask my advice part way through and I canSara
justSteen
be a participant, or when it is possible
College
for me toofattend
Business
the event anonymously or at a distance,
Department
I do so. of Sociology
Bus 468
219 Ketchum Hall
Some logistical
notes:
University
of Colorado
University of Colorado
Boulder, CO 80309
Boulder, CO 80309
•
If
you
are
going
to
use
this
exercise
as
a
semester-long
project, great! A few things to
[email protected]
[email protected]
keep in mind:
Jan Phillips
Joel Stillerman
is very
in groups
outside
Departmentoof It
Social
anddifficult for students to work2166
AuSable
Hallof class. If you want this
to
happen
you
need
to
emphasize
this
aspect
of
the
class
a contractual way up
Behavioral Science
Grand Valley State in
University
front, at the
beginning of the class. Allendale, MI 49401
University of Southern
Maine/
Lewiston-Auburn College
[email protected]
o Grading. I have had many classes participate in this process who preferred to
Lewiston, ME 04240
receive a collective grade for all who participate in the project. In retrospect I
Deborah Thorne
[email protected]
think I would like to give separate grades to each working group. I tend not to use
Department of Sociology and
very complicated grading procedures. I find that about 2/3 of the students are
Anthropology
Meghan Ashlin Rich
more interested in the project than their grade. You could make this very detailed,
Ohio University
Department of Sociology and Criminal
with the students coming up with criteria for grading, etc., or different grades for
Justice
Athens, OH 45701
different work.
University of Delaware
[email protected]
Newark, DEo 19716
I think journaling would be a really nice addition to this exercise, but I have not
[email protected]
Melanie Wallendorf
tried it.
Department of Marketing
College
of project,
Management
George Ritzer
ƒ Try to schedule the final pieceEller
of work
on the
including the action
nd
Department of Sociology
University
of
Arizona
if there is one, during the 2 to last week of the semester so that you can
University of Marylandspend the last week of class debriefing
Tucson, AZ
and85721
making connections to course
College Park, MD 20742
[email protected]
material. It is really sad when somehow the action happens during finals
[email protected] week and I never get a chance to meet with the students all together about
Frederick Wherry
it to celebrate and debrief.
J. Michael Ryan
Department of Sociology
Departmentoof Schedule
Sociologya series of “deliverables” from
University
of Michigan
the working
groups during the course of
University of Maryland
Arbor,
MI 48109
the project, with due dates and grades.Ann
If all
the work
is focused on a final event,
College Park, MD
20742
[email protected]
things move too slowly and sometimes a few people end up doing all of the last
[email protected]
minute work. Also it’s harder to grade their courageous action as a whole, than
the component parts (press release, informational handouts, etc.). Also grading
work products while the organizing is still developing gives them a chance to
revise before the final event.
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Dept of Sociology
SUNY Stony Brook
Sara
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Brook, New York 11794-4356 USA
Department
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Lisa
Peñaloza
[email protected]
College of Business
Bus
Emily468
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University of Colorado
Department
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Indiana
Boulder,University
CO 80309
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University
of Colorado
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John F. Kennedy
School Of Government
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Jan Phillips
USA
Department of Social and
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Stillerman
[email protected]
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AuSable Hall
Behavioral Science
University
Phil Brown of Southern Maine/
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Brown University College
Lewiston,
Maxcy
HallME
20104240
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Providence, RI 02912, USA
Grand Valley State University
Darcy K. Leach
Allendale,
49401
Department MI
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Boston College
140 Commonwealth Avenue
Deborah
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Chestnut Hill,
MA 02467-3807 USA
Department
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Liam Leonard
Ohio
University
School ofOH
Political
Athens,
45701Science & Sociology, NUI
Galway
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SSRC:
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Robert
J. Brulle
Department
of Sociology and Criminal
Department
of Culture and Communications
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Professor
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University
of Delaware
School
of DE
Public
Health
Newark,
19716
Drexel University
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St. Declan's Distillery Rd, NUI,
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Melanie
Wallendorf
[email protected]
Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA
[email protected]
Department of Marketing
Eller
AngelaCollege
Mertig of Management
University
Department of
of Arizona
Sociology
Tucson,
AZ
85721
Middle Tennessee
State University
[email protected]
Murfreesboro TN 37132-0001
George Ritzer
Department
Neal
Caren of Sociology
University
Department of Maryland
Sociology
College Park,
MD Carolina
20742 Chapel Hill
University
of North
Chapel
Hill, NC 27599-3210, USA
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Ziad Munson of Sociology
Department
Department of
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Sociology & Anthropology
University
Lehigh
University
Ann Arbor, MI 48109
681 Taylor Street
[email protected]
J. Michael Ryan
Jim
Conley of Sociology
Department
Dept.
of Sociology
University
of Maryland
Trent University
College Park, MD 20742
1540 Otonabee College
[email protected]
Peterborough Ontario
Bethlehem, PA 18015
[email protected]
K9J 7B8 Canada
[email protected]
Gillian Murphy
Dept of Sociology
University of Washington
223J Condon Hall, Box 353340
Seattle WA 98195-3340 USA
[email protected]
Mona El-Ghobashy
Dept of Political Science
Barnard College
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Staggenborg
Juliet
Schor
Department
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519 McGuinn
McGill
University
140 Commonwealth Ave.
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Boston
855 Sherbrooke Street West
Chestnut Hill, MA 02467
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[email protected]
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Lisa
Peñaloza
[email protected]
Sara
Steen
Amory
Starr
Department
Sociology
Department ofofSociology
219
Ketchum
Hall
Chapman University
University
ofDrive
Colorado
1 University
Boulder,
CO92866
80309USA
Orange, CA
[email protected]
[email protected]
College of Business
Bus
468
Benita
Roth
University of Colorado
Department
Sociology and Women’s Studies
SUNY
Binghamton
Boulder,
CO 80309
LT
313
[email protected]
Binghamton, NY 13902-6000 USA
[email protected]
Jan Phillips
Joel
Stillerman
Millie
Thayer
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Grand
Valley
State
University
University of Massachusetts
Allendale,
49401
Thompson MI
Hall,
Room 524
[email protected]
200 Hicks Way
Amherst MA 01003
Deborah
Thorne
[email protected]
Department of Sociology and
Charles Tilly
Anthropology
Joseph
L. Buttenwieser Professor of Social
Ohio University
Science,
Athens, OH 45701
Columbia
University
[email protected]
Department of Social and
Jeffrey Rubin
Behavioral Science
Department of History
University
of Southern
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Lewiston-Auburn
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Boston University
Lewiston,
MERoad
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Boston, MA 02215 USA
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Stephen
Scanlan
Department
of Sociology and Criminal
Department
of Sociology and Anthropology
Justice
Ohio
University
University
of Delaware
Bentley
162 - Athens, Ohio 45701 USA
Newark,Annex
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413 Fayerweather Hall, MC 2552),
New York 10027-7001, USA
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Wallendorf
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University
of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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of
Maryland
Champaign, Illinois, 61820, USA
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Eller
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UniversityDepartment
of Arizona
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Tucson,
AZ
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Boston College
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Chestnut Hill MA 02467 USA
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Department of Sociology
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Woodof Michigan
University
Dept
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Ann Arbor,
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York
University
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Department
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Stony
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University of Maryland
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