The Wiley Blackwell companion to social movements / edited by David A. Snow [and three others].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Snow, David A., editor.

Series:

Wiley-Blackwell companions to sociology.

Wiley Blackwell companions to sociology

Standardized Title:

Blackwell companion to social movements.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Social movements.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Edition:

Second edition.

Place of Publication:

Hoboken, NJ : Wiley Blackwell, 2019.

Summary:

The most up-to-date and thorough compendium of scholarship on social movements This second edition of The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Social Movements features forty original essays from the field. With contributions from both established and ascendant scholars, the Companion seeks to present current research on social movements in all its diversity. It is the most up-to-date, comprehensive volume of social science research on social movements available today. The essays address: facilitative and constraining contexts and conditions; social movement organizations, fields, and dynamics; strategies and tactics; micro-structural and social psychological dimensions of participation; consequences and outcomes; and various thematic intersections, including the intersection of social movements and social class, gender, race and ethnicity, religion, human rights, globalization, political extremism and more. Offers an illuminating guide to understanding the dynamics and operation of social movements within the modern, global world Covers a diverse range of topics in the field of social movement studies Offers original, state-of-the-art essays by internationally recognized scholars The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Social Movements is recommended for graduate seminars on social movement and for scholars of social movements worldwide. It is also an excellent text for college and university libraries, especially with graduate programs in the social sciences.

Contents:

Intro

Title Page

Copyright Page

Contents

Notes on Contributors

Introduction: Mapping and Opening Up the Terrain

Conceptualizing Social Movements

A Conceptualization of Social Movements

Structure of the Volume

Notes

References

Part I Facilitative and Constraining Contexts and Conditions

Chapter 1 The Political Context of Social Movements

Introduction

Enduring Opportunities and Their Effects on Contention

Changes in Opportunity and the Ebb and Flow of Movements

Critiques and Extensions

Conclusion

Chapter 2 The Role of Threat in Collective Action

Grievances and Threats

Political Opportunity and Threats

Resource Infrastructure and Threats

Structural Threats

Summary of Structural Forms of Threat

The Future of Threat Research

Chapter 3 The Cultural Context of Social Movements

The Cultural Context of Newly Contentious Issues and Actors

The Cultural Contexts of Mobilization

The Cultural Context of Strategic Action

Conclusion: Culture in Context

Chapter 4 The Resource Context of Social Movements

Resource Types

Mechanisms of Resource Access

Exchange Relationships and Source Constraints

Recent Utilization of Resource Mobilization

Chapter 5 The Ecological and Spatial Contexts of Social Movements

Spatial Ecology of Movement Mobilization

The Social Ecology of Movements

The Intersection between Spatial and Social Ecologies

Chapter 6 Social Movements and Transnational Context: Institutions, Strategies, and Conflicts

The Transnational: Genealogy, Definition, and Limitations

Multi‐Level Governance and Transnational Activism.

Forms of Transnational Interaction

Effects

Chapter 7 Social Movements and Mass Media in a Global Context

A Strategic Choice Model

Challenging the Status Quo in Open Systems

Engaging from the Shadows: Strategic Media Choices in Closed Systems

Note

Part II Social Movement Organizations, Fields, and Dynamics

Chapter 8 Networks and Fields

From Structure to Action: How Networks Facilitate Collective Action

From Action to Structure: How Collective Action Produces Emerging Forms of Social Organization

Chapter 9 Social Movement Organizations

Resource Mobilization: Alive and Well

Beyond the SMO? How ICTs Are Transforming Organizing

SMOs and Field Theory

The Cultural Dynamics of Internal SMO Processes

Conclusion: New Directions in the Study of SMOs

Chapter 10 Bringing Leadership Back In

Leadership Matters

Leadership and Social Movement Studies

Theorizing Leadership Practice: An Alternative Approach

Conclusion: New Directions for Social Movement Leadership Studies

Chapter 11 How Social Movements Interact with Organizations and Fields: Protest, Institutions, and Beyond

Precursors of the Movement and Organizations Research

Contacts between Movement Theory and Organizational Analysis

Movements in Organizations and Movements Targeting Organizations

A First Synthesis: Movements as Political Process

A Second Synthesis: Fields and Resettlements

Beyond Field Theory

Expanding Field Theory and Political Process Models

Chapter 12 Infighting and Insurrection

The Classical Tradition

The Conditional Tradition

The Causal Tradition.

Conclusion

Chapter 13 Diffusion Processes Within and Across Movements

What Is Diffused?

What Are the Mechanisms of Diffusion?

Catalysts to the Diffusion Process

Cycles of Protest and Repertoires of Contention

What Is the Impact of Diffusion?

Outlook and Future Directions

Chapter 14 Coalitions and the Organization of Collective Action

Defining and Differentiating Coalitions

Coalition Emergence and Dynamics

Coalition Outcomes

Future Directions

Part III Social Movement Strategies and Tactics

Chapter 15 Tactics and Strategic Action

Repertoires of Contention

Tactics as Particular Events

An Actor‐Centered Approach

Strategic Action

Chapter 16 Technology and Social Media

It's Here, It's Digital, Get Used to It

Disciplinary Differences in Studying Digital Technologies and Protest

From Exotic to Mainstream: Major Findings

Continuing Debates and Theoretical Shifts

Chapter 17 Social Movements and Litigation

What Is Social Movement Litigation?

How Have Social Movements Deployed Litigation Strategy?

The Turn to Law: Why Do Social Movement Groups Litigate?

What Impacts Does Movement Litigation Strategy Have?

Chapter 18 Social Movements in Interaction with Political Parties

Movements and Parties: Two Key Actors for Democratic Representation

Movement Versus Parties: Mutual Influence and Interdependence

Crises of Representation and the Emergence of New Parties

Broadening the Perspective: Transformations in Context

Acknowledgments

References.

Chapter 19 Nonviolent and Violent Trajectories in Social Movements

Radicalization: Towards Strategies and Methods of Violent Contention

Demilitarization: From Armed to Unarmed Strategies and Methods

Interaction of Violent and Nonviolent Contention

Chapter 20 Art and Social Movements

Contention within Art Worlds

The Figure of the Committed Artist

Art as a Contentious Practice

Art as a Contentious Resource

Part IV Microstructural and Social‐Psychological Dimensions

Chapter 21 Individual Participation in Street Demonstrations

Defining and Conceptualizing Street Demonstrations

Demand, Supply, and Mobilization

How to Study Participation in Demonstrations?

Chapter 22 The Framing Perspective on Social Movements: Its Conceptual Roots and Architecture

Conceptualizing Framing

Conceptual Architecture

Chapter 23 Emotions in Social Movements

Emotions in Social Movements

Analyzing Emotions

Cognitive Social Science and Emotion

Chapter 24 Collective Identity in Social Movements: Assessing the Limits of a Theoretical Framework

What Is Collective Identity and Why Should Social Movement Scholars Care?

Is Collective Identity Found in Individuals, in the Collective, or Both?

Are Collective Identities Given or Constructed?

Melucci's Comprehensive Framework

Collective Identity: Product, Process or Both?

Assessing the Conceptual Limits of the Concept of Collective Identity

Part V Consequences and Outcomes.

Chapter 25 The Political Institutions, Processes, and Outcomes Movements Seek to Influence

The Political Institutions, Processes, and Outcomes Movements Seek to Influence

Under Which Conditions Do Movements Matter in Politics?

Organization, protest, collective action and strategy

What Is Studied and How

Chapter 26 Economic Outcomes of Social Movements

Economic Outcomes of Social Movements Between State, Market, and Society

Attaining Government Regulation

Direct Interventions in Markets

Changing Market Rules and Practices in the Social Sphere

Chapter 27 The Cultural Outcomes of Social Movements

Social Movements as Producers of Culture

Cultural Analysis of Movement Outcomes: Performance, Ideation, and Artifact

Social Movements and Cultural Change: Conditions of Influence

Chapter 28 Biographical Consequences of Activism

Short‐term Impacts

Durable Consequences

Cultural Change

Mapping the Field

Social Mechanisms at Play

What Next?

Part VI Thematic Intersections

Chapter 29 Social Class and Social Movements

Class Grievances and Class Identities

Theorizing Class and Social Change

From Classes to Masses

Social Movement Theory and the Retreat from Class

Counting Contention: From Protests to Strikes

The "Death of Class" and Labor Movement Scholarship

Bridging Labor Scholarship and Social Movement Theory

Chapter 30 Gender and Social Movements

Tactics and Strategies

Organizations

Collective Identities

Opportunities and Constraints

Chapter 31 Race, Ethnicity, and Social Movements

Introduction.

Race, Ethnicity, and Social Movement Theory.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781119168607

9781787857124

1787857123

9781119168577

1119168570

OCLC:

1029085840