Rethinking Social Movements: Structure, Meaning, and EmotionJeff Goodwin, James M. Jasper This landmark volume brings together some of the titans of social movement theory in a grand reassessment of its status. For some time, the field has been divided between a dominant structural approach and a cultural or constructivist tradition. The gaps and misunderstandings between the two sides-as well as the efforts to bridge them-closely parallel those in the discipline of sociology at large. This book aims to further the dialogue between these two distinct approaches to social movements and to show the broader implications for sociology as a whole as it struggles with issues including culture, emotion, and agency. |
Contents
Caught in a Winding Snarling Vine The Structural Bias of Political Process Theory | 3 |
Wise Quacks | 31 |
Paradigm Warriors Regress and Progress in the Study of Contentious Politics | 39 |
Tending the Vineyard Cultivating Political Process Research | 47 |
Political Opportunity Structure Some Splitting to Balance the Lumping | 61 |
Trouble in Paradigms | 75 |
Culture Is Not Just in Your Head | 97 |
The Poststructuralist Consensus in Social Movement Theory | 111 |
Passionate Political Processes Bringing Emotions Back into the Study of Social Movements | 155 |
Why David Sometimes Wins Strategic Capacity in Social Movements | 177 |
Revisiting the US Civil Rights Movement Toward a More Synthetic Understanding of the Origins of Contention | 201 |
Reflections on Social Movement Theory Criticisms and Proposals | 233 |
Hot Movements Cold Cognition Thinking about Social Movements in Gendered Frames | 247 |
References | 263 |
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Contributors | 305 |
The Intellectual Challenges of Toiling in the Vineyard | 121 |
Knowledge for What? Thoughts on the State of Social Movement Studies | 135 |
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