Teaching Social Movements 2008 PDF

Laura Miller Juliet Schor
Pearlman 103
Teaching Social Movements
Department of Sociology 519 McGuinn
140 Commonwealth Ave.
Brandeis University Boston College
Waltham, MA 02454 Chestnut Hill, MA 02467
A Collection
lamiller@brandeis.edu of Syllabi, Assignments, and Other Resources
juliet.schor@bc.edu
Lisa Peñaloza Sara Steen

College of Business Department of Sociology
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University of Colorado University of Colorado
Boulder, CO 80309 Boulder, CO 80309
penaloza@colorado.edu steen@colorado.edu
Compiled and Edited by
Jan Phillips Joel Stillerman
Department of Social and 2166 AuSable Hall
Lesley J. Wood
Behavioral Science Grand Valley State University
University of Southern Maine/ York University
Allendale, MI 49401
Lewiston-Auburn College stillejo@gvsu.edu
Lewiston, ME 04240 Paul Almeida
jphillip@bates.edu Deborah Thorne
Texas A&M University
Department of Sociology and
Meghan Ashlin Rich Anthropology
Department of Sociology and Criminal Benita RothOhio University
Justice Athens, OH 45701
University of Delaware SUNY Binghamton
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megrich@udel.edu Melanie Wallendorf
Department of Marketing
George Ritzer Eller College of Management
Department of Sociology University of Arizona
University of Maryland Tucson, AZ 85721
College Park, MD 20742 mwallendorf@eller.arizona.edu
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J. Michael Ryan Department of Sociology
Department of Sociology University of Michigan
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TABLE
PearlmanOF CONTENTS
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INTRODUCTION
Teaching Social Movements
lamiller@brandeis.edu juliet.schor@bc.edu 3

PART I: Syllabi for Graduate Level Courses in Social Movements 7
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1 Social Movements and Collective Action Suzanne219 Ketchum Hall
Staggenborg, McGill University 8
2 Social Movements
Boulder, CO 80309 MichaelBoulder,
SchwartzCO
and80309
Louis Esparza, SUNY 13
penaloza@colorado.edu Stony Brook
steen@colorado.edu
3Jan
The Sociology of Gender and Social Protest
Phillips Benita Joel
Roth,Stillerman
SUNY Binghamton 22
4Behavioral
MovementsScience
and Media in Latin America MarkusGrand
S. Schulz, New
Valley YorkUniversity
State University 27
5 Social Movements in 20th Century Latin Jeffrey Rubin, Boston University 42
Lewiston-Auburn
America
College stillejo@gvsu.edu
Lewiston, ME 04240
jphillip@bates.edu
6 Environmental Politics DeborahNational
Liam Leonard, ThorneUniversity of Ireland, 47
GalwayDepartment of Sociology and
7 Environmental
Department Movementsand
of Sociology in the United
Criminal Robert Ohio
Brulle,University
Drexel University 50
States
8 Social Movements
Newark, DE 19716in Health Phil Brown, Brown University 53
9 Practicing Democracy: Leadership, Marshall Ganz, Harvard
Department University
of Marketing 58
Community and Power
PART II: Syllabi for Undergraduate Level Courses in Social Movements 79
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1 Revolutions, Social Movements, and Charles Tilly, Columbia University 80
Contentious Politics Frederick Wherry
2 Contentious Politics The Roots of Social
Department of Sociology Susan Olzak, Stanford
University University
of Michigan 82
Protest
3 Protest, Contention
mryan@socy.umd.edu & Social Movements Jim Conley, Trent University 86
4 Social Movements Ziad Munson, Lehigh University 89
5 Social Movements and Film Beate Sissenich, Indiana University - 96

Bloomington
6 Social Change in Action Darcy Leach, Boston College 104
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SocialMiller
Movements Across Time and Space Mona El-Ghobashy,
Juliet Schor Barnard College, 115
Department of Sociology Columbia
519University
McGuinn
8Brandeis
Social Justice in a Global Context
University MathewBoston
Williams, Boston College
College 121
9 Social Movements Paul Almeida, Texas A&M University 128
10 Social Movements Millie Thayer, University of Massachusetts, 132
Lisa Peñaloza AmherstSara Steen
11 Political Economy of Social Movements
Bus 468 Lesley 219
Wood, York University
Ketchum Hall 139
PART III: Instructional
penaloza@colorado.edu 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 146
2 Final Assignment: Board Game Neal Caren, University of North 148
Carolina at Chapel Hill
Lewiston-Auburn College
3 Final Take-home Exam stillejo@gvsu.edu
Jim Conley, Trent University 151
Lewiston, ME 04240
4 Qualitative Research Paper
jphillip@bates.edu Angela
DeborahMertig, Middle Tennessee State 153
Thorne
University
5Department
Final Paper of
Assignment:
SociologyEvaluating Social
and Criminal Gillian Murphy, University of
Ohio University 155
Movement
Justice Outcomes Washington
Athens, OH 45701
6. Memo on
Newark, DETerm Papers
19716 Susan Olzak, Stanford University 157
7 Imagination Assignment 1 - “Seeing” Social Stephen J. Scanlan, Ohio University 159
Movements Department of Marketing
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Assignment:ofSocial
Sociology
Movements in the News University
Stephen of Arizona
J. Scanlan, Ohio University 164
9College
StudentPark,
activism
MDexercise
20742 Amory Starr, Chapman University
mwallendorf@eller.arizona.edu 168
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PART IV: List of Contributors Frederick Wherry 175
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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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Laura Miller
Teaching Social Movements Juliet Schor
Teaching courses
Pearlman 103 in social movements is a pleasure. 140
Students come to theAve.
Commonwealth classes with
enthusiasm
Brandeis that is rooted both in their academic interests,
University Boston and personal histories. Some are
College
activists and
Waltham, MA appreciate
02454 the opportunity to learn aboutChestnutpast movements
Hill, MAand strategize about their
02467
current campaigns. Others are curious about the images
lamiller@brandeis.edu of struggle that they see in popular
juliet.schor@bc.edu
culture. Some want to know more about the history of their family, ethnicity, race or class. Some
simply
Lisa want to understand the world around them. On
Peñaloza Saraa more
Steenacademic level, social movements
courses are
College opportunities for wrestling with more abstract
of Business concepts
Department within social theory,
of Sociology
concepts
Bus 468 around action, structure, communication, and 219power.
Ketchum Hall
Theof
University social movement literature has grown rapidly
Colorado over the
University past twenty years, and
of Colorado
developedCO
Boulder, even in the four years since the last editionBoulder,
80309 of this collection.
CO 80309 Theoretical divisions
between new social movement theory and political process
penaloza@colorado.edu approaches are being transcended as
steen@colorado.edu
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 when one
2166 AuSable Halllooks at the recent edited
collections and
Behavioral textbooks on social movements that have
Science Grand been published
Valley in the past five years,
State University
many of which
University anchor social
of Southern Maine/movement courses (Bantjes 2007;MI
Allendale, della Porta and Diani 1999,
49401
2006; Meyer 2007;College
Lewiston-Auburn Nash 2005; Snow, Soule and Kriesi 2004, 2007; Staggenborg 2008; Tilly
stillejo@gvsu.edu
2004; TillyME
Lewiston, and04240
Tarrow 2007).
Most undergraduate social movements courses
jphillip@bates.edu center their
Deborah Thornereadings around a main text.
In addition to the newer ones listed above, the most popularDepartmenttextsofassigned continue
Sociology and to be Sidney
Tarrow’sAshlin
Meghan PowerRich in Movement (1998), Doug McAdam’s Anthropology
Political Process and the Development
of Black Insurgency,
Department of Sociology1930-1970 (1982/1999), the edited
and Criminal Ohiocollection
University Comparative Perspectives on
Justice
Social Movements: Political Opportunities, Mobilizing Athens, OH 45701
Structures, and Cultural Framings
(1996) and of
University Alberto
DelawareMelucci’s Challenging Codes (1996). However, in putting together this
thorned@ohio.edu
collection,
Newark, DEwe19716
have attempted to find syllabi and exercises that go beyond single textbooks, thus
expanding our sense of what might be possible in a social
megrich@udel.edu Melaniemovements
Wallendorf course. We are excited
about this collection, and what it suggests about the current moment
Department in social movement
of Marketing
scholarship.
George Ritzer Syllabi by Staggenborg, Olzak, Schwartz andCollege
Eller Esparza,ofWood, Roth, Munson, Tilly
Management
and Conley offer
Department different perspectives on the state of
of Sociology the field. of
University While Olzak, Staggenborg and
Arizona
Munson
Universityemphasize
of Maryland movement emergence and dynamics, Wood
Tucson, AZconsiders
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economy, and MD
College Park, Tilly20742
and Conley place movements into the larger context of contentious politics.
Over the past few years, social movement research and writing has begun to speak more
ritzer@socy.umd.edu
explicitly about the processes and dynamics that underlie mobilization,
Frederick Wherry recruitment, alliance
building
J. Michaeland communication. Exercises like Caren’s Department
Ryan Social Movement Board Game, Bowman’s
of Sociology
exercise on designing
Department of Sociology a social movement, and Conley’s project of
University on Michigan
analyzing a stream of
contention of
University allow the students to wrestle with these processes
Maryland Ann Arbor, in ways that will sharpen both their
MI 48109
analysis,Park,
College and build their sense of themselves as activeffwherry@umich.edu
MD 20742 participants in society.
Inevitably, the collection also reflects the gaps in the field. While Roth highlights the
mryan@socy.umd.edu
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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Newer movements including the anti-sweatshop movement,
Laura Miller global justice movements,
Juliet Schor
movements around
Department health, the environment, immigration
of Sociology and security, and movements around
519 McGuinn
racism and103
Pearlman sexism in social institutions beyond the government are slowlyAve.
140 Commonwealth becoming more
visible in University
Brandeis our literature. Some of these movements are reflected
Boston as focused case studies in this
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collection MA
Waltham, – from the courses on environmental movements
02454 Chestnut byHill,
Leonard and by Brulle, to
MA 02467
Brown’s course on Social Movements in Health. Social
lamiller@brandeis.edu movement courses that examine
juliet.schor@bc.edu
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 to understand that another world is not Department
of Business only possible, of but inevitable. Courses on
Sociology
social
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Ketchum Hall and courses that adopt a
global perspective
University like those by Williams, El-Ghobashy,
of Colorado Thayer,ofand
University Almeida offer ways of
Colorado
doing
Boulder,this.
CO 80309 Boulder, CO 80309
Social movement courses also offer particularsteen@colorado.edu
penaloza@colorado.edu challenges. Often students arrive in the
classes feeling disconnected from movements and skeptical about the effectiveness of movement
activity. Some scholars included here have developedJoel
Jan Phillips tools for overcoming this sense of
Stillerman
disconnection
Department ofby engaging
Social and students through social movement
2166 AuSable work.Hall
The courses by Marshall
Ganz and byScience
Behavioral Darcy Leach and the exercises by Starr,Grand Bowman,ValleyConley
State and Scanlan ask students
University
to participate
University of in social movement
Southern Maine/ activity, breaking down the boundaries
Allendale, MI 49401 between the sociologist
and the activist/organizer.
Lewiston-Auburn College When done well, such work can facilitate a deeper understanding of
stillejo@gvsu.edu
the dynamics
Lewiston, MEthat underlie social movement activity, as well as developing skills for engagement
04240
in the larger society.
Social movement courses offer opportunities Department
for buildingof academic
Sociologystudents
and abilities that
will be useful
Meghan Ashlin toRich
them in their other courses, and in their research. Some of these courses offer
Anthropology
ways to simultaneously
Department of Sociologybuildand substantive
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honing methodological skills.
Mertig’s
Justice Fieldwork exercise and Conley’s project onAthens, analyzingOHepisodes
45701 of contention bring
these goals of
University together
Delaware explicitly. Scanlan’s exercises on analyzing news coverage of protest and
thorned@ohio.edu
films about
Newark, DEsocial
19716movements also offer creative methodological exercises. Sissenich’s course on
Social Movement and Film suggests ways that we might
megrich@udel.edu be able
Melanie to incorporate film into our
Wallendorf
teaching and understand more deeply the ways that popular Departmentculture, movements and political
of Marketing
processes
George Ritzermore generally interact. Eller College of Management
Teaching
Department social movements is also a way to encourage
of Sociology Universitystudents
of Arizonato confront questions of
power and inequality.
University of MarylandSome students, especially earlyTucson,
in theirAZ
university
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to critically
College Park,analyze
MD 20742the hegemonic ideas of progressmwallendorf@eller.arizona.edu
and development. Many of the courses
included here explicitly examine the ways that less powerful groups force authorities into
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concessions. Applying theories of success and mobilization Frederick to particular
Wherry cases can offer students
a sense
J. Michaelof how
Ryanchange becomes possible. One example of this is of
Department offered by Colleen Murphy,
Sociology
who in her final
Department exam, asks the students to use their knowledge
of Sociology University of of Michigan
social movements to predict
the successof
University ofMaryland
the movement around gay marriage. Ann Arbor, MI 48109
CollegeSo, here
Park, MDit is. This collection offers some of the
20742 best ideas from today’s social movement
ffwherry@umich.edu
courses in the US and beyond – we hope that it will inspire and challenge both you and your
mryan@socy.umd.edu
students.
Works Cited
Bantjes, Rod. 2007. Social Movements in a Global Context: Canadian Perspectives. Canadian
Scholars Press Inc.
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della MillerDonatella and Mario Diani 2006. Social Juliet Schor An Introduction. 2nd ed.
Movements:
Blackwell:
DepartmentMalden MA
of Sociology 519 McGuinn
McAdam, Doug. 1982/1999. Political Process and the
Pearlman 103 140Development
Commonwealth Ave.Insurgency, 1930-
of Black
1970. Chicago:
Brandeis Chicago University Press
University Boston College
McAdam, MA
Waltham, Doug, John McCarthy, Mayer Zald, (Eds)Chestnut
02454 1996. Comparative
Hill, MA 02467
Perspectives on Social
lamiller@brandeis.edu and Cultural Framings. Cambridge:
juliet.schor@bc.edu
Movements: Political Opportunities, Mobilizing Structures,
Cambridge University Press
Melucci,
Lisa Alberto. 1996. Challenging Codes: Collective
Peñaloza SaraAction
Steenin the Information Age,
Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press
Meyer,
Bus 468David S. 2007. The Politics of Protest: Social219
Movements
Ketchum in America. Oxford Press.
Hall
Nash, June.of(Ed.)
University 2005. Social Movements: An Anthropological
Colorado University of Reader. Blackwell: Malden MA
Colorado
Snow,
Boulder,David, Sarah Soule and Hanspeter Kriesi (Eds.)
CO 80309 2004, 2007.
Boulder, CO 80309
The Blackwell Companion to
Social Movements. Blackwell: Malden MA
Staggenborg, Suzanne. 2008. Social Movements. Oxford University Press: New York
Tilly, Charles. 2004. Social Movements 1768-2004 Paradigm
Jan Phillips Publishers: Boulder
Joel Stillerman
Tilly, Charles
Department ofand Sidney
Social and Tarrow 2007. Contentious2166
Politics. Paradigm
AuSable Hall Publishers: Boulder
Lewiston, ME 04240
Newark, DE 19716
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Meghan Ashlin Rich
GRADUATE SYLLABI Anthropology
Newark, DE 19716
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Social Movements and Collective Action
Suzanne Staggenborg 519 McGuinn
Pearlman 103
McGill University 140 Commonwealth Ave.
Sociology MA
Waltham, 511,02454
Fall 2007 Chestnut Hill, MA 02467
lamiller@brandeis.edu Course Description
juliet.schor@bc.edu
Lisa course
The provides a graduate-level introduction to Sara
Peñaloza the study
Steenof social movements and
collective
College ofaction.
Business This is now a large area of study within political
Department of sociology
Sociologyand we will not be
able 468
Bus to survey all of the literature on the subject. Instead, we will read
219 Ketchum Hallsome of the interesting
recent workofinColorado
University the area and discuss some of the majorUniversity
theoreticalofissues.
ColoradoThe course will serve
as a guideCO
Boulder, for80309
further independent study of the field. Boulder, CO 80309
Course Requirements
1) Completion
Department of assigned
of Social and readings by the class dates 2166indicated
AuSable Hall
The following
University required Maine/
of Southern book is available at the university book MI
Allendale, store:
49401
Power in Movement:
Lewiston-Auburn Social Movements and Contentious
College Politics, Second Edition by Sidney
stillejo@gvsu.edu
Tarrow.
Lewiston, ME 04240Cambridge University Press, 1998.
There is also a required packet of readings available from Eastman
Department copy service
of Sociology and in the
universityAshlin
Meghan bookstore.
Rich With the exception of the Tarrow book, assigned readings listed on the
Anthropology
course outline
Department of can all be found
Sociology in the course pack. The
and Criminal Ohio course pack and Tarrow book are also on
University
library reserve.
2) Class participation
Newark, DE 19716
Each student will be required to participate in discussions of the course
Department readings. Beginning the
of Marketing
second
George week
Ritzerof class, each student should prepare one discussion
Eller College question or comment for each
of Management
assigned
Departmentreading. Your questions may be preceded by
of Sociology a brief comment
University or you may write a short
of Arizona
comment
University(rather than a question) that we can discuss.Tucson,
of Maryland They may focus on one particular reading,
AZ 85721
or compare
College arguments
Park, MD 20742 in two or more, including readings previously assigned compared with
one or more of the current week’s readings. These should be typed and handed in each class.
ritzer@socy.umd.edu
We will get to as many student questions as we can duringFrederickthe Wherry
class period. Please do not make
your
J. questions/comments
Michael Ryan excessively long. The following is an example
Department of the type of questions
of Sociology
and brief comments
Department that I want you to come up with University
of Sociology for each reading:
of Michigan
CollegeStaggenborg
Park, MD 20742in “Social Movement Communities and Cycles of Protest” advances a view
ffwherry@umich.edu
of social movements as consisting of a range of different types of mobilizing structures
mryan@socy.umd.edu
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
8
200
Laura Miller based on your prepared questions/comments,
participation, attendance, and contributions to class
Juliet Schor
discussions, of
Department will count for 35% of the final grade. 519 McGuinn
Sociology
3) Research
Brandeis paper
Each student will be required to write a paper on a topic
lamiller@brandeis.edu related to the study of social movements
juliet.schor@bc.edu
and collective action. You need not do original empirical research, but may base the paper on
secondary
Lisa sources. The paper might focus on a question
Peñaloza Sara related
Steen to a particular social movement
of interest
College of (e.g., how the women's movement maintains
Business itself). Or
Department ofyou might focus on a general
Sociology
theoretical
Bus 468 issue of interest (e.g., the role of social networks in recruitment
219 Ketchum Hall to social movements).
I have provided
Boulder, CO 80309 a bibliography on the class website and put the
Boulder, COfollowing
80309 books, which might be
helpful to you in writing your papers, on reserve at the
library:
Jan Phillips Perspectives on Social Movements edited

Comparative JoelbyStillerman
Doug McAdam, John D. McCarthy,
and Mayer N.
Department ofZald.
SocialCambridge
and University Press, 1996.
2166 AuSable Hall
The Blackwell
University Companion
of Southern to Social Movements, edited
Maine/ by David
Allendale, MI Snow,
49401 Sarah Soule and
Hanspeter Kriesi. College
Lewiston-Auburn Blackwell Publishing, 2004. stillejo@gvsu.edu
Lewiston, ME 04240
You are required to submit a proposal for the paper (approximately
jphillip@bates.edu Deborah Thorneone typed page in length) by
th
the 5 week of class (Oct 4), at the latest. You should each talk to
Department ofme individually
Sociology and about your
research Ashlin
Meghan topic. IRich
can help you formulate a research question and point you to books and articles
Anthropology
on the topic.of
Department The paper will
Sociology andcount for 65% of the final
Criminal grade
Ohio and is due the last day of class. The
University
suggested length for the paper is 20 double-spaced, typed
Justice Athens,pages.
OH 45701
Newark, DE 19716
megrich@udel.edu
COURSE OUTLINE Melanie Wallendorf
Date
George Ritzer Topics and Readings Eller College of Management
University
I. of Maryland
INTRODUCTION Tucson, AZ 85721
Sept 6 Introduction to theories of social movements
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McAdam, McCarthy and Zald, "Social Movements"
Frederick Wherry
J. Michael Ryan Turner, "Collective Behavior and Resource Mobilization
Department as Approaches to Social
of Sociology
Department of Movements"
Sociology University of Michigan
McCarthy and Zald, “The Enduring Vitality
University of Maryland of theMI
Ann Arbor, Resource
48109 Mobilization Theory
College Park, MD of Social
20742Movements” ffwherry@umich.edu
Pichardo, “New Social Movements: A Critical Review”
mryan@socy.umd.edu
II. CULTURAL AND POLITICAL CONTEXTS AND DYNAMICS
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Laura13Miller Political Opportunities and Processes Juliet Schor
Sept
Department of Tarrow,
Sociology pp. 1-105 519 McGuinn
Pearlman 103 Meyer, "Protest and political opportunities"
McAdam, Tarrow, and Tilly, ChapterBoston
Brandeis University 2 from College
Dynamics of Contention
Sept 20 Cycles of Protest
Tarrow, pp. 106-175
Lisa Peñaloza Koopmans, "The Dynamics of ProtestSara Waves"
Steen
Snow and Benford, "Master Frames and
College of Business Cycles ofofProtest"
Department Sociology
Bus 468 Taylor, “Social Movement Continuity” 219 Ketchum Hall
Sept 27 CO 80309
Boulder, Culture and collective action Boulder, CO 80309
Gusfield, "Social Movements and Social
penaloza@colorado.edu Change"
steen@colorado.edu
Polletta, “Culture In and Outside Institutions”
Jan Phillips Zald, “Ideologically Structured Action” Joel Stillerman
Department of Rochon,
Social and“The Acceptance of New Cultural Values” Hall
2166 AuSable
Armstrong and Crage, “Movements and
Behavioral Science Memory”
Grand Valley State University
Oct 4
Lewiston-Auburn Collective
Collegeaction frames and mass mediastillejo@gvsu.edu
Benford and Snow, “Framing Processes and Social Movements: An Overview
Lewiston, ME 04240
and Assessment”
Gitlin, Chapter 2 from The Whole World is Watching
Meghan AshlinGerhards
Rich and Rucht, “Mesomobilization: Organizing and Framing in Two Protest
Anthropology
Department of Campaigns
Sociology andin West Germany”
Criminal Ohio University
Justice Benford, “Frame Disputes within the Athens,
Nuclear OHDisarmament
45701 Movement”
Bob, “Marketing Rebellion”
Newark, DE 19716
megrich@udel.edu
***PAPER PROPOSAL DUE*** Melanie Wallendorf
George Ritzer PSYCHOLOGICAL PROCESSESEller College of Management
III. SOCIAL
Oct 11 Social
University psychological perspectives
of Maryland Tucson, AZ 85721
Snow and Oliver, "Social Movements and Collective Behavior: Social
ritzer@socy.umd.edu
Psychological Dimensions and Considerations"
Frederick Wherry
J. Michael Ryan Klandermans, "The Transformation ofDepartment
Discontent ofinto Action"
Sociology
Department of Jasper, “The Emotions of Protest” University of Michigan
Sociology
Gould, “Life During Wartime: Emotions
University of Maryland Annand the Development
Arbor, MI 48109 of Act Up”
College Park, MDNepstad
20742 and Smith, “The Social Structure of Moral Outrage in Recruitment to the
ffwherry@umich.edu
U.S. Central America Peace Movement”
mryan@socy.umd.edu
Oct 18 Collective identity
Polletta and Jasper, “Collective Identity and Social Movements”

Taylor and Whittier, "Collective Identity in Social Movement Communities"
10
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Laura Miller Whittier, “Political Generations, Micro-Cohorts,
Juliet Schorand the Transformation of Social
Movements”
Pearlman 103 Bernstein, Mary, “Celebration and Suppression: The Strategic
140 Commonwealth Ave.Uses of Identity by
Brandeis University the Lesbian and Gay Movement” Boston College
Waltham, MA Jenson,
02454 "What's in a Name? Nationalist Movements
Chestnut and02467
Hill, MA Public Discourse"
Lisa ORGANIZATION
IV. Peñaloza AND MOBILIZATION Sara Steen
Oct
Bus 25
468Micromobilization 219 Ketchum Hall
Snow et al., "Social Networks and Social
University of Colorado Movements"
University of Colorado
McAdam and Paulsen, "Specifying the
Boulder, CO 80309 Relationship
Boulder, between Social Ties and
CO 80309
Activism"
Diani, “Networks and Participation”
Jan Phillips Hirsch, “Sacrifice for the Cause” Joel Stillerman
Department of Veltmeyer
Social and and Petras, “The Social Dynamics of Brazil’s
2166 AuSable Hall Rural Landless Workers’
Movement”
Nov 1
Lewiston-AuburnMobilizing
College Structures stillejo@gvsu.edu
Minkoff and McCarthy, “Reinvigorating the Study of Organizational Processes in
Lewiston, ME 04240
Social Movements”
Staggenborg, “Social Movement Communities
Department andofCycles of Protest”
Sociology and
Meghan AshlinKatzenstein,
Rich “Stepsisters: Feminist Movement Activism in Different Institutional
Anthropology
Department of Spaces”
Sociology and Criminal Ohio University
Justice Ayres, “From the Streets to the Internet”
Athens, OH 45701
Nov 8 DE 19716
Newark, Organization and Strategy
Tilly, "Social Movements and National
megrich@udel.edu Politics"
Melanie Wallendorf
McAdam, "Tactical Innovation and the Pace of Insurgency"
George Ritzer Ganz, “Resources and Resourcefulness” Eller College of Management
Department of Rootes,
Sociology“Facing South?” University of Arizona
Tarrow, “Shifting the Scale of Contention”
University of Maryland Tucson, (Chapter 7 from The New
AZ 85721
Transnational
College Park, MD 20742 Activism) mwallendorf@eller.arizona.edu
ritzer@socy.umd.edu
Nov 15 Coalitions Frederick Wherry
J. Michael RyanStaggenborg, "Coalition Work in the Pro-Choice
Department Movement"
of Sociology
Department of Carroll and Ratner, “Master Framing University
Sociology and Cross-Movement
of MichiganNetworking in
Contemporary Social Movements” Ann Arbor, MI 48109
University of Maryland
Wood,”
College Park, MD 20742Bridging the Chasms” ffwherry@umich.edu
Bandy, “Paradoxes of Transnational Civil Societies under Neoliberalism”
mryan@socy.umd.edu
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"
11
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Laura Miller Almeida, “Opportunity OrganizationsJuliet
and Threat-Induced
Schor Contention”
Department of Earl, “Controlling Protest”
Sociology 519 McGuinn
Nov 29 University
Brandeis Outcomes of Social Movements Boston College
Waltham, MA Giugni,
02454 “Was it Worth the Effort?” Chestnut Hill, MA 02467
Gamson, “Social Movements and Cultural
lamiller@brandeis.edu Change”
juliet.schor@bc.edu
Andrews, “Explaining the Consequences of Social Movements”
Lisa Peñaloza Tarrow, pp. 176-210 Sara Steen
***ALL PAPERS DUE*** University of Colorado

Lewiston, ME 04240
Newark, DE 19716
ritzer@socy.umd.edu
Frederick Wherry
mryan@socy.umd.edu
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Laura
SocialMiller
Movements Juliet Schor
Michael Schwartz and Louis Esparza 519 McGuinn
Pearlman 103
State University of New York, Stony Brook 140 Commonwealth Ave.
Sociology MA
Waltham, 595-01
02454 Chestnut Hill, MA 02467
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.SaraThisSteen
unresolved tension is carried through
the rest of
College of the course, as it explores some thematic areas
Business including
Department ofleadership,
Sociology guerilla
movements,
Bus 468 the Women’s Movement, “normal” politics, global movements,
219 Ketchum Hall and others.
Social movements
Boulder, CO 80309can be defined as: Boulder, CO 80309
collectivities acting with some degree of organization
penaloza@colorado.edu and continuity outside of
steen@colorado.edu
institutional or organizational channels for the purpose of challenging or defending extant
authority, whether it is institutionally or culturally
Jan Phillips based, in the group, organization,
Joel Stillerman
society,
Department culture,
of Social or world order of which they2166
and are aAuSable
part (Snow,
Hallet. al. 2004; Session 1).
There is a wide
University range ofMaine/
of Southern perspectives including atomistic conceptions
Allendale, of movement actors,
MI 49401
power analyses, structural
Lewiston-Auburn College perspectives, and recently,stillejo@gvsu.edu
cultural understandings. The course will
introduce students
Lewiston, ME 04240 to the key issues in the field. Topics include the role of leadership in social
movement organizations, the boundary between social
jphillip@bates.edu movements
Deborah Thorneand revolutions, transnational
social movement dynamics, measuring social movement outcomes,
Department and institutional
of Sociology and forms of
resistance.
The course is structured to emphasize lasting contributions
Justice Athens,toOHthe45701
body of social movement
research, while
University drawing attention to key, contemporary
of Delaware debates. In the first part of the course, we
thorned@ohio.edu
will review
Newark, DEmajor
19716social movement theories; in later weeks, readings will be organized
thematically. This should serve as both a theoretical Melanie
megrich@udel.edu grounding and a field map, with the
Wallendorf
intention of highlighting exciting areas for further research (We have
Department provided an extended
of Marketing
reading Ritzer
George list at the end for your reference). Eller College of Management
The course of
University will be run as a seminar. This means thatTucson,
Maryland each session will be primarily a discussion
AZ 85721
rather than
College a lecture.
Park, MD 20742You should be prepared to discuss the readings that are listed under a given
week during the class occurring in that week. Each student will be responsible for preparing at
ritzer@socy.umd.edu
least one of the sessions, with or without a partner, depending
Frederick on enrollment. This will include
Wherry
pre-reading
J. the material, trimming it if necessary andDepartment
Michael Ryan posing studyof questions
Sociologythat everyone must
be prepared to
Department of discuss.
Sociology For sessions that are not prepared by a student,
University we may require short
of Michigan
essays at the
University ofbeginning
Maryland of the session about a key issue,
Annwhich
Arbor,will
MIbe written and then read to
48109
the class.Park, MD 20742
College ffwherry@umich.edu
mryan@socy.umd.edu
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.
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A list of required
Department readings is presented in the course 519
of Sociology outline below. We have ordered six books
McGuinn
(available 103
Pearlman at Stony Books) that we strongly recommend 140 purchasing,
Commonwealthnot only
Ave.because we use
them extensively,
Brandeis but also because they represent watershed
University moments in the field and will
Boston College
provide theMA
Waltham, genesis for a social movements library. You
02454 can also
Chestnut Hill,search for the books online at
MA 02467
www.fetchbook.info.
Lisa Peñaloza
Andrews, Kenneth T. 2004. Freedom is a Sara SteenStruggle: The Mississippi Civil
Constant
College of Business DepartmentofofChicago:
Rights Movement and Its Legacy. University Sociology
Chicago.
Bus 468 Goodwin, Jeff and James M. Jasper (Ed). 2004.
219 Ketchum Hall
Rethinking Social Movements:
Structure, Meaning, and Emotion. University
Rowman &ofLittlefield
ColoradoPublishers: New
York.
McAdam, Doug. 1982. Political Process and the Development of the Black
Jan Phillips Insurgency, 1930-1970. UniversityJoel
of Chicago Press: Chicago.
Stillerman
Department McAdam,
of SocialDoug,
and Sidney Tarrow and Charles2166 Tilly. 2001.Hall
AuSable Dynamics of Contention.
Behavioral Science 2001. Cambridge University Press:Grand
New York.
Valley State University
UniversityPiven, Frances
of Southern Fox and Richard A. Cloward.
Maine/ 1979. Poor
Allendale, MI 49401
People’s Movements: Why
Lewiston-Auburn They Succeed, How They Fail. Vintage Books: New York.
Lewiston, Schwartz,
ME 04240Michael. 1976. Radical Protest and Social Structure: The Southern
Deborah
jphillip@bates.eduFarmers’ Alliance and Cotton Tenancy, Thorne University of Chicago:
1880-1890.
Chicago. Department of Sociology and
Department
COURSE OUTLINEof Sociology and Criminal Ohio University
Justice
SECTION I: SOCIAL MOVEMENT PERSPECTIVES Athens, OH 45701
University
Session 1 -of Delaware to the Course
Introduction thorned@ohio.edu
Newark, DE 19716
Readings:
Garner, Roberta. 1997. “Fifty Years of Social Movement
Department Theory: An Interpretation”
of Marketing
George Ritzer in Social Movement Theory and Research: An Annotated
Eller College Bibliographical
of Management
Guide. By Roberta Garner and John
Department of Sociology Tenuto. Magill
University Bibliographies, Scarecrow
of Arizona
Press and Salem Press: Lanham, MD.
University of Maryland [pp. 1-58]
Tucson, AZ 85721
Snow,
College Park, MDDavid
20742A., Sarah A. Soule and Hanspeter Kriesi. 2004. “Mapping the Terrain”
ritzer@socy.umd.eduin The Blackwell Companion to Social Movements. Blackwell Publishing:
Malden. [pp. 3-16] Frederick Wherry
mryan@socy.umd.edu
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Laura Miller
Other Relevant Readings: Juliet Schor
DepartmentSnow,
David A. 2006. “Are There Really Awkward Movements or Only Awkward
Research Relationships.” Mobilization 11(4): 495-500.
Waltham, MA Snow, David A. and Danny Trom. 2002.Chestnut
02454 “The Case Study
Hill, MAand the Study of Social
02467
Movements”
lamiller@brandeis.edu in Methods of Social Movement Research by
juliet.schor@bc.eduKlandermans, Bert and
Suzanna Staggenborg. University of Minnesota Press: Minneapolis. [pp. 146-172]
Session
College 2of–Business
Collective Behavior Department of Sociology
Readings:
Boulder, COFantasia, Rick. 1989. Cultures of Solidarity.
80309 University
Boulder, of California Press. [3-24; 75-
CO 80309
120].
Olson, Mancur. 1971. The Logic of Collective Action. Harvard University Press:
Jan Phillips Cambridge. [pp. 5-22; 132-167]. Joel Stillerman
Runciman, Walter Garrison. 1966. Relative deprivation and social justice: a study of
attitudes to social inequality in twentieth-century England. University of
California Press: Berkeley. [pp. 9-35].
Schwartz,
Lewiston, ME 04240 Michael. 1976. Radical Protest and Social Structure: The Southern
jphillip@bates.edu Farmers’ Alliance and Cotton Tenancy,
Deborah Thorne University of Chicago:
1880-1890.
Chicago. [pp. 135-153]. Department of Sociology and
Smelser,
Meghan Ashlin RichNeil J. 1963. Theory of CollectiveAnthropology
Behavior. [1-22; 270-312].
Zald, M. and R.and Criminal
Ash. Ohio Organizations:
1966. “Social Movement University Growth, Decay, and
Justice Change.” Social Forces (44): 327-40. Athens, OH 45701
OtherDE
Newark, relevant
19716 readings
Turner, R.H. and L. Killian. 1957. Collective
megrich@udel.edu Behavior.
Melanie Prentice-Hall: Englewood
Wallendorf
Cliffs, NJ. [17-34; 241-261]. Department of Marketing
Session 3 - Political
Department of SociologyProcess and Resource Mobilization
University of Arizona
University of
Readings: Maryland Tucson, AZ 85721
Bosi, Lorenzo. 2006. “The Dynamics of Social Movement Development: Northern
ritzer@socy.umd.edu
Ireland’s Civil Rights Movement in the 1960’s.” Mobilization 11(1): 81-100.
Frederick Wherry
McAdam, Doug. 1982. Political Process Department
J. Michael Ryan and the Development of the Black
of Sociology
Insurgency,
Department of Sociology 1930-1970. University of Chicago Press: Chicago.
University of Michigan [pp. 22-64;
117-180; 230-234].
McCarthy,
College Park, MD 20742John D. and Mayer N. Zald. 1977. “Resource Mobilization and Social
ffwherry@umich.edu
mryan@socy.umd.edu Movements: A Partial Theory.” American Journal of Sociology 82(6): 1212-
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].
15
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Laura Miller
Other Relevant Readings Juliet Schor
DepartmentRule, James and Charles Tilly. 1975. “Political
of Sociology Process in Revolutionary France,
519 McGuinn
Pearlman 103 1830-1832. In Jonathan M. Merriman
140(ed.)
Commonwealth Ave.New Viewpoints:
1830 in France.
Brandeis UniversityNew York. Boston College
lamiller@brandeis.edu
Session 4 – Activist Perspectives juliet.schor@bc.edu
Readings:
Schwartz,
College of Business Michael. 1976. Radical Protest and Social Structure:
Department The Southern
of Sociology
Bus 468 Farmers’ Alliance and Cotton Tenancy, 1880-1890.
219 Ketchum Hall University of Chicago:
Chicago. [pp. 91-133; 155-198]. University of Colorado
Boulder, COFlacks,
80309Richard. 2003. “Knowledge for What? Thoughts
Boulder, on the State of Social
CO 80309
Movement
penaloza@colorado.edu Studies” in Rethinking Social Movements
steen@colorado.edu by Jeff Goodwin and
James Jasper (Ed.). Rowman & Littlefield: Lanham, MD.
Lynd,
Jan Phillips Staughton. 1989. “Intellectuals, theJoel
University, and the Movement.” The
Stillerman
and of American History 76(2):2166
Journal
Department of Social 479-86.
AuSable Hall
BehavioralMorris,
ScienceAldon. 1984. Origins of the Civil Rights Valley StateFree
Grand Movement. Press. [195-228;
University
275-290].
Other Relevant Readings:
Lewiston, ME 04240
Bevington, Douglas and Chris Dixon. 2005.
jphillip@bates.edu “Movement-relevant
Deborah Thorne Theory: Rethinking
Social Movement Scholarship and Department
Activism.” Social Movement
of Sociology and Studies
Meghan Ashlin Rich 4(3):185-208. Anthropology
Session
Justice 5 - Social Movement Frames Athens, OH 45701
University of Delaware
Reading: thorned@ohio.edu
Newark, DE 19716
Gamson, William A. and David S. Meyer. 1996. “Framing political opportunity.”
Comparative Perspectives on Social Movements by Doug McAdam, McCarthy
and Zald (Ed.). Cambridge University Press: Newof
Department Marketing
York. [Entire].
Snow, David A. and R. D. Benford. 1988. Ideology, frame resonance, and participant
Department of mobilization.
Sociology International Social MovementUniversity of Arizona
Research, 1, 197-217.
UniversitySnow,
of Maryland
David, Steven Worden Rochford andTucson,
Robert AZ 857211986. “Frame Alignment
Benford.
College Park, MD 20742Micromobilization, and Movement
Process, mwallendorf@eller.arizona.edu
Participation.” American
ritzer@socy.umd.edu
Sociological Review 51: 464-481.
Frederick Wherry
Session 6 – Repertoires
Department of Sociologyand Movement Cycles University of Michigan
Readings: Ann Arbor, MI 48109
Tarrow,
mryan@socy.umd.edu Sidney. 1995. “Cycles of Collective Action: Between Moments of Madness
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].
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-------------. 1986. The Contentious French.Juliet
Laura Miller Harvard
SchorUniversity Press: Cambridge,
MA. [pp. 351-404].
Pearlman 103
Brockett, Charles D. 1993. “A Protest-Cycle 140Resolution
Commonwealth Ave.
of the Repression/Popular-
Brandeis University Boston 17(3):
Protest Paradox.” Social Science History College457-84.
Other Relevant Readings:
Rucht, Dieter. 2003. “Overcoming the Classical Model?” Mobilization 8(1):112-116.
Zald, Mayer and John McCarthy. 1979. Dynamics
Lisa Peñaloza Sara Steen of Social Movements: Resource
College of Business LittleofBrown
Department
Mobilization, Social Control and Tactics. & Co.
Sociology
Bus 468
Session 7 - Culture 219 Ketchum Hall
Readings:
Jasper, James
penaloza@colorado.edu M. 1997. The Art of Moral Protest: Culture, Biography, and Creativity
steen@colorado.edu
in Social Movements. University of Chicago Press: Chicago. [Chapters 3-5].
Jan PhillipsGoodwin, Jeff and James M. Jasper. 2004.Joel “Caught in a Winding, Snarling Vine: The
Stillerman
Department of SocialStructural
and Bias of Political Process2166Theory” in Rethinking
AuSable Hall Social Movements:
Behavioral Science Structure, Meaning, and Emotion by Goodwin,
Grand ValleyJeff and
State James M. Jasper (ed.).
University
Rowman
University of Southern & Littlefield Publishers: Allendale,
Maine/ New York.MI 49401
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.
jphillip@bates.eduJasper (Ed.). Rowman & LittlefieldDeborahPublishers:
ThorneNew York. [Entire].
Department
Thompson, E. P. 1971. “The Moral Economy of the English of Sociology
Crowd and
in the Eighteenth
Century.” Past and Present 50: 76-136.
Other Relevant Readings
UniversityGoodwin,
of Delaware Jeff and James M. Jasper. 2004.thorned@ohio.edu
“Trouble in Paradigms” in Rethinking
Newark, DE 19716 Social Movements: Structure, Meaning, and Emotion by Goodwin, Jeff and
megrich@udel.eduJames M. Jasper (Ed.). Rowman &Melanie Littlefield Publishers: New York. [Entire].
Wallendorf
Department
Tarrow, Sidney. 1999. “Paradigm Warriors: Regress and of Marketing
Progress in the Study of
George Ritzer Contentious Politics.” Sociological Forum (14)1:of71-77.
Eller College Management
Session 8 - Dynamics of Contention
Readings:
ritzer@socy.umd.edu
McAdam, Doug, Sidney Tarrow and Charles Tilly. 2001.
Frederick Wherry Dynamics of Contention.
J. Michael Ryan 2001. Cambridge University Press: New York..
Department of[Selections].
Sociology
Department Symposium on Dynamics of Contention in Mobilization 8(1).
of Sociology University of Michigan
College Park, MD 20742
SECTION II: THEMATIC SESSIONS ffwherry@umich.edu
mryan@socy.umd.edu
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.
17
200
Laura
SessionMiller
10 – Leadership Juliet Schor
Readings:
Piven,
Brandeis UniversityFrances Fox and Richard A. Cloward. 1979.
Boston Poor People’s Movements: Why
College
Waltham, MA 02454 They Succeed, How They Fail. Vintage Books:
Chestnut Hill,New
MAYork.
02467[pp. 1-40; 96-180].
Gamson, William A. and Emilie Schmeidler.
lamiller@brandeis.edu 1984. “Organizing the Poor.” Theory
juliet.schor@bc.edu
and Society 13(4): 567-585.
Polletta, Francesca. 2002. Freedom is an Endless
Meeting: Democracy in American
College of BusinessSocial Movements. University of Chicago Press:
Department ofChicago.
Sociology[pp. 1-25 (26-54
Bus 468 suggested)]. 219 Ketchum Hall
UniversityMorris,
of Colorado
Aldon and Suzanne Staggenborg. University of Colorado
2004. “Leadership in Social Movements” in
Boulder, CO 80309 The Blackwell Companion to Social Movements80309
Boulder, CO By David A. Snow, Sarah A.
penaloza@colorado.edu
Soule, and Hanspeter Kriesi (Ed.). steen@colorado.edu
Blackwell: Malden MA. [Entire].
Nepstad, Sharon Erickson and Clifford Bob. 2006. “When Do Leaders Matter?
Hypotheses on Leadership Dynamics in Social Movements.” Mobilization
(11)1: 1-22.
Sitrin, Marina. 2006. Horizontalism: Voices of Popular Power in Argentina.
AK Press. [pp. 1-66].
Michels,
Lewiston, ME 04240 Robert. 1915. Political Parties: A Sociological Study of the Oligarchical
jphillip@bates.edu Tendencies of Modern Democracy. The
DeborahFreeThorne
Press: New York. [pp. 25-96].
Entire book is available online, with different pagination
Department of Sociologyat and
Meghan Ashlin Rich http://socserv.mcmaster.ca/econ/ugcm/3ll3/michels/polipart.pdf.
Anthropology
Session 11 - Guerilla Movements & Revolutions
Readings:
Newark, DE 19716
Wood, Elizabeth Jean. 2003. Insurgent Collective
megrich@udel.edu MelanieAction and Civil War in El Salvador.
Wallendorf
Cambridge University Press: New York. [pp. 226-256].
Goodwin, Jeff. 2001. No Other Way Out. Cambridge
George Ritzer University
Eller College Press. [pp 59-63;
of Management
(chapter
Department of Sociology 1 suggested)]. University of Arizona
UniversityPaige, Jeffery M. 1978. Agrarian Revolution:
of Maryland Tucson,
SocialAZ 85721 and Export
Movements
College Park, MD 20742 in the Underdeveloped World.
Agriculture Free Press. [pp. 278-333 (chapter 1
suggested)].
ritzer@socy.umd.edu
Schwartz, Michael. 2006. “Contradictions of Frederick
the Iraq Wherry
Resistance: Guerilla War vs.
J. Michael Ryan Terrorism.” Against the Current 120 (Jan/Feb). of Sociology
Department
College Park, MD 20742
Session 12 – Global Movements ffwherry@umich.edu
mryan@socy.umd.edu
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.
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Tarrow, Sidney. 2005. The New Transnational
Laura Miller Juliet Activism.
Schor Cambridge University Press.
[pp. 15-34; 183-200].
della Porta, Donatella and Sidney Tarrow,140
Pearlman 103 eds.Commonwealth Ave. Protest and
2004. Transnational
Brandeis University Boston[pp.
Global Action. Rowman and Littlefield. College
1-14].
Smith, Jackie and Dawn Wiest. 2005. “The Uneven Geography of Global Civil
Society: National and Global Influences on Transnational Association.” Social
Forces 84(2): 621-652.
Smith, Jackie,
College of Business Charles Chatfield and Ron Pagnucco
Department (Eds.). 1998. Transnational Social
of Sociology
Bus 468 Movements and Global Politics: 219 Ketchum Hall State. Syracuse
Solidarity Beyond the
University Press. [p. 42-77]
Boulder,
OtherCO 80309 Readings
Relevant Boulder, CO 80309
Guidry, John A., Michael D. Kennedy andsteen@colorado.edu
Mayer N. Zald, eds. 2000. Globalizations
and Social Movements: Culture, Power, and the Transnational Public Sphere.
Jan Phillips University of Michigan Press. Joel Stillerman
Bandy, Jo and Jackie Smith. 2004. Coalitions Across Borders: Transnational Protest
and the Neo-Liberal Order. Rowman & Littlefield.
O’Brien,College
Lewiston-Auburn Robert, et al. 2000. Contesting Global Governance. Multilateral Institutions
stillejo@gvsu.edu
Lewiston, ME 04240 and Global Social Movements. Cambridge University Press.
Tsutsui, Kiyoteru. 2006. “Redressing PastDeborah
jphillip@bates.edu Human Rights
ThorneViolations: Global
Dimensions of Contemporary Social Movements.”
Department and 85(1): 331-
Social Forces
of Sociology
Meghan Ashlin Rich 354. Anthropology
Session 13 - Women’s Movements
Readings: thorned@ohio.edu
Newark, DE 19716
Einwohner, Rachel L, Hollander, Jocelyn A. and Toska Olson. 2000.
megrich@udel.edu“Engendering Social Movements: Melanie Cultural Wallendorf
Images and Movement
Dynamics.” Gender and Society 14(5):Department
679-99.of Marketing
Ferree, Myra
Department of Sociology Marx and Carol McClurg Mueller. 2004.
University of“Feminist
Arizona and the Women’s
Movement: A Global Perspective”Tucson,
University of Maryland In The Blackwell
AZ 85721Companion to Social
Movements
College Park, MD 20742 by Snow, David A., Sarah A. Soule and Hanspeter Kriesi.
ritzer@socy.umd.eduBlackwell Publishing: Malden. [pp. 576-607].
Freeman, Jo. 1973. “The Origins of the Women's
FrederickLiberation
Wherry Movement.”
J. Michael Ryan American Journal of Sociology 78(4): 792-811.of Sociology
Department
hooks, bell.
Department of Sociology 1991 [1981]. Ain't I a Woman?: Black
Universitywomen and feminism. South
of Michigan
End Press. Chapter 4.
College Park, MD 20742Holly J. 2003. "’Out of the Parlors
McCammon, and into the Streets’: The
ffwherry@umich.edu
mryan@socy.umd.edu Changing Tactical Repertoire of the U.S. Women's Suffrage
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.
19
200
Department Sociology and “Normal” Politics 519 McGuinn
Session 14 –ofMovements
Readings:
Waltham, MAPiven, Frances Fox and Richard A. Cloward.
02454 1979. Hill,
Chestnut PoorMA People’s
02467Movements: Why
They
lamiller@brandeis.edu Succeed, How They Fail. Vintage Books: New
juliet.schor@bc.edu York. [pp. 267-361].
Schwartz, Michael. 1976. Radical Protest and Social Structure: The Southern
Lisa Peñaloza Farmers’ Alliance and Cotton Tenancy, 1880-1890. University of Chicago:
Sara Steen
College of Business Chicago. [pp. 201-287]. Department of Sociology
Bus 468 Goldstone, Jack A. 2003. “Introduction: Bridging Institutionalized
219 Ketchum Hall and Non-
Institutionalized Politics” in States,University
University of Colorado Social Movements by Jack A.
of Colorado
Parties, and
Boulder, CO 80309 Goldstone (Ed.). Cambridge University Press.
Boulder, CO[pp. 1-26].
80309
Tilly, Charles. 2003. “Afterward: Agendas for Students of Social Movements” in
States, Parties, and Social Movements by Jack A. Goldstone (ed.). Cambridge
Jan Phillips University Press. [246-256]. Joel Stillerman
Behavioral Science
Session 15 - New Social Movement Theory Grand Valley State University
Readings: College
Lewiston-Auburn stillejo@gvsu.edu
Lewiston, Melucci,
ME 04240Alberto. 1995. “The Process of Collective Identity” in Social Movements and
jphillip@bates.eduCulture by Johnston, Hank and Bert Klandermans.
Deborah Thorne University of Minnesota
Press: Minneapolis. Department of Sociology and
----------------. 1989. Nomads of the present:
social movements and individual needs in
Department of Sociology society. Temple University
and Criminal
contemporary Press. [p. 11-81]
Ohio University
Justice Pizzorno A. 1978. Political exchange and Athens, OH
collective 45701in industrial conflict. In
identity
The Resurgence of Class Conflict in thorned@ohio.edu
Western Europe since 1968, By C Crouch,
Newark, DE 19716 A Pizzorno (ed.), pp. 277– 98. London: Macmillan
Cohen, Jean L. 1985. “Strategy or Identity:Department
New Theoretical Paradigms and
of Marketing
George Ritzer Contemporary Social Movements.” Social Research 52(4):
Eller College of Management 663-716.
Further Reading
Armstrong, Elizabeth. 2002. Forging Gay Identities: Organizing Sexuality in San Francisco,
ritzer@socy.umd.edu
1950-1994. University of Chicago Press: Chicago.
Frederick Wherry
Auyero, Javier.
J. Michael Ryan2003. Contentious Lives: Two Argentine Women,ofTwo
Department Protests, and the Quest
Sociology
Department of SociologyDuke University Press.
for Recognition. University of Michigan
Banaszak, Lee Ann.
University of Maryland1996. Why Movements Succeed or Fail:
Ann Opportunity,
Arbor, MI 48109 Culture, And the
CollegeStruggle
Park, MD Woman Suffrage. Princeton University
for20742 Press: Princeton.
ffwherry@umich.edu
Earl, Jennifer. 2006.
mryan@socy.umd.edu “Repression and the Social Control of Protest.” Mobilization (11)2: 129-
143.
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.
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McAdam,
Laura Miller Doug. 2004. “Revisiting the U.S. Civil Rights
JulietMovement:
Schor Toward a More Synthetic
Understanding
Department of the Origins of Contention” 519
of Sociology in Rethinking
McGuinn Social Movements: Structure,
Pearlman Meaning,
103 and Emotion by Goodwin, Jeff and140 James M. Jasper (Ed.).
Commonwealth Rowman &
Ave.
Brandeis Littlefield
UniversityPublishers: New York. Boston College
----------------
Waltham, MA1995.
02454“‘Initiator’ and ‘Spin-off’ Movements:
Chestnut Diffusion
Hill, MAProcesses
02467 in Protest
Cycles” in Repertoires and Cycles of Collective
lamiller@brandeis.edu Action by Traugott, Mark (Ed.). Duke
juliet.schor@bc.edu
University Press: Durham.
McCarthy,
Lisa PeñalozaJohn D. 1997. “The Globalization of SocialSaraMovement
Steen Theory” in Transnational
CollegeSocial
of Business
Movements and Global Politics: Solidarity
Department
Beyondofthe State by Smith, Jackie,
Sociology
Bus 468Charles Chatfield and Ron Pagnucco (ed.). Syracuse Univeristy
219 Ketchum Hall Press: Syracuse.
Meyer, David
University S. 2004. “Tending the Vineyard: Cultivating
of Colorado Political
University Process Research” in
of Colorado
CO 80309Social Movements by Jeff Goodwin
Boulder,Rethinking and James
Boulder, Jasper (Ed.). Rowman &
CO 80309
Littlefield: New York.
Meyer, David S. and Suzanne Staggenborg. 1996. “Movements, Countermovements, and the
Structure of Political Opportunity.” AmericanJoel
Jan Phillips Journal of Sociology 101(6): 1628-60.
Stillerman
Morris, Aldon.
Department 2000. “Reflections
of Social and on Social Movement
2166Theory:
AuSable Criticisms
Hall and Proposals.”
Contemporary
Behavioral Science Sociology 29(3): 445-54. Grand Valley State University
Tarrow, Sidney.
University 1998. Power
of Southern Maine/in Movement: Social Movements
Allendale, MIand49401
Contentious Politics.
Cambridge,College
Lewiston-Auburn UK: Cambridge University Press.stillejo@gvsu.edu
Lewiston, ME 04240
Newark, DE 19716
ritzer@socy.umd.edu
Frederick Wherry
mryan@socy.umd.edu
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Laura Miller of Gender and Social Protest
The Sociology Juliet Schor
Department
Benita Rothof Sociology 519 McGuinn
Pearlman 103
State University of New York, Binghamton 140 Commonwealth Ave.
Course Description:
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 Steenhas become particularly important.
Gender politics
College are seen as impacting social movements
of Business generally,
Department of in so far as gender is a social
Sociology
institution
Bus 468 (see Judith Lorber 1994, Paradoxes of Gender) that is continuously
219 Ketchum Hall constructed by
social actors.
University The politics of gender is part and parcel
of Colorado of the strategies,
University of Coloradoideologies, and
effectiveness
Boulder, of social movement politics.
In this course, we will consider primarily sociological work on the linked issues of feminism,
women’s
Jan movements, and gender politics in movement
Phillips Joelsettings.
Stillerman(It should be noted that at BU,
there are other
Department of courses
Social andthat consider women’s roles in social
2166 protest,Hall
AuSable but that they are based on
different scholarly
Behavioral Scienceliteratures). We will touch on core concerns
Grand Valleyof State
political sociology, such as
University
the constitution
University of power,
of Southern polity, protest, and the state,
Maine/ and we will
Allendale, consider the linked issues of
MI 49401
feminism, women’s
Lewiston-Auburn movements, and gender activismstillejo@gvsu.edu
College in movement and institutional settings.
Using literature
Lewiston, drawn from sociology, history and women’s studies, we will consider how the
ME 04240
inclusion of analyses of gender politics adds to knowledge
jphillip@bates.edu Deborah of Thorne
political contention generally.
Assessment:
Meghan AshlinThis is a seminar, which means that students
Rich should be prepared to read and
Anthropology
participate. of
Department In Sociology
fact, the success of the course lies with
and Criminal students.
Ohio Accordingly, I will ask for two
University
presentations: one based on a week’s set of course readings
Justice Athens,andOHa45701
second based on a student’s
chosen topic
University offor their paper, as described immediately
Delaware below. These presentations should NOT
thorned@ohio.edu
be longerDE
Newark, than19716
20 minutes, and must do more than simply summarize course readings. They
should present issues in the literature and end with questions
megrich@udel.edu Melanie for class discussion.
Wallendorf
One 15-20 page paper will be required, and students will be asked to turn in a draft/outline/or
whatever they have at the midway point of the seminar. The paper topic should be chosen in
consultation with me, and should ideally both focus more intently on one course theme and target
a student’s research interests. That is to say, I will work with students so that they write more in
ritzer@socy.umd.edu
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
critical assessment of debates and lacunae within the literature. Alternatively, and with my
permission, those students currently involved in activism would be encouraged to use that
experience in concert with course reading to analyze that experience. I would also be open to
projects that provide a critical assessment of popular media’s response to women and social
mryan@socy.umd.edu
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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COURSE Miller
SCHEDULE Juliet Schor
WEEK ONE: Logistics/overview of course/introductions/choosing presentations
WEEK
BrandeisTWO: SHIFTING CONDITIONS OF SOCIAL
University BostonPROTEST/CHANGING
College
Waltham,PARADIGMS
MA 02454 OF SOCIAL MOVEMENT THEORY Chestnut Hill, MA 02467
McCarthy, John D. and Mayer N. Zald. “Resource
Readings: Mobilization and Social
juliet.schor@bc.edu
Movements: A Partial Theory.” American Journal of Sociology 82:6.
-- Jenkins,
Lisa J. Craig. 1983. “Resource Mobilization Theory
Peñaloza and the Study of Social Movements.”
Sara Steen
CollegeAnnual Review of Sociology 9:527-53.
of Business Department of Sociology
--
BusGamson,
468 William A. 1992. “The Social Psychology 219ofKetchum
CollectiveHall
Action.” In Morris, Aldon
D. and
University Carol McClurg Mueller, editors. Frontiers
of Colorado University
in Social Movement Theory. New
of Colorado
Boulder,Haven and London: Yale University Press. Boulder, CO 80309
CO 80309
-- Cohen, Jean L. 1985. “Strategy or Identity: New Theoretical
penaloza@colorado.edu Paradigms and Contemporary
steen@colorado.edu
Social Movements.” Social Research 52:4 (Winter).
WEEK
Department
THREE: THE
of Social and“WHAT IS FEMINISM” DEBATE 2166 AuSable Hall
Readings: Mohanty, Chandra Talpade. 2003. Feminism
Behavioral Science Grand Without
ValleyBorders:
State University
Decolonizing Theory,
University
Practicing
of Southern Maine/Durham, NC: Duke University
Solidarity. Allendale,Press.
MI 49401
-- Rupp, Leila andCollege
Lewiston-Auburn Verta Taylor, 1999. “Forging Feminist Identity in an International
stillejo@gvsu.edu
Movement:
Lewiston, ME 04240 A Collective Identity Approach to Twentieth-Century Feminism.” Signs:
Winter 1999; 24, 2: 363-386.
-- Offen, Karen. 1988. “Defining Feminism: a Comparative Historical
Department Approach.”
of Sociology and Signs 14:1
Meghan(Autumn):119.
Ashlin Rich Anthropology
-- DuBois, Ellen
Department Carol, Karen
of Sociology Offen and Nancy F. Cott.
and Criminal Ohio1989. “Comment on Karen Offen’s
University
Justice `Defining Feminism: a Comparative Historical Approach.”
Athens, (Two comments each with
OH 45701
reply).
University Signs 15:1 (Autumn):195.
of Delaware thorned@ohio.edu
-- ChapterDE
Newark, One, “Forms of Female Revolt” in Chafetz, Janet S. and Anthony Gary Dworkin.
19716
1986. Female Revolt: Women’s Movements inMelanie
megrich@udel.edu World and Historical Perspective. Totowa,
Wallendorf
NJ: Rowman and Allenheld. Department of Marketing
-- Chapter
George One, “Reconstructing Social Protest fromEller
Ritzer a Feminist
CollegePerspective.”
of ManagementIn West, Guida and
Rhoda
Department of Lois Blumberg, editors. 1990. WomenUniversity
Sociology and SocialofProtest.
ArizonaNew York and Oxford:
Oxford
University University Press.
WEEK FOUR: SECOND WAVE WOMEN’S MOVEMENTS AND THE PROBLEM OF
ritzer@socy.umd.edu
ALLEGIANCE Frederick Wherry
Roth, Benita. 2004. Separate Roads to Feminism:
J. Michael Ryan
Readings: Department Black, Chicana, and White
of Sociology
Feminist Movements in America’s Second Wave. New York:
University Cambridge University
of Michigan
Press.
-- Garcia, Alma. 1990. "The Development of Chicana Feminist Discourse, 1970-1980." In
mryan@socy.umd.edu
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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-- Springer,
Laura MillerKimberly. 2001. “Practicing Politics in the Cracks:
Juliet SchorThe Interstitial Politics of Black
Feminist
Department Organizations” Meridians 1:2
Brandeis
WEEK FIVE: GENDER AND REPRODUCING EVERYDAY
University Boston College LIFE IN SOCIAL
Waltham,MOVEMENTS
MA 02454 Chestnut Hill, MA 02467
Readings: Payne, Charles. 1990. "Men Led: but Women
lamiller@brandeis.edu Organized: Movement Participation of
juliet.schor@bc.edu
Women in the Mississippi Delta." In Women in the Civil Rights Movement: Trailblazers
& Torchbearers 1941-1965, edited by Vicki L.
Lisa Peñaloza Crawford,
Sara Steen Jacqueline Anne Rouse, and
CollegeBarbara Woods. Bloomington & Indianapolis:
of Business Indiana University
Department Press.
of Sociology
Baca468
Bus Zinn, Maxine. 1975. "Political Familialism: Toward Sex RoleHall
219 Ketchum Equality in Chicano
Families."
University Aztlán 6:13-26.
of Colorado University of Colorado
Chapter 6,CO
Boulder, “Let the People Decide,” and Chapter 7, “The
80309 Failure
Boulder, COof Success – Women in the
80309
Movement,” in Evans, Sara. 1979. Personal Politics:
The Roots of Women's Liberation in
the Civil Rights Movement and the New Left. New York: Vintage Books.
Chapter 1, “Rethinking Social Movement Theory: Race,
Jan Phillips Joel Class, Gender and Culture,” and
Stillerman
Chapter
Department 2, “Exclusion,
of Social and Empowerment and Partnership;
2166 AuSable RaceHall
Gender Relations,” in
Robnett,
Behavioral Belinda. 1997. How Long? How Long?:
Science GrandAfrican-American Women in the
Struggle
University for Civil
of Southern Rights. New York and Oxford:
Maine/ OxfordMI
Allendale, University
49401 Press.
WEEK
Lewiston, METHE
SIX: 04240QUESTION OF MATERNALISM
Readings: Bayard de Volo, Lorraine. 2001. MothersDeborah
jphillip@bates.edu of Heroes and Martyrs: Gender Identity
Thorne
Politics in Nicaragua, 1979-1999. Baltimore Department
& London: The Johns Hopkins
of Sociology and University
MeghanPress
-- Kaplan, Temma.
Department 1982. and
of Sociology "Female Consciousness and
Criminal Collective
Ohio Action: The Case of Barcelona,
University
Justice 1910-1918." Signs 7:3 (Spring):545-566. Athens, OH 45701
-- Rita K. Noonan.
University 1997. “Women Against the State:thorned@ohio.edu
of Delaware Political Opportunities and Collective
Newark,Action Frames in Chile’s Transition to Democracy.” Pages 252-267 in Doug McAdam
DE 19716
and David A. Snow, editors. Social Movements:
megrich@udel.edu Readings
Melanie on their Emergence,
Wallendorf
Mobilization, and Dynamics. Los Angeles: RoxburyDepartmentPublishing Company.
of Marketing
WEEK SEVEN:
Department GENDER, SOCIALIST MOVEMENTS
of Sociology ANDof“TRANSITIONS”
University Arizona
Readings:
University ofGal, Susan, and Gail Kligman. 2000. TheTucson,
Maryland PoliticsAZof Gender
85721 after Socialism: A
CollegeComparative-historical
Park, MD 20742 Essay. Princeton, NJ:mwallendorf@eller.arizona.edu
Princeton University Press
-- Lavrin, Asuncíon. “Women, Labor and the Left: Argentina and Chile, 1890-1925.” Journal
ritzer@socy.umd.edu
of Women’s History (Fall 1989). Frederick Wherry
-- Michael
J. Chapter 12–
RyanWood, Elizabeth. 1996. “Class and Gender at Loggerheads
Department in the Early Soviet
of Sociology
State:ofWho
Department Should Organize the Female Proletariat
Sociology and of
University How?” and Chapter 13 – Weitz,
Michigan
EricofD.Maryland
University “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.
ffwherry@umich.edu
Gender and Class in Modern Europe. Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press.
mryan@socy.umd.edu
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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WEEK EIGHT: WOMEN IN THE LABOR MOVEMENT
Readings: Cobble,
Department Dorothy Sue. 2004. The Other Women’s
Movement: Workplace Justice and
Pearlman 103 Rights in Modern America. Princeton,140
Social NJ: Commonwealth
Princeton University
Ave. Press.
-- Kingsolver,
Brandeis Barbara. 1996 (1983). Holding the Line:
University Boston
WomenCollege
in the Great Arizona Mine Strike
Waltham, Ithaca and London: ILR Press.
MA 02454
of 1983. Chestnut Hill, MA 02467
-- Milkman, Ruth. 1985. “Women Workers, feminism
lamiller@brandeis.edu and the labor movement since the 1960s,”
juliet.schor@bc.edu
from Milkman, editor. Women, Work and Protest: A Century of US Women’s Labor
History. Boston: Routledge and Kegan Paul.Sara Steen
Lisa Peñaloza
College–of1990. “Gender and Trade Unionism in Historical
Business Perspective.”
Department In Tilly, Louise and
of Sociology
Bus 468Patricia Gurin, editors. Women, Politics, and 219
Social
Ketchum
Change. New York: Russell Sage
Hall
Foundation.
-- Kessler-Harris,
Boulder, CO 80309 Alice. 1985. “Problems of Coalition-Building:
Boulder, COWomen
80309 and Trade Unions in
the 1920s.” In Milkman, ibid.
-- Cameron, Ardis. 1985. "Bread and Roses Revisited: Women's Culture and Working Class
Activism in the Lawrence Strike of 1912." InJoel
Jan Phillips Milkman, ibid.
Stillerman
-- Aulette, Judy
Department and Trudy
of Social and Mills. 1988. "Something Old,
2166Something
AuSable HallNew: Auxiliary Work in the
1983-1986
Behavioral ScienceCopper Strike." Feminist Studies 14:2
Grand (Summer).
WEEK NINE: THE
Lewiston-Auburn INSTITUTIONALIZATION OF
College FEMININE/FEMINIST SPACE
stillejo@gvsu.edu
Readings:ME
Lewiston, Katzenstein,
04240 Mary F. 1998. Faithful and Fearless: Moving Feminist Protest inside the
Church and Military. Princeton, New Jersey: Deborah
jphillip@bates.edu PrincetonThorne
University Press.
-- Zippel, Kathrin S. 2006. The Politics of Sexual Harassment:
DepartmentAof Comparative
Sociology andStudy of the
MeghanUnited
AshlinStates,
Rich the European Union, and Germany. Cambridge: Cambridge University
Anthropology
Press.of Sociology and Criminal
Department Ohio University
-- Roth, Benita. 2006. "Gender Inequality and Feminist
Justice Activism
Athens, in Institutions: Challenges of
OH 45701
Marginalization
University of Delaware and Feminist Fading." Book thorned@ohio.edu
chapter in collection entitled The Politics of
Newark,Women's
DE 19716 Interests: New Comparative Perspectives, edited by Louise Chappell and Lisa
Hill. New York and London: Routledge Press.
WEEK TEN: ACCOUNTING FOR WOMEN IN RIGHT
George Ritzer WING of
Eller College MOVEMENTS
Management
Reading:
Department Blee, Kathleen M. 1991. Women of the Klan:
of Sociology Racismofand
University Gender in the 1920s.
Arizona
Berkeley,
University Los Angeles, and London: University
of Maryland of California
Tucson, AZ 85721Press.
-- Susan Park,
College E. Mannon. 2006. “Love in the Time of Neo-Liberalism:
MD 20742 Gender, Work, and Power in a
Costa Rican Marriage.” Gender & Society 20:4 (511-530).
ritzer@socy.umd.edu
-- Kandiyoti, Deniz. 1988. “Bargaining with Patriarchy.” Gender
Frederick & Society 2:3 (274-290).
Wherry
University
WEEK ELEVEN: GLOBAL FEMINIST ISSUES Ann Arbor, MI 48109
of Maryland
College
Readings: – Marx
Park, Ferree, Myra and Aili Mari Tripp.ffwherry@umich.edu
MD 20742 2006. Global Feminism: Transnational
Women’s Activism, Organizing, and Human Rights. New York: NYU Press.
mryan@socy.umd.edu
-- 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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-- Gilliam,
Laura MillerAngela. 1991 “Women’s Equality and National Liberation.” In Mohanty, ibid.
Juliet Schor
-- Accad, Evelyne.
Department 1991. “Sexuality and Sexual Politics:
of Sociology Conflicts and Contradictions for
519 McGuinn
Pearlman Contemporary
103 Women in the Middle East.” In Mohanty,
140 ibid.
Commonwealth Ave.
-- DuBois,University
Brandeis Ellen Carol. 1991. “Woman Suffrage andBoston
the LeftCollege
– an International Socialist-
Waltham, Feminist Perspective.” New Left Review (March-April,
MA 02454 N186):20-45.
Chestnut Hill, MA 02467
WEEK TWELVE: WOMEN AND COMMUNITY ORGANIZING
Readings:
Lisa Naples, Nancy, editor. 1998. Community Sara
Peñaloza Activism
Steenand Feminist Politics: Organizing
CollegeAcross Race, Class and Gender. New York and
of Business London: of
Department Routledge.
Sociology
-- Townsend
Bus 468 Gilkes, Chery. 1980. “’Holding Back the 219Ocean withHall
Ketchum a Broom’: Black Women and
Community
University Work. In The Black Woman, edited
of Colorado by La Frances
University Rodgers-Rose. Newbury
of Colorado
Boulder,Park,
CO CA:
80309Sage Publications. Boulder, CO 80309
-- Kaplan, Temma. 1997. Crazy for Democracy: Women
penaloza@colorado.edu in Grassroots Movements. New York
steen@colorado.edu
and London: Routledge Press.
Department
WEEK THIRTEEN: THE FUTURE OF GENDER2166
of Social and ANDAuSable
SOCIALHallPROTEST
SCHOLARSHIP
Readings: Chappell,
University Louise
of Southern and Lisa Hill, editors. 2006.
Maine/ The Politics
Allendale, of Women's Interests: New
MI 49401
Comparative
Lewiston-Auburn Perspectives. Routledge Press.stillejo@gvsu.edu
College
-- Morris, Aldon
Lewiston, D. 1992. "Political Consciousness and Collective Action." In Frontiers in Social
ME 04240
Movement Theory, edited by Morris and Carol
jphillip@bates.edu McClurg
Deborah Mueller. New Haven and
Thorne
London: Yale University Press. Department of Sociology and
-- Turbin,Ashlin
Meghan Carol,Rich
Laura L. Frader, Sonya O. Rose, Evelyn Nakano Glenn and Elizabeth Faue. “A
Anthropology
Roundtable
Department On Gender,
of Sociology Race, Class, Culture Ohio
and Criminal and Politics: Where Do We Go From
University
Justice Here?” Social Science History (Spring 1998).Athens, OH 45701
Newark, DE 19716
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Frederick Wherry
mryan@socy.umd.edu
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Movementsof Sociology
and Media in Latin America 519 McGuinn
Pearlman
Markus S.103 Schulz 140 Commonwealth Ave.
Brandeis
New York University
COMMENT: This is a syllabus for a graduate seminar
lamiller@brandeis.edu on social movements that I taught at New
juliet.schor@bc.edu
York University’s Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies. The course content is ‘non-
traditional’
Lisa Peñalozain several aspects. Its case material focuses
Sara heavily
Steen on Latin America, rather than just
the United
College of States.
Business Accordingly, the readings are not exclusively
Departmentby of North
SociologyAmerican scholars but
many468
Bus are by Latin American and European authors. The required readings
219 Ketchum Hall are limited to what is
available inofEnglish,
University Coloradobut many of the recommended readings
University areofinColorado
other languages. Particular
attention CO
Boulder, is given
80309to the relation between movementsBoulder,
and media,COthe latter including not only
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mass media and the Internet but also graffiti, music, steen@colorado.edu
penaloza@colorado.edu and dance. Movements are explored in the
context of broader historical transformations of the region, to which movements have contributed
and Phillips
Jan by which they are also shaped. Joel Stillerman
Behavioral Science
Course Description Grand Valley State University
University of Southern seminar
Maine/ introduces students toAllendale,
the majorMI 49401of social movements
This research-oriented theories
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
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
economics of movement-media dynamics. Some of the main questions the course will address
Department of do
Sociology and emerge Ohio University
Criminaland on what conditions
include: How movements does their success depend on?
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What role do movements play in transitions to and consolidations45701
Athens, OH of democracy? How do
University
movementsofrelateDelaware thorned@ohio.edu
to and create publics and counter-publics, and on what does their efficacy
Newark,
depend on? DE Which
19716 strategies do movements use for communicating with the larger society and
megrich@udel.edu
how are the different types of media being employedMelanie Wallendorf
(e.g. mass demonstration, street theater,
music, mouth-to-mouth propaganda, graffiti, flyers, newspapers, radio, television, video, phone,
fax, email, web sites)? How do the structure and operative logic of different media types impact
Department
movements?ofHow Sociology
do the conditions for movements University
change with ofthe
Arizona
decoupling of media from
University of Maryland Tucson,
state control and the dedifferentiation of media and market? AZ 85721
The aim of the course is to provide students with a solid grounding in movement theory,
ritzer@socy.umd.edu
recognition of its relations to broader questions of social, economic,
Frederick Wherry political, and cultural
transformation,
J. Michael Ryanand an opportunity to develop a research project of
Department of their own.
Sociology
Course Format and Requirements University of Michigan
This course
College Park,has
MDan 20742
interactive and research-oriented ffwherry@umich.edu
format. The first part of the course is
designed to provide students with a broad overview of the different approaches to movements
mryan@socy.umd.edu
and contentious politics. The second part then zooms in on movements-media dynamics in the
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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Students
Laura Millerare expected to attend all class sessions, participate actively in discussions, and turn in
Juliet Schor
writing
Departmentassignments on time. The final grade will be 519
of Sociology determined
McGuinn as follows:
• class participation 10 %
Waltham, MA • memos
02454on weekly readings Chestnut 20Hill,
% MA 02467
• class
lamiller@brandeis.edu presentation/discussion lead 20 %
juliet.schor@bc.edu
• term paper 50 %
The
Lisa memos
Peñaloza should summarize the main arguments ofSara the Steen
weekly readings and include some own
questions,
College of critical
Business comments, and thoughts (250-500Department
words). Theofmemos should be submitted
Sociology
before class in electronic format (see Digital Drop Box on Blackboard).
The classCOpresentations should be brief expositions ofBoulder,
the coreCO arguments
Boulder, 80309 80309 of that week’s required
(and, optionally, recommended) readings and offer questions
steen@colorado.edu arguments of your own,
and critical
so as to set the stage for a lively class discussion. The formal presentation should be limited to 10-
12
Janminutes
Phillipsand be accompanied by a concise one-page Joelhand-out that summarizes selected key
Stillerman
points of theoftext and raises
and critical issues. The presentations are meant
Department Social 2166 AuSable Hallto get the class discussion
started. The presenter is also the discussion leader for that session and should prepare a set of
questions that help to structure the discussion.
The term paper is meant
Lewiston-Auburn Collegeto give students the opportunity to develop their own research project
stillejo@gvsu.edu
(e.g.: a review
Lewiston, of a historical movement using one or more analytical concepts discussed in the
ME 04240
course; a case study of the role of different media within
jphillip@bates.edu Deboraha movement;
Thorne the impact of one medium
on different movements; the impact of media opening on movements
Department in a specific
of Sociology and country; a
cross-country
Meghan Ashlin comparison;
Rich or, alternatively, a detailed research proposal). The paper should be
Anthropology
2500-3500
Departmentwords in lengthand
of Sociology (not counting the bibliography
Criminal or optional appendix of empirical
Ohio University
materials.)
Justice The paper must follow scholarly practicesAthens, for citations and style. The American
OH 45701
Sociological
University ofAssociation’s
Delaware Style Guide will be postedthorned@ohio.edu
on the Blackboard site for this course to
provide
Newark,you DE with
19716 an orientation. You are free to use a different citation style as long as you use it
coherently throughout your paper. You may wish to Melanie
megrich@udel.edu consult also Strunk and White’s concise The
Wallendorf
Elements of Style and the more comprehensive Chicago Department
Manual of of Style for general question
Marketing
regarding
George Ritzerstyle. Howard Becker’s superb Writing forEller SocialCollege has useful hints on
of Management
Sciences
developing
Departmentacademic
of Sociologywriting habits. Charles Tilly’s “Writing
UniversityWrongs in Sociology” is made
of Arizona
available
UniversityonofBlackboard.
Maryland Tucson, AZ 85721
ritzer@socy.umd.edu
Course Website on Blackboard Frederick Wherry
Follow
J. Michaelthese
Ryaneasy steps to get to the Blackboard site Department
for the course:of Sociology
1. Log in of
Department to Sociology
NYU Home at <http://home.nyu.edu>University with validofNYU NetID and password
Michigan
2. Click on the
University of Maryland “Academics” tab and look under the
Ann Arbor, MI 48109for the course name
“Classes” channel
3. Click
College onMD
Park, the course
20742 name to enter the Blackboard site
ffwherry@umich.edu
Note: Help is
mryan@socy.umd.edu available from within Blackboard by clicking the “Question Mark” or by visiting
<http://www.nyu.edu/its/blackboard>.
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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2. Miller
Laura Juliet Schor and Contentious Politics
International Research Perspectives on Movements
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Sociology 519Social Movement Theory,” In: Frontiers
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Pearlmanin Social Movement Theory, edited by Aldon
103 140D.Commonwealth
Morris and Carol McClurg Mueller.
Ave.
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University 3-25. College
Waltham, MA Melucci,
02454 Alberto. 1996. Challenging Codes:
Chestnut Hill, MA
Collective 02467
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Age, Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University
lamiller@brandeis.edu Press, “Introduction,” pp. 1-10.
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1930-1970. Chicago: Chicago University Press,
Lisa Peñaloza Ch. 1-3, pp. 5-59.
Sara Steen
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Business Cambridge,
Department UK: Cambridge University
of Sociology
Bus 468 Press, Introduction”, pp. 1-9, and “Print and219Associations,”
Ketchum Hall pp. 43-53.
University ofHaber, Paul Lawrence. 1997. “Social Movements
Colorado University and Socio-Political Change in
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Boulder, CO America,” Current Sociology, (January)
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45, no. 1, pp. 121-140.
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3. Research
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MI 48109
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4. Revolutions and Revolutionary Movements
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Lewiston, ME 04240
Newark, DE 19716
ritzer@socy.umd.edu
Frederick Wherry
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Laura Movements in 20th Century Latin AmericaJuliet Schor
SocialMiller
Department
Jeffrey Rubinof Sociology 519 McGuinn
Pearlman
Boston 103
University 140 Commonwealth Ave.
This course will examine
lamiller@brandeis.edu the relationship between culture and politics in 20th Century Latin
juliet.schor@bc.edu
American social movements. We will examine the origins, actions, and effects of such
movements
Lisa Peñalozaas the Zapatistas and Villistas in MexicoSara
(during the Mexican Revolution), the
Steen
Conservatives, Liberals,
College of Business and guerrillas during La Violencia in
Department Colombia, the Pan-Mayan
of Sociology
movement
Bus 468 in Guatemala, the Zapatistas in Chiapas, and 219 Latin American
Ketchum Hall feminist movements.
We will also examine
University of Colorado four Brazilian social movements: the Movement of Landless Rural
Workers,CO
Boulder, the 80309
Participatory Budgeting project in PortoBoulder,
Alegre, CO
the 80309
Movement of Rural Women
Workers in Rio Grande
penaloza@colorado.edu do Sul, and the Afro-Reggae Cultural Group
steen@colorado.eduin Rio de Janeiro.
Throughout
Jan Phillips the course, we will relate theoretical work onStillerman
Joel culture, economic development, and
democracy to the day
Department of Social andto day activities and broader trajectories
2166 AuSableof theHall
movements we study. In so
doing, we will
Behavioral evaluate the ways in which such theoretical
Science Grand perspectives
Valley State contribute
Universityto our
historical understanding.
In analyzing social
Lewiston, ME 04240 movements, we will consider such questions as: When do regional
movements provoke national processes of political and
jphillip@bates.edu cultural
Deborah change? When and why are
Thorne
issues of race or gender highlighted in the activities of social movements
Department of Sociology and when
and are they
obscured?
Meghan HowRich
Ashlin do social movements perpetuate forms of exclusion and inequality? When do
Anthropology
everyday activities constitute "resistance"—and
Department of Sociology and Criminal resistance to what?—and how do everyday
Ohio University
forms of resistance relate to broader forms of historical
Justice change?
Athens, How does culture "travel,"
OH 45701
historically and geographically,
University of Delaware and in what ways canthorned@ohio.eduactivities in one place be
original cultural
reproduced
Newark, DEin19716
another?
Readings
The books available for purchase are:
John Womack, Jr., Zapata and the Mexican Revolution
Mariano Azuela, The Underdogs
Mary Roldán, Blood and Fire: La Violencia in Antioquia, Colombia (1946-1953)
Jeffrey Rubin, Decentering the Regime: Ethnicity, Radicalism, and Democracy in Juchitán,
ritzer@socy.umd.edu
Mexico
Frederick Wherry
Kay Warren, Indigenous Movements and Their Critics: Pan-Mayan Activism in Guatemala
Sonia Alvarez, Arturo Escobar, and Evelina Dagnino, eds., Cultures of Politics, Politics of
Cultures: Re-Visioning Latin American Social Movements
Sidney Tarrow, Power in Movement: Social Movements and Contentious Politics
John Burdick, Blessed Anastácia: Women, Race, and Popular Christianity in Brazil
mryan@socy.umd.edu
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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and
Laura developing
Miller different analytic skills. One may beJuliet a summary
Schor of the reading. Others will
involve comparing
Department the way a particular issue is presented
of Sociology in different readings or analyzing the
519 McGuinn
readings for
Pearlman 103one week in light of ideas we have developed in earlier readings
140 Commonwealth Ave.or discussions.
Students will
Waltham, MAalso02454be required to bring to each class aChestnut
1-2 pageHill, response to the readings, in the
MA 02467
form of one or
lamiller@brandeis.eduseveral questions that the student would like to see
juliet.schor@bc.edu addressed in class, along with
some thoughts about how to respond to that question. These 1-2 page responses will be
collected,
Lisa Peñalozabut they will not be graded. Students do not SaraneedSteento write response papers for the
weeks for which
College of Business they are writing longer papers. Occasionally,
Departmentdifferent assignments may be
of Sociology
given468
Bus for response papers. 219 Ketchum Hall
The papers
Boulder, COwill count for 70% of the course grade and
80309 class participation
Boulder, CO 80309 will count for 30%.
The colloquium will be run as a focused, in-depth discussion.
penaloza@colorado.edu During the first class, I will
steen@colorado.edu
present guidelines for discussion and suggest ways in which students might develop their skills
in
Janpreparing
Phillips for class and making comments that move Joelthe discussion along and deepen it. In the
Stillerman
course of the semester,
Department of Social and I will meet with students who would
2166 AuSable like additional
Hall guidance in these
areas. EachScience
Behavioral student’s participation will be graded onGrand the basis of how
Valley Stateactively and thoughtfully
University
he or she joins in the
University of Southern Maine/discussion Allendale, MI 49401
Films
Lewiston, ME 04240
Several films will be shown as part of the course. These
jphillip@bates.edu Deborahare aThorne
required part of the course and
will be included in paper assignments. Department of Sociology and
Office Hours
IJustice
am available during office hours to speak to students about OH
Athens, any 45701
aspect of the course or related
interests. If you
University of Delaware are having difficulty with the course in any way,
thorned@ohio.edu you should be sure to come see
me as soon
Newark, DEas19716
possible. You should also come see me if something intrigues or puzzles you, if
you would like
megrich@udel.edu to know more about a topic or talk about Melanieit further, etc. I can be particularly
Wallendorf
helpful with ways to improve your ability to read andDepartment understandof theMarketing
material, prepare for and
carry out
George Ritzerwritten assignments, and participate in class discussion. If you
Eller College of Management are having trouble
joining in the class
Department of Sociology discussion, be sure to speak with me early in the
University of Arizona semester. If you know in
advance that
University ofyou would like to see me, talk to me after
Maryland class or
Tucson, AZcontact
85721 me by email to make an
appointment, which
College Park, MD 20742 will generally be during my office hours. It is also fine to come to see me
during office hours without an appointment.
ritzer@socy.umd.edu
Frederick Wherry
September 6: Introduction
Part I Violent Rebellion in Mexico and Colombia, 1900 University
– 1960of Michigan
University
September of 13:Maryland
The Zapatistas and the Mexican Revolution: Ann Arbor, MI 48109
A Struggle for Land and
College
Community? Park, MD 20742 ffwherry@umich.edu
mryan@socy.umd.edu
John Womack, Jr., Zapata and the Mexican Revolution: Prologue, Chapter 1, 37-52, 61-69, 76-
96, 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
43
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LauraAlonso,
Ana Miller "U.S. Military Intervention, Revolutionary JulietMobilization,
Schor and Popular Ideology in
the Chihuahuan
Department Sierra, 1916-1917" in Daniel Nugent,
of Sociology 519ed.,
McGuinn
Rural Revolt in Mexico and U.S.
Pearlman 103
Intervention 140 Commonwealth Ave.
SeptemberMA
Waltham, 27: 02454
Conservatives, Liberals, and Guerrillas in Colombia:
Chestnut Hill, MAThe Circuitous Origins of
02467
Grassroots Mobilization
Mary Roldán, Blood and Fire: La Violencia in Antioquia, Colombia (1946-1953): Introduction,
Chapter
Lisa 1, Chapter 3 (T)
Peñaloza Sara Steen
Part II Indigenous Movements in Mexico and Guatemala,
Bus 468 1930-1995
219 Ketchum Hall
October
Boulder,4:COAt80309
the Borders of Violence: The ZapatistaBoulder,
Rebellion COin80309
Chiapas
FILM: A Place Called
penaloza@colorado.edu Chiapas (October 2) steen@colorado.edu
newspaper and magazine articles, 1994-present
Zapatista communiques--approx 19 pages
NY Times articles
Department from
of Social andthe beginning of the rebellion--4
2166pages
AuSable Hall
Mexico's Poet Rebel--ends
Behavioral Science on p 132, before the end of the article
NY Times articles from
University of Southern Maine/later--15 pages (optional) Allendale, MI 49401
Chiapas Times--2 College
Lewiston-Auburn pages--read "Major US Bank" stillejo@gvsu.edu
Media Recognition--Opportunities
Lewiston, ME 04240 and Dangers--10 pages (optional)
The War Within --pp. 6-21
Rus, Mattiace, and Hernandez Chavez, a chronology,Department 1994-2002,ofpp. 15-23 (ONLY)
Sociology and of the
Hernandez reading.
Meghan Ashlin RichThose are the pages marked on the text, not the pages in the Adobe Acrobat
Anthropology
document. (This is useful for
Department of Sociology and Criminala general overview andOhio reference)
for University
George
Justice Collier, “Basta!”, Chapters 2 & 4 Athens, OH 45701
Lynn Stephen,
University "The Zapatista Army of National Liberation
of Delaware and the National Democratic
thorned@ohio.edu
Convention," Latin American Perspectives, Fall 1995
Newark, DE 19716
John Womack,
megrich@udel.edu Jr., "Chiapas, the Bishop of San Cristóbal,
Melanie andWallendorf
the Zapatista Revolt," in Rebellion
in Chiapas Department of Marketing
John
GeorgeRoss, “The Zapatistas at Ten,” in NACLA Report
Ritzer onCollege
Eller the Americas, November/December
of Management
2003
Documents:
“The Mexican Revolution in Tzotzil: “When We Stopped Being Crushed,” 1914-1940”
ritzer@socy.umd.edu
“Migrant Labor on the Coffee Plantations: Debt, Lies, Drink, Hard
Frederick Work, and the Union, 1920’s
Wherry
–J. 1930’s)
Michael Ryan Department of Sociology
“The Church’s
Department New Mission in a De-Christianized Continent:
of Sociology University Bishop Ruiz in Medellín, 1968”
of Michigan
“The Proletarian
University Line: From Torreón to the Canyons,
of Maryland 1976-77”
Ann Arbor, MI 48109
October 11: At the Borders
College Park, MD 20742 of Violence: Real-World Complexity in Chiapas
ffwherry@umich.edu
(PAPERS DUE IN
mryan@socy.umd.edu CLASS)
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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Jan
LauraRus, "The 'Comunidad Revolucionaria Institucional':
Miller Juliet The
SchorSubversion of Native Government
in Highland of
Department Chiapas, 1936-1968, in Gil Joseph and Daniel
Sociology Nugent, eds., Everyday Forms of
519 McGuinn
Pearlman 103
State Formation 140 Commonwealth Ave.
Jeffrey Rubin,
Brandeis "From Che to Marcos," Dissent, Summer
University Boston200College
October 18: From Culture to Politics: Zapotec Mobilization
lamiller@brandeis.edu and Democratization in Juchitán,
juliet.schor@bc.edu
Mexico
FILM:
Lisa Blossoms of Fire (October 16)
Jeffrey Rubin,
College of Business
Decentering the Regime: Ethnicity, Radicalism,
Departmentand of Sociology
Democracy in Juchitán,
Bus 468 1-9, 24-58, 64-237, 256-276 (T)
Mexico, 219 Ketchum Hall
October 25: In the Aftermath of Violence: The Pan-Mayan
penaloza@colorado.edu Movement in Guatemala
steen@colorado.edu
FILM: Todos Santos: The Survivors (October 23)
KayPhillips
Jan Warren, Indigenous Movements and Their Critics: Stillerman Activism in Guatemala pp.
Joel Pan-Mayan
3-131, 194-210
Department (T) and
of Social 2166 AuSable Hall
Charles R. Hale,
Behavioral Science“Does Multiculturalism Menace? Governance,
Grand ValleyCultural Rights, and the Politics
State University
of Identity in
University of Guatemala,”
Southern Maine/ Studies 34MI
Journal of Latin AmericanAllendale, (2002)
49401
NovemberME
Lewiston, 1: Theoretical
04240 Interlude: Culture, Cycles, and Networks
Jeffrey W. Rubin, “Meanings and Mobilizations: A Deborah
jphillip@bates.edu Cultural Politics
Thorne Approach to Social
Movements and States,” Latin American Research Review, 2004.of Sociology and
Department
Sidney Tarrow,
Meghan Power in Movement: Social Movements
and Contentious Politics, Second
Edition, pp. of
Department 1-25, 71-138and
Sociology (T)Criminal Ohio University
Part III Social
University Movements in Brazil, 1980 - 2000 thorned@ohio.edu
of Delaware
Newark, DE 19716
November 8: Becoming the Government: Participatory
megrich@udel.edu Budgeting
Melanie in Porto Alegre, Brazil
Wallendorf
Film: Capital Sins (November 6) Department of Marketing
Film:
GeorgeParticipatory
Ritzer Budgeting: Here Popular Participation
Eller College
Speaks (in class)
of Management
Jeffrey Rubin,
Department of “Brazil:
SociologyThe Next Great Democratic University
Challenge,”ofmanuscript
Arizona
Maria CeliaofPaoli
University and Vera da Silva Telles, “Social Rights:
Maryland Tucson,Conflicts
AZ 85721and Negotiations in
Contemporary
College Park, MD Brazil,”
20742in Alvarez et. al., Cultures ofmwallendorf@eller.arizona.edu
Politics, pp. 64 - 69
Sérgio Gregório Baierle, "The Explosion of Experience: The Emergence of a New Ethical
ritzer@socy.umd.edu
Political Principle in Popular Movements in Porto Alegre, Brazil,"
Frederick Wherryin Alvarez et. al., Cultures of
J. Michael
Politics, pp.Ryan
124-136 Department of Sociology
Abers, Rebecca..
Department "From Clientelism to Cooperation: University
of Sociology Local Government,
of Michigan Participatory Policy,
and Civic Organizing
University of Maryland in Porto Alegre, Brazil." Politics SocietyMI26:4
Ann&Arbor, (December 1998)
48109
Gianpaolo
College Baiocchi,
Park, MD 20742“Emergent Public Spheres: Talking Politics in Participatory Governance,”
ffwherry@umich.edu
American Sociological Review 2003, Vol. 68
mryan@socy.umd.edu
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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Films: Land for Rose (November 13)
John Hammond,
Department "Law and Disorder: The Brazilian Landless
of Sociology 519 McGuinnFarmworkers' Movement," Bulletin
Pearlman 103
of Latin American Research 140 Commonwealth Ave.
John Hammond,
Brandeis “Land Occupations, Violence, and the
University Politics
Boston of Agrarian Reform in Brazil,”
College
manuscriptMA 02454
Waltham, Chestnut Hill, MA 02467
Tim Padgett, "Brazil's Landless Rebels," Time, January
lamiller@brandeis.edu 19, 1998
juliet.schor@bc.edu
newspaper articles, 1997-98
Jonathan
Lisa Fox, "Democratic Rural Development: Leadership
Peñaloza Sara SteenAccountability in Regional Peasant
Organizations,"
College in Development and Change, Vol. 23,
of Business No. 2, 1992
(http://lals.ucsc.edu/faculty/jafox/PDFs/foxdevchange92.pdf)
Leigh Payne,
University of “The Brazilian Rural Democratic Union,”
Colorado in Uncivil
Movements: The Armed Right
Boulder,
Wing andCO 80309 in Latin America
Democracy Boulder, CO 80309
November 29: Music, Performance, and Resistance: The Afro-Reggae Cultural Group and Race
in Brazil
Film: FavelaofRising
Department Social(November
and 27) 2166 AuSable Hall
Olivia Maria
Behavioral Gomes da Cunha, "Black Movements and
Science the Valley
Grand 'PoliticsState
of Identity' in Brazil" (pp.
University
231-246)
UniversityinofAlvarez
Southernet. Maine/
al., eds., Cultures of Politics Allendale, MI 49401
Megan Mylan, “The
Lewiston-Auburn Afro-Reggae Beat: A Weapon stillejo@gvsu.edu
College Against Drugs, Violence, and Racism in
Rio,” Changemakers.net
Lewiston, ME 04240 Journal, July 1998,
http://www.changemakers.net/journal/98july/mylan.cfm
John Burdick, Blessed Anastácia: Women, Race, andDepartment Popular Christianity
of Sociologyin Brazil,
and
Introduction,
Meghan AshlinChapters
Rich 3, 4, 5, pp. 185-191, Conclusion (T)
Anthropology
Emma Sokoloff-Rubin
Department of Sociology andand
Jeffrey Rubin, “Favela Beat”
Livio Sansone, “Anti-Racism in Brazil,” NACLA Report
Justice Athens,
on the 45701 September/October
OHAmericas,
2004
Newark, DE 19716
December 6 : Latin American Feminisms and the Movement
megrich@udel.edu of Rural Women Workers in Brazil
Melanie Wallendorf
Lynn Stephen, Women and Social Movements in Latin Department
America: of from Below, Chapters 2
Marketing
Power
& 6
Interview,
DepartmentGessí Bonês and Marlene Pasquali
Emma Sokoloff-Rubin
University of Marylandand Jeffrey Rubin, “MMTR Portraits” Tucson, AZ 85721
Sonia
CollegeAlvarez,
Park, MD"Latin American Feminisms 'Go Global':
20742 Trends of the 1990s and Challenges for
the New Millennium," in Alvarez et. al., eds., Cultures of Politics
ritzer@socy.umd.edu
Frederick Wherry
mryan@socy.umd.edu
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Laura Miller
Environmental Politics Juliet Schor
Department
Liam Leonard of Sociology 519 McGuinn
Pearlman 103
National University of Ireland, Galway 140 Commonwealth Ave.
This course will examine the emergence of the various
lamiller@brandeis.edu strands of environmental political discourse.
juliet.schor@bc.edu
As societies modernise social and political responses to environmental degradation have become a
feature
Lisa of everyday life. These responses embrace a Sara
Peñaloza broadSteen
range of actors including institutions such
as the EU,
College of internal
Businessstate agencies, local government and community
Department movements. While disputes
of Sociology
about468
Bus environmental issues may occur between policy 219makers and Hall
Ketchum concerned communities both may
claim to have
University environmental perspectives.
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
corporate sector all attempt to frame environmental issues in a way which supports their needs. An
understanding of environmental campaigns will be achieved through studies of the internal
mobilisation of resources and the external exploitation of political opportunities by relevant
institutional, governmental and community actors as such disputes are evolutionary and interwoven
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.
Students will be asked to choose a relevant case study to build a research project around. The
project will be based on one 2,000 word essay worth 60% with a presentation worth 20% and an
examination worth 20%. Full attendance and discussion of topics set for each week is also required.
Relevant readings will be provided. Extensions are at the discretion of the Head of Department,
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
The Key Texts for this course are: Leonard, L. (2006) Green Nation: The Irish Environmental
Movement from Carnsore Point to the Rossport 5 Ecopolitics Series Vol. 1. Drogheda: Choice
Publishing and Leonard, L. (2005) Politics Inflamed: GSE & the Campaign Against Incineration in
Ireland. Ecopolitics Series Vol.1. Drogheda: Choice Publishing
ritzer@socy.umd.edu
Frederick Wherry
Course Content and Themes
Week One: Introductory session
Week Two: Environmental Thought:
Key Reading: Leonard, L. (2006) Green Nation: the Environmental Movement from
mryan@socy.umd.edu
Carnsore Point to the Rossport 5. Ecopolitics Series Vol. 2. Drogheda:
Choice
Week Three: Ecocentric Deep Green Thought and the Anthropocentric Shallow
Green Thought. ‘Realists vs. Fundamentalists’
Key Reading: Eckersley, R. (1992) Environmentalism and Political Theory London:
UCC Cambridge
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Laura Miller Martel, L. (1994) Nature and Society Cambridge: Polity.
Juliet Schor
Pearlman
Week Four: 103 140 Commonwealth
Understanding Sustainable Development: Ave.
Sustainability and Eco-
Brandeis University modernisation Boston College
Key Reading:
Waltham, MA 02454 Leonard, L. (2006) Green Nation: Chestnut Hill, Environmental
The Irish MA 02467 Movement
lamiller@brandeis.edufrom Carnsore Point to The Rossport 5 Ecopolitics Series Vol. 2
juliet.schor@bc.edu
Drogheda: Choice Publishing
Lisa Peñaloza Leonard, L. (2005) Politics Inflamed:
Sara Steen
GSE & the Campaign Against
College of Business Incineration in Ireland. Ecopolitics Series of
Department Vol.1. Drogheda: Choice
Sociology
Bus 468 Publishing 219 Ketchum Hall
Boulder,
Week CO 80309 The Growth of Environmental
Five: Boulder, COThe
Protest. 80309
Modernisation and
penaloza@colorado.edu Opportunities of Environmental steen@colorado.edu
Movements
Key Reading: Leonard,L. (2005) Politics Inflamed: GSE & the Campaign Against
Jan Phillips Incineration in Ireland. Ecopolitics Series Vol.1. Drogheda: Choice
Joel Stillerman
Department of Social andPublishing 2166 AuSable Hall
Behavioral Science Martell, L. (1994) Nature andGrand Cambridge:
SocietyValley Polity
State University
University of SouthernDella Porta, D. and Diani, M. Allendale,
Maine/ (1999) Social
MI Movements:
49401 An Introduction
Lewiston-Auburn College London: Blackwell Chapters stillejo@gvsu.edu
7 and 9.
Lewiston, ME 04240
jphillip@bates.edu
Week Six: Environmentalism and the Media. DeborahTheThorne
Creation of Environmental
‘Orthodoxy’ Department of Sociology and
Key Reading:
Meghan Ashlin Rich Leonard, L. (2005) Politics Inflamed:
Anthropology
GSE & the Campaign Against
Department of Sociology Incineration in Ireland. Ecopolitics
and Criminal Vol. 1. Drogheda: Choice
Ohio University
Justice Grove-White (1993) “Environmentalism:
Athens, OHA45701 New Moral Discourse for
University of DelawareTechnological Society?” in K.thorned@ohio.edu
Milton’s The View from Anthropology
Newark, DE 19716 London: Routledge.
megrich@udel.edu Castells, M. (2000) The Rise ofMelanie the Network Society Oxford: Blackwell
Wallendorf
GeorgeSeven:
Week Ritzer Eller College of Management
The Corporate Response to Environmentalism
Key Reading:
Department Roberts, J. (2004) Environmental
of Sociology Policy Chapter
University of Arizona118
ritzer@socy.umd.edu
Week Eight: Creating Environmental Policies
Key Reading: Taylor, G. (Ed) “Issues in IrishFrederick
Policy” Environmental
Wherry Policy in Ireland
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
Arbor, 11 48109
mryan@socy.umd.edu
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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LauraReading:
Key Miller Leonard, L. (2005) Politics Inflamed:
Juliet Schor
GSE and the Campaign Against
Incineration in Ireland Ecopolitics
Department of Sociology Series Vol.1 Drogheda: Choice
519 McGuinn
Pearlman 103 Publishing 140 Commonwealth Ave.
Brandeis University A. Szasz (1994) Eco-PopulismBostonLondon: University College London
College
Waltham, MA 02454 E. Walsh, R. Warland and D. Smith Chestnut(1997)
Hill,Don’t
MA 02467
Burn it Here:
lamiller@brandeis.eduGrassroots Challenges to Trash Incinerators Pennsylvania University
juliet.schor@bc.edu
Press
CollegeEleven:
Week of Business Case Study Methodologies Department of Sociology
Key Reading:
Bus 468 L. Leonard (2005) Politics Inflamed:
219 Ketchum
GSE &HallThe Campaign Against
University of ColoradoIncineration in Ireland. Ecopolitics SeriesofVol.
University 1. Droghehda: Choice
Colorado
Week Twelve: The Future of Environmental steen@colorado.edu
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.
Drogheda:Choice
Lewiston, ME 04240
Newark, DE 19716
ritzer@socy.umd.edu
Frederick Wherry
mryan@socy.umd.edu
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Laura Miller
Environmental Movements in the United States Juliet Schor
Department
Robert Brulle of Sociology 519 McGuinn
Pearlman 103
Drexel University 140 Commonwealth Ave.
Overview: This course provides an introduction to the
lamiller@brandeis.edu processes of social change, and the key
juliet.schor@bc.edu
collective actors and institutions that are involved in the creation of U.S. environmental policies.
The aim
Lisa of this course is to provide an understandingSara
Peñaloza of the historical and social processes by
Steen
which environmental
College of Business policy is created and changed throughDepartment a political process among a number
of Sociology
of different
Bus 468 coalitions. The course starts with an examination219 Ketchum of theories
Hall of social change. It
then examines
University the development of the various worldviews,
of Colorado Universityorganizations,
of Colorado and practices that
define U.S.
Boulder, COenvironmental
80309 politics, including environmental
Boulder,advocacy
CO 80309 organizations and
foundations. It concludes with a consideration of thesteen@colorado.edu
penaloza@colorado.edu status of the U.S. environmental
movement.
Department of Social andThis course has two course 2166
Course Requirements: requirements
AuSableas follows:
Hall
University
1. Class Participation: The key to success for this course
of Southern Maine/ is active
Allendale, participation by all involved.
MI 49401
What is sought is to
Lewiston-Auburn develop a cooperative atmosphere
College of mutual learning. The class should be
stillejo@gvsu.edu
seen as theME
Lewiston, cumulative
04240 development of a group conversation. Active and meaningful
participation in the class discussions is thus required.Deborah
jphillip@bates.edu We wantThorne
to be able to use the time together
as a group to share and critique ideas. Accordingly, Department
the students of should use theand
Sociology time between
classes toAshlin
Meghan read andRichbecome conversant with the material. A key part in learning new ideas is
Anthropology
through theirofuse.
Department Each student
Sociology will be assigned to present
and Criminal a number of the readings. Each
Ohio University
student presentation will consist of a brief descriptionAthens,
Justice of the logic of the article based on the
OH 45701
template handed
University out in the first class session. This will
of Delaware be followed by a second presentation by
thorned@ohio.edu
another student
Newark, DE 19716 amplifying the first presentation by identifying several key questions for
discussion. Each student will then be expected to askMelanie
megrich@udel.edu a question or make a comment about the
Wallendorf
readings. Participation in class will constitute 40% of the course of
Department grade.
Marketing
2. Take Home
Department Exams: This course requires completion
of Sociology of two of
University take home examinations in
Arizona
response toof
University written questions provided by the instructor.
Maryland Tucson, These
AZquestions
85721 will be designed to
focus your
College application
Park, MD 20742 of the concepts covered in class, and will be approximately 2,000 words
in length. You are expected to work independently. The two examinations will count for 60%
ritzer@socy.umd.edu
of the course grade. They will be handed out at the end of classWherry
Frederick on April 30 and June 4, and will
beMichael
J. due the following
Ryan week. Department of Sociology
University This course has five required textsAnn
of Maryland
Required Texts: that Arbor,
are listed
MIbelow.
48109 In addition, a series
of assigned
College Park,readings are available on library reserve.ffwherry@umich.edu
MD 20742
mryan@socy.umd.edu
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
50
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Dowie, M. 1996. Losing Ground: American Environmentalism
Laura Miller Juliet Schorat the Close of the Twentieth
Century
Department MIT
Mythen, G.
Pearlman 2004. Ulrich Beck: A Critical Introduction
103 140toCommonwealth
the Risk Society Pluto Press
Ave.
Waltham, MA
Course Schedule: 02454 Chestnut Hill, MA 02467
Week 1: April 2, 2007 Introduction and Course Overview
College
Week 2:ofApril
Business Department
9, 2007 The Policy Process and Social of Sociology
Movements
Sabatier, P.A.,
University and Jenkins-Smith, Hank C. 1993 Policy
of Colorado Change
University of and Learning: An Advocacy
Colorado
Boulder,Coalition
CO 80309Approach, San Francisco: Westview, pp. 1-39
Boulder, CO 80309
Rochon, Thomas R. 1998. Culture Moves. Princeton,steen@colorado.edu
penaloza@colorado.edu N.J.: Princeton University Press. Chapters
1&2
Jenkins
Jan and Form 2005. Social Movements and Social
Phillips JoelChange, pp. 331-349 in Janoski et. al.
Stillerman
The Handbook of Political Sociology Cambridge
University
Week 3: Aprilof Southern Maine/
16, 2007 Allendale, MIMovement
Overview of the U.S. Environmental 49401
Brulle. Agency,
Lewiston, Democracy, and Nature, Chapters 5, 7- 9
ME 04240
Rootes, C. 2005 Environmental Movements, in the Blackwell
jphillip@bates.edu Companion to Social Movements.
Deborah Thorne
Meghan
Week 4:Ashlin Rich
April 23, 2007 The Environmental Movement Anthropology
1980 - 2005
Dowie,
Justice M. 1996. Losing Ground: American Environmentalism
Athens, OHat45701
the Close of the Twentieth
Century
University MIT
Bernstein.DE2002
Newark, The Compromise of Liberal Environmentalism, chapters 2, 3, & 6
19716
Week 5: April 30, 2007 Anti - Environmental Movement Department of Marketing
Brulle. Agency,
Department Democracy, and Nature, Chapter 6 University of Arizona
of Sociology
Covington, S. 2005. Moving Public Policy to the Right:
University of Maryland The AZ
Tucson, Strategic
85721Philanthropy of
CollegeConservative Foundations, pp. 89-114 in Faber,
Park, MD 20742 Daniel and McCarthy, Debra,
Foundations for Social Change Lanham, N.J.: Rowman & Littlefield.
ritzer@socy.umd.edu
Buell F. 2004. From Apocalypse to Way of Life; Environmental Crisis in the American Century
Frederick Wherry
Routledge, Chapters 1-6
University
Week of Maryland
6: May Ann Arbor,Movement
7, 2007 Foundations and the Environmental MI 48109
Dowie, M. 2002. American Foundations: An Investigative History, Chapter 5
mryan@socy.umd.edu
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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Department
Week 7: May 9/10, 2007 The Risk Society Class 519
of Sociology McGuinn
Scheduled on 9 or 10 May due to instructor
Pearlman 103 on May 14, 2007
travel 140 Commonwealth Ave.
Mythen, G.
Brandeis 2004. Ulrich Beck: A Critical Introduction
University to the
Boston Risk Society Pluto Press
College
Week 8: May 21, 2007 The Death of Environmentalism? juliet.schor@bc.edu
Shellenberger,
Lisa Peñaloza M., and Nordhaus, T. 2004. “The Death SaraofSteen
Environmentalism: Global Warming
CollegePolitics in a Post-Environmental World.” El Department
of Business Cerrito CA: ofThe Breakthrough Institute
Sociology
Brulle,
Bus 468Robert J., and J. Craig Jenkins. 2006. “Spinning
219 our Way to
Ketchum Sustainability?”
Hall
Organization
University & Environment 19:1-6
Dunlap, Riley
Boulder, E. 2006. Show Us the Data: The Questionable
CO 80309 Boulder, Empirical
CO 80309Foundations of the
'Death of Environmentalism' Thesis. Organization
penaloza@colorado.edu and Environment Vol. 19
steen@colorado.edu
Jan
Week Phillips
9: May 28, 2007, No Class (Memorial Day)Joel Stillerman
Behavioral
Week 10: JuneScience
4, 2007 Post Warming, Post Democracy,Grand Valley StateEcology
and Post University
Hansen, J. 2005. A
Lewiston-Auburn Slippery Slope: How Much Global
College Warming Constitutes "Dangerous
stillejo@gvsu.edu
Lewiston, ME 04240 Interference"? An Editorial Essay Climatic Change, 68, 269-279.
Anthropogenic
Couch, C. 2004. Post-Democracy Polity Press Chapters
jphillip@bates.edu 1 & 2Thorne
Deborah
Brulle, Robert J. forthcoming Civil Society and the Environment:
Department ofASociology
Critical Perspective
and on the
MeghanU.S. Environmental
Ashlin Rich Trandisciplinary Nature, Island Press
Movement, in Moore, S.Anthropology
Blühdorn, I. of
Department 2005. “Symbolic
Sociology Politics and the Politics
and Criminal of Simulation:
Ohio University Eco-political Practice in
Justice the Late-modern Condition” presented at the Athens,
ISA Conference
OH 45701 - Double Standards and
Simulation:
University Symbolism, Rhetoric & Irony in thorned@ohio.edu
of Delaware Eco-Politics, Bath, UK, Sept 2005
Newark, DE 19716
ritzer@socy.umd.edu
Frederick Wherry
mryan@socy.umd.edu
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SocialMiller
Movements in Health Juliet Schor
Department
Phil Brown of Sociology 519 McGuinn
Pearlman 103
Brown University 140 Commonwealth Ave.
This graduate
Waltham, MAseminar
02454 centers on health social movements, Chestnut butHill,
alsoMA provides
02467some exploration in
general social movement theory and research, as welljuliet.schor@bc.edu
lamiller@brandeis.edu 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 causation, prevention, and treatment. We’ll
of Business be building
Department on and amplifying the
of Sociology
general
Bus 468theoretical model I have been developing around health social
219 Ketchum Hallmovements (HSMs),
while also assembling
University of Coloradoas large a list as possible of allUniversity
HSMs, with an attendant bibliography.
of Colorado
COURSE STRUCTURE
Since
Jan it is likely that most people will not have takenJoel
Phillips a course in social movements, it is
Stillerman
necessary to of
Department provide
Socialsome
and background on general social 2166movement
AuSable Hall theory and research
methods. That
Behavioral will be done by starting the seminar with
Science Grand a focus
ValleyonState
general social movements,
University
while also studying
University of Southern HSMs.
Maine/After the first few weeks, we will shift
Allendale, to a focus on HSMs, while
MI 49401
also reading one orCollege
Lewiston-Auburn two general social movement articles each week. By continuing with general
stillejo@gvsu.edu
social movement
Lewiston, ME 04240 readings, we will have the opportunity to examine a variety of theories,
methods, and applications, to see how useful social movement
jphillip@bates.edu scholarship is to HSMs, and to
Deborah Thorne
consider ways to expand social movement scholarship. We will not,
Department however,and
of Sociology be focused on
showing Ashlin
Meghan how a specific
Rich social movement theory can Anthropology
explain a particular HSM; indeed, we will
be examiningofhow
Department elements
Sociology andofCriminal
multiple theories can Ohio
be applied to any given HSM.
University
Each meeting
University will include lecture material by me andthorned@ohio.edu
of Delaware presentations by one or two students. The
student presentations
Newark, DE 19716 will involve analysis and interpretation of required readings; you can feel
free to bring in additional readings as well.
A paperRitzer
George will be due the last week of the seminar, on Ellera topic of the of
College student's choice, selected in
Management
consultation of
Department with me. I will provide a list of possibleUniversity
Sociology topics, although you are not bound to
of Arizona
choose oneof
University ofMaryland
them. On Sept. 20 students will present a briefAZ
Tucson, written
85721 outline of the paper. They
will alsoPark,
College makeMD a brief presentation to the seminar on mwallendorf@eller.arizona.edu
20742 Sept. 20 (continuing to Sept. 27, if needed),
so that everyone knows what others are studying. In the last three sessions, people will make
ritzer@socy.umd.edu
final presentations, which will occur along with regular discussion
Frederick Wherryof readings.
Students will,
Department ofinSociology
the course of their paper research, provide a bibliography
University of Michiganof articles and books
on the HSMofthey
University are studying, which may be more extensive
Maryland Ann Arbor, thanMIthe sources they actually use
48109
in the paper.
College Park,These
MD 20742 will be compiled and published on the Contested Illnesses Research Group
ffwherry@umich.edu
web site, as a special section on HSMs, both alphabetically and by specific health movement.
mryan@socy.umd.edu
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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BooksMiller
available at Brown Bookstore: Juliet Schor
Bert Klandermans
Department and Suzanne Staggenborg, Methods
of Sociology 519ofMcGuinn
Social Movement Research
(Minnesota)
Sandra
BrandeisMorgen, Into Our Own Hands: The Women’sBoston
University Movement, 1969-1990 (Rutgers)
HealthCollege
Joseph
Waltham,P. Shapiro,
MA 02454 No Pity: People with Disabilities Chestnut
Forging aHill,
NewMA Civil Rights Movement
02467
(Three Rivers/Random House)
Steve Epstein, Impure Science: AIDS, Activism, and the Politics of Knowledge (California)
FrankPeñaloza
Lisa Fischer, Citizens, Experts, and the Environment Sara(Duke)
Steen
Gerald E.ofMarkowitz
College Business and David Rosner, Deceit and Denial:
DepartmentThe of
Deadly Politics of Industrial
Sociology
Pollution
Bus 468 (California) 219 Ketchum Hall
Sept. 6 CO 80309
Boulder, 1) Introduction Boulder, CO 80309
Sept. 13 2) Background in Social Movement Theory and Research/History and Theory of
Jan Phillips Health Social Movements Joel Stillerman
General social and – review essays and applications
movements 2166 AuSable Hall
on major theories and approaches
David Meyer,
Behavioral “Protest and Political Opportunities” Annual
Science ReviewState
Grand Valley of Sociology
University 2004 (W)
John McCarthy
University and Mark
of Southern Wolfson, “Resource Mobilization
Maine/ Allendale,by MI
Social Movement Organizations:
49401
Agency, Strategy, College
Lewiston-Auburn and Organization in the Movementstillejo@gvsu.edu
against Driving and Drinking” American
Sociological
Lewiston, MEReview
04240 1996, 61:1070-1088 (W)
Robert D. Benford and David A. Snow, “Framing Processes
jphillip@bates.edu Deborahand Social Movements: An
Thorne
Overview and Assessment” Annual Review of Sociology 2000 (W)
Department
Health socialofmovements
“Preface” (pp. vi-viii) and “Introduction” (pp. 3-28) Athens,
Justice in BarbaraOHEhrenreich
45701 and John Ehrenreich,
The American
University Health Empire (R)
Beatrix Hoffman,
Newark, DE 19716“Health Care Reform and Social Movements in the United States” American
Journal of Public Health. 2003; 93: 75-85 (W)
Phil Brown, Steve Zavestoski, Sabrina McCormick, Department
Brian Mayer,ofRachel Morello-Frosch, and
Marketing
Rebecca Gasior, “Embodied Health Movements: Uncharted Territory in Social Movement
Research”
DepartmentSociology of Health and Illness 2004 26:1-31
of Sociology (W) of Arizona
University
Sept. 20 3) Background in Social Movement Theory and Research/Defining and
ritzer@socy.umd.edu
Characterizing HSMs Frederick Wherry
General social movements -- review essays on majorUniversity of Michigan
theories and approaches; methods
Francesca Polletta
University and James M. Jasper, “Collective Ann
of Maryland Identity AndMI
Arbor, Social
48109Movements” Annual
Review of Sociology 2001 (W)
mryan@socy.umd.edu
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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HealthMiller
social movements Juliet Schor
The following
Department of in Phil Brown and Stephen Zavestoski,
Sociology 519eds., Social Movements in Health:
McGuinn
Phil Brown
Pearlman and Stephen Zavestoski, “Social Movements
103 in Health: An Introduction”
140 Commonwealth Ave. (W)
Judith
BrandeisAlsop, Kathryn Jones, and Rob Baggott, “PainBoston
University and Loss Experiences as a Catalyst for
College
Political
Waltham,Activism”
MA 02454 (W) Chestnut Hill, MA 02467
Chris Ganchoff, “Regenerating Movements: Embryonic
lamiller@brandeis.edu Stem Cells, Social Movements, and the
juliet.schor@bc.edu
Politics of Potentiality” (W)
College
Topic of Business
selection and presentations Department of Sociology
Sept. 27 of Colorado
University 4) Breast Cancer Activism and Abortion Activism
General social movements – methods steen@colorado.edu
The following in Bert Klandermans and Suzanne Staggenborg, Methods of Social Movement
Research:
Kathleen Blee
Department of and Verta
Social andTaylor, “Semi-structured Interviewing
2166 AuSable in Social
Hall Movement Research”
Paul Lichterman
Behavioral Science“Seeing Structure Happen: Theory-Driven Participant
Grand Valley StateObservation”
University
David Snow
University ofand DannyMaine/
Southern Trom, “The Case Study andAllendale,
the Study of
MISocial
49401Movements”
Lewiston, MEmovements
Health social 04240
The following in Phil Brown and Stephen Zavestoski,
jphillip@bates.edu eds., Social
Deborah Movements in Health:
Thorne
Carole Joffe and Tracy Weitz, “Uneasy Allies: Prochoice Physicians,
Department Feministand
of Sociology Health Activists,
and the Struggle
Meghan for Abortion Rights” (W)
Emily Kolker,
Department of “Reaching for Resources
Sociology and Criminal and Recognition: The Breast Cancer Movement” (W)
Ohio University
Maren
Justice Klawiter, “Breast Cancer in Two Regimes: The Impact
Athens, OHof 45701
Social Movements on Illness
Experience”
University of(W)Delaware thorned@ohio.edu
Newark, DE 19716
megrich@udel.edu
Topic Melanie Wallendorf
selection and presentations (continued, if necessary)
Oct.
George4 Ritzer 5) Environmental Justice and Environmental Healthof Management
Eller College
University
General of Maryland
social movements - methods Tucson, AZ 85721
The following
College in Bert
Park, MD Klandermans and Suzanne Staggenborg,
20742 Methods of Social Movement
Research:
ritzer@socy.umd.edu
Debra Minkoff, “Macro-Organizational Analysis” Frederick Wherry
Donatella
J. Michaeldella
RyanPorta, “Comparative Politics and Social Movements”
Bert Klandermans,
Department Suzanne Staggenborg, and SidneyUniversity
of Sociology Tarrow, “Conclusion:
of Michigan Blending Methods
and Theories
University of in Social Movement Research”
Maryland Ann Arbor, MI 48109
mryan@socy.umd.edu
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 Decision Making: A Native
Juliet Schor
Perspective”ofEnvironmental
Department Sociology Health Perspectives Supplement
519 McGuinn2, 2002(W)
Brandeis University
-professionals as activists Boston College
The following
Waltham, MA from:
02454Special issue of Annals of American Academy
Chestnut of Political
Hill, MA 02467 and Social
Science: Phil Brown. ed., “Health and the Environment”
lamiller@brandeis.edu 2000,Vol. 584:
juliet.schor@bc.edu
Michael McCally, “Professionals’Activism for Environmental Health” (W)
Richard
Lisa Clapp, “Popular Epidemiology: “Citizen Health
Peñaloza Surveys in Utah and Massachusetts”
Sara Steen
(W)
Phil 468
Bus Brown, two chapters from book manuscript, Contested Illnesses:
219 Ketchum HallToward a New
Environmental
University Health Movement (spring 2007, Columbia
University Press) (W)
of Colorado
Scott Frickel,
Boulder, “Scientist Activism in Environmental Justice
CO 80309 Boulder, Conflicts:
CO 80309 An Argument for
Synergy” Society and Natural Resources 2004 17:359-366
penaloza@colorado.edu (W)
steen@colorado.edu
Oct. 11
Jan Phillips 6) Challenges to Knowledge and Lay-Professional
Joel StillermanDifferences
Department
General socialof Social and
movements 2166 AuSable Hall
David Hess,Science
Behavioral “Technology- and Product-Oriented Movements: Approximating
Grand Valley Social Movement
State University
Studies andofSTS”
University Science,
Southern Technology, and Human Allendale,
Maine/ Values in press(W)
MI 49401
Lewiston, MEmovements
Health social 04240
Frank Fischer, Citizens, Experts, and the Environment
Sara Shostak, “Environmental Justice and Genomics:Department
Acting on the Futures ofand
of Sociology Environmental
Health” Science
Meghan as Culture 2004 13:539-562 (W) Anthropology
Ashlin Rich
Oct. 18
Justice 7) Women’s Health Movement Athens, OH 45701
General social thorned@ohio.edu
movements – emerging social movement groups
Kathleen DE
Newark, M. Blee
19716and Ashley Currier, “Character Building: the Dynamics of Emerging Social
Movement Groups” Mobilization Volume 10, No. 1:Melanie
megrich@udel.edu February 2005 (R)
Wallendorf
Georgesocial
Health Ritzermovements Eller College of Management
Sandra Morgen,
Department Into Our Own Hands: The Women’sUniversity
of Sociology Health Movement,
of Arizona1969-1990
Oct. 25 Park, MD
College away at conference-no class
20742 mwallendorf@eller.arizona.edu
ritzer@socy.umd.edu
Nov. 1 8) AIDS Movement Frederick Wherry
J.General
Michaelsocial
Ryanmovements – methods Department of Sociology
The following
Department of in Bert Klandermans and Suzanne Staggenborg,
Sociology University Methods of Social Movement
of Michigan
Research:ofDebra
University Minkoff, “Macro-Organizational Ann
Maryland Analysis”
Arbor, MI 48109
Bert Klandermans,
College Suzanne Staggenborg, and Sidneyffwherry@umich.edu
Park, MD 20742 Tarrow, “Conclusion: Blending Methods
and Theories in Social Movement Research”
mryan@socy.umd.edu
Health social movements

Steve Epstein, Impure Science: AIDS, Activism, and the Politics of Knowledge
Nov. 15 9) Disability Rights Movement
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General social movements – emotions and culture Juliet Schor
Jeff Goodwin,
Department of James Jasper, and Francesca Polletta, 519
Sociology “Why Emotions Matter” in Jeff Goodwin,
McGuinn
James Jasper,
Pearlman 103 and Francesca Polletta, eds. Passionate140
Politics: Emotions and
Commonwealth Ave.Social Movements
(R)
Francesco Polletta, “Culture in and Outside Institutions”
lamiller@brandeis.edu in Research in Social Movements,
juliet.schor@bc.edu
Conflicts, and Change 2004 25: 161-183 (Daniel Myers and Daniel Cress, eds., Authority in
Contention)
Lisa Peñaloza(R) Sara Steen
Bus 468social movements
Health 219 Ketchum Hall
Joseph P. Shapiro,
University No Pity: People with Disabilities University
of Colorado Forging a New Civil Rights Movement
of Colorado
Nov. 22
Thanksgiving vacation steen@colorado.edu
Nov. 29
Jan Phillips 10) Patients’ Rights Movements: Complementary and Alternative Medicine,
Joel Stillerman
Mental
Department Patients,
of Social andAlzheimer’s Disease, Muscular
2166Dystrophy
AuSable Hall
Behavioral Science
General social movements – Science movements Grand Valley State University
Kelly Moore,
University “PoweredMaine/
of Southern by the People: Scientific Authority in Participatory
Allendale, MI 49401 Science” (pp. 299-
323 in Scott Frickel
Lewiston-Auburn and Kelly Moore, eds. The Newstillejo@gvsu.edu
College Political Sociology of Science: Institutions,
Networks, ME
Lewiston, and 04240
Power (R)
Scott Frickel and Neil Gross, “A General Theory of Scientific/Intellectual
jphillip@bates.edu Deborah Thorne Movements”
American Sociological Review 2005 70:204-232 (W)Department of Sociology and
Department
Health socialofmovements
In Phil Brown and Stephen Zavestoski, eds., Social Movements
Justice Athens, OHin45701
Health:
David Hess,of“Scientific
University Delaware Research Agendas and Health Social Movements” (W)
thorned@ohio.edu
Melinda
Newark, Goldner,
DE 19716“Dynamic Interplay Between Western Medicine and CAM”(W)
Renee Beard, “Emergent Voices: Illness Experience,Melanie
megrich@udel.edu Social Structure,
Wallendorfand the Alzheimer’s
Disease Movement” (W) Department of Marketing
Volona Rabeharisoa, “The Struggle Against Neuromuscular
George Ritzer Diseases
Eller College in France and the
of Management
Emergence
Departmentof ofthe ‘Partnership Model” of Patient Organization.”
Sociology University ofSocial Science and Medicine
Arizona
2003 57:2127-2136
University of Maryland(W) Tucson, AZ 85721
Dec. 6 11) Occupational Safety and Health
ritzer@socy.umd.edu
Frederick Wherry
J. Michael
General Ryanmovements: Outcomes
social Department of Sociology
Selections
Departmentfrom Marco Giugni, Doug McAdam, and University
of Sociology Charles Tilly, editors, How Social
of Michigan
MovementsofMatter
University (R)
mryan@socy.umd.edu
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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Laura MillerDemocracy: Leadership, Community and
Practicing Juliet Schor
Power
Department
Marshall Ganzof Sociology 519 McGuinn
Pearlman 103
Harvard University 140 Commonwealth Ave.
Waltham, MA 02454
"In democratic countries, knowledge of how to combineChestnut
is theHill,
motherMAof02467
all other forms of
knowledge; on its progress depends that of all the others." de Tocqueville
Lisa Peñaloza
INTRODUCTION Sara Steen
A. OBJECTIVES:
Fulfilling the democratic
University of Colorado promise of equity, inclusion and accountability
University of Coloradorequires the
participation
Boulder, CO 80309of an "organized" citizenry with the power
Boulder, CO 80309 assert its interests
to articulate and
effectively. Because access to political resources is unequal,
penaloza@colorado.edu however, the voices many remain
steen@colorado.edu
muted. Organizing – practicing democracy by mobilizing people to combine their resources to
act strategically
Jan Phillips on behalf of common interests - is one Joelway to confront this challenge.
Stillerman
Organizers recruit,
Department of Social and identify, and develop leadership; 2166 AuSable Hallaround that leadership;
build community
and build power
Behavioral Science from that community. How does this work?Valley
Grand Why do some
State efforts fail while
University
others succeed?
University Does itMaine/
of Southern really make a difference? Allendale, MI 49401
In this seminar
Lewiston, ME 04240 students explore these questions by learning how to build organizations through
which people
jphillip@bates.educan make their “voices” heard. By analyzing their
Deborah Thorne own leadership of an organizing
project of their own choosing and for which they areDepartment responsible,ofstudents learnand
Sociology skills of
reflective practice.
Meghan Ashlin Rich Students use a framework to map power and
Anthropology interests, develop leadership,
build relationships,
Department motivate
of Sociology andparticipation,
Criminal devise strategy and mobilize resources to create
Ohio University
organizations
Justice and win campaigns. Our approach is equally
Athens,useful for community, electoral,
OH 45701
union, and social
University movement organizing. As reflectivethorned@ohio.edu
of Delaware practitioners, students learn to analyze
their experience
Newark, DE 19716 as data from which they can gain insight into their leadership skills, the
workings of
megrich@udel.edutheir organization, the issues it addresses, and
Melanie theWallendorf
community within which it
operates. Department of Marketing
Organizing projects
Department of Sociology have three requirements: they must be rooted
University of in the student’s values, they
Arizona
must focus on achieving
University of Maryland an outcome by the end of the semester, and
Tucson, AZ 85721 they must require engaging
other people
College Park,toMD achieve
20742this outcome. Students may choose a project on which they have been
working, design
ritzer@socy.umd.edu a new project, or serve as an “intern” with any one of a wide variety of
advocacy organizations in the Greater Boston area. Projects Frederick have included campus based work
Wherry
with the Campus
J. Michael Ryan Political Society, Association of Black Harvard
Department of Women, Phillips Brooks
Sociology
House, Arab Students’
Department of Sociology Association, Student Labor Action Movement,
University of MichiganProgressive Jewish
Alliance, Harvard
University of MarylandDiabetes Network, Project Health;Ann and Arbor,
community based work with Centro
MI 48109
Presente, the Greater
College Park, MD 20742 Boston Interfaith Network, Hotel and Restaurant
ffwherry@umich.edu Employees Union, St.
Marks RC Parish, St. Stephen’s Episcopal Parish, Temple Israel, the Boston Youth Organizing
mryan@socy.umd.edu
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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commitment on behalf
Juliet Schor of which they are working will
be most successful.
Brandeis University
C. REQUIREMENTS: Boston College
1. Students
Waltham, MA choose
02454an "organizing project" upon which to base
Chestnut their
Hill, MA learning.
02467 They may choose
a project on which they are already working, initiate juliet.schor@bc.edu
lamiller@brandeis.edu a new project or serve with one of various
community or campus organizations. An “organizing project” involves mobilizing others to join
you inPeñaloza
Lisa achieving a clear outcome that advances values Sarayou share by the end of the semester –
Steen
and should
College average some 8 hours per week.
University
Students are of welcome
Coloradoto use their organizing project University
to advanceof work
Colorado
Boulder, CO 80309
they are already doing on the campus or in the community.Boulder, CO 80309
2. Getting Started. The course is front-loaded to give students the opportunity to acquire skills
Jan
that Phillips
will be useful in their organizing projects. Joel Stillerman
Department
• One-to-One Meetings. To facilitate the selection2166
of Social and AuSable Hall
of organizing projects – and get acquainted
Behavioral Science Grand Valley State
- students meet one-to-one with the instructor for 10 to 15 minutes duringUniversity
the first week of class.
• A Conversation with Former Students. On Thursday, September 27 from 7:00 to 8:00 th
Lewiston-Auburn
PM, we invite youCollege
to meet with former students whostillejo@gvsu.edu
can share their experience of the class with
Lewiston,
you. ME 04240
jphillip@bates.edu
• Action Skills Session. To acquaint you with a range Deborah Thorne skills useful in your
of organizing
projects, you are required to participate in a SaturdayDepartment of Sociology
Skills Session on Septemberand 29th from 9:00
Meghan Ashlin
AM to 3:00 PM. Rich Anthropology
Justice Athens,weeks,
3. The seminar meets for 2 hours, once a week for thirteen OH 45701with the exception of the
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
each session, we divide the time between discussion Melanie
megrich@udel.edu of readingWallendorf
and of student projects. You are
required to attend all sessions, do the reading and take Department of Marketing
an active part in discussions.
Department
4. of Sociology
The reading combines theory, practice, and historyUniversity of Arizona
and average 130 pages per week. An
introductory paragraph to each week's readings focuses attention and prioritizes readings.
College Park,
Readings MD 20742
designated mwallendorf@eller.arizona.edu
with “►” are particularly important to focus on for class discussion. My
ritzer@socy.umd.edu
“organizing notes” frame the readings, explain the charts and offer a discussion framework.
Recommended readings are available for those who wish Frederick Wherry
to pursue a topic more deeply and can
J. Michael Ryan
be purchased as a separate reading packet. Department of Sociology
University
5. Studentsofkeep
Maryland Annsubmit
field notes on the basis of which they Arbor,"reflection
MI 48109 papers" of
approximately 2 pages each week in which they analyze their experience of their own organizing
mryan@socy.umd.edu
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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6. Each
Laura student prepares a 10 to15 minute class presentation
Miller Juliet Schorduring the semester. Students
introduce themselves,
Department their project, and discuss how 519
of Sociology the project
McGuinn relates to the topic of the week.
Presentations
Pearlman 103 conclude with questions for class discussion. A sign-up sheet
140 Commonwealth Ave.for the presentations
will be distributed
Brandeis Universityduring the first week of class. Boston College
7. At the end of reading period, Friday, January 11,juliet.schor@bc.edu
lamiller@brandeis.edu each student submits a 20-page final paper
in which they reflect on what they learned about “practicing democracy.” Students are evaluated
not on
Lisa whether their project is a “success”, but on their
Peñaloza Saraability
Steento analyze what happened and
why. Final
College grades will be based on seminar participation
of Business (40%), of
Department weekly reflection papers (30%)
Sociology
and final
Bus 468 report (30%). 219 Ketchum Hall
Boulder, CO 80309
D. MATERIALS: Boulder, CO 80309
The five books required for this course are available steen@colorado.edu
penaloza@colorado.edu for purchase at the COOP and are on
reserve at the Lamont library.
a) Ellen
Jan Langer, Mindfulness, New York: Addison-Wesley,
Phillips 1989;
Joel Stillerman
b) Saul Alinsky,
Department of Social and for Radicals, New York: Vintage,
Reveille 1989; Hall
2166 AuSable
c) Saul Alinsky,
Behavioral ScienceRules for Radicals, New York: Vintage,
Grand1989;
d) Kim Bobo,
University J. Kendall
of Southern and S. Max, Organizing for
Maine/ Social Change:
Allendale, MI 49401 Midwest Academy Manual
for Activists, New
Lewiston-Auburn York: Seven Locks, 2001;
e) Mark Warren,
Lewiston, ME 04240 Dry Bones Rattling: Community Building to Revitalize American Democracy,
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2001.
The otherAshlin
Meghan required
Richreadings can be found in the SS98Anthropology
reading packet available for purchase at
FlashPrint Copy,
Department 99 Mt. Auburn
of Sociology Street.
and Criminal Ohio University
Six recommended
University books can be purchased at the COOP.
of Delaware Required readings from these books are
thorned@ohio.edu
in the course
Newark, pack:
DE 19716
a) Jacqueline B. Mondros and Scott M. Wilson, Organizing
megrich@udel.edu for Power and Empowerment, New
Melanie Wallendorf
York, Columbia University Press, 1994; Department of Marketing
b) Clyde
George Wilcox, Onward Christian Soldiers: The Religious
Ritzer RightofinManagement
Eller College American Politics,
Boulder,of
Department Westview
SociologyPress, 2000; University of Arizona
c) Lani Guinier
University and Gerald Torres, The Miner’s Canary,
of Maryland Tucson, Cambridge,
AZ 85721Harvard University Press,
2003;Park, MD 20742
College mwallendorf@eller.arizona.edu
d) Mike Gecan, Going Public, Boston, Beacon Press, 2002;
ritzer@socy.umd.edu
e) Charles Payne, I've Got the Light of Freedom: The Organizing
Frederick Tradition and the Mississippi
Wherry
J. Michael
Freedom Struggle, University of California Press,Department
Ryan 1995. of Sociology
f) Dana Fisher,
Activism, Inc.: How the Outsourcing of Grassroots
University Campaigns is Strangling
of Michigan
University Politics in America, Stanford, Stanford
of Maryland
Progressive AnnUniversity
Arbor, MIPress,
481092006.
mryan@socy.umd.edu
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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Week 1: What
Department is Organizing? (September 25) (161519
of Sociology pp.)McGuinn
Welcome.103
Pearlman This week we get acquainted, get an overview of the course, setAve.
140 Commonwealth goals, answer
questions,University
Brandeis and schedule interviews to discuss internships.
Boston "What is Organizing" frames the work
College
we will do.MA
Waltham, Aristotle,
02454 Bellah, de Tocqueville, and Schattschneider
Chestnut Hill,contextualize
MA 02467 organizing
within democratic politics. McKnight and Alinsky distinguish
lamiller@brandeis.edu between service provision and
juliet.schor@bc.edu
organizing. Gunier and Torres challenge us to focus on how the structural divisions of race,
class,Peñaloza
Lisa and gender interact with organizing. Woliver gives a snapshot of the mechanics of
Sara Steen
community
College organizing, and Skocpol locates organizing
of Business in debatesofabout
Department civic engagement.
Sociology
Gecan
Bus 468discusses different ways in which people “combine.”
219 Ketchum Hall
Boulder,Marshall
a) CO 80309 Ganz, "What is Organizing" 2006. (T) Available
Boulder, on SS98 Webpage
CO 80309
Charts and Questions (T) Available on SS98 steen@colorado.edu
b) Webpage
Aristotle, Politica, Book 1, Chapter 1-2 (pp.1127-1130). (T)
http://etext.virginia.edu/toc/modeng/public/AriPoli.html
Robert
Department
c) of Bellah, et al, The Good Society, "Introduction:
Social and 2166 AuSableWe LiveHallThrough Institutions,"
(p.3-18)
Behavioral (T)
Science Grand Valley State University
Alexis
University
d) De Tocqueville,
of Southern Maine/ Democracy in America, VolumeMI
Allendale, II, 49401
Part II, Chapters 2-6, (pp.
506-517). (H/T)
Lewiston-Auburn College http://xroads.virginia.edu/~HYPER/DETOC/toc_indx.html
stillejo@gvsu.edu
Lewiston,
e) ►E.ME E.04240
Schattschneider, The Semisovereign People: A Realist's View of Democracy in
America, "Introduction" xii-xvii; “The Contagiousness
jphillip@bates.edu of Conflict", (1-19). (T)
Deborah Thorne
f) ►Saul Alinsky, Reveille for Radicals, Chapter 1, (pp.3-23).
Department (P)
of Sociology and
Meghan►John
g) AshlinMcKnight,
Rich "Services are Bad for People," (pp.41-44). (T)
Anthropology
h) MikeofGecan,
Department Going
Sociology andPublic, “Chapter 10, Three
Criminal OhioPublic Cultures” (pp.151-166)
University
Justice Lani Guinier and Gerald Torres, The Miner’sAthens,
i) Canary,OH “Political
45701 Race and Magical
Realism,
University Chapter 1”, (pp.11-31) (T).
Newark,Laura
j) R. Woliver, "Mobilizing and Sustaining Grassroots Dissent," Journal of Social
DE 19716
Issues, Vol. 52, No. 1, 1996, (pp.139-151). (P)
k) Theda Skocpol, "From Membership to Management”, Department Chapter 4 in Diminished
of Marketing
George Democracy,
Ritzer 2003 (pp. 127-174). (H) Eller College of Management
Week 2: Learning
University of Marylandin the Organizing Tradition (October
Tucson,2)AZ (229+
85721pp.)
This week
College we MD
Park, explore
20742both “how” we will learn overmwallendorf@eller.arizona.edu
the course of the semester using a
pedagogy of “reflective practice,” and we consider the tradition in which organizing is rooted.
ritzer@socy.umd.edu
Thich Nhat Hanh reflects on uses and abuses of theory in learning
Frederick practice. Fiske and Taylor
Wherry
explain
J. MichaelhowRyan
we form theories, how they shape our learning,
Department and of
how they inhibit learning.
Sociology
Langer challenges
Department us to engage critically with our own
of Sociology theories.ofAnd
University Kierkegaard calls attention
Michigan
to the fact that
University learning practice takes emotional resources,
of Maryland as well
Ann Arbor, MIas48109
cognitive and behavioral
ones. Sitkin
College Park,shows us how failure is often a necessaryffwherry@umich.edu
MD 20742 component of learning practice. Schon
spells out the meaning of “reflective practice.”
mryan@socy.umd.edu
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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Susan
Laura
c) Fiske and Shelly E. Taylor, Social Cognition,
Miller Chapter
Juliet Schor 6, "Social Schemata," (pp.139-
42, 171-181).
Department (T)
Ellen Langer,
Pearlman
d) 103 Mindfulness, Chapter 3, "The Roots of Commonwealth
140 Mindlessness," (pp.19-35);
Ave. Chapter 4,
"The Costs
Brandeis of Mindlessness," (pp.43-55); Chapter
University 5, "The
Boston Nature of Mindfulness," (pp.61-
College
77); Chapter
Waltham, MA 024547, "Creative Uncertainty," (pp.115-129). (P) Hill, MA 02467
Chestnut
M.S. Kierkegaard, “When the Knower Has to Apply
e) Knowledge” from “Thoughts on Crucial
juliet.schor@bc.edu
Situations in Human Life”, in Parables of Kierkegaard, T.C. Oden, Editor. (P)
Lisa►Sim
f) Sitkin, "Learning Through Failure: The Strategy
Peñaloza of Small Losses", Research in
Sara Steen
College of BusinessBehavior, Vol.14, 1992, (pp. 231-266).
Organizational (T) of Sociology
Department
BusDonald
g) 468 Schon, The Reflexive Practitioner, Chapter 2192,Ketchum
“From Technical
Hall Rationality to
Reflection-in-Action”
University of Colorado (pp.49-69). (T) University of Colorado
In the West, popular, civic, and religious currents of steen@colorado.edu
penaloza@colorado.edu the organizing tradition go back at least as
far as Exodus and, in the US, the American Revolution. Currents emerged elsewhere from
Gandhi’s
Jan vision of nonviolent organizing that influenced
Phillips social change work in Asia, Africa,
Joel Stillerman
North America,
Department and Eastern
of Social and Europe. Branch’s excellent 2166account
AuSable ofHall
the Montgomery bus
boycott,
BehavioraltheScience
beginning of the modern Civil Rights Movement,
Grand Valleyshows how
State organizing actually
University
works. In my
University March blog,
of Southern I offer one view of the organizing
Maine/ Allendale,challenges
MI 49401we face today. (121+
pp.) stillejo@gvsu.edu
Lewiston, ME 04240
a) The Bible, Exodus, Chapter 2-6, (pp.82-89). (H)
http://www.bibleontheweb.com/Bible.asp Department of Sociology and
MeghanRobert
b) AshlinMiddlekauff,
Rich The Glorious Cause, Chapter 11, "Resolution," (pp.221-239). (H)
Anthropology
Justice ►Taylor Branch, Parting the Waters, Chapter
c) 5, "TheOH
Athens, Montgomery
45701 Bus Boycott," (p.120
- 205)
University (H) http://spot.colorado.edu/%7Ewehr/5025B.TXT
Newark,►DE
d) Marshall
19716 Ganz, “Organizing for Democratic Renewal”, TPM Café, March 27, 2007;
http://www.tpmcafe.com/blog/coffeehouse/2007/mar/27/organizing_for_democratic_rene
wal Department of Marketing
For those interested
Department in exploring diverse currents of the
of Sociology organizing
University tradition further, you may
of Arizona
choose among
University the following OPTIONAL readings: Tucson, AZ 85721
of Maryland
CollegeOPTIONAL:
a) Park, MD 20742 Louis Fischer, The Life of Mahatma Gandhi, Chapter 31, "Drama at the
Seashore" (pp.263 -275). (H)
ritzer@socy.umd.edu
b) OPTIONAL: Mark Warren, Dry Bones Rattling, Chapter
Frederick 2, “A Theology of
Wherry
Organizing”,
J. Michael Ryan (p. 40-70). (H) Department of Sociology
Department
c) of Sociology
OPTIONAL: Timothy Garton Ash, The Polish University
Revolution:
of Michigan
Solidarity 1980-82,
Introduction,
University of Maryland Chapter 1 "Inside the Lenin Shipyard,"
Ann Arbor,(pp.MI
1-67). (H)
48109
CollegeOPTIONAL:
d) Park, MD 20742 Margaret Keck and Kathryn Sikkink, Activists Beyond Borders: Advocacy
ffwherry@umich.edu
Networks in International Politics, Chapter 1, Introduction (pp. 1-38) (H)
mryan@socy.umd.edu
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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OPTIONAL: Theda Skocpol, Marshall Ganz,
Laura Miller
g) ZiadSchor
Juliet Munson, “Nation of Organizers: The
Institutional
Department Origins of Civic Voluntarism in 519
of Sociology the United
McGuinn States”, American Political
Pearlman 103 Review, September, 2000. (H)
Science 140 Commonwealth Ave.
Brandeis http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=aph&AN=4161514&site=ehost-
Waltham, live&scope=site
Week 3: Telling Your Public Story (October 9) (142 pp.)
This Peñaloza
Lisa week we focus on putting into words the sources of your
Sara Steenmotivation to learn leadership,
organizing,
College and social action. This is important to understand
of Business Department notof
only for its own sake, but
Sociology
because
Bus 468 whenever one assumes a role of leadership, 219 especially
Ketchumin aHall
community other than one’s
own, peopleofexpect
University an account of who you are and why
Colorado you areof
University there. These questions of what I
Colorado
am calledCO
Boulder, to do, and whatCO
what the community is called to do, Boulder,
80309 are called to do now are at
we 80309
least as old as Moses’ conversation with God at the Burning
penaloza@colorado.edu Bush: Why me? asks Moses, when
steen@colorado.edu
he is called to free his people. And, who – or what - is calling me? And, why these people? Why
Jan Phillips
here, now, in this place? Joel Stillerman
Public narrative
Behavioral is the art of translating values into action.
Science GrandItValley
is a discursive process through
State University
which individuals,
University communities,
of Southern Maine/ and nations construct their identity,
Allendale, make choices, and inspire
MI 49401
action. Because it engages
Lewiston-Auburn College both “head” and “heart”, narrative can instruct and inspire - teaching
stillejo@gvsu.edu
us not onlyME
Lewiston, how04240
we should act, but moving us to act. Leaders use public narrative to interpret
themselves to others, engage others in a sense of shared
jphillip@bates.edu community,
Deborah Thorneand inspire others to act on
challenges that community must face. It is learning toDepartment
tell a storyofofSociology
self, a story of us, and a
and
story
Meghan of now.
AshlinIt Rich
is not public speaking, messaging orAnthropology
image making. As Jayanti Ravi, MPA/MC
07 said, it’s learning
Department how and
of Sociology to bring out their “glow” from
Criminal Ohiowithin, not how to apply a “gloss” from
University
without.
1. Jerome
Newark, DEBruner,
19716 “Two Modes of Thought”, Chapter 2 in Actual Minds, Possible Worlds
(Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1986), p.11
megrich@udel.edu – 25. (T)
Melanie Wallendorf
2. George Marcus, The Sentimental Citizen: Emotion Department
in Democratic Politics, (University Park:
of Marketing
PennRitzer
George State University Press, 2002), Chapter 4, “Becoming
Eller College Reacquainted
of Managementwith Emotion”
(pp.49-78)
Department of (T)
Sociology University of Arizona
3. Martha of
University Nussbaum,
Maryland“Emotions and Judgments of Tucson, Value”, AZ Chapter
85721 1 in Upheavals of Thought:
The Intelligence
College Park, MD 20742 of Emotions, (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2001), (pp. 19-33).
(T)
ritzer@socy.umd.edu
4. Drew Westen, Chapter 4, “The Emotions BehindFrederick the Curtain” (69-88), in The Political
Wherry
J. Michael Ryan
Brain: the of the Nationof(Public
Role of Emotion in Deciding the Fate Department Affairs: 2007). (T)
Sociology
5. Jerome Bruner,
Department Making Stories, Chapter 3, “The University
of Sociology Narrative Creation of Self”, (pp.63-87). (T)
of Michigan
6. RichardofKearney,
University Maryland “Narrative Matters”, Chapter 11 Ann in On Stories:
Arbor, Thinking in Action (New
MI 48109
York:Park,
College Routledge,
MD 20742 2006), p. 125-156.(T) ffwherry@umich.edu
7. William Gamson, “Political Consciousness”, Chapter 1 in Talking Politics (New York:
mryan@socy.umd.edu
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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• Organizing
Laura Miller Project Report Due Juliet Schor
• Completeofthe
Department Telling Your Public Story Worksheet
Sociology 519and prepare 2 minute story to explain
McGuinn
why you’ve been called to undertake the project to which you’ve committed.
Waltham, MA 02454
INTRODUCING YOUR ORGANIZING PROJECT Chestnut Hill, MA 02467
Week 4: Actors, Values and Interests (October 16) (68 pp.)
Can
Lisa you “map” the social world in which your organizing
Peñaloza project is unfolding? Who are the
Sara Steen
actors?
CollegeWhat do they want? And why? Are there leaders,
of Business a constituency,
Department an opposition? What
of Sociology
needs, values, and interests are in play? And where do you fit into the picture? Bruner offers
some ideas.ofWhat
University do you think of Alderfer’s model of
Colorado our needs?
University of Bruner
Colorado locates the sources of
our values in our cultures, and Weber explains how we turn them into interests. Do you agree?
Walker explains why groups with common interests steen@colorado.edu
penaloza@colorado.edu may not act on them, while Guinier and
Torres call attention to the political implications of how we understand “interests”. Mondros and
Wilson
Jan describe the actors in a typical organizing campaign.
Phillips Joel Stillerman
Behavioral
a) Marshall Ganz. “Notes on Actors, Values andGrand
Science Interests” 2006.
Valley Available
State on SS98
University
UniversityWebpage
Charts and College
Lewiston-Auburn
b) Questions Available on SS98 Webpage
stillejo@gvsu.edu
Lewiston,
c) ►Saul Alinsky, Rules for Radicals, “A Word About Words,” (pp.48 - 62). (P)
ME 04240
d) ►Clayton Alderfer, Existence, Relatedness and
jphillip@bates.edu Deborah Chapter 2, “Theory,” (pp.6-13).
Thorne
Growth,
(T) Department of Sociology and
Meghan
e) Jerome
AshlinBruner,
Rich Acts of Meaning, excerpt, Chapter 1, “The Proper Study of Man,” (pp.24-
Anthropology
Department30). (T)
Justice Max Weber, Economy and Society, Volume I,Athens,
f) “TypesOH of Social
45701 Action,” (pp.24-26). (T)
University
g) JackofL.Delaware
Walker, Jr., Mobilizing Interest Groups in America, Chapter 3, “Explaining the
thorned@ohio.edu
Newark,Mobilization
DE 19716 of Interests,” (pp. 41-55). (T)
►Guinier and Torres, The Miner’s Canary, Chapter
megrich@udel.edu
h) Melanie3,Wallendorf
“Race as Political Space”, (pp.
67– 82). (T) Department of Marketing
George Mondros
i) Ritzer and Wilson, Organizing for Power Eller Chapter 1, “Social
and Empowerment,
Action
Department of Organizations
Sociology and Power,” (pp. 1-10).University
(T) of Arizona
•University of Maryland
Reflection Paper # 1 (required): Actors, Values, Tucson,
InterestsAZMap85721
•College
FirstPark, MDPresentation
Student 20742 mwallendorf@eller.arizona.edu
ritzer@socy.umd.edu
Week 5: Actors, Resources and Power (October 23) Frederick
(107 pp.)Wherry
How
J. do weRyan
Michael get the power to act on our interests? Power emergesof
Department from the interplay of resources
Sociology
and interests among actors: independence, dependency and domination, or interdependence.
What resources
University does you constituency need to act onAnn
of Maryland its interests?
Arbor, MIWho controls them? What are
48109
their interests? Emerson, Loomer and Miller offer similar, but distinct, ways of looking at power
as relational. They distinguish between “power with” others or the “power over” others that
mryan@socy.umd.edu
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
64
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Charts and Questions Available on SS98 Webpage Juliet Schor
Laura Miller
Richard
Department
b) of Emerson,
Sociology“Power-Dependence Relations”, American Sociological Review, 27:31-
519 McGuinn
Pearlman41. (T)
103(Available in JSTOR - http://www.jstor.org.ezp2.harvard.edu/search/)
Brandeis
c) ►Bernard M. Loomer, “Two Kinds of Power,”
University The D.R.
Boston Sharpe Lecture on Social Ethics,
College
Waltham,October
MA 29, 1975, Criterion, Vol. 15, No.1, 1976
02454 (pp. 11-29).
Chestnut Hill, MA (T)02467
d) Jean Baker Miller, Women’s Growth in Connection:
Writings from the Stone Center,
Chapter 11, “Women and Power,” (pp.197-205). (T)
e) ►John Gaventa, Power and Powerlessness: Quiescence
Lisa Peñaloza Sara Steen and Rebellion in an Appalachian
College Valley, Introduction, (pp.3-32). (T)
Bus 468
f) Mimi Ho, “Californians for Justice”, NYU Review of Law and
219 Ketchum Social Change, Volume 27,
Hall
2001-2
University (pp. 38 - 43). (H)
Boulder,
g) TheCO Living
80309 Wage Debate Comes to Harvard (A) (10 pages)
Boulder, and (B) (18 pages); Kennedy
CO 80309
School of Government, 20002. Available on SS98
penaloza@colorado.edu Webpage
steen@colorado.edu
h) ►Thucydides, The Peloponessian Wars, Book V, Chapter 7, “The Sixteenth Year – the
Melian Dialogue,” (pp.400-408). (H)
Department
i) of SocialMax
OPTIONAL: and Weber, “Class, Status, and2166
Party” in From
AuSable Max Weber: Essays in
Hall
Sociology,
Behavioral Sciencetranslated and edited by H. H. GerthGrand
and C. Wright
Valley Mills
State (New York: Oxford
University
University
University Press, Maine/
of Southern (1946 [1920]), (pp.180-195).Allendale, MI 49401
•Lewiston-Auburn
Reflection Paper College
# 2 (required): Power Map stillejo@gvsu.edu
Lewiston, ME 04240
HOW ORGANIZING WORKS: LEADERSHIP, Deborah
jphillip@bates.edu Thorne
RELATIONSHIPS, MOTIVATION,
STRATEGY, AND ACTION Department of Sociology and
Organizers
Meghan mobilize
Ashlin Rich communities by identifying, recruiting, and developing leaders within those
Anthropology
communities.ofAnd
Department leadersand
Sociology weave organizations with Ohio
Criminal four threads
Universitydrawn from the world within
which they form: relationships, motivation, strategy,Athens,
Justice and action.
OH By reweaving relationships, we
45701
can form new
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of Delaware of narrative and strategic deliberation
thorned@ohio.edu
we can devise
Newark, new interpretations of what needs to be done and why. And we act by mobilizing
DE 19716
and deploying resources.
Week Developing Leadership (October 30) (154Eller
George6:Ritzer pp.) College of Management
Where do leaders
Department come from? How do we know oneUniversity
of Sociology when we see one? What do they actually
of Arizona
do? We build
University on Burns’ view of leadership as relational,
of Maryland Heifetz’s
Tucson, emphasis on adaptive
AZ 85721
learning, and Hackman’s
College Park, MD 20742 emphasis on creating conditions that enable others to achieve their
purposes. Gardner draws attention to the role of our story in exercising leadership. And Freeman,
ritzer@socy.umd.edu
Alinsky, and King challenge our assumptions about leadership so we can learn to lead more
Frederick Wherry
effectively. The selection from Exodus posed the challenge
J. Michael Ryan Departmentof earning leadership by letting other
of Sociology
earn it. Shamir
Department and Eilam show how important it is toUniversity
of Sociology claim one’s own story in order to inspire
of Michigan
others to claim
University theirs.
Marshall Ganz. “Notes on Leadership” 2006. Available on SS98 Webpage
mryan@socy.umd.edu
a)
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 for Great Performances, Chapter 7,
StageSchor
“Imperatives
Department for Leaders” (pp.199 - 232) (T/P). 519 McGuinn
of Sociology
f) Howard
Pearlman Gardner, “The Leaders’ Stories”, Chapter
103 1403 in
Commonwealth
Leading MindsAve. (New York: Basic
Books,University
Brandeis 1995), p. 41 -65. Boston College
g) ►Jo Freeman,
Waltham, MA 02454 "The Tyranny of Structurelessness,"
Chestnut Hill,
Berkeley MA 02467
Journal of Sociology, 1970,
(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
►Saul
College
i) Alinsky, Reveille for Radicals, Chapter 5,Department
of Business "Native Leadership,"
of Sociology(pp.64-75). (P)
Bus►The
j) 468 Bible, Exodus, Chapter 18 (H) http://www.bibleontheweb.com/Bible.asp
219 Ketchum Hall
University
k) OPTIONAL: Dr. M.L. King, Jr. A Testament of University
of Colorado Hope, "TheofDrum Major Instinct," (p.259-
Colorado
67). (H)
OPTIONAL: Boas Shamir and Galit Eilam, “What’s
l) Your Story?” A life-stories approach to
steen@colorado.edu
authentic leadership development”, in The Leadership Quarterly 16, 2005, (pp. 395 – 417).
Jan (T)
•Department
ReflectionofPaper
Social#3and 2166 AuSable Hall
Week 7: Mobilizing
University of SouthernRelationships
Maine/ to Build Community (November
Allendale, MI 49401 6) (97 pp.)
Organizers build relationships
Lewiston-Auburn College to construct a “community of interest”, a constituency. Through
stillejo@gvsu.edu
relationships
Lewiston, MEwe come to understand our interests and develop the resources to act upon them.
04240
Gladwell explains the power of relational networks –Deborah
jphillip@bates.edu with people “like us” and people not “like
Thorne
us” – in everyday life. Blau looks at relationships as Department
exchange while Goffman and
of Sociology views them as
performances.
Meghan AshlinKearney
Rich points to the role of our “story” in entering into relationship with others.
Anthropology
Eccles and Nohria
Department distinguish
of Sociology face-to-face relationships
and Criminal Ohiofrom email. And Putnam shows how
University
relationships can become resources – “social capital.”
Justice Rosin,OH
Athens, Rondeau,
45701 and Simmons report how
organizers do
University relational work. Bobo offers some hints
of Delaware on recruiting.
thorned@ohio.edu
Newark,Marshall
a) DE 19716Ganz, “Notes on Relationships” 2006. Available on SS98 Webpage
Charts and Questions Available on SS98 Webpage
b) ►Malcolm Gladwell, “Six Degrees of Lois Weisberg,”
DepartmentinofThe New Yorker, January 11,
Marketing
George 1999
Ritzer(pp. 52-63). (T) http://www.gladwell.com/1999/1999_01_11_a_weisberg.htm
Eller College of Management
PeterofM.Sociology
Department
c) Blau, Exchange and Power in SocialUniversity
Life “Introduction.”
of Arizona(pp.1-11). (T)
Erving
University
d) Goffman, “On face-work: an analysisTucson,
of Maryland of ritualAZ
elements
85721in social interaction,” in
CollegeInterpersonal
Park, MD 20742Dynamics, edited by Bennis, etmwallendorf@eller.arizona.edu
al. (pp. 213-225, 229-231). (T)
Richard Kearney, On Stories, “Where do Stories Come From” (pp.3-4)? (T)
ritzer@socy.umd.edu
e)
f) Robert Putnam, Making Democracy Work, “Social Capital
Frederick and Institutional Success”,
Wherry
Chapter
J. Michael Ryan6, (p. 163-185) (T) Department of Sociology
►Kris
Department
g) of Rondeau
Sociologyand Gladys McKenzie, “A Woman’s
UniversityWay of Organizing,” Labor Research
of Michigan
University #18, (pp. 45-59). (H/P)
of Maryland
Review Ann Arbor, MI 48109
College►Ian
h) Park, Simmons,
MD 20742“On One-to-Ones,” in The Next Steps of Organizing: Putting Theory into
ffwherry@umich.edu
Action, Sociology 91r Seminar, (pp. 12-15) 1998. (P)
mryan@socy.umd.edu
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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Pearlman 075&sr=HLEAD(People-Powered)+AND+DATE+IS+12/09/2003
103 140 Commonwealth Ave.
Brandeis
k) Mike Gecan, Going Public, Chapter 1, “All Real
University BostonLiving Is Meeting”, (pp.19-32) (P)
College
Waltham,
l) MA 02454 Robert Eccles and Nitin Nohria,
OPTIONAL: Chestnut
Networks Hill,
andMA 02467
Organizations, “Face-to-Face:
Making Network Organizations Work,” HBS,juliet.schor@bc.edu
lamiller@brandeis.edu (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
Bus 468OPTIONAL: Jim Rooney, Organizing the South
n) Bronx, Chapter
219 Ketchum Hall 6, “Relational
University Organizing: Launching South Bronx Churches”,
of Colorado (pp. 105-118).
University (H)
of Colorado
•Boulder, CO 80309
Reflection Paper #4 Boulder, CO 80309
Week 8: Mobilizing Motivation: Values, Story, Celebration (November 13) (pp. 109)
We reinterpret our world – and our roles within it – even
Jan Phillips as we change it. As Bruner explains we
Joel Stillerman
understand
Departmentwhy we should
of Social and act, our motivation, as a story. We understand
2166 AuSable Hall how we can act, our
analysis,
Behavioral as Science
strategy. This week, we reconsider the role of motivation
Grand Valley Statein organizing
University and the role
of stories ofof“us”
University and “now”
Southern Maine/in particular in generating action. Alinsky
Allendale, MI 49401 argues organizing stories
are best drawn from
Lewiston-Auburn community traditions. We’ll look
College at video examples people telling stories of
stillejo@gvsu.edu
us as a wayME
Lewiston, of expressing
04240 community identities as well as a story of now as a call to action. Amy
Kober brings the mission of American Rivers to life Deborah
jphillip@bates.edu and SusanThorne
Christopher does the same with
participants in an electoral campaign. Our ‘story of now” is drawn
Department offrom Shakespeare,
Sociology and whose
Henry
Meghan V Ashlin
challenges
Richhis men to find the courage to act despite seemingly hopeless odds. Reagan
Anthropology
and Cuomo draw
Department on distinct
of Sociology andthreads
Criminalwithin the American
Ohio tradition
Universityto tell contrasting stories in
the early 1980’s – a topic Westen take further in his chapter
Justice Athens, on OHpartisanship.
45701 And, although he
doesn’t
University explain how a movement begins, Chong explains
of Delaware why people become motivated to join
thorned@ohio.edu
once
Newark,it has
DEbegun.
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Marshall Ganz, “Notes on Interpretation I: Story”
megrich@udel.edu
a) Melanie2006. (P) Available on SS98 Webpage
Wallendorf
b) Charts and Questions Available on SS98 Webpage Department of Marketing
George Saul
c) Alinsky, Chapter 6, Reveille for Radicals,
Ritzer “Community
Eller College of Traditions
Management and
DepartmentOrganizations,”
of Sociology(pp.76-88). (P) University of Arizona
University
d) Barbara L. Fredrickson, “The Value of Positive
of Maryland Emotions”
Tucson, in American Scientist,
AZ 85721
CollegeVolume
Park, MD 91,20742
2003, (pp. 330 – 335). mwallendorf@eller.arizona.edu
http://ezp1.harvard.edu/login?url=http://search.epnet.com.ezp1.harvard.edu/login.aspx?di
ritzer@socy.umd.edu
rect=true&db=aph&an=10029857&scope=site Frederick Wherry
J. Michael
e) Joseph
Ryan Davis, Stories of Change: Narrative and Social Movements,
Department of Sociology “Narrative and Social
DepartmentMovements” (pp. 10-29) (T)
University
f) Marshall Ganz, “The Power of Story in Social
of Maryland Movements”,
Ann unpub. Paper (pp. 1-7). (H)
Arbor, MI 48109
Collegehttp://ksghome.harvard.edu/~.MGanz.Academic.Ksg/MG%20POWER%20OF%20STOR
Park, MD 20742 ffwherry@umich.edu
Y.pdf
mryan@socy.umd.edu
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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j) Dennis Chong, Collective Action and the Civil
Laura Miller Juliet Movement, Chapter 5, “Creating
Schor
Rights
the Motivation
Department of Sociologyto Participate in Collective Action,” (pp. 90-102).(T)
519 McGuinn
Pearlman
k) Ronald
103 Reagan, “First Inaugural Address,” January 20, 1981, (7 pp.).
140 Commonwealth Ave.(H)
Brandeis http://www.bartleby.com/124/pres61.html
Waltham,
l) Mario
MACuomo,
02454 “Two Cities,” Keynote Address Chestnut Hill, MA
to Democratic 02467 Convention, July
National
17, 1984, (11 pp.). (H) http://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/cuomo1984dnc.htm
Also, there is audio here.
Drew Westen, Chapter 7, “Writing An Emotional
Lisa Peñaloza
m) Constitution” (p. 145-169), The
Sara Steen
CollegePolitical
of Business
Brain: the Role of Emotion in Deciding Department
the Fateof the Nation (Public Affairs,
ofSociology
Bus 4682007). (T/H) 219 Ketchum Hall
University
n) of ColoradoDavid Snow, et al, “Frame Alignment
OPTIONAL: University Processes, Micromobilization, and
of Colorado
Boulder,Movement
CO 80309Participation,” American Soc. Review, 51, August
Boulder, CO 80309 1986. (pp. 464-481) (T).
(Available in JSTOR - http://www.jstor.org.ezp2.harvard.edu/search/)
Reflection Paper #5
Department
Week 9: Mobilizing
of Social and
Power: Analysis, Strategy, Deliberation
2166 AuSable (November
Hall 20) (134 pp.)
Strategy is how
Behavioral we turn what we have into what we need
Science GrandtoValley
get what weUniversity
State want. It is both analytic
and imaginative,
University figuring
of Southern out how we can use our resources
Maine/ Allendale,to achieve
MI 49401 our goals. We reflect on a
“classic” tale of strategy
Lewiston-Auburn Collegerecounted in the Book of Samuel: the story of David and Goliath, a tale
stillejo@gvsu.edu
that arguesME
Lewiston, resourcefulness
04240 can compensate for lack of resources by developing “strategic
capacity”. Mintzberg’s view that strategy is a “verb”Deborah
jphillip@bates.edu is drawnThorne
from business while Kahn’s view
comes from organizing. Alinsky and Bobo offer some “how to’s”offor
Department organizing
Sociology andstrategy and
tactics. Bobo
Meghan spells
Ashlin Richout how to make deliberation work by holding good meetings.
Anthropology
Marshall
Department
a) Ganz. “Notes
of Sociology on Interpretation II: Strategy”
and Criminal 2006. (P)Available on SS98
Ohio University
Justice Webpage Charts and Questions Available onAthens, SS98 Webpage
OH 45701
Helpful
University Hint #3 Available on SS98 Webpagethorned@ohio.edu
of Delaware
Newark,►The
b) Bible, Book of Samuel, Chapter 17, Verses 4-49. (H)
DE 19716
http://www.bibleontheweb.com/Bible.asp Melanie Wallendorf
megrich@udel.edu
c) ►Marshall Ganz, from “Why David Sometimes Wins: Strategic
Department Capacity in Social
of Marketing
George Movements”
Ritzer Rethinking Social Movements (pp. Eller1-10).(T)
http://www.shatil.org.il/data/Why%20David%20Sometimes%20Wins.pdf
d) Henry
University Mintzberg, “Crafting Strategy,” Harvard
of Maryland Business
Tucson, Review, July 1987, (pp. 66-74).
AZ 85721
College(T)Park, MD 20742 mwallendorf@eller.arizona.edu
►Si Kahn, Organizing, Chapter 8 “Strategy,” (pp.155-174). (P)
ritzer@socy.umd.edu
e)
f) Marshall Ganz. “Resources and Resourcefulness: Strategic
Frederick Capacity in the Unionization
Wherry
of California
J. Michael Ryan Agriculture, 1959-1966”, American Journalof
Department Sociology, January 2000,
ofSociology
(pp.1003-1005;
Department of Sociology 1019-1044). (T/H) University of Michigan
Collegerect=true&db=aph&an=2828859&loginpage=login.asp&scope=site
Saul Alinsky, Rules for Radicals, Tactics, (pp. 126-136, 148-155, 158-161). (P)
mryan@socy.umd.edu
g)
h) Kim Bobo, Organizing for Social Change, Chapter 4 “Developing a Strategy” (pp.30-
47), 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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Week 10:103
Pearlman Mobilizing Resources: Action (November 140 27)
Commonwealth
(53 pp.) Ave.
Organizers
Brandeis mobilize and deploy resources to take action
University Bostonbased on commitments they secure from
College
others. As MA
Waltham, Oliver and Marwell argue, the way we mobilize
02454 Chestnut resources
Hill, MA influences
02467 how we can
deploy them and vice-versa. But whatever the constraints,
lamiller@brandeis.edu acting to make change involves risk,
juliet.schor@bc.edu
and risk requires courage. Before moving on we return to the “now” piece of our public story,
illustrated
Lisa by Shakespeare’s account of how Henry VSara
Peñaloza wasSteen
able to inspire his “happy few” to face
their fear.
College ofHackman
Business argues that the way we organizeDepartment
the action can itself enhance our capacity
of Sociology
for action
Bus 468 – or the opposite. Levy shows how to knit 219 tactics together
Ketchum strategically.
Hall
University
a) Marshall Ganz. “Notes on Action” 2006. Available
of Colorado Universityon SS98 Webpage
of Colorado
Boulder,Charts and Questions Available on SS98 Webpage
CO 80309 Boulder, Jacques Levy, Cesar Chavez,
CO 80309
Prologue, (pp. xxi-xxv). (H)
b) Pamela Oliver and Gerald Marwell, “Mobilizing Technologies for Collective Action,”
Chapter 11, (pp 251-271), in Frontiers in Social
Jan Phillips StillermanTheory, edited by Morris and
JoelMovement
DepartmentMueller. (T) and
of Social 2166 AuSable Hall
Behavioral
c) KimScience
Bobo, Organizing for Social Change, Chapter
Grand 7, “Designing
Valley Actions,” (pp.70-79),
State University
UniversityChapter 21, “Grassroots
of Southern Maine/ Fundraising,” (pp. 276-286).
Allendale, (P)MI 49401
Richard Hackman,
Lewiston-Auburn
d) College “Designing Work for Individuals and for Groups”, adapted from J.R.
stillejo@gvsu.edu
Lewiston, Hackman,
ME 04240 Work Design in J.R. Hackman & J.L. Suttle (Eds.) Improving Life at work:
Behavioral science approaches to organizational
jphillip@bates.edu Deborahchange. Santa Monica: Goodyear
Thorne
Publishing Company, 1977. (pp. 242-255). PleaseDepartment
take special
of Sociology
note of pages
and 242-244,
Meghanand 248-250
Ashlin Richand the Job Characteristics ModelAnthropology
and how to use it.
Department
e) Creating a Cultureand
of Sociology of Commitment,
Criminal Leadership
Ohio University Project, Sierra Club, 2007.
Development
Justice (5 pp) Athens, OH 45701
•University of Delaware
Reflection Paper #7 thorned@ohio.edu
Newark, DE 19716
Week 11: Communities in Action: Campaigns (December
megrich@udel.edu Melanie 4) Wallendorf
(pp. 115)
Organizers conduct campaigns to build organizations, and build organizations
Department of Marketing capable of running
campaigns.
George Campaigns are rhythms of activity growing
Ritzer Ellerout of a foundation,
College targeted on specific
of Management
outcomes, beginning
Department with a "kick-off", gathering momentum,
of Sociology Universityand culminating in a peak moment
of Arizona
of mobilization
University when the campaign is won or lost. Gersick
of Maryland Tucson, explains
AZ 85721 "rhythms" of organizational
development.
College Park, Levy recounts how the farm workers’ campaign
MD 20742 “peaked” after five years, while
Meyerson focuses on a shorter – but more recent – campaign. Read one of the following three
ritzer@socy.umd.edu
starred (***) cases: the “Orange Hats” case that focuses on neighborhood
Frederick Wherry self-help, “Cold
Anger”
J. Michaelon Ryan
city-wide claims making, and the UFW onDepartment
a national campaign.
of Sociology
Marshall
Department
a) Ganz. “Notes on Campaigns” 2006.University
of Sociology Available of onMichigan
SS98 Webpage
Charts
University and Questions. Available on SS98 Webpage
CollegeConnie
b) Park, MD Gersick,
20742"Pacing Strategic Change: The Case of a New Venture," Academy of
ffwherry@umich.edu
Management Journal, February 1994 (pp. 9-14, 36-42). (T) (Available in JSTOR -
mryan@socy.umd.edu
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) ***Kennedy School Case C16-91-1034, “Orange Hats of Fairlawn: A Washington DC
Neighborhood Battles Drugs,” (pp. 1-18). (H) Available on SS98 Webpage.
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Laura Miller
e) Juliet“Leave
SchorThem Alone. They’re
Mexicans,”
Department (pp. 105-126). (H)
f)
PearlmanHarold
103 Meyerson, “A Clean Sweep”, The American Prospect, Volume
140 Commonwealth Ave. 11, No. 15, June
Brandeis19,University
2000 (pp.24-29). (H) (Available in Lexis-Nexis
Boston-College
http:/web.lexis-
Waltham,nexis.com.ezp2.harvard.edu/universe/form/academic/s_guidednews.html)
The following OPTIONAL accounts by Mandela, Chen, Medoff and Sklar, and Halcli show
how Peñaloza
Lisa similar the temporal dynamics are of very different
Saracampaigns.
Steen
a)
College of Business Nelson Mandela, Long Walk toDepartment
OPTIONAL: Freedom: The of Sociology
Autobiography of Nelson
Bus 468Mandela, Chapter 14 (pp. 121-140). (H) 219 Ketchum Hall
b)
University of ColoradoMartha Chen, "Engendering World
OPTIONAL: Conferences:
University the International
of Colorado
Boulder,Women's
CO 80309 Movement and the United Nations",Boulder,
Third World Quarterly, Vol. 16, No. 3,
CO 80309
1995, (pp. 477-491).
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c)
Department
OPTIONAL: Peter Medoff and Holly Sklar,2166
of Social and StreetsAuSable
of Hope, Chapter 3, "Don't Dump
Hall
On Us:
Behavioral Organizing the Neighborhood," (pp. 67-87).
Science (H) State University
Grand Valley
d) of SouthernAbigail
OPTIONAL:
University Maine/Halcli, “AIDS, Anger Allendale,
and Activism, ACTUP as a SMO” in Waves
MI 49401
of Protest: College
Lewiston-Auburn Social Movements Since the Sixties, edited by Jo Freeman and Victoria
stillejo@gvsu.edu
Johnson,
Lewiston, Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 1999, (pp.135-150). (H)
ME 04240
• Reflection Paper #8
Meghan
Week 12a: Ashlin Rich
Communities (December 11) (104 pp.)
in Action: OrganizationsAnthropology
Successful organizing
Department campaigns
of Sociology can create lasting organizations.
and Criminal Ohio University But creating organizations that
continue to respond, change, and adapt requires learning
Justice Athens,howOH to manage
45701 the dilemmas of unity
and diversity,
University inclusion and exclusion, responsibilitythorned@ohio.edu
of Delaware and participation, and leadership and
accountability.
Newark, Smith and Berg identify dilemmas that organizations must manage. Janis points
DE 19716
to the danger "too much" unity can suppress needed Melanie
megrich@udel.edu dissent. Wallendorf
Kahn focuses on the nuts and bolts
of organization. And Warren focuses on the challenge of buildingoforganizations
Department Marketing across racial,
religious, and economic lines.
Marshall
University
a) Ganz. “Notes on Organizations” 2006.
of Maryland Available
Tucson, on SS98 Webpage
AZ 85721
CollegeCharts
Park, MDand 20742
Questions. Available on SS98 Webpage
►Kenwyn Smith and David Berg, "A Paradoxical Conception of Group Dynamics",
ritzer@socy.umd.edu
b)
Human Relations, Vol. 40:10, 1987, (pp. 633-654).
Frederick (T) Wherry
http://hum.sagepub.com.ezp1.harvard.edu/cgi/content/abstract/40/10/633
c) ►Irving
Department Janis, "Groupthink", in PerspectivesUniversity
of Sociology on Behavior in Organizations, edited by
of Michigan
J.R.ofHackman,
University Maryland1983, (pp. 378-384). (T) Ann Arbor, MI 48109
College
d) SiPark,
Kahn,
MD Organizing,
20742 Chapter 3, "Organizations," (pp. 55-77). (P)
ffwherry@umich.edu
►Mark Warren, Dry Bones Rattling, from “Four, Bridging Communities Across Racial
mryan@socy.umd.edu
e)
Lines” (98-100; 114-123) and “Five, Deepening Multiracial Collaboration,” (pp. 124-
132; 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)
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Reflection Paper #9 Juliet Schor
Week 12b:
Pearlman Becoming a Good Organizer (December
103 14013) Commonwealth
(112 pp.) Ave.
This weekUniversity
Brandeis we reflect on organizing as a craft, art, andBoston
vocation: why do it, what can make a
College
person
Waltham, good
MA at 02454
it, what to do about the rest of our lives, how we
Chestnut canMA
Hill, make sure we continue to
02467
grow? Heifetz discusses the challenge of accepting responsibility
lamiller@brandeis.edu for leadership. Langer reflects
juliet.schor@bc.edu
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 Heifetz, Leadership Without Easy Answers,
of Business DepartmentChapter 11, "The Personal
of Sociology
Bus 468Challenge," (pp. 250-276). (P) 219 Ketchum Hall
b)
UniversityEllen
of Langer,
Colorado Mindfulness, Chapter 8, "Mindfulness
University on the Job," (pp.133-148). (P)
of Colorado
c)
Boulder, Cesar Chavez, "The Organizer's Tale," Ramparts
CO 80309 Magazine,
Boulder, CO 80309July 1966, (pp. 43 - 50). (P)
d) Saul Alinsky, Rules for Radicals, "The Education
penaloza@colorado.edu of the Organizer," (pp.63-80). (P)
steen@colorado.edu
e) Charles M. Payne, I’ve Got the Light of Freedom, “Chapter 8: Slow and Respectful
Work,” (pp.236-264). (H)
f)
DepartmentJane of
Addams, Twenty Years at Hull House, Chapters
Social and 2166 AuSable4-5, (pp. 60-89). (P)
Hall
Behavioralhttp://digital.library.upenn.edu/women/addams/hullhouse/hullhouse.html
g) OPTIONAL:
Lewiston-Auburn Mondros and Wilson, Organizing
College for Power and Empowerment, Chapter
stillejo@gvsu.edu
Lewiston, 2, "The Organizers," (pp.11-35). (P)
ME 04240
•jphillip@bates.edu
Reflection Paper #10 (required) Deborah Thorne
Week
Meghan 13:Ashlin
Conclusion,
Rich Evaluation Where Do We Go From Here? (December 18) (189 pp.)
Anthropology
Department
Note: of Sociology
Class will and Criminal
be scheduled for 3 hours. Ohio University
So what does organizing contribute to public life? After
Justice reflecting
Athens, on the “big picture” today,
OH 45701
we’ll hear from
University everyone about what they learned from
of Delaware their participation in the course. Did we
thorned@ohio.edu
meet individual
Newark, DE 19716and group goals? How could the course be improved? Alinsky's call for broader
participation in democratic governance is as timely now
megrich@udel.edu as when
Melanie it was written in 1946.
Wallendorf
Skocpol, Grieder, Weir, and I argue a need for greater participation.
Department Judis describes a world of
of Marketing
advocacy without participants, while Reed describesEller
George Ritzer his organizing
College ofsuccesses.
ManagementKeck and Sikkink
point to the promise
Department of transnational social movement
of Sociology organizing.
University Skocpol suggests future
of Arizona
directions
Universityfor democracy.
a) Alinsky,
College Park,Reveille
MD 20742 for Radicals, Chapter 11, (pp. 190-204). (P)
b) ►Ralph Reed, Politically Incorrect, 1996, Chapter 13, "Miracle at the Grassroots," (pp. 189-
ritzer@socy.umd.edu
202); Chapter 17, "What is Right about America:Frederick
How YouWherry Can Make a Difference," 1996,
(pp.249-267).
J. Michael Ryan (H). Department of Sociology
c) William of
Department Greider, Who Will Tell the People?, Chapter
Sociology 10, "Democratic
University of Michigan Promise," 1993, (pp.
222-241).
University (H
d) JohnPark,
College B. Judis,
MD "The
20742Pressure Elite: Inside the Narrow World of Advocacy Group Politics,"
ffwherry@umich.edu
The American Prospect, #9, Spring 1992, (pp. 15-29). (H)
mryan@socy.umd.edu
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
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Laura Skocpol, Diminished Democracy: From Membership
Miller Juliet Schor to Management in American
Department of Chapter
Civic Life, Sociology7, “Reinventing American Civic 519Democracy,”
McGuinn 2003, (pp. 254-293).
h) Dana Fisher,
Pearlman 103 “The Activism Industry”, in The American Prospect, September
140 Commonwealth Ave. 14, 2006.
http://www.prospect.org/web/page.ww?section=root&name=ViewWeb&articleId=11993
i) Zack Exley,
Waltham, “Stories and Numbers – a Closer Look
MA 02454 at Camp
Chestnut Obama”,
Hill, MA 02467 Huffington Post,
August 29, 2007. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/zack-exley/stories-and-numbers-a-
c_b_62278.html
College of Business
FINAL PAPER due Friday, January 11 at 4 pm. Department of Sociology
University
RESOURCES of Colorado University of Colorado
A. Required Reading
1. Ellen Langer, Mindfulness, Addison-Wesley, 1989.
2. Saul Alinsky, Reveille for Radicals, Vintage,Joel
Jan Phillips 1989.Stillerman
3. Saul of
Department Alinsky, and for Radicals, Vintage, 1989.
Social Rules 2166 AuSable Hall
4. KimScience
Behavioral Bobo, Jackie Kendall and Steve Max, Organizing
Grand Valley for Social
State University
Change: Midwest
University
Academy
of Southern
Manual for Activists, Seven Locks, Allendale,
Maine/ 2001. MI 49401
5. Mark Warren,
Dry Bones Rattling: Community stillejo@gvsu.edu
Building to Revitalize American
Lewiston, ME 04240Princeton University Press, 2001.
Democracy,
6. PAL 177 Readers, available at FlashPrint. Deborah Thorne
jphillip@bates.edu
7. PAL 177 Organizing Notes, available online.Department of Sociology and
Department
B. of Sociology
Recommended Readingand Criminal Ohio University
1. Jacqueline B. Mondros and Scott M. Wilson, Organizing
Justice Athens, OH 45701 and Empowerment,
for Power
Columbia
University University Press, 1994.
2. Lani Guinier
Newark, DE 19716 and Gerald Torres, The Miner’s Canary, Harvard University Press, 2003.
3. Mike Gecan, Going Public, Beacon Press, 2002. Melanie Wallendorf
megrich@udel.edu
4. Charles Payne, I've Got the Light of Freedom: The Department
Organizing ofTradition
Marketingand the Mississippi
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6. DanaPark,
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20742 Inc.: How the Outsourcing mwallendorf@eller.arizona.edu
of Grassroots Campaigns is Strangling
Progressive Politics in America, Stanford, Stanford University Press, 2006.
ritzer@socy.umd.edu
Frederick Wherry
J. Michael
C. LifetimeRyan
Reading Department of Sociology
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a lifetime reading list.
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1. Organizing in General
a) Davis, Gerald, Doug McAdam, W. Richard Scott, Mayer N. Zald eds., Social Movements
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Baker, Colin, Alan Johnson, and Michael Lavalette,
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519 McGuinn
Pearlman
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103 Jo and Victoria Johnson eds. Waves140 Commonwealth
of Protest: Ave.
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f) Rochon, Thomas R.; Culture Moves: Ideas, Activism,
MA 02454 Chestnut and
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MA 02467 Values (Princeton,
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McAdam, Doug, John D. McCarthy, and Mayer
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k) Horwitt, Sanford, Let Them Call Me Rebel: Saul Alinsky, (New York: Knopf, 1989).
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Jan Phillips
l) Rytina, Encounters with Unjust
Joel Stillerman
Authority,
Department (Homewood:
of Social and The Dorsey Press, 1982).
2166 AuSable Hall
University
2. of Southern
Labor Maine/
Movement/Populism Allendale, MI 49401
a) Fantasia, College
Lewiston-Auburn Rick and Kim Voss, Hard Work: Remaking the American Labor Movement,
stillejo@gvsu.edu
Lewiston,(Berkeley:
ME 04240 UC Press, 2004).
b) Milkman, Ruth and Kim Voss eds., Rebuilding
jphillip@bates.edu Deborah
Labor:
Thorne
Organizing and Organizers in
the New Union Movement, (Ithaca: Cornell University
DepartmentPress, 2004). and
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c)
Meghan Milkman,
Ashlin Rich Ruth ed., Organizing Immigrants:Anthropology
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of Sociology California, (Ithaca: Cornell University
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d)
Justice Clawson, Dan; The Next Upsurge: Labor and Athens, 45701Movements (Ithaca: ILR
OHSocial
the New
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e)
Newark, Bronfenbrenner,
DE 19716 Kate, Sheldon Friedman, Richard W. Hurd, Rudolph A. Oswald, and
Ronald L. Seeber eds., Organizing to Win: New
megrich@udel.edu Melanie
Research on Union Strategies, (Ithaca:
Wallendorf
ILR Press, 1998). Department of Marketing
f) Zieger, Robert, The CIO, 1935-1955, (Chapel
George Ritzer Hill:
Eller University
College of North Carolina Press,
of Management
1995).
g) Geoghegan,
University of Maryland Thomas, Which Side Are You On?: Trying
Tucson, AZto Be For Labor When It's Flat
85721
on It'sMD
College Park, Back, (New York, Plume, 1991).
h) Cohen, Lizabeth, Making a New Deal, (London: Cambridge University Press, 1990).
ritzer@socy.umd.edu
i) Goodwyn, Lawrence; The Populist Moment,Frederick (New York: Oxford University Press,
Wherry
1978).
j) Dubovsky,
Department Melvyn and Warren Van Tine, John
L. Lewis, A Biography, (Urbana:
of Michigan
University
University of Illinois Press, 1977).
k) McKenney,
College Park, Ruth; Industrial Valley, (New York:
MD 20742 Greenwood Press, 1939).
ffwherry@umich.edu
l) Steinbeck, John; In Dubious Battle, (Blue Ribbon Books, New York, 1937).
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3. Civil Rights Movements

a) 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).
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b) Andrews, Kenneth T., Freedom is a Constant
Laura Miller Juliet Schor The Mississippi Civil Rights
Struggle:
Department
Movement and It’s Legacy, (Chicago: University
of Sociology of Chicago Press, 2004).
519 McGuinn
PearlmanBranch,
c) 103 Taylor, Pillar of Fire: America in the 140King
Commonwealth
Years, 1963-65,Ave.(New York: Simon
Brandeisand Schuster, 1999).
Waltham,Wood,
d) Dan, ed., Friends and Family: True Chestnut
MA 02454 Stories ofHill,
Gay MA 02467 Straight Allies,
America’s
(Los Angeles: Alyson, 1999).
e) Halberstam, David, The Children, (New York: Random House, 1998).
Lewis, John; Walking With the Wind: A Memoir
Lisa Peñaloza
f) of the Movement, (New York: Simon
Sara Steen
andBusiness
College of Schuster, 1998). Department of Sociology
Bus 468 Anner, John, ed., Beyond Identity Politics: Emerging
g) 219 Ketchum Social Justice Movements in
Hall
of Coloradoof Color (Boston: Southend Press,
Communities
University 1996).of Colorado
University
Boulder, Dittmer,
h) CO 80309 John, Local People: The Struggle for Civil Rights
Boulder, CO 80309in Mississippi, (Chicago:
University of Illinois Press, 1995).
i) Skerry, Peter, Mexican Americans: the Ambivalent Minority, (Cambridge: Harvard
University Press, 1993).
j) Takaki,
Department Ronald,
of Social andStrangers from a Different 2166
Shore:AuSable
A HistoryHallof Asian Americans; (New
York:
Behavioral Penguin, 1989).
k) Branch,
University Taylor,Maine/
of Southern Parting the Waters: America in the King
Allendale, 494011954-63, (New York:
MIYears,
Simon andCollege
Lewiston-Auburn Schuster, 1988). stillejo@gvsu.edu
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l) Randy. And the Band Played On: Politics, People and the AIDS Epidemic, (New
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m) Morris, Aldon, Origins of the Civil Rights Movement:
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Change,
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of Sociology Political Process and the Development
Criminal Ohio University of Black Insurgency, 1930-
Justice 1980 (Chicago: University of Chicago Press,Athens,
1982). OH 45701
Newark,
4. DE 19716
Political Movements
a) Goss, Kristin A., Disarmed: The Missing Movement
for Gun Control in America,
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of American Democracy, (New Haven: YaleUniversity
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85721 Conservative Power in
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America,
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d)
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J. Michael Ryan Joe. The Revolution Will Not Be Televised:
DepartmentDemocracy, the Internet, and the
of Sociology
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Overthrow of Everything (Regan, 2004). University of Michigan
of Sociology
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University Theda, Diminished Democracy: From
of Maryland Ann Membership
Arbor, MI 48109 to Management in
College Park, Civic Life, (Norman: Oklahoma University
MD 20742
American Press, 2003).
ffwherry@umich.edu
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g)
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).
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Laura Miller CivicSchor
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140 Commonwealth
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American Political
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Chestnut 1998).
MA 02467
m) Clemens, Elisabeth, The People's Lobby: Organizational
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Business Faith of
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80309
Crawford, Alan, Thunder on the Right, (New
q) York: Pantheon, 1980).
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Jan
5. Phillips
Women's Movements Joel Stillerman
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2166 AuSable Hall A
Woman’s
Behavioral Crusade, (Princeton: Princeton University
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b) Katzenstein,
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of Southern Fainsod, Faithful and Fearless:
Maine/ Moving
Allendale, Feminist Protest inside
MI 49401
and Military, (Princeton: Princeton
the ChurchCollege
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c) Feree,
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04240Max, Controversy and Coalition: New Feminist Movement, (New
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d) Klatch, Rebecca E., Women of the New Right,Department
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MeghanKatzenstein,
e) Ashlin RichMary Fainsod and Carol McClurg Mueller, The Women's Movements of
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f) Athens,University
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Eller College
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6. of Maryland Movement
Environmental Tucson, AZ 85721
a)
College Sandler,
Park, MDRonald
20742and Phaedra Pezzullo, ed., Environmental
Justice and
Environmentalism: the Social Justice Challenge to the Environmental Movement
ritzer@socy.umd.edu
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b) Michael
J. Shabecoff,
Ryan Phillip, Earth Rising: American Environmentalism in the 21st
Century,
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CollegeEnvironmental
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ffwherry@umich.edu
d) Kline, Benjamin, First Along the River: A Brief History of the US
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c) Dowie, Mark, Losing Ground: American Environmentalism at the Close of the
20th Century, (Cambridge: The MIT Press, 1995).
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f) Fox, Stephen,
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7. MA 02454Organizing
Community Chestnut Hill, MA 02467
a) Orr, Marion, Transforming the City: Community
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b) SaraASteen
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CollegeMade it Happen ((Rutgers, 2007)
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c) the Ground
219 Ketchum HallUp: Grassroots
of ColoradoMaking Social Change, (Ithaca,
Organizations
University Cornell University
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Boulder,Boyte,
d) Harry C., Everyday Politics: Reconnecting
CO 80309 Citizens
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CO 80309
(Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press,
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steen@colorado.edu
e) Chambers, Edward T., Roots for Radicals: Organizing for Power, Action, and
Justice, (New York: Continuum International,
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Joel Stillerman
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of Social andGathering Power: The Future of Progressive
2166 AuSable Hall Politics in
America,
Behavioral Science(Boston: Beacon Press, 2003). Grand Valley State University
g) Wood,
University Richard L.,
of Southern Faith in Action: Religion,Allendale,
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h) Jacobsen,
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of Sociology Holly Sklar, Streets of Hope,
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University
Justice Fisher, Robert, Let the People Decide: Neighborhood
k) Athens, OH Organizing
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Newark, Robinson,
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8. Faith Based Organizing
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Sin: the Wherry
Evangelical Birth of the
J. Michael Ryan Social Movement (University of Chicago,
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b)
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c)
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a) Bloemraad, Irene; Becoming a Citizen: Incorporating
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103 Jennifer, Suburban Sweatshops: The 140Fight
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b)
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Boulder, Transnational
80309 Social
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Jan Phillips Joel
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BehavioralRisse-Kappen,
Science Thomas ed., Bringing Transnational Relations
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Lewiston, Kreisi, Hanspter, Ruud Koopmans, Jan Willem Dyvendak, and Marco G. Giugni,
ME 04240
(Minneapolis:
New Social Movements in Western Europe, Deborah
jphillip@bates.edu ThorneUniversity of
Minnesota Press, 1995). Department of Sociology and
h)
MeghanMargarita
Ashlin RichLopa, Singing the Same Song: Reflections
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of Two Generations of
NGOofWorkers
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Sociology Criminal (Quezon City:
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i)
Justice Sheila Rowbotham and Swasti Mitter, Dignity and Daily
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j) Mandela, Nelson, Long Walk to Freedom: AnMelanie
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k)
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College (New York:
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Maryland The Roots of Solidarity: A Political
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AZ 85721 of Poland's Working
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(New York: Oxford University Press, 1991). Frederick Wherry
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to Creating Groups That Can Solve Problems and Change the World (Arlington:
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Long Haul Press, 2006)
3. Staples,
Department Lee, Roots to Power: a manual for grassroots
of Sociology 519 McGuinn organizing (Westport:
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103 2004). 140 Commonwealth Ave.
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MA 02454 Larry, Sidewalk Strategies: SevenChestnut
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Department Areas
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and 2166 AuSable Hall
12. AFL-CIO
Behavioral Science Organizing Institute Materials Grand Valley State University
13. Campaign
University Materials
Lewiston,
E. ME 04240
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1. Grapes of Wrath, Ford, 1940.
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3. Salt of Rich
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16.
J. MichaelStreets
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17.
DepartmentFreedom on My Mind, Fields, 1994.
18.
UniversityIl Postino,
of MarylandRadford, 1995. Ann Arbor, MI 48109
19. The Fight
College Park, in the Fields, Paradigm, 1997. ffwherry@umich.edu
MD 20742
20. The Apostle, 1998.
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21. The Democratic Promise: Saul Alinsky and his Legacy, PBS, 1999.
22. Bread and Roses, 2000.
23. A Force More Powerful, PBS, 2000.
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Lewiston, ME 04240
UNDERGRADUATE SOCIAL MOVEMENTS
Justice SYLLABI Athens, OH 45701
Newark, DE 19716
ritzer@socy.umd.edu
Frederick Wherry
mryan@socy.umd.edu
200
Laura Miller Social Movements, and Contentious Juliet
Revolutions, PoliticsSchor
Department
Charles Tilly of Sociology 519 McGuinn
Pearlman
Columbia103 University 140 Commonwealth Ave.
Waltham,
Course Plan MA 02454 Chestnut Hill, MA 02467
This course should help undergraduates who already have a background in social science and/or
modern
Lisa history to think systematically about contentious
Peñaloza Sara politics
Steen – processes in which people
make conflicting
College of Businesscollective claims on each other or on third parties
Department of –Sociology
as they participate in them,
observe
Bus 468 them, or learn about how they are happening219 elsewhere.
KetchumWe will spend little time
Hall
reviewing theories
University of political contention or methodsUniversity
of Colorado for gathering and analyzing evidence. We
of Colorado
will spendCO
Boulder, most of our time examining how such forms
80309 of contention
Boulder, CO 80309 as social movements,
revolutions, nationalist mobilization, and ethnic conflict
penaloza@colorado.edu have worked in different times and
steen@colorado.edu
places, as well as thinking through parallels and differences among them. Most sessions will
operate as lecture-discussions.
For their own
Behavioral inquiries, students will choose some current
Science Grandsite of contention,
Valley use a standard
State University
source (for of
University example,
Southerna daily newspaper or online reports
Maine/ of human
Allendale, rights agencies) to catalog
MI 49401
episodes of contention
Lewiston-Auburn occurring in that site during the
College semester, then write three memoranda as
stillejo@gvsu.edu
they go: brief
Lewiston, MEsummaries
04240 and interpretations of the patterns of contention they discover, with
connections to the required course readings.1 We willDeborah
jphillip@bates.edu have short-answer
Thorne midterm and final
examinations. Examinations will draw on class sessions, requiredofreading,
Department andand
Sociology memoranda.
Grades will
Meghan depend
Ashlin Richon memorandum 1 (10%), memorandum 2 (10%), memorandum 3 (25%),
Anthropology
midterm examination
Department of Sociology(25%),
andand final examination (30%),
Criminal with upward nudges for overall
Ohio University
improvement and/or stellar class participation.
Students DE
Newark, should buy these paperback books:
19716
Beth Roy, Some Trouble with Cows. Berkeley: University
megrich@udel.edu Melanie of Wallendorf
California Press, 1994.
Charles Tilly, Social Movements, 1768-2004. Boulder: ParadigmofPress,
Department 2004.
Marketing
Charles Tilly and Sidney Tarrow, Contentious Politics.
George Ritzer EllerBoulder:
CollegeParadigm Press, 2006.
of Management
A. Claims, Politics, and Contention
Read Charles Tilly & Sidney Tarrow, Contentious Politics, chapters 1-3
ritzer@socy.umd.edu
17 January introduction to contentious politics and this course
Frederick Wherry
22Michael
J. January Ryan forms of government and of politics Department of Sociology
24 January of how
Department contention works and changes University of Michigan
Sociology
B. Who,Park,
College How,MD and20742
What? ffwherry@umich.edu
Read Beth Roy,
mryan@socy.umd.edu Some Trouble with Cows
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.
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LauraJanuary
Miller ethnicity, race, religion, and nationality Juliet Schor
5 February of identity
Department Sociology politics; memorandum #1 due: brief
519 report (maximum 1,000 words) on
McGuinn
Pearlman 103 plan for collecting and analyzing contentious episodes; include
140 Commonwealth Ave. a paragraph on
Brandeis University
likely strengths and weaknesses of your Boston College
sources
C. Mobilization, Demobilization, and Struggle
Read Tilly & Tarrow, Contentious Politics, chapters 4-6, plus Appendices A & B
7 February
Lisa Peñaloza opportunities, threats, and constraints Sara Steen
12 February
College mobilization processes
14 February
Bus 468 contentious repertoires 219 Ketchum Hall
19 Februaryof Colorado
University how forms of contention vary and change University of Colorado
D. Social Movements and Other Forms of Contention
Read Tilly, Social Movements, chapters 1-4
21 February
Jan Phillips social movements in history Joel Stillerman
26 February of how
Department Socialpeople
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
Collegeexamination stillejo@gvsu.edu
12-14 March
Lewiston, No Classes: Spring Holidays
ME 04240
E. Contention and Democratization Department of Sociology and
Read Tilly,
Meghan Social
Ashlin Movements, chapters 5-6
Rich Anthropology
19 March of regimes
Department Sociology andand
democracy
21 March
Justice waves of democratization; Ernesto Castañeda
Athens, OHlectures
45701
26 March of Delaware
University struggle and democratization thorned@ohio.edu
28 MarchDE 19716
Newark, democracy today and tomorrow; memorandum #2 due: brief report (maximum
megrich@udel.edu 1,000 words) on progress of contentious episodes
Melanie project
Wallendorf
F. WarRitzer
George and Revolution Eller College of Management
Read Tilly &ofTarrow,
Department SociologyContentious Politics, chapters University
7 and 8 of Arizona
2University
April violent specialists
4College
April Park, MD interstate
20742wars mwallendorf@eller.arizona.edu
9ritzer@socy.umd.edu
April civil wars
11 April revolutions Frederick Wherry
G. Contention
Department Today and Tomorrow
Read Tilly,of
University Movements, chapter 7 and Tilly &Ann
Maryland
Social Tarrow,
Arbor, MI 48109 Politics, chapter 9
Contentious
16 AprilPark, MD
College national,
20742transnational, and international
ffwherry@umich.edu
18 April
mryan@socy.umd.eduglobalization 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
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Laura Millerof Social Protest (Freshman Seminar) Juliet Schor
The Roots
Department
Susan Olzakof Sociology 519 McGuinn
Pearlman
Stanford 103University 140 Commonwealth Ave.
Syllabus juliet.schor@bc.edu
Why do people protest? Does protest matter to the political system? What are the issues that
mobilize
Lisa groups to protest, and why do social movements
Peñaloza decline? These are some of the key
Sara Steen
questionsofwe
College will be covering in this seminar. Each student
Business will write
Department a final paper on some
of Sociology
example
Bus 468 of a social movement or collective protest, and219 will present
Ketchum research results in class
Hall
during the last
University two weeks of class.
Course Requirements: Requirements will include active
penaloza@colorado.edu participation in class discussions
steen@colorado.edu
(50%), and an in-class presentation discussing an example of collective action or a social
movement
Jan Phillips(20%), and a written term paper (30%). The Joelterm paper will examine a social
Stillerman
movement orofprotest
Department Socialcampaign
and and must use one or more
2166 of the leading
AuSable Hall sociological theories,
arguments, Science
Behavioral or set of concepts from the readings. Grand Valley State University
The Term Paper College
Lewiston-Auburn (suggested length 10-12 pages) focus on one or more concepts or theories
stillejo@gvsu.edu
from the readings
Lewiston, ME 04240 and discuss how the evidence either fits or does not fit the theory. Examples of
broad theoretical perspectives would include resource
jphillip@bates.edu mobilization,
Deborah Thorneorganizational theories, or
theories about strategies of protest (framing, identity,Department
cultural resonance).
of SociologyThe and
last two weeks of
class willAshlin
Meghan be devoted
Rich to brief (15-20 minute) presentations of your social movement paper and
Anthropology
analysis, using
Department some of theand
of Sociology sociological
Criminal theories andOhio
concepts from the course readings. In the
University
past, students have written term papers on the gay-marriage
Justice Athens, movement,
OH 45701 race riots in LA, the
Native American
University movement, the international anti-globalization
of Delaware movement, the anti-abortion
thorned@ohio.edu
movement,
Newark, DEamong
19716other topics.
Important Dates: Department of Marketing
Assignment
George 1: Paper Topic Due October 11, in class,Eller
Ritzer one College
paragraph of describing
Management your topic.
Assignment of
Department 2: Sociology
Research Question, Due November 8.University
Outline main research question
of Arizona
Term Paper,ofDue
University Friday, December 7
Readings marked “JSTOR” below are available through Stanford library services. First, go to:
ritzer@socy.umd.edu
(http://library.stanford.edu/), then click on “Databases,” scroll down
Frederick Wherry to the “j” and click on jstor.
Click
J. on E-Resources
Michael Ryan (http://www11.tdnet.com/frames.asp)
Department, under library databases for journal
of Sociology
articles published
Department more recently (since 2003 or so). Both
of Sociology of the of
University books listed below will be on
Michigan
reserve at Green
University Library.
College
Coursework MD 20742 Click on this website, and
Park, Information: enter our course number (soc 22N) for
ffwherry@umich.edu
updated information (https://coursework.stanford.edu). All readings marked “coursework” are
mryan@socy.umd.edu
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
verification letter dated in the current academic term in which the request is being made. Please
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Laura Miller needed to arrange for appropriate
Schor
accommodations.
Department The DRC is located in 123 Meyer 519
of Sociology Library (phone 723-1066)
McGuinn
Brandeis University
Book Ordered Boston College
Meyer, David
Waltham, MAS. 2007. The Politics of Protest: SocialChestnut
02454 Movements Hill,inMA
America.
02467 Oxford Press.
Topics and Readings
Week 1 Introduction
College of Business – September 25 & 27 Department of Sociology
I. What
Bus 468 is a Social Movement? Are protest activities219 different
KetchumfromHall
other forms of political
action?
Boulder,A.CO
Definitions
80309 and Distinctions: Social Movements,Boulder,Collective
CO 80309Action and Protest
B. Dimensions of Social Movements: Emergence,
penaloza@colorado.edu Dynamics, and Consequences
steen@colorado.edu
Meyer, Chapter 1 “America and Political Protest,” pp. 7-22.
Recommended: Turner and Killian, “TowardJoel
Jan Phillips a Theory of Social Movements,”
Stillerman
HANDOUT
Department of SocialINand
CLASS 2166 AuSable Hall
Week 2 – October
University 2 & 4Maine/
of Southern Allendale, MI 49401
II. Who Protests and
Lewiston-Auburn Why?
Meyer,
Lewiston, Chapter 2, “Why Protest?” pp. 23-43
ME 04240
Meyer, Chapter 3, “Becoming an Activist,” pp.
jphillip@bates.edu 44-59 Thorne
Deborah
Week 3 –Ashlin
Meghan October 9 & 11
Rich Anthropology
III. Explaining
Department the Dynamics
of Sociology and of Protest: SociologicalOhio
Criminal Theory
University
Justice A. Resource Mobilization Theory Athens, OH 45701
McCarthy
University John D. and Mayer Zald. 1977. “Resource
of Delaware Mobilization and Social
thorned@ohio.edu
Newark,Movements:
DE 19716 A Partial Theory.” The American Journal of Sociology 82: 1212-1241. IN
COURSEWORK “MATERIALS” pdf file. Melanie Wallendorf
megrich@udel.edu
George B. Importance of Social Movement Organizations
Ritzer (SMOs) of Management
Eller College
Meyer,
Department Ch 4 “Individuals, Movements, Organizations
of Sociology Universityand of Coalitions,”
Arizona pp. 60-79
Assignment
College Park,1:MD
Topic of Term Paper (1-2 paragraphsmwallendorf@eller.arizona.edu
20742 and 2 articles or book references, due in
class Oct 11. In one paragraph, describe your term paper topic. Look up at least two citations of
ritzer@socy.umd.edu
published articles or books by sociologists using JSTOR and/orWherry
Frederick Socrates that you will use as key
references
J. Michael for your paper.
Ryan Department of Sociology
Week 4 – October
University 16 & 18
IV. ThePark,
College Role MD
of Protest
20742Tactics ffwherry@umich.edu
Meyer, Ch 5 “The Strategy and Tactics of Protest,” pp. 80-101
mryan@socy.umd.edu
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,
Laura Miller Micromobilization, and Movement
Juliet Schor
Participation.”
Department 1986. American Sociological 519
of Sociology Review 51, pp. 464-81. IN COURSEWORK
McGuinn
Pearlman 103 “MATERIALS” pdf file. 140 Commonwealth Ave.
Waltham,B. MA
Constructing
02454 Movement Histories: The Role of Collective
Chestnut Hill, MA Memory
02467
Elizabeth Armstrong and Suzanna M. Crage. juliet.schor@bc.edu
lamiller@brandeis.edu 2006. “Movements and Memory: The
Making of the Stonewall Myth.” American Sociological Review 71: 724-751. IN
COURSEWORK “MATERIALS” pdf file. Sara Steen
Lisa Peñaloza
Week
Bus 6 – October 30 & November 1
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C. The
University Role of Identity As a Cause and Consequence
of Colorado University of of
Protest
Colorado
Boulder,McAdam,
CO 80309 Doug. 1986. “Recruitment to High-Risk
Boulder, Activism:
CO 80309 The Case of Freedom
Summer.” The American Journal of Sociology
penaloza@colorado.edu 92: 64-90 IN COURSEWORK
steen@colorado.edu
“MATERIALS” pdf file.
VertaofTaylor
Department Socialand
andNicole Raeburn. 1995. “Identity
2166 Politics
AuSableasHall
High Risk Activism: Career
Consequences for Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual
Behavioral Science Sociologists.”
Grand Valley Social Problems 42:
State University
252-273.Maine/
University of Southern IN COURSEWORK “MATERIALS” Allendale, pdf
MI file.
49401
Lewiston, ME 04240
Week 7 – November 6 & 8
VI. The Trajectory of Protest Cycles Department of Sociology and
MeghanA.Ashlin
Movement
Rich and Counter-movement CyclesAnthropology
Tarrow,
Department Sidney, “Cycles
of Sociology of Collective Action:
and Criminal OhioBetween Moments of Madness and the
University
Justice Repertoire of Contention.” Social Science History
Athens, 17:OH
281-307.
45701 IN COURSEWORK
“MATERIALS”
University of Delaware pdf file. thorned@ohio.edu
Newark, DE 19716
B. Explanations of Decline
Meyer, Ch 8 “When Everyone Protests,” pp. Department
144-161. of Marketing
Assignment
Department of 2: Sociology
Research Questions Due in Class, November
University8: of Arizona
Outline your
University ofmain research question. Some examplesTucson,
Maryland are: WhyAZdid the protest erupt when (or
85721
where)
CollegeitPark,
did? MD
What20742
was the trajectory of this movement? What were the key “oppositional”
identities? What was the goal of the movement and were these goals attained? What role did
ritzer@socy.umd.edu
tactics play in the movement? Who were the main supporters
Frederickand participants?
Wherry
Week 8 – November
Department 13 & 15
VII. FutureofTrends
University Maryland Ann Arbor, MI 48109
CollegeAPark,
Transnational
MD 20742and Anti-globalization Movements
ffwherry@umich.edu
Smith, Jackie and Dawn Wiest. 2005. “The Uneven Geography of Global Civil Society:
mryan@socy.umd.edu
National and Global Influences on Transnational Association.” Social Forces 84: 621-
652. 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: No classes November 19-23
Week 9 –University
Brandeis November 27 & 29 Boston College
November 27: Panel 1--Student Presentations
November 29: Panel 2--Student Presentations

Week
Bus 10– December 4 & 6
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DecemberCO
Boulder, 4: 80309
Panel 3--Student Presentations Boulder, CO 80309
December 6: Panel 4--Student Presentations
ALL FINALofPAPERS
Department are due Friday, December 7, in
Social and Professor
2166 AuSableOlzak's
Hall office or mailbox by
4:00 pm. (Sociology
Behavioral Science Department Office Closes at 4:00 p.m.).
Grand Late State
Valley papersUniversity
will not be accepted
for gradingof
University this quarter.Maine/
Southern Allendale, MI 49401
Lewiston, ME 04240
Newark, DE 19716
ritzer@socy.umd.edu
Frederick Wherry
mryan@socy.umd.edu
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Laura
Protest, Miller
Contention & Social Movements Juliet Schor
Department
Jim Conley of Sociology 519 McGuinn
Pearlman 103
Trent University 140 Commonwealth Ave.
Waltham,
Introduction MA 02454 Chestnut Hill, MA 02467
The course focuses on four aspects of social movements:
lamiller@brandeis.edu i) the social organizational bases of
juliet.schor@bc.edu
mobilization; ii) cultural framing and collective identities; iii) political opportunities and
interactions
Lisa Peñaloza among allies, opponents and state agencies;
Saraiv) the dynamics of contentious action
Steen
itself. Case
College studies are used to illustrate general mechanisms
of Business Department and of
processes:
Sociologyin the first half a
study468
Bus of revolutions in 19th Century Paris; in the second half, a study
219 Ketchum Hallof global justice
mobilization
University ofin Europe. The objective of the course University
Colorado is to develop of participants’
Colorado understanding of
social movements
Boulder, CO 80309through sociological theory and research,
Boulder,and COto80309
encourage informed
reflection on their own activities or observations of protest,
penaloza@colorado.edu contention and social movements.
steen@colorado.edu
Students are encouraged to link their own interests to the course content through a journal, and if
theyPhillips
Jan wish in a research paper based on participant observation, documentary investigation, or
Joel Stillerman
other methods.
Texts (available
Behavioral at the Trent Bookstore)
Tilly, Charles
University and Sidney
of Southern Tarrow. 2006. ContentiousAllendale,
Maine/ Politics. Boulder:
MI 49401 Paradigm Publishers.
Gould, Roger V. 1995.
Lewiston-Auburn Insurgent Identities: Class, Community,
College and Protest in Paris from 1848
stillejo@gvsu.edu
to the Commune.
Lewiston, Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
ME 04240
della Porta, Donatella, Massimiliano Andretta, Lorenzo
jphillip@bates.edu MoscaThorne
Deborah and Herbert Reiter. 2006.
Globalization from Below: Transnational Activists and Department
Protest Networks. Minneapolis:
of Sociology and
University
Meghan of Minnesota
Ashlin Rich Press, 2006. Anthropology
Justice
Note on readings: Athens, OH 45701
Lecture andofseminar
University readings are listed separately. Both
Delaware are required, and it is assumed that you
thorned@ohio.edu
will haveDE
Newark, done both before the seminar.
19716
Students are responsible for all material presented inMelanie
megrich@udel.edu lectures Wallendorf
and seminars, including videos. If
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
George Ritzer on theCollege
website, ofbut they are no substitute for
Management
attending
Department in of
person.
College Requirements
Course Park, MD 20742 mwallendorf@eller.arizona.edu
1) Seminar participation
ritzer@socy.umd.edu
Each member of the class is expected to participate in seminar Wherry
Frederick discussions, after having done the
readings
J. Michael and thought about them. Students will also be
Ryan expected of
Department to bring examples of episodes,
Sociology
mechanisms of
Department and processes of contention to seminarsUniversity
Sociology for possible ofdiscussion
Michigan (possibly after
having written
University about them in their journal - see below).
of Maryland AnnThe grade
Arbor, MIwill be based on both the
48109
quantity Park,
College and quality of seminar participation, with emphasis
MD 20742 on the latter. Value: 15%
ffwherry@umich.edu

mryan@socy.umd.edu
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
Laura Miller and are able to apply it to new cases.
Juliet Schor
Journals willofbeSociology
Department due on February 16, 2007, and again 519on April 9, 2007. Value: 45%
McGuinn

3) Research
Brandeis University
Essay or final Exam (Due no later than Boston
AprilCollege
25, 2007)
Students have
Waltham, MA the choice of writing a final take-homeChestnut
02454 exam onHill,
the course,
MA 02467or a research paper on
a topic of their choice. Value: 40%
Research essay
The essay
Lisa should examine some aspect of a social movement,
Peñaloza Sara Steenprotest campaign, or episode of
contention.
College The essay must be preceded by a research
of Business proposal —
Department ofaSociology
brief (3-4 page) statement of
the specific
Bus 468 research essay topic, the concepts to be used and the methods
219 Ketchum Hall to be followed to
investigate of
University it. Colorado
The research proposal is due no later than
University
Marchof 2007, and will be worth 10%
23,Colorado
of the final
Boulder, COgrade.
80309If no research proposal is received,Boulder,
you willCO be required
80309 to write the final
exam. Submission of a proposal does not commit yousteen@colorado.edu
penaloza@colorado.edu to doing the research essay – you can
change your mind and opt for the take-home exam at any time.
Department
Syllabus of Social and 2166 AuSable Hall
1. Introduction.
Behavioral Jan. 12
Lecture reading:
University None Maine/
Seminar: brief meeting
Lewiston-Auburn to get acquainted & organized
Lewiston, ME 04240
2. Thinking about protest, contention, & social movements
jphillip@bates.edu DeborahJan. 19
Thorne
Film: Berkeley in the 60s Department of Sociology and
Lecture &
Meghan Seminar
Ashlin Richreading: Tilly and Tarrow, Contentious Politics, Ch. 1-2
Anthropology
Seminar: How
Department of can we useand
Sociology Tilly and Tarrow to analyse
Criminal OhiotheUniversity
events in the film? How does this
differ from other approaches?
3. Identities
Newark, DEand Mobilization Jan. 26
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Lecture & Seminar reading: Gould, Insurgent Identities,
megrich@udel.edu Ch.1-2
Melanie Wallendorf
Seminar: What can revolutions in 19th century Paris Department
tell us aboutofcollective
Marketingidentities, social
networks,
George critical events & mobilization for contentious
Ritzer Ellercollective
College ofaction?
Management
4. Political of
University Opportunities
Maryland & Contentious Action Feb.Tucson,2 AZ 85721
Film: Power:
College Park, One
MD River,
20742 Two Nations mwallendorf@eller.arizona.edu
Lecture & Seminar reading: Tilly and Tarrow, Contentious Politics, Ch. 3
ritzer@socy.umd.edu
Seminar: Describe the Cree campaign against Great Whale Frederickin terms
Wherryof processes and
J.mechanisms
Michael Ryanexamined so far. How did political regimes and political
Department opportunities shape the
of Sociology
movement? of Sociology
Department University of Michigan
5. SocialPark,
College Change,MDidentities,
20742 Interaction Feb. 9 ffwherry@umich.edu
Lecture reading: Gould, Insurgent Identities, Ch.3-5
mryan@socy.umd.edu
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,
Laura Miller Ch. 5
Juliet Schor
Seminar: How
Department of do we explain mobilization of identities
Sociology 519beyond
McGuinn face-to-face interactions?
Reading Week
Brandeis Feb. 19-23
7. Globalization and social movements March 2
Film: View From the Summit
Lecture
Lisa & Seminar reading: della Porta et al., Globalization
Peñaloza Sara Steenfrom Below, Ch. 1
Seminar:ofWhat
College is globalization and how do its components
Business affectofprotest,
Department contention and social
Sociology
movements?
8. A global
Boulder, COmovement?
80309 March 9 Boulder, CO 80309
Lecture reading: della Porta et al., Globalization fromsteen@colorado.edu
penaloza@colorado.edu Below, Ch. 2
Seminar Reading: Tilly and Tarrow, Contentious Politics, Ch. 6
Seminar:
Jan What distinguishes social movements fromJoel
Phillips other forms of contention? Under what
Stillerman
conditions are
Department of they possible?
Social and 2166 AuSable Hall
9. Frames &ofidentities
University Southernof Global Justice March 16 Allendale, MI 49401
Maine/
Lecture & SeminarCollege
Lewiston-Auburn reading: della Porta et al., Globalization from Below, Ch. 3-4
stillejo@gvsu.edu
Seminar: How
Lewiston, does neo-liberalism work as a master frame shaping mobilization and identities?
ME 04240
How has the internet affected contemporary contention,
jphillip@bates.edu compared
Deborah Thorneto previous communication
technologies? Department of Sociology and
10. Repertoires
Department of contention
of Sociology and and Protest Policing March
Criminal 23
Ohio University
Film: Weather Underground
Lecture & Seminar
University of Delawarereading: a. della Porta et al., Globalization from Below, Ch. 5-6
thorned@ohio.edu
b. reviewDE
Newark, Tilly and Tarrow, Contentious Politics, Ch. 3-4
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Seminar: How does the interaction of protesters and Melanie
megrich@udel.edu police affect the strategies of each?
Wallendorf
11. Social
George movements and Democracy March 30 Eller College of Management
Ritzer
Lecture & Seminar
Department reading: a. Tilly and Tarrow, Contentious
of Sociology UniversityPolitics, Ch. 7-9
of Arizona
b. della Porta
University et al., Globalization from Below, Ch. 8Tucson, AZ 85721
of Maryland
Seminar:Park,
College Do the
MD same
20742processes explain peaceful andmwallendorf@eller.arizona.edu
violent forms of politics? What explains
the different forms? Are there any lessons for the future of social movements and other forms of
ritzer@socy.umd.edu
contention? Frederick Wherry
2nd
J. JournalRyan
Michael Due Monday, April 9, 2007 Department of Sociology
Final Take-home
Department Exam distributed April 5, 2007 University of Michigan
of Sociology
Due: April of
University 25,Maryland
2007 Ann Arbor, MI 48109
mryan@socy.umd.edu
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Laura
SocialMiller
Department
Ziad Munson of Sociology 519 McGuinn
Pearlman 103
Lehigh University 140 Commonwealth Ave.
IndividualsMA
Waltham, in every
02454society are enmeshed in powerful political,
Chestnut social
Hill, MAand economic systems
02467
that are resistant to change. Occasionally, however, people
lamiller@brandeis.edu do band together and challenge these
juliet.schor@bc.edu
systems: they picket, they march, they strike, they sit-in, they form protest organizations and
demand
Lisa change. Such occasions, while rare, are important
Peñaloza moments because they represent the
Sara Steen
rare opportunity
College for the normally powerless to challenge
of Business the normally
Department powerful. This course
of Sociology
offers
Bus an exploration of such moments. It examines the
468 219origins,
Ketchum dynamics,
Hall and consequences of
social movements
University through both sociological theory and
of Colorado empirical
University of case studies.
Colorado
Over the course of the semester, we will address the steen@colorado.edu
penaloza@colorado.edu 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 by institutions like the state and the
Joel Stillerman
media, and what
Department impacts
of Social andthey have on individuals and
2166on society.
AuSableInHallanswering these questions,
we will haveScience
Behavioral the opportunity to look at a wide range Grand
of historically important
Valley State cases, including the
University
Civil Rightsofmovement,
University labor movement, farmworkers’
Southern Maine/ movement,
Allendale, women’s movement,
MI 49401
American Indian movement,
Lewiston-Auburn College GLBT rights movement, environmental movement, pro-life
stillejo@gvsu.edu
movement,ME
Lewiston, pro-choice
04240 movement, anti-drunk driving movement, white supremacy movement,
and anti-war movements in the United States. We will
jphillip@bates.edu also look
Deborah at cases such as the Iranian
Thorne
revolution, the Chinese student democracy movement, and the transnational
Department of Sociologyanti-globalization
and
movement
Meghan Ashlinoutside the U.S.
Rich Anthropology
Studying
Justice social movements will allow us to ultimately reflectOH
Athens, on 45701
more general questions about
the nature of
University ofpolitical
Delaware power, conflict, and legitimacy, as well as the relationship between human
thorned@ohio.edu
agency,
Newark,social structure, and historical change.
DE 19716
Understanding social movements requires knowledgeDepartment of both abstract principles that apply
of Marketing
across
GeorgemanyRitzerdifferent times and places along rich knowledge of theofspecific
Eller College details of particular
Management
movements
Department and contexts. This year we will continually
of Sociology return to
University oftwo 'cases' in order to flesh out
Arizona
our study ofofmovements.
University Maryland The first is the Civil RightsTucson,
movement. Much of the research that has
AZ 85721
been
Collegedone on social
Park, MD 20742movements over the last forty years has been rooted in our evolving
understanding of this movement, one of the most important in twentieth century America. A
ritzer@socy.umd.edu
basic understanding of the Civil Rights movement thus serves as
Frederick an intellectual backbone with
Wherry
which we can
J. Michael Ryanask key questions about social movements more generally.
Department The second case we
of Sociology
will focus onofisSociology
Department the social movement growing up hereUniversity
in our own ofbackyard--
Michigan in South
Bethlehem--
University ofabout the establishment of a large casino
Maryland AnnandArbor,
redevelopment
MI 48109of Bethlehem Steel
land.
College There
Park,are
MD no20742
readings on the syllabus about this contemporary movement, but we will
ffwherry@umich.edu
focus on this case a lot in our discussions and your own written work will apply the lessons you
mryan@socy.umd.edu
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.
89
200
Students are expected to attend all class sessions, complete
Laura Miller all assigned readings, and actively
Juliet Schor
prepare for and
Department participate in classroom discussions. 519 McGuinn
of Sociology
Every student
Brandeis will also be required to write a final term
University paper
Boston of 15-20 pages using the concepts
College
from the course
Waltham, to investigate and understand a localChestnut
MA 02454 social movement
Hill, MAorganization
02467 in South
Side Bethlehem. We will talk much more about thisjuliet.schor@bc.edu
lamiller@brandeis.edu 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 over the course of the semester, and that working
Peñaloza with other students in the course to
Sara Steen
improve of
College theBusiness
quality of your paper will be required. IDepartment
am also open of to creative alternatives for
Sociology
meeting
Bus 468 the requirements of this component of the course. So, for Hall
219 Ketchum example, if you were
interested inofproducing
University Colorado a documentary film about an University
organization, or writing a grant application
of Colorado
for an organization,
Boulder, CO 80309 these kinds of projects might serve as a substitute
Boulder, CO 80309 for the normal term paper.
There will be a take home exam at the conclusion of the course designed to test your completion
of the
Jan coursework (especially the course readings) and
Phillips Joelyour understanding of the most important
Stillerman
concepts in the
Department study of
of Social andsocial movements. We will 2166
discuss the details
AuSable Hallof the exam in class.
Course grades
University will be determined
of Southern Maine/ as follows: Allendale, MI 49401
30% class preparation,
Lewiston-Auburn attendance, and participation stillejo@gvsu.edu
College
40% term paper
Lewiston, on South Side social movement
ME 04240
30% take-home exam
Students must pass each of these three grading areas Department
in order to pass the courseand
of Sociology as a whole.
Two other important
Department notesand
of Sociology regarding requirements for
Criminal the University
Ohio course:
• Any student who has a documented disabilityAthens,
Justice and is in
OH need of academic
45701
accommodations
University of Delaware should notify me and/or Cheryl Ashcroft, Director of the Office of
thorned@ohio.edu
Newark,Academic
DE 19716Support Services (610-758-4152). Accommodations will be individualized and
in accordance with Section 504 of the Rehabilitation
megrich@udel.edu MelanieAct of 1973 and the Americans with
Wallendorf
Disabilities Act of 1992.\ Department of Marketing
• Plagiarism
George Ritzer and cheating are both forbidden byEller
University
Collegepolicy. Ideas as well as every
of Management
wordofinSociology
Department your writing must be your own unless properly cited.
University This includes text taken
of Arizona
fromofthe
University Web. Plagiarism or cheating will, atTucson,
Maryland minimum, AZresult
85721in an F for the entire
Collegecourse along
Park, MD with other sanctions by the university.
20742 If you have questions or concerns
about acceptable ways to use and cite outside material in your writing, please see me; I’m
ritzer@socy.umd.edu
happy to help. So too is Susan Lantz in the Academic
FrederickSupport
WherryServices office (610-758-
4159).
J. Michael RyanLehigh also has a special website devoted to academic
Department integrity:
of Sociology
http://www.lehigh.edu/~indost/integrity.html.
College
Readings Park, MD 20742 ffwherry@umich.edu
The following required books have been ordered from the Lehigh University Bookstore (758-
mryan@socy.umd.edu
3374) 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)
90
200
McAdam, Doug. 1988. Freedom Summer. New
• Miller
Laura York:
Juliet Schor Oxford University Press. (ISBN
0-19-506472-0)
AdditionalUniversity
Brandeis readings are fully cited in the class schedule below
Boston and are available online in the
College
“Readings”MA
Waltham, section
02454of the course Blackboard site. Chestnut Hill, MA 02467
Class Schedule
Readings
Lisa listed under the heading for each week should
Peñaloza SarabeSteen
done before the class meetings held
during that
College week. Generally plan to read each text inDepartment
of Business the order listed in the schedule, half before
of Sociology
Monday's
Bus 468 meeting and the other half before Wednesday's meeting.Hall
219 Ketchum Student involvement and
ownership over
University class discussion are important elements
of Colorado of this course,
University however. As a result the
of Colorado
followingCO
Boulder, schedule
80309for the course is only a starting point. While
Boulder, COwe may stick to this schedule
80309
very closely, I am also open to making substantial modifications
penaloza@colorado.edu as the semester develops to
steen@colorado.edu
accommodate specific student interests or the direction of class discussion. Students are
responsible
Jan Phillips for noting any changes to the schedule announced in class and preparing for or
Joel Stillerman
fulfilling anyofnew
Department requirements
Social and that might be added.2166 AuSable Hall
University of Southern
Part I: Studying SocialMaine/
Movements Allendale, MI 49401
Lewiston-Auburn College in Historical Perspective
Week 1: Social Movements stillejo@gvsu.edu
• "America
Lewiston, ME 04240and Political Protest: Political Institutions and Dissent" (chapter 1 of Meyer
text).
• Tilly, Charles. 2004. “Social Movements as Politics,”Department chapter 1 in Social
of Sociology andMovements,
Meghan1768-2004.
Ashlin Rich Boulder, CO: Paradigm Press. Anthropology
• Thoreau,
Department Henry David.
of Sociology 1849. "Resistance to Civil
and Criminal Ohio Government,"
University selection in American
Justice Protest Literature, Zoe Trodd, ed. Cambridge MA: Harvard
Athens, OH 45701 University Press (2006).
Newark,
Week 2: DE The19716
American Civil Rights Movement as an Orienting Case
• Blumberg, Rhoda Lois. 1984. Civil Rights: The
megrich@udel.edu 1960sWallendorf
Melanie Freedom Struggle, excerpt taken
from The Social Movements Reader (2003), Jeff Goodwinofand
Department James M. Jasper, eds.
Marketing
George NewRitzerYork: Blackwell. Eller College of Management
• Morris,
Department Aldon. 1981. "Black Southern Student
of Sociology Sit-In Movement:
University of Arizona An Analysis of Internal
Organization."
University of MarylandAmerican Sociological ReviewTucson, 46:744-776.
AZ 85721
• Killian,
College Park, MD Lewis.
207421984. "Organization, Rationality and Spontaneity in the Civil Rights
Movement," American Sociological Review 49:770-783.
ritzer@socy.umd.edu
• King, Martin Luther, Jr. 1963. "Letter from aFrederickBirmingham Jail."
Wherry
FILM: "Ain't
Department Scared of Your Jails"
College
Part II: Park, MD 20742
The Causes and Consequences of Becoming ffwherry@umich.edu
an Activist
mryan@socy.umd.edu
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
91
200
"Becoming an Activist" (chapter 3 of Meyer Juliet
• Miller
Laura text) Schor
• Freeman,
Department Jo. 1973. "The Origins of the Women's
of Sociology Liberation Movement," American
519 McGuinn
Pearlman 103 of Sociology 78(4): 792-811.
Journal 140 Commonwealth Ave.
• Stanton,
Brandeis Elizabeth Cady. 1892. "Solitude of Self,"
University Boston reprinted
Collegein American Protest
Waltham,Literature,
MA 02454 Zoe Trodd, ed. Cambridge MA: Harvard
ChestnutUniversity Press (2006).
Hill, MA 02467
• Blee, Kathleen. 2003. "The Racist Self," chapter
lamiller@brandeis.edu 1 in Inside Organized Racism: Women
juliet.schor@bc.edu
in the Hate Movement. Los Angeles: University of California Press. NOW AVAILABLE
Munson, Ziad. 2002. “The Relationship Between
Lisa• Peñaloza Sara Pro-Life
Steen Beliefs and Action,” chapter 3
CollegeinofBecoming
Business an Activist: Believers, Sympathizers,
Department
and Mobilization
of Sociologyin the American Pro-
Bus 468Life Movement, PhD dissertation, Harvard University.
219 Ketchum NEW; READ BY 9/19
Hall
• Fisher,
University Dana R. 2006. "The Man, the Message,
of Colorado and the Members:
University of ColoradoThe 3Ms of Politics in
Boulder,America
CO 80309 Today," chapter 1 in Activism, Inc. Stanford
Boulder, CA: Stanford University Press.
CO 80309
Week 5: Ideology and Values
Inglehart, Ronald. 1977. The Silent Revolution,
Jan •Phillips Joelexcerpt taken from The Social Movements
Stillerman
Reader
Department (2003),and
of Social Jeff Goodwin and James M. Jasper, eds. New
2166 AuSable York: Blackwell.
Hall
• Cotgrove,
Behavioral Science Stephen and Andrew Duff. 1980. "Environmentalism, Middle-Class
Radicalism
University and Maine/
of Southern Politics," excerpt taken from Allendale,
The SocialMI 49401 Reader (2003), Jeff
Movements
Goodwin and
Lewiston-Auburn James M. Jasper, eds. New York:
College Blackwell.
stillejo@gvsu.edu
• Carson,
Lewiston, Rachel. 1962. Silent Spring. New York: Houghlin Mifflin.
ME 04240
• Hirsch, Eric L. 1990. "Sacrifice for the Cause:
jphillip@bates.edu Group Processes,
Deborah Thorne Recruitment, and
Commitment in a Student Social Movement."DepartmentAmerican Sociological and 55:243-254.
of SociologyReview
FILM:Ashlin
Meghan "Occupation"
Rich Anthropology
Justice
Week 6: Frames and Narratives Athens, OH 45701
• Snow,
University David A., E. Burke Rochford, Jr., Steven
of Delaware K. Worden, and Robert D. Benford.
thorned@ohio.edu
Newark,1986. "Frame Alignment Process, Micromobilization, and Movement Participation."
DE 19716
American Sociological Review 51 (August):464-81.
• Zuo, Jiping and Robert D. Benford. 1995. "Mobilization
Department Processes and the 1989 Chinese
of Marketing
George Democracy
Ritzer Movement." The Sociological Quarterly 36(1):131-56.
Eller College of Management
• Polletta,
Department Francesca. 2006. "'It Was Like a Fever...':
of Sociology Whyof
University People Protest," chapter 2 in It
Arizona
WasofLike
University a Fever: Storytelling in Protest andTucson,
Maryland Chicago:
Politics.AZ 85721 University of Chicago
CollegePress.
Park, MD 20742 mwallendorf@eller.arizona.edu
• Packet of pro-life and pro-choice materials (to be distributed in class)
ritzer@socy.umd.edu
Frederick Wherry
J. Michael
Part Ryan Movement Organization and Strategy
III: Social Department of Sociology
Week 7: Resource University
Mobilization, Political Opportunities, andofMovement
Michigan Cycles
• "Why
University Protest? The Origins of Movements, Opportunities,
of Maryland Ann Arbor, MI and Organizations" (chapter 2
48109
CollegeofPark,
Meyer
MDtext)
• McCarthy, John D. and Mayer N. Zald. 1977. "Resource Mobilization and Social
mryan@socy.umd.edu
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 African-
American Protest, 1948-1997. The American Journal of Sociology, 109(2), 277-303.
92
200
Tarrow, Sidney. 1998. “Cycles of Contention,”
• Miller
Laura chapter
Juliet Schor9 in Power in Movement: Social
Department
Movements and Contentious Politics. New York:
of Sociology Cambridge University Press.
519 McGuinn
• Minkoff,
Pearlman 103 Debra C. 1997. "The Sequencing of140 Social Movements,"Ave.
Commonwealth American Sociological
Brandeis Review 62(5): 779-800.
Week 8: The Structure of Social Movements juliet.schor@bc.edu
• "Individuals, Movements, Organizations, and Coalitions" (chapter 4 of Meyer text)
Piven, Francis Fox and Richard A. Cloward. Sara
Lisa• Peñaloza 1977.Steen
“The Structuring of Protest,” chapter
College1ofinBusiness
Poor People’s Movements: Why They Succeed,Department
How of They Fail. New York: Vintage
Sociology
Bus 468Books. 219 Ketchum Hall
• Clemens,
University Elizabeth. 1993. "Organizational Repertoires
of Colorado Universityand Institutional Change:
of Colorado
Boulder,Women's
CO 80309Groups and the Transformation of U.S. Politics,
Boulder, 1890-1920," American Journal
CO 80309
of Sociology 98(4): 755-798.
• Verta Taylor. 1989. "Social Movement Continuity: The Women's Movement in
Abeyance." American Sociological Review 54Joel
Jan Phillips (Oct): 761-775
Stillerman
• Friedan,
Department Betty.and
of Social 1963. The Feminine Mystique,2166 selection
AuSablein American
Hall Protest Literature,
Zoe Science
Behavioral Trodd, ed. Cambridge MA: Harvard University Press (2006).
• Finnegan,
University William.
of Southern 2000. "After Seattle." TheAllendale,
Maine/ New Yorker, April 17: 40-51.
MI 49401
Lewiston, ME 04240
Week 9: Strategy and Tactics
• "The Strategy and Tactics of Social Protest" (chapter
jphillip@bates.edu Deborah5Thorne
of Meyer text)
• "Civil Disobedience" (chapter 6 of Meyer text) Department of Sociology and
• Polletta,
Meghan Francesca. 2006. "Strategy as Metonymy:
Ashlin Rich Why Activists Choose the Strategies
Anthropology
TheyofDo,"
Department chapterand
Sociology 3 inCriminal
It Was Like a Fever: Storytelling
Ohio Universityin Protest and Politics. Chicago:
Justice University of Chicago Press. Athens, OH 45701
• Ganz,
University Marshall. 2000. "Resources and Resourcefulness:
of Delaware Strategic Capacity in the
thorned@ohio.edu
Newark,Unionization
DE 19716 of California Agriculture, 1959-1966," American Journal of Sociology
105(4): 1003-1062.
• Bernstein, Mary. 1998. "Celebration and Suppression:
Department The ofStrategic
MarketingUses of Identity by
George the Lesbian and Gay Movement," American Journal
Ritzer Eller College
of Sociology 103(3):531-565.
of Management
• Newton,
Department Huey P. 1970. "The Women's Liberation
of Sociology and Gay
University Liberation Movements,"
of Arizona
reprinted
University in American Protest Literature, ZoeTucson,
of Maryland Trodd, AZed. 85721
Cambridge MA: Harvard
CollegeUniversity
Park, MD Press
20742(2006). mwallendorf@eller.arizona.edu
ritzer@socy.umd.edu
Part IV: Social Movements, the Media, and the State Frederick Wherry
J. Michael
Week Ryan
10: Repression & Confrontation Department of Sociology
• Carley,
Department Michael. 1997. “Defining Forms of Successful
of Sociology UniversityState Repression of Social
of Michigan
Movement
University Organizations: A Case Study of the
of Maryland AnnFBI’s COINTELPRO
Arbor, MI 48109 and the American
CollegeIndian Movement,”
Park, MD 20742 Research in Social Movements, Conflict and Change 20:151-176.
ffwherry@umich.edu
• McPhail, Clark, David Schweingruber, and John McCarthy. 1998. "Policing Protest in
mryan@socy.umd.edu
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.
93
200
Earl, Jennifer. 2005 “You Can Beat the Rap, Juliet
• Miller
Laura But You Can’t Beat the Ride: Bringing
Schor
Arrests
Department Back into Research on Repression.” Research
of Sociology 519 McGuinnin Social Movements, Conflicts and
Pearlman 103 26:101-139.
Change, 140 Commonwealth Ave.
Waltham,
Week 11: MA 02454 & Social Control
Cooptation Chestnut Hill, MA 02467
• "The State and Protests: Institutionalization" juliet.schor@bc.edu
lamiller@brandeis.edu (chapter 7 of Meyer text)
• "When Everyone Protests" (chapter 8 of Meyer text)
McCarthy, John D., David Britt, and Mark Wolfson.
Lisa• Peñaloza 1991. "The Institutional Channeling
Sara Steen
CollegeofofSocial Movements by the State in the United
Business States." Research
in Social Movements,
Bus 468Conflicts and Change 13: 45-76. 219 Ketchum Hall
• Rosenberg,
University Gerald N. 1991. The Hollow Hope:
Can Courtsof Colorado
Bring About Social Change?
Boulder,Chicago:
CO 80309University of Chicago Press. Read selections,
Boulder, CO pp.1-8,
80309pp.157-169, pp.247-265,
pp. 336-343.
Jan
Week Phillips
12: Social Movements and the Media Joel Stillerman
• Roscigno,
Department Vincent
of Social and J. and William F. Danaher. 2001.
2166 “MediaHall
AuSable and Mobilization: The Case
of Radio
Behavioral and Southern Textile Worker Insurgency,
Science Grand 1929 to State
Valley 1934,” American Sociological
University
Review
University 66(1):21-48.
• Eyerman, Ron
Lewiston-Auburn and Andrew Jamison. 1998. Music
College and Social Movements: Mobilizing
stillejo@gvsu.edu
Lewiston,Traditions
ME 04240in the Twentieth Century. New York: Cambridge University Press. Read
selections, pp.1-5, 168-173.
• Gitlin, Todd. 1980. The Whole World is Watching, excerptoftaken
Department from The
Sociology and Social
MeghanMovements
Ashlin RichReader (2003), Jeff Goodwin andAnthropology
James M. Jasper, eds. New York:
Blackwell.
• McCarthy, John D. 1994. “Activists, Authorities,
Justice andOH
Athens, Media Framing of Drunk Driving,”
45701
chapter
University 6 in New Social Movements: From Ideology
of Delaware to Identity, Enrique Laraña, Hank
thorned@ohio.edu
Newark,Johnston,
DE 19716 and Joseph R. Gusfield, eds. Philadelphia: Temple University Press.
• Oliver, Pamela E. and Daniel J. Myers. 1999.Melanie
megrich@udel.edu "How Events Enter the Public Sphere:
Wallendorf
Conflict, Location and Sponsorship in Local Department
Newspaper Coverage of Public Events."
of Marketing
Ritzer Journal of Sociology 105: 38-87 Eller College of Management
George American
University
Part of Maryland
V: Social Movement Impacts Tucson, AZ 85721
College13:
Week Park,
TheMD 20742
Globalization of Social Movementsmwallendorf@eller.arizona.edu
• Keck, Margaret E., and Kathryn Sikkink. 1998. Activists Beyond Borders : Advocacy
ritzer@socy.umd.edu
Networks in International Politics. Ithaca NY: CornellWherry
Frederick Univ Press. (read chapter 1)
• Smith,
J. Michael RyanJackie. 2001. "Globalizing Resistance:Department
The Battle ofof Sociology
Seattle and the Future of
Social
Department ofMovements."
Sociology Mobilization 6(1): 1-19.University of Michigan
• Maney,
University Gregory M. 2001. "Transnational Structures
of Maryland Ann Arbor,and MI
Protest: Linking Theories and
48109
CollegeAssessing
Park, MDEvidence."
20742 Mobilization 6(1): 83-100.
ffwherry@umich.edu
mryan@socy.umd.edu
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.
94
200
Andrews, Kenneth T. 2004. “The Legacies ofJuliet
• Miller
Laura the Civil
Schor Rights Movement,” chapter 9 in
Department
Freedom
Is a Constant Struggle: The Mississippi Civil Rights Movement and Its Legacy.
PearlmanChicago:
103 University of Chicago Press. 140 Commonwealth Ave.
• Polletta,
Brandeis Francesca. 2006. "Remembering Dr.Boston
University King on the House and Senate Floor: Why
College
Waltham,Movements
MA 02454 Have the Impacts They Do" chapter 6 in ItHill,
Chestnut WasMALike02467
a Fever: Storytelling in
Protest and Politics. Chicago: University of Chicago
lamiller@brandeis.edu Press.
juliet.schor@bc.edu
Lisa Peñaloza
Week 15: Presentations Sara Steen

Lewiston, ME 04240
Newark, DE 19716
ritzer@socy.umd.edu
Frederick Wherry
mryan@socy.umd.edu
95
200
Laura
SocialMiller
Movements and Film Juliet Schor
Beate Sissenich 519 McGuinn
Pearlman 103
Indiana University - Bloomington 140 Commonwealth Ave.
Waltham,
Overview MA 02454 Chestnut Hill, MA 02467
This course explores social movements of race and ethnicity,
lamiller@brandeis.edu class, and gender in the US and
juliet.schor@bc.edu
other countries. Through academic writings and films, we will investigate why movements
emerge when they do, what forms they take, and what
Lisa Peñaloza outcomes
Sara Steen they produce. What does it take
to generate
College sustained political contention? What makes
of Business individuals
Department of join protests? And why do
Sociology
some situations not generate any contentious action at
Bus 468 all,Ketchum
219 even if they
Hallseem to cry out for mass
protest? Why
University are some movements local, while others
of Colorado spread across
University many countries? Why are
of Colorado
some movements
Boulder, CO 80309 peaceful, whereas others resort to violence?
Boulder, COHow do relations between the state
80309
and society change in the course of contentious action?
Case studies will include organized racism, the US civil

Jan Phillips Joelrights movement, labor, the Chinese
Stillerman
democracy
Departmentmovement, Islamic activism, and anti-colonialism.
of Social and 2166 AuSable The case
Hall material covers
democratic and non-democratic forms of government,
Behavioral Science as well
Grand as a State
Valley rangeUniversity
of conflict dimensions
such as race,
University ofclass, and Maine/
Southern gender. Special attention willAllendale,
be paid toMI social movement tactics,
49401
especially the decision
Lewiston-Auburn to use violence.
Lewiston, ME 04240
The course has four goals: 1) to familiarize students Deborah
jphillip@bates.edu with theories
Thorneof political contention, both
inside and outside of formal political institutions; 2) Department
to teach skillsofof film analysis
Sociology and and criticism;
3) to integrate
Meghan Ashlinsocial
Rich science scholarship with visual Anthropology
genres; and 4) to develop advanced writing
and communication
Department skills.and Criminal
of Sociology Ohio University
The averageofreading
University Delawareload for this course will be about 100 pages per week. In addition, students
thorned@ohio.edu
will be required
Newark, DE 19716to view films at the Main Library’s Kent Cooper Room. Because this is a
writing-intensive
megrich@udel.edu seminar, there will be a writing assignment roughly every other week.
Melanie Wallendorf
George Ritzer
Requirements Eller College of Management
Participation:
Department of30 % of the grade. The quality of this course
Sociology depends
University strongly on participants’
of Arizona
contributions. In addition to doing the readings and viewing
University of Maryland Tucson, theAZfilms,
85721you are expected to share
your questions
College and20742
Park, MD ideas in the classroom. Your second and each additional unexcused absence
will result in a loss of 5 points (out of a possible 30) on the participation grade.
ritzer@socy.umd.edu
Frederick Wherry
Book
J. and film
Michael Ryanreviews: 30% of the grade. Over the course of the of
Department semester,
Sociologyyou will be required
to write two of
Department book reviews (due 2/2 and 2/16) and oneUniversity
Sociology film review (due 3/30). Each review
of Michigan
should be approximately
University of Maryland 500 words in length. See instructions
Ann Arbor,onMI format
48109below.
Term paper: 40 % of the grade: For the term paper, you will be required to explore one
mryan@socy.umd.edu
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,
Laura Miller working hypothesis, films to be
Juliet Schor
Department of analyzed,
Sociologykey references), due 3/23, max. 5 points.
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- Outline and annotated bibliography, due
Pearlman 103 1404/6, max. 5 points.Ave.
Commonwealth
- First draft, due 4/13, max. 5 points. Boston College
Brandeis University
- Final
Waltham, MA 02454draft, due 4/27, max. 25 points. Chestnut Hill, MA 02467
Lisa Peñaloza
Resources Sara Steen
1) Basic of
College Business about films is available at the Internet
information Movie
Department ofDatabase
Sociology
(http://www.imdb.com/).
2) Film reviews
University are available at
New YorkCO
Boulder, Times Film Reviews (IU Main Library Reference:
80309 Boulder,PN1995
CO 80309 .N532 or
http://movies.nytimes.com/pages/movies/index.html)steen@colorado.edu
Variety Film Reviews (IU Main Library Reference: PN1995 .V34).
3) Some
Jan information on writing:
Timothy Corrigan,
Department A Short
of Social and Guide to Writing About Film2166(New York:
AuSable Pearson Longman, 2004).
Hall
Wayne Booth,
Behavioral Gregory G. Colomb, and Joseph M. Williams,
Science The Craft
Grand Valley State of Research (Chicago:
University
University of
Chicago Press, 1995).
Lewiston,
Books ME 04240
The following titles are available at the bookstore: Deborah Thorne
jphillip@bates.edu
Kathleen M. Blee, Inside Organized Racism: WomenDepartment
in the Hateof Sociology(Berkeley:
Movement and
University
Meghan of California
Ashlin Rich Press, 2003). Anthropology
Douglas McAdam,
Freedom Criminal(Oxford: Oxford
andSummer OhioUniversity Press, 1988).
University
James
JusticeMonaco, How to Read a Film: Movies, Media,Athens, Multimedia (Oxford: Oxford University
OH 45701
Press, 2000).
Frances Fox
Newark, DE Piven
19716and Richard A. Cloward, Poor People’s Movements: Why They Succeed, How
They Fail (New York: Vintage, 1977).
Arlene Stein, The Stranger Next Door: The Story of aDepartment of Marketing
Small Community’s Battle (Beacon Press,
2002)
Charles Tilly,
Department ofSocial Movements, 1768-2004 (Boulder
Sociology and London:
University Paradigm Publishers, 2004).
of Arizona
Other readings
University will be on reserve at the Main Library.
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Frederick Wherry
mryan@socy.umd.edu
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Films Miller Juliet Schor
This course covers
Department both documentaries and feature films.
of Sociology Unless otherwise noted in the syllabus,
519 McGuinn
you are required
Pearlman 103 to view the films at the library’s Media 140 Reserves Room/Kent-Cooper
Commonwealth Ave. Room.
You are encouraged
Brandeis University to form groups for viewing films. Do not
Boston wait until the last minute to see
College
assigned films,
Waltham, as access may be difficult. Plan ahead.
Reading Guide/Guide for Book Reviews
(adapted
Lisa from Charles Tilly’s Questionnaire for Analysis
Peñaloza and Criticism of Research Design, July
Sara Steen
2000, Columbia
College University)
Please use the
University following questions to guide your reading.
of Colorado You will
University be expected to respond to all
of Colorado
of these questions
Boulder, CO 80309in seminar discussion. You shouldBoulder,follow this
COguide
80309when writing your book
reviews.
1. Summarize the main question/s addressed.
On what
Jan do you base your summary? Give concrete Joel
Phillips citations.
Stillerman
How important
Department is/are the
of Social andquestion/s? Why? 2166 AuSable Hall
2. To what
Behavioral previous body of work does the author
Science Grandclaim to beState
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What does of
University theSouthern
author claim to be contributing? DoesAllendale,
Maine/ s/he claimMI to 49401
- fill College
Lewiston-Auburn an information gap? stillejo@gvsu.edu
Lewiston, ME - 04240
confirm accepted answers to old questions?
- modify accepted answers to old questions?
- confirm contested answers to old questions?Department of Sociology and
Meghan Ashlin- challenge
Rich accepted answers to old questions?
Anthropology
Department- of provide
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and to old questions?Ohio University
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University of- Delaware
do something else altogether? thorned@ohio.edu
Please explain.
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How would you evaluate the author’s claims? Are they
megrich@udel.edu accurate?
Melanie Why/why not?
Wallendorf
3. What units of observation does the work adopt for that phenomenon?
George Examples
Ritzer include: Eller College of Management
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University of- Maryland
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4. What methods does the work use to gather information about the phenomenon/phenomena
mryan@socy.umd.edu
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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Laura Miller - systematic textual analysis Juliet Schor
Department- of compilation
Sociology from published accounts 519 McGuinn
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- compilation of organizational statistics
Waltham, MA - archival
02454 research. Chestnut Hill, MA 02467
5. Summarize the work’s major arguments and the form/s of evidence adduced in support of
the arguments.
6. How
College plausible do you find the arguments in light
of Business of the evidence?
Department of SociologyDoes the evidence
Bus 468actually correspond to the arguments? Can you 219think of better
Ketchum Hallevidence in support of the
author’s
University arguments?
Writing about Film steen@colorado.edu
You are required to write one review of a single film. Furthermore, for the term paper you will
writePhillips
Jan a critical essay incorporating your reading of three Joel different
Stillerman films. In both instances, the
emphasis should
Department be onand
of Social critique rather than mere review.
2166Here are some
AuSable Hallsuggestions on how to go
about this: Science
Behavioral Grand Valley State University
1. When
University viewing aMaine/
of Southern film, record your impressions immediately.
Allendale, MI 49401
2. You may use
Lewiston-Auburn filmographic resources, but be sure
College to cite properly.
stillejo@gvsu.edu
3. Assume
Lewiston, ME 04240that your reader has seen the film. There’s thus no need for extensive plot
summary—a short paragraph will do. Instead,Deborah
jphillip@bates.edu focus onThorne
central themes, questions,
puzzles, and particularly striking scenes. Department of Sociology and
4. Usually
Meghan Ashlin aRichfilm can be interpreted in multiple Anthropology
ways. Spell out your own interpretation as
well of
Department as Sociology
possible others and discuss why you think
and Criminal Ohio yours is the most plausible reading of
University
Justice the film. Athens, OH 45701
5. With
University ofall films, consider whether you detect athorned@ohio.edu
Delaware particular ideology underlying the film.
Newark,What is your evidence? Could the evidence be read another way? Discuss.
DE 19716
6. Why has the filmmaker chosen particular styles
megrich@udel.edu and techniques
Melanie Wallendorf (e.g. black & white film,
camera angle, lay actors, interviews, stills, sound, etc.). of Marketing
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7. What
George Ritzerdoes the visual source add to a particular caseCollege
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of Arizona
youof
University seeMaryland
theoretical arguments about social movements
Tucson, AZ reflected
85721 in the film?
ritzer@socy.umd.edu
Term Paper
Please write an analytical essay of approximately 5000 words on
Frederick one of the following questions.
Wherry
1. How
J. Michael does violence affect political contention?
Ryan Keep in mind
Department that both societal actors and
of Sociology
the state
Department may be the source of violence. Consider
of Sociology both scenarios,
University of Michigan and possible others, in
lightofofMaryland
University theoretical arguments that you have encountered
Ann Arbor, this semester.
MI 48109
2. Why
College Park,doMD people
20742mobilize when they do? Specifically, how do social movements
ffwherry@umich.edu
overcome the free-rider problem that presents a basic obstacle to most collective action?
mryan@socy.umd.edu
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 Milleruse at least six scholarly sources, three of which must be from the reading assignments
Juliet Schor
for this course.
Department None of them may be online-only sources.
of Sociology Choose three films to illustrate your
519 McGuinn
arguments.
Pearlman 103 One of these may be a film discussed in class, the others mustAve.
140 Commonwealth be selected from the
list available
Brandeis at my homepage (http://mypage.iu.edu/~bsisseni/)
University Boston College under “Teaching”.
Goals:
− to apply social movement theory to a salient question;
− toPeñaloza
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Sara Steen
− to make
College of Business Department
an interesting and original argument informed of Sociology
by references to concrete cases;
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− to develop your analytical writing skills. 219 Ketchum Hall
Boulder,
Schedule: CO 80309 Boulder, CO 80309
− 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.
− First draft, due 4/13, max. 5 points.
− Final draft, due 4/27, max. 25 points.
Suggested format:
Introduction
Lewiston, ME 04240
− State the problem/issue/controversy that your paper will examine.
− Why/how is this problem relevant? Department of Sociology and
− Thesis
Meghan statement:
Ashlin Rich What is your answer to the question? How did you arrive at it?
Anthropology
− Define key
Department terms.
− What
Justice evidence will you need to find in order to confirm/disconfirm
Athens, OH 45701 your hypothesis?
− Give a brief
University overview of the paper.
Newark, DE 19716
Body Department of Marketing
− StateRitzer
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College using details from your
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sources. of
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of sources
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− State theofarguments
University Maryland that speak against your thesis. Explain
Tucson, AZthese arguments using details
85721
fromPark,
College your MDsources.
20742Again, use direct quotes sparingly; instead, paraphrase your sources and
cite them properly.
ritzer@socy.umd.edu
− Discuss three films that provide evidence and case materialWherry
Frederick for and/or against your thesis. Do
not waste
J. Michael time and space on plot summary and discussion
Ryan Department of actors. Instead, analyze
of Sociology
particular scenes, documentary or narrative techniques, and the filmmakers’ overall approach
to illustrate
University your main argument.
− If you find one or more of your sources ideologically
College Park, MD 20742 biased, state this and provide evidence.
ffwherry@umich.edu
How does this bias the source’s credibility?
mryan@socy.umd.edu
− 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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Conclusion
− Restate
Department your main position, focusing in particular
of Sociology on why the counterarguments do
519 McGuinn
Pearlman 103not hold up to scrutiny. 140 Commonwealth Ave.
Brandeis− University
What potential implications does this issue, and your
Boston position on it, have for other
College
Waltham, MA cases not considered in your paper?
Resources:
− Using outlines: http://www.indiana.edu/~wts/pamphlets/outlines.shtml
Lisa
− HowPeñaloza
should you use evidence? See Sara Steen
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
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http://www.indiana.edu/~wts/pamphlets/plagiarism.shtml
− How should you cite sources? See http://www.indiana.edu/~wts/pamphlets/mla_style.shtml
− How do you write a thesis statement? See http://www.indiana.edu/~wts/wts/thesis.html/.
Jan Phillips
Criteria for evaluation: Joel Stillerman
Successful papers will and 2166 AuSable Hall
− use the required number and kind of sources
− provide a clear thesis statement
− answer the
Lewiston, ME 04240question(s) posed thoroughly
− support assertions well using sources
− use proper citation of sources Department of Sociology and
− be clearly
Meghan Ashlinwritten.
Rich Anthropology
Class Schedule
1/12 Introduction
Newark, DE 19716
1/19 What Is a Social Movement? How Does It Differ
megrich@udel.edu from Other
Melanie Forms of Claims-Making?
Wallendorf
Case Study: Organized Racism Department of Marketing
Tilly, RitzerMovements, 1768-2004 (Boulder and London:
GeorgeSocial Paradigm
Eller College Publishers, 2004), 1-37
of Management
[Tilly].
View documentary
University Hate.Com: Extremists on the Internet
of Maryland Tucson,by Vince
AZ 85721DiPersio and Bill Guttentag,
2000 (on reserve at
College Park, MD 20742 B-Main: E184.A1 H355 2000), 42 min.
Questions: 1) What organizations and leaders does the film cover? 2) What are their main goals?
ritzer@socy.umd.edu
3) How do they defend their goals? 4) How do they mobilize
Frederickfollowers?
Wherry 5) What role does the
Internet play
J. Michael Ryan in mobilization? How is this different from traditional forms of mobilization? How
have the actions
Department of the movement changed as a consequence?
of Sociology University6)ofWhat are the specific idioms of
Michigan
worthiness, unity, numbers,
University of Maryland and commitment (see Tilly) used by the
Ann Arbor, MI 48109neo-Nazi movement?
1/26 Case Study:
mryan@socy.umd.edu Organized Racism (Cont’d)
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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Laura film
View MillerAmerican History X by Tony Kaye, 1998Juliet(on reserve
Schor at B-Main, PN1997 .A47335
1999), 119 min.
Questions:103
Pearlman 1) What are the specific idioms of worthiness, unity, numbers,Ave.
140 Commonwealth and commitment (see
Tilly) used
Brandeis by the neo-Nazi movement as portrayed in
University this film?
Boston 2) What are the main
College
characters’MA
Waltham, motivations
02454 for joining the movement? 3)Chestnut
What accounts for02467
Hill, MA Derek Vinyard’s
rejection of his former neo-Nazi beliefs and actions, juliet.schor@bc.edu
lamiller@brandeis.edu according to the film? Do you find this
account plausible? 4) How does the movement respond to Derek’s ‘conversion’? 5) What is the
role of
Lisa Dr. Bob Sweeney and Murray, respectively? 6)
Peñaloza Does
Sara Derek Vinyard succeed at
Steen
persuading
College his brother Danny of the flaws in the neo-Nazi
of Business ideology?
Department If so, how? If not, why not?
of Sociology
7)
BusWhat
468 do you make of the ending? 219 Ketchum Hall
2/9 How CO
Boulder, Did 80309
Social Movements Evolve as a Form? Case Study:
Boulder, COThe Civil Rights Movement
80309
Tilly 38-94.
Doug McAdam, Freedom Summer (Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 1988)
[McAdam],
Jan Phillips 3-115. Joel Stillerman
2/16 Case Study:
Behavioral The Civil Rights Movement (Cont’d)
McAdam,
University 116-240.
*** Book review of
Lewiston-Auburn McAdam due.***
Lewiston, ME 04240
2/23 Film History/ Case Study: The Civil Rights Movement
jphillip@bates.edu Deborah(Cont’d)
Thorne
Monaco, 228-385. Department of Sociology and
View film
Meghan Freedom
Ashlin Richon my Mind by Connie Field andAnthropology
Marily Mulford, 1994 (on reserve at B-
Main, E185.93.M6
Department F738 1994),
of Sociology 110 min.
st
3/2 Social Movements
University of Delawarein the 21 Century thorned@ohio.edu
Tilly, 95-122.
Newark, DE 19716
View films This is What Democracy Looks Like andMelanie
megrich@udel.edu “30 Frames a Second: The WTO in
Wallendorf
Seattle” Department of Marketing
3/9 Social Movements
Department of Sociologyand Democratization University of Arizona
Tilly 123-143
View
Collegefilm TheMD
Park, Gate20742
of Heavenly Peace by Richard Gordon and Carma Hinton, 1996 (on reserve
at B-Main, DS779.32 .G37 1996 pt. 1 and pt. 2), 87 + 56 min.
ritzer@socy.umd.edu
Frederick Wherry
3/23
J. SocialRyan
Michael Movements in Non-Democracies Department of Sociology
*** Paper proposal
Department due.***
Readings onofE-reserve,
University Maryland password: ‘informal’ Ann Arbor, MI 48109
M.M. Hafez,
College Park,“From Marginalization to Massacres: Affwherry@umich.edu
MD 20742 Political Process Explanation of GIA
Violence in Algeria” in Q. Wiktorowicz, ed., Islamic Activism: A Social Movement Theory
mryan@socy.umd.edu
Approach (IU Press, 2003), 37-60 [E-reserve].
G. Robinson, “Hamas as Social Movement” in Q. Wiktorowicz, ed., Islamic Activism: A Social
Movement Theory Approach (IU Press, 2003), 112-39 [E-reserve].
Janine Clark, “Islamist Women in Yemen: Informal Nodes of Activism” Q. Wiktorowicz, ed.,
Islamic Activism: A Social Movement Theory Approach (IU Press, 2003), 164-184 [E-reserve].
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Carrie Rosefsky Wickham, “Interests, Ideas and Islamist
Laura Miller JulietOutreach
Schor in Egypt,” in Q. Wiktorowicz,
ed., Islamic Activism:
Department of Sociology (IU Press, 2003), 231-249[E-
519 McGuinn
A Social Movement Theory Approach
reserve]. 103
Pearlman 140 Commonwealth Ave.
3/30 SocialMA
Waltham, Movements
02454 in Non-Democracies (Cont’d) Chestnut Hill, MA 02467
*** Film review of The Battle of Algiers due.*** juliet.schor@bc.edu
View film The Battle of Algiers by Gillo Pontecorvo (1965) (on reserve at B-Main, PN1997
.B346Peñaloza
Lisa 1988), 123 min. Sara Steen
4/6 Case
Bus 468 Study: Labor and Class-Based Movements 219 Ketchum Hall
*** Outlineofand
University bibliography due.***
Colorado University of Colorado
Frances Fox
Boulder, CO Piven
80309and Richard A. Cloward, Poor People’s
Boulder,Movements:
CO 80309 Why They Succeed, How
They Fail (New York: Vintage, 1979) [Piven and Cloward],
penaloza@colorado.edu xix-95.
steen@colorado.edu
View film Matewan by John Sayles (1987) (on reserve at B-Main, PN1997 .M3943 1987), 100
min.Phillips
Jan Joel Stillerman
4/13 Case Study:
Behavioral ScienceLabor and Class-Based MovementsGrand(Cont’d)
*** Draft paper
University due.***Maine/
Piven and Cloward,
Lewiston-Auburn 96-180.
View film ME
Lewiston, Bread and Roses by Ken Loach (2001) (on reserve at B-Main, PN1997 .B7256 2001),
04240
110 min.
4/20 Countermobilization
Arlene Stein,ofThe
Department Strangerand
Sociology Next Door (Beacon, 2002).
In-class screening of Ballot Measure 9 (avail. at B-Main,
Justice Athens,HQ76.8 .U5 B34 1996), 72 min.
OH 45701
4/27 Violence
University as a Social Movement Tactic
View filmDE
Newark, Human
19716Weapon by Ilan Ziv (2002) (on reserve at B-Main, BP190.5.M3 H863 2002),
55 min.
*** Term paper due.*** Department of Marketing
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Frederick Wherry
mryan@socy.umd.edu
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Social Miller
Change in Action Juliet Schor
Department
Darcy Leach of Sociology 519 McGuinn
Pearlman 103
Boston College 140 Commonwealth Ave.
Waltham, MA 02454
Course Description Chestnut Hill, MA 02467
It is easy to feel overwhelmed by the problems of our times. What can ordinary people do to
Lisa
bringPeñaloza
about social change? How can they organize themselves Sara Steeneffectively without sacrificing the
College of Business
for which they are fighting? This course Department combines: 1)ofreading,
Sociology
very values discussion, and
writing about strategies for social change; 2) workshops on practical organizing skills like
University of decision-making,
Colorado University
campaignofresearch,
Coloradononviolent tactics,
participatory publicity and outreach,
alliance-building, etc.; and 3) a collective action project which the class will research, design,
and carry out together. Students should have either prior steen@colorado.edu
coursework in social issues/social
movements or activist experience.
Course Format
The course is designed
University of Southern Maine/ to have a strong experiential component.
Allendale, MI It is meant to give you practical
49401
knowledge of various
Lewiston-Auburn kinds of organizing skills and stillejo@gvsu.edu
College hands-on experience using them in a
collective project.
Lewiston, ME 04240 At the same time, we will be discussing these issues and the various options
we look at with an evaluative eye, considering the practical
jphillip@bates.edu Deborahand ethical implications of various
Thorne
options available to organizers in terms of how to mobilize Department of how
people, to dealand
Sociology with the media,
what strategies
Meghan Ashlinfor Richsocial change work best, what tactics, etc. Also, many of the options that have
Anthropology
been tried historically are either
Department of Sociology and Criminal not within the scope of this course for us to try ourselves
Ohio University
(developing a national coalition, for example) or are Athens,
Justice ethically/morally
OH 45701inappropriate to be
carrying out as a
University of Delawareclass (e.g. violent tactics), yet it is important from an intellectual standpoint to
thorned@ohio.edu
understand
Newark, DEwhat
19716 has been tried in the past and what has or has not worked in different situations.
Consequently, the format of the course is designed soMelanie
megrich@udel.edu that theWallendorf
experiential parallel to each other
over the course of the semester - in each class period,Department we will spend approximately half of the
of Marketing
time discussing
George Ritzer more abstract questions in the readings and
Eller the other
College half of the time working on
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the group project.
Department of Sociology In order for us to complete the project/action within
University of Arizona the scope of the semester,
I have builtofa number
University Maryland of benchmarks into the schedule for progress
Tucson, AZ 85721on the project.
Because of the collective nature much of what we will be doing this term, and because the goal
ritzer@socy.umd.edu
of the course is to allow you to grow in your capacityFrederick to engageWherry
in issues of concern to you, I
have
J. designed
Michael Ryan the course to have a somewhat emergent character.ofWhile
Department some things are less
Sociology
flexible thanof
Department others (workshops done by outside trainers,
Sociology for example),
University there is room in the
of Michigan
syllabus forofusMaryland
University to customize the readings and topics as AnntheArbor,
courseMI unfolds,
48109based on your needs
and interests
College Park,and
MDthe requirements of the project we choose.
20742 Consequently, I have left some of
ffwherry@umich.edu
the reading assignments
mryan@socy.umd.edu tentative or blank for now and after about the third week, you will get an
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
1) Participation
Waltham, MA 02454 and discussion questions. These areChestnut especially important
Hill, MA 02467since so much of the
class revolves
lamiller@brandeis.edu around group work. I will not be taking roll each
juliet.schor@bc.edu week, but your classmates
will need you to be there for the project to come together well, so absences will be noticed. If
Lisayou have to miss a class, please make sure to getSara
Peñaloza notesSteen
from a fellow student and keep up
with all readings
College of Business and assignments. Participation. i.e. my
Department assessment of your overall level of
of Sociology
Busengagement
468 with the class, will constitute a significant part of your
219 Ketchum Hall grade. Things you can do
to ensure a good
University of Colorado participation grade include contributing to class
University of Colorado discussions, email
correspondence,
Boulder, CO 80309 coming to my office hours, and Boulder, attendingCO lectures
80309or events on campus that
pertain to the
penaloza@colorado.edu course and coming to tell me about them or writing
steen@colorado.edu up a page summarizing the
event and giving your reactions. Also, three people each week will sign up to bring in
Jan discussion
Phillips questions which we will use to guide discussion, Joel Stillerman and that will count toward your
participation
Department gradeand
of Social as well. 2166 AuSable Hall
Behavioral Science
2) 3-page concerns paper. For the third week of class, Grand Valleywill
everyone State
be University
asked to write a short (3
pages) paper on the Maine/
social issue or problem you would Allendale,
mostMI like49401
to have the class address for
Lewiston-Auburn
the class project. College
It should be something you are stillejo@gvsu.edu
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
jphillip@bates.edu
of an issue and a goal for the class project. Deborah Thorne
3) Activist
Meghan biography/autobiography
Ashlin Rich report/presentation. Each student will choose an activist
Anthropology
they would
Department like to learn
of Sociology more
and about and read either
Criminal Ohioa biography
Universityor autobiography on that
person
Justice and give an informal report to the class about that
Athens, OH person’s
45701life and your
impressions/thoughts
University of Delaware about the book. This can bethorned@ohio.edu done either in pairs, in which case the
presentation
Newark, DE 19716 should be about 10-15 minutes long, or individually, in which case it should be
5-7 minutes. Then you’ll turn in a short write-up Melanie
megrich@udel.edu of the presentation.
Wallendorf We will figure out who
will do which activist during the second week of Department class and sign of up for presentation dates. I
Marketing
have compiled
George Ritzer a list of as many activists I can think of and biographies
Eller College of Management and autobiographies
written about
Department them from which you can choose, or
of Sociology talk to meofifArizona
University you have another idea of
someone else
University of Maryland you would like to report about. Presentations will
Tucson, AZ 85721 take place throughout the
semester.
4) Action plan. Once we have chosen an issue and a goal for the action, the class will work in
ritzer@socy.umd.edu
weeks 4-6 to create a detailed action plan, based Frederick on a worksheetWherry with a series of questions to
be answered about the issue, who the stakeholders are, what resources the class has, what
exact action
Department will be carried out, when and how itUniversity
of Sociology will happen, of etc. The collectively written
Michigan
action plan,
University elaborating the details of the plan, will
of Maryland AnnbeArbor,
due week MI 748109
and everyone will get the
samePark,
College gradeMD for 20742
this assignment. ffwherry@umich.edu
mryan@socy.umd.edu
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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Laura you think you deserve. I will then use theseJuliet
Miller reports to inform my assessment of each
Schor
person’s of
Department contribution.
Grading University
Brandeis Boston College
Your finalMA
Waltham, grade for the course will be derived according
02454 to theHill,
Chestnut following weighting of
MA 02467
individual requirements:
LisaParticipation/discussion
Peñaloza questions 15%
Sara Steen
Concerns
College paper
of Business 5%
BusActivist
468 presentation/report 20%
219 Ketchum Hall
Action plan
University (collective)
of Colorado 25%
Final CO
Boulder, reflections
80309 paper 30%
Boulder, CO 80309
Individual group project grade
penaloza@colorado.edu 5%
steen@colorado.edu
Academic
Jan PhillipsIntegrity Joel Stillerman
It is your responsibility
Department to understand and adhere to the
of Social and 2166 accepted
AuSable norms
Hall of intellectual honesty in
their academic
Behavioral work. Any form of cheating, plagiarism,
Science Granddishonesty, or collusion
Valley State Universityin another’s
dishonesty of
University is aSouthern
fundamental violation of these normsAllendale,
Maine/ and will beMIhandled
49401 through the formal
disciplinary procedures
Lewiston-Auburn laid out by the College. To see
College the College's policies in this area go to:
stillejo@gvsu.edu
http://www.bc.edu/integrity.
Lewiston, ME 04240 This includes proper citation of sources. Two good sources to
consult about proper citation rules and exactly what constitutes
jphillip@bates.edu a breach of policy are:
Deborah Thorne
“Plagiarism Examples and Guidelines: A Quiz” at Department of Sociology and
http://www.bc.edu/schools/cas/polisci/integrity/quiz/#Example_four
Meghan Ashlin Rich Anthropology and the American
Sociologicalof
Department Association’s “Quick
Sociology and Style Guide” at Ohio University
Criminal
http://www.asanet.org/page.ww?section=Sociology+Depts&name=Quick+Style+Guide).
ANewark,
note about late papers. Papers are graded down by 5 percentage points for each day they are
DE 19716
late. If you must turn a paper in late due to an emergency
megrich@udel.edu Melanie(i.e.Wallendorf
something that is both
unavoidable and unforeseen), make sure to contact me by email as
Department of soon as possible. If you know
Marketing
about
GeorgeanRitzer
unavoidable conflict ahead of time, let me know
Eller College
in advance, and we can arrange an
of Management
extension.
Readings
ritzer@socy.umd.edu
There are 5 required books for this course: Frederick Wherry
J. Michael Ryan
• Paul Rogat Loeb. 1999. Soul of a Citizen: LivingDepartment of Sociology
with Conviction in a Cynical Time. New
York: St. Martin’s Griffin. University of Michigan
• Kristina
College Park,Smock. 2004. Democracy in Action. New
MD 20742 York: Columbia University Press.
ffwherry@umich.edu
•mryan@socy.umd.edu
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
Department will be available at the Bookstore and on
Sociology reserve
519 at O’Niell Library. All other
McGuinn
assigned readings
Pearlman 103 are available through electronic reserves. From the library
140 Commonwealth Ave.home page
(http://www.bc.edu/libraries/),
Brandeis University click on “course reserves”
Bostonunder “Find library materials,” log in,
College
and look up
Waltham, the02454
MA course under my name. Readings will be listedHill,
Chestnut by the
MAlast name of the author of
02467
the individual piece (rather than the author of an edited
lamiller@brandeis.edu book, for example).
juliet.schor@bc.edu
Lisa Peñaloza
Weekly Schedule of Readings and Assignments Sara Steen
1. Jan. 17 Introduction.
2. Jan. 24 Motivation – Obstacles to Engagementsteen@colorado.edu
• Workshop: Consensus Decisionmaking
Jan •Phillips
Sign up for Activist Biography/Autobiography Joel Stillerman
assignment
• Sign up for Discussion Questions week.
• Soul of a Citizen, Chapters 1, 2, and 4.
3. Jan. 31 Motivation – Overcoming Cynicism
Lewiston, ME 04240
• Concerns papers due.
• Decide on goal/issue for group project. Department of Sociology and
• Soul
Meghan Ashlin Citizen, Chapters 3, 5, 6, 7.
of aRich Anthropology
4. Feb. 7
Justice Organizing Models I Athens, OH 45701
• Democracy in
University of Delaware Action, Chapters 1-3 thorned@ohio.edu
Newark, DE 19716
5. Feb. 14
megrich@udel.edu Organizing Models II Melanie Wallendorf
• Democracy in Action, Chapters 7-9 Department of Marketing
6. Feb. 21 Action
Department of Sociology Forms. University of Arizona
• Workshop:
University Hip-hop culture, cognitive liberation,
of Maryland and AZ
Tucson, environmental
85721 justice organizing.
Mike Cermak,
College Park, MD 20742 guest trainer. mwallendorf@eller.arizona.edu
• Amory Starr. 2005. Global Revolt: A Guide to the Movements Against Globalization.
ritzer@socy.umd.edu
New York: Zed Books. From Part IV. “Tactics,” pp. 173-245.
Frederick Wherry
• Gwyn
J. Michael RyanKirk. “Our Greenham Common: Feminism and Nonviolence”
Department of Sociologyfrom Rocking the
Ship State, Adrienne Harris and Ynestra King, eds. Boulder,
Department of Sociology University of CO: Westview Press. pp.
Michigan
115-130.
• John
College Park,Cavanagh
MD 20742 & Jerry Mander, eds. Alternatives
ffwherry@umich.edu
to Economic Globalization: A Better
World is Possible. San Francisco: Berrett-Koehler Publishers, Inc. Chapter 11. “Global to
mryan@socy.umd.edu
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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• Miller
Laura Jo Freeman. 1984. “The Tyranny of Structurelessness”
Juliet Schorand Cathy Levine “The Tyranny
of Tyranny”
Department from Untying the Knot: Feminism,
of Sociology McGuinn and Organization. London:
519Anarchism
PearlmanDark
103Star/Rebel Press. pp. 5-23. 140 Commonwealth Ave.
• Rhoda
Brandeis Linton. “Seneca Women’s Peace Camp:
University Shapes
Boston of Things to Come” from Rocking
College
Waltham,theMA of State, Adrienne Harris and Ynestra
Ship02454 King, eds.
Chestnut Hill,Boulder,
MA 02467CO: Westview Press.
pp. 239-261.
• Amory Starr. 2005. Global Revolt: A Guide to the Movements Against Globalization.
New York: Zed Books. “Participatory Democracy: the World Social Forum, pp.47-52
• Starhawk. 2002. Webs of Power: Notes from the Global Uprising.of Sociology
“The Practice of Direct
Bus 468Democracy” pp.169-178. 219 Ketchum Hall
• Francesca Polletta. 2005. “How ParticipatoryUniversity
DemocracyofBecame
ColoradoWhite and Other
Boulder,Stories
of Organizational Choice.” Mobilization 10(2):271-288.
May 6 NO CLASS – SPRING BREAK
Department
8. Mar. 13 of Social and
Building Alliances Across Race & Class 2166 AuSable Hall
Behavioral
• Workshop: Diversity/Alliance Building with Grand
Science Valley Betsy
guest trainer, State University
Leondar-Wright
• Betsy Leondar-Wright. 2005. Class Matters. stillejo@gvsu.edu
New Society Publishers. pp. 13-15, 29-33,
55-63, 69-75, 89, and 106.
Lewiston, ME 04240
• from the Class Matters website:
http://www.classmatters.org/working_definitions.php
Meghanhttp://www.classmatters.org/reality_check.php
http://www.classmatters.org/resources/tips/
Justice http://www.classmatters.org/bios/stout.php Athens, OH 45701
http://www.classmatters.org/2004_11/invisible_walls.php
Newark,http://www.classmatters.org/2004_11/stout_interview.php
DE 19716
• John Anner. 1996. Beyond Identity Politics: Emerging
megrich@udel.edu Social Justice Movements in
Melanie Wallendorf
Communities of Color. South End Press. Introduction,
Department John
of Anner, pp.5-17, and Chapter
Marketing
5. “How
George Ritzer the Empress Gets Her Clothes: Asian Immigrant Women Fight
Eller College of Management Fashion
Designer
Department Jessica McClintock,” Gary Delgado,University
of Sociology pp. 81-97.of Arizona
Mar. 20 N O C
College Park, MD 20742LASS – EASTER W EEKEND mwallendorf@eller.arizona.edu
ritzer@socy.umd.edu
9. Mar. 27 Media Work Frederick Wherry
• Workshop:
J. Michael Ryan Using the Media in Grassroots Campaigns.
Department Guest trainer, Char Ryan.
of Sociology
• Making
Department the News, selections.
10. Apr.Park,
College 3 MD Strategy
20742I: Historical Alternatives ffwherry@umich.edu
mryan@socy.umd.edu
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.
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Department Strategy II: Parameter Questions 519 McGuinn
11. Apr. 10 of Sociology
Readings:University
Brandeis Boston College
• Ward
Waltham, MAChurchill.
02454 Pacifism as Pathology. Chestnut Hill, MA 02467
• George Lakey. “Nonviolent Action as the Sword
lamiller@brandeis.edu That Heals: Challenging Ward
juliet.schor@bc.edu
Churchill’s ‘Pacifism as Pathology’” from
http://globalsolidarity.transcend.org/articles/nonviolent.pdf
• Audre
College of Business
Lorde. 1984. “The Master’s Tools WillDepartment of Sociology
Never Dismantle the Master’s House”
Bus 468from Sister Outsider. Trumansburg, NY:Crossing 219 Ketchum Hall
Press. pp.110-113.
• Starhawk. “Quebec City: Beyond Violence and University of Colorado
Nonviolence” from
Boulder,http://www.starhawk.org/activism/activism-writings/quebeclessons.html
Jan Phillips
12. Apr. 17 Strategy: What Is To Be Done? Joel Stillerman
Behavioral
Readings: Science Grand Valley State University
University
• Michaelof Southern
Albert. Maine/ Allendale,
The Trajectory of Change: Activist MI 49401
Strategies for Social Transformation.
• 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”
13. Apr. 24 Debriefing, Wrap-up Discussion Department of Sociology and
• Final Reflections Papers due.
Newark, DE 19716
ritzer@socy.umd.edu
Frederick Wherry
mryan@socy.umd.edu
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Laura Miller for Activist Lives Assignment
Bibliography Juliet Schor
Pearlman 103 20th Century US
19th and early 140 Commonwealth Ave.
Frederick Douglass.
Waltham, MA 02454Born a slave and escaped to freedom in the
Chestnut North
Hill, MAto02467
become a famous
orator, author, and one of the most influential leadersjuliet.schor@bc.edu
lamiller@brandeis.edu of the abolitionist movement.
McFeely, William S. 1991. Frederick Douglass. Simon & Schuster.
Paul Robeson. World famous African-American singer, actor, professional football player,
Bus 468 219
graduate of Columbia Law School, and communist activist. Ketchum Hall
Duberman,
Boulder, COMartin
80309Bauml. 1989. Paul Robeson: A Biography.Boulder, CO Ballantine
80309 Books.
Carlos Bulosan. Filipino-American novelist and labor activist with the ILWU (longshoremen’s
union) on the West coast before World War II. Joel Stillerman
Jan Phillips
Bulosan, Carlos. 1990and [1943]. America is in the Heart.2166 AuSableof
University Hall
Washington Press.
Eugene V. Debs. LaborMaine/ Allendale,
and political leader, co-founded MI 49401 Labor Union and the
the International
anarcho-syndicalist Industrial Workers of the World (IWW). Also ran for president five
Lewiston,
timesME 04240
– once from jail – on the Socialist Party ticket.
Salvatore, Nick. 1982. Eugene V. Debs: Citizen and Department
Socialist. University of Illinois
of Sociology and Press.
John Reed. Turn of the century
Department of Sociology and CriminalAmerican journalist, Harvard
Ohio graduate, poet, communist activist,
University
and
Justice husband of feminist activist, Louise Bryant. Went
Athens, OHto Russia
45701to document and support
the Bolshevik
University of Delawarerevolution with Emma Goldman,thorned@ohio.edu
where he died of the flu and was buried
near Lenin.
Newark, DE 19716
Rosenstone, Robert A. 1990. Romantic Revolutionary:
megrich@udel.edu Melanie of John Reed. Harvard
Wallendorf
A Biography
University Press. Department of Marketing
Emma Goldman.
Department Turn of the century Lithuanian-born
of Sociology anarchist,offeminist,
University Arizonaessayist, orator.
Imprisoned several times for her activism and deported to Russia in 1919, where she was
an Park,
College outspoken critic of Lenin’s brutal suppression
MD 20742 of dissent. Lived in several countries and
participated in Spanish Civil War with the anarchists against Franco.
ritzer@socy.umd.edu
Frederick Wherry
Goldman,
J. Michael Emma.
Ryan 2006. Living My Life. Penguin Classics. Department of Sociology
Chalberg, John C. 2007. Emma Goldman: American University
Department of Sociology Longman Press.
of Michigan
Individualist.
th
Alice Paul.
College Early
Park, MD2020742 century Quaker leader of the suffragist movement, founder of the National
ffwherry@umich.edu
Women’s Party, jailed for picketing the White House during World War I.
mryan@socy.umd.edu
Adams, Katherine H. and Michael L Keene. 2007. Alice Paul and the American Suffrage
Campaign. University of Illinois Press.
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Laura Miller Years
The Interwar Juliet Schor
Joe Hill. Swedish-born
Pearlman 103 labor organizer and songwriter,140active with the International
Commonwealth Ave. Workers of
the World,
Brandeis convicted of murder in a controversial
University trial College
Boston and executed. His arrest was widely
believed
Waltham, MA to be politically motivated, with manyChestnut
02454 well-knownHill,people,
MA 02467 including Helen
Keller, pleading for clemency on his behalf. The
lamiller@brandeis.edu story is captured in several well-known
juliet.schor@bc.edu
protest songs.
Lisa Peñaloza
Franklin. 2003. Joe Hill: The IWW & TheSara SteenOf A Revolutionary Working Class
Rosemont, Making
College of Business Charles H. Kerr Publishers. Department of Sociology
Counterculture.
Pacifist, anarchist, Catholic journalist,University of activist,
Coloradoand advocate for the
Dorothy Day. anti-poverty
homeless during the Great Depression. Founded the Catholic Workers movement and
started a string of “houses of hospitality” and communal farms for the poor.
Coles, Robert. 1989. Dorothy Day: A Radical Devotion.
Jan Phillips Joel Da Capo Press.
Stillerman
Department
Day, Dorothy.of 2004.
SocialThe
andLong Loneliness. HarperOne 2166 AuSable Hall
Press.
Myles Horton. Maine/
Theologian, Allendale,
educator, socialist, and founder MIlate
in the 49401
1930s of the Highlander
Folk School, an organizer training center where many leaders of the civil rights and
Lewiston, ME farm-workers
southern 04240 movements were trained, including Rosa Parks and Martin Luther
jphillip@bates.edu
King, Jr. Deborah Thorne
Horton, Myles,
Meghan Ashlin Judith
Rich Kohl, and Herbert Kohl. 1997.Anthropology
The Long Haul: An Autobiography.
Teachers’
Department College Press.
Dorothy Healey. Well-known
University of Delaware labor organizer in California with a 40-year career. Eventually a
thorned@ohio.edu
national
Newark, DE 19716leader of the American Communist Party. Strong advocate for the rights of Black
and Chicano farm and factory workers.
Healey, Dorothy and Maurice Isserman. 1990. Dorothy Department of Marketing
Healey Remembers: A Life in the
George American Communist Party. Oxford University Press.
Ritzer Eller College of Management
College
The Park,
1960s: NewMDLeft
20742& Civil Rights Activists mwallendorf@eller.arizona.edu
ritzer@socy.umd.edu
Tom Hayden. Student civil rights, anti-war, and anti-poverty
Frederickactivist.
WherryFounder of Students for a
Democratic Society (SDS), the largest student activist organization
J. Michael Ryan Department in US history.
of Sociology
Defendent in the Chicago 8 conspiracy trial, who later became
Department of Sociology University of a California State
Michigan
Congressman.
Hayden, Tom. 2003.
mryan@socy.umd.edu Rebel: A Personal History of the 1960s. Red Hen Press.
Abbie Hoffman. Colorful co-founder of the countercultural anarchist group, the “Yippies.” Anti-
war 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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Ayers, Bill. 2003. Fugitive Days: A Memoir. PenguinJuliet
Laura Miller Books.
Schor
Malcolm X.
Pearlman 103Fiery orator and iconic Muslim leader of140
theCommonwealth
Black Power movement,
Ave. assassinated
in 1965.
Shabazz, Attallah.1987. The Autobiography of Malcolm X : As Told to Alex Haley. Ballantine
Books.
Martin Luther King, Jr. Does he need an introduction?
King,468
Bus Jr., Martin Luther. 2001. The Autobiography of219 Martin Luther
Ketchum King, Jr. Grand Central
Hall
Publishing.
Stokely Carmichael.
penaloza@colorado.edu Early civil rights activist in the Student Nonviolent Coordinating
steen@colorado.edu
Committee (SNCC) turned militant leader who sparked the Black Power movement.
Jan Phillips Stokely. 2005. Ready for Revolution: The
Carmichael, Joel Stillerman
Life and Struggles of Stokely Carmichael
(Kwame Ture). Scribner. 2166 AuSable Hall
Johnson, Jacqueline. 1990.
University of Southern Maine/ Stokely Carmichael: The Story of Black
Allendale, Power. Silver Burdett Press.
MI 49401
Daniel and Phillip
Lewiston, ME 04240 Berrigan. Civil rights and anti-war activists from the 1960s-1990s, Christian
anarchists,
jphillip@bates.edu co-founders of the Ploughshares movement.
Deborah Phillip
ThorneBerrigan was a Josephite
Priest and Daniel Berrigan is a Jesuit Priest. Both served time
Department in prison for
of Sociology andrepeated acts of
civil disobedience,
Meghan Ashlin Rich Phillip served a total of 11 years at different
Anthropology times.
Polner, Murray
Department and Jim O’Grady.
of Sociology 1998. Disarmed and
and Criminal Ohio UniversityThe Radical Life and Times
Dangerous:
Justiceof Daniel and Philip Berrigan, Brothers in Religious Athens,Faith
OH 45701
and Civil Disobedience.
Westview
University Press.
Newark, DE 19716
Berrigan, Daniel. 2007. To Dwell in Peace: An Autobiography.
megrich@udel.edu Wipf & Stock Publishers.
Melanie Wallendorf
Black Panthers
Huey P. Newton.
University Co-founder of the Black Panther Party
of Maryland for Self
Tucson, Defense.
AZ 85721
Jeffries, Park,
College Judson MDL. 20742
2002. Huey P. Newton: The Radical Theorist. University Press of Mississippi.
ritzer@socy.umd.edu
Assata Shakur. Charismatic speaker, East Coast leader of BPP,Wherry
Frederick jailed for armed robbery, escaped
to exile
J. Michael in Cuba, mother of Tupac Shakur.
Ryan Department of Sociology
Shakur, Assata. 2001. Assata: An Autobiography. Lawrence Hill Books.
Elaine Brown. Leader of BPP for a time while Huey Newton was in prison.
mryan@socy.umd.edu
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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Mumia Abu-Jamal. Member of BPP in Philadelphia,Juliet
Laura Miller journalist,
Schorradio personality, convicted of
murdering
Department a police officer in highly controversial
of Sociology 519trial, still on death row. World-wide
McGuinn
movement
Pearlman 103 exists to free him. 140 Commonwealth Ave.
Abu-Jamal, Mumia. 1997. Death Blossoms: Reflections from a Prisoner of Conscience. Plough
Publishing House.
The American Indian Movement
College
Leonardof Business Department of Sociology
Peltier. A leader of the American Indian Movement (AIM), tried and convicted of
murdering two FBI agents in controversial trial. Serving life in prison. Also focus of world-
University of Coloradoto free him.
wide movement University of Colorado
Peltier, Leonard. 2000.
penaloza@colorado.edu Prison Writings: My Life Is My Sun Dance. St. Martin's Griffin.
steen@colorado.edu
Dennis
Jan Banks. Early leader of AIM.
Banks, Dennis and Richard Erdoes. 2005. Ojibwa Warrior: 2166 AuSable
Dennis Hall
Banks And The Rise Of The
Behavioral Science Grand
American Indian Movement. University of Oklahoma Press. Valley State University
Russell Means. Early leader of AIM. stillejo@gvsu.edu
Lewiston, ME 04240
Means, Russell. 1996. Where White Men Fear to Tread:
jphillip@bates.edu The Autobiography
Deborah Thorne of Russell Means.
St. Martin's Griffin. Department of Sociology and
After the 1960s
Ann Hansen. Militant
University of Delaware punk/anarchist activist from Canada.
thorned@ohio.edu
Hansen, Ann. 2002. Direct Action: Memoirs of an Urban Guerrilla. AK Press.
Newark, DE 19716
International Department of Marketing
Che Guevara.
Department ofAuthor,
SociologyMarxist leader of the Cuban revolution,
Universityand revolutionary activist in many
of Arizona
countries in Central and South America. Killed in Bolivia in 1967.
Anderson, Jon Lee. 1998. Che Guevara: A Revolutionary Life. Grove Press.
ritzer@socy.umd.edu
Frederick Wherry
Subcommandante
J. Michael Ryan Marcos. Masked leader of the Mexican Zapatista
Department movement for autonomy of
of Sociology
indigenous peoples
Department of Sociology of Mexico, famous orator who drew lots of media attention and built an
University of Michigan
international
University network in support of the movement.
Henck, Nick.
College Park, 2007.
MD 20742
Subcommander Marcos: The Man and the Mask. Duke University Press.
ffwherry@umich.edu
mryan@socy.umd.edu
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.
113
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Mohandas Gandhi. Author, activist, spiritual and political
Laura Miller Juliet leader
Schor of the anti-colonial
independence
Department movement in India. Pioneer of nonviolent
of Sociology 519 McGuinnphilosophy of Satyagraha and
proponent
Pearlman 103 of mass civil disobedience. Assassinated in 1948.
Brandeis UniversityKaramchand (Mahatma) and Mahadev Boston College
Gandhi, Mohandas H. Desai. 1993. Gandhi An
Autobiography: The Story of My Experiments With Truth. Beacon Press.


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Newark, DE 19716
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Frederick Wherry
mryan@socy.umd.edu
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Social Miller
Movements Across Time and Space Juliet Schor
Mona El-Ghobashy 519 McGuinn
Pearlman 103
Barnard College, Columbia University 140 Commonwealth Ave.
Waltham,
Introduction MA 02454 Chestnut Hill, MA 02467
Originally considered ephemeral forms of interest aggregation
lamiller@brandeis.edu compared to parties and interest
juliet.schor@bc.edu
groups, social movements have developed into central modes of political participation in both
authoritarian
Lisa Peñalozaand democratic regimes. This colloquium Saraexamines
Steen the origins, trajectories, and
th
effects
Collegeofofsocial movements, from 18 century Britain
Business to 19th century
Department Iran to late 20th century
of Sociology
Argentina,
Bus 468 China, and the United States. The first part 219ofKetchum examines cases of 18th and
the courseHall
th
19 centuryofsocial
University movements while the second focuses
Colorado on an influential
University of Coloradoanalytical approach to
social movements
Boulder, CO 80309developed by leading scholars in the field. The
Boulder, remaining parts of the course
CO 80309
focus on three analytical questions: what is the relationship
penaloza@colorado.edu between social movements and their
steen@colorado.edu
most important interlocutors, states and political parties? Do social movements promote or
undermine
Jan Phillipsdemocratization? And how do we define Joel the “success”
Stillermanof social movements?
The colloquium
Behavioral has three goals: (1) to survey the diversity
Science Grand of casesState
Valley where human beings acted
University
collectivelyoftoSouthern
University make demands,
Maine/ express grievances, orAllendale,
otherwiseMI altered
49401the distribution of power
and political discourse
Lewiston-Auburn in their societies, (2) to study stillejo@gvsu.edu
College the main analytical approaches developed
by (overwhelmingly
Lewiston, ME 04240American) social scientists to understand and explain social movements,
and (3) to develop expository writing and research skills
jphillip@bates.edu through
Deborah five analytical position papers
Thorne
and a substantial research paper. Department of Sociology and
Requirements
Participation and Class Presentation
Justice Athens,25% OH 45701
Five 700-word
University position papers
25%
Research
Newark, Paper
DE 19716 (20-25 pp.) 50%
Participation: The success of the colloquium depends on the intensive
Department participation of each and
of Marketing
every member,
George Ritzer meaning attendance at every session Eller and informed
College ofcontribution
Management to our discussion
based on a thorough
Department analysis of the reading. Since weUniversity
of Sociology meet onlyofonce a week, more than one
Arizona
unexcused absence
University will hurt your grade for the course.
Presentation: Everyone is expected to come to class having digested the readings and ready to
ritzer@socy.umd.edu
explain and critique them. Each week, one student will start class
Frederick with a 7-10 min. presentation
Wherry
onMichael
J. the readings.
Ryan As you might expect, an effective and lively presentation
Department will not summarize the
of Sociology
reading but offer
Department instead several focused insights on University
of Sociology authors’ arguments and raise a couple of
of Michigan
provocativeofquestions
University Marylandfor class discussion. Ann Arbor, MI 48109
Position Papers: In addition to strengthening your presentation skills, the seminar puts a
mryan@socy.umd.edu
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.
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200
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You challenge the author’s definition of his/herJuliet
Miller termsSchor
or analysis of his/her case, raise
relevant questions
Department left unanswered by the author, present
of Sociology your own analysis of the case study or
519 McGuinn
theoretical103
Pearlman issue under examination, or discuss a common analytical trait or
140 Commonwealth theoretical concern
Ave.
in the different
Brandeis readings for a particular week.
You must write a total of five position papers throughout
lamiller@brandeis.edu the semester on readings of your
juliet.schor@bc.edu
choice, but two papers must be handed in by the end of February. It’s important to pace yourself
to avoid
Lisa handing in your position papers in the final Sara
Peñaloza weeksSteen
of the semester! You may write a
position
College of paper on the same topic as your presentation.
Research
UniversityPaper: This requirement is designed to have
of Colorado you explore
University in-depth a social movement
of Colorado
or movements
Boulder, that are of particular interest to you. The
CO 80309 only requirement
Boulder, CO 80309 for the research paper
is that it make use of comparison in some way. You can
penaloza@colorado.edu either compare two social movements in
steen@colorado.edu
one country or across two countries during the same time period (synchronic comparison), or
compare
Jan Phillipsone social movement at different points in time Joel (diachronic
Stillerman comparison), or compare
two social movements
Department of Social andin two countries during the same
2166time periodHall
AuSable or over time.
An effectiveofand
University feasible
Southern research paper will be anchored
Maine/ in a very
Allendale, specific and focused
MI 49401
question. Papers should
Lewiston-Auburn College focus on as narrow a question or puzzle as possible. Broad and general
stillejo@gvsu.edu
topics rarely
Lewiston, MEmake04240for successful papers. See the course schedule below for important dates
relating to the paper. While I will not read drafts of research
jphillip@bates.edu Deborahpapers,
ThorneI will work with you closely
at each step of the process to help you produce papers that are both
Department doable andand
of Sociology mutually
instructive
Meghan Ashlin for both
Richyou and I. Anthropology
Justice
Required Texts Athens, OH 45701
The following
University required books have been ordered at the
of Delaware University bookstore and also placed on
thorned@ohio.edu
reserve. All
Newark, DEother
19716 readings are available via the class Courseworks page. You must bring the
readings with you to class since we will often refer toMelanie
megrich@udel.edu specificWallendorf
quotes during discussions.
Charles Tilly, Social Movements, 1768-2004 Department (Boulder, CO: Paradigm Publishers, 2004).
of Marketing
Doug
George RitzerMcAdam, John McCarthy, Mayer Zald,Eller eds.,College
Comparative
of Management
Perspectives on Social
Movements: University
Political Opportunities, Mobilizing of Arizona
Structures, and Cultural Framings
(Cambridge:
University of Maryland Cambridge University Press, 1996) Tucson, AZ 85721
Misagh
College Park, MD Parsa,
20742
States, Ideologies, & Social Revolutions:
A Comparative Analysis of Iran,
Nicaragua, and the Philippines (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2000)
ritzer@socy.umd.edu
Javier Auyero, Contentious Lives: Two Argentine Women,
Frederick Two Protests, and the Quest
Wherry
J. Michael
for Recognition
Ryan (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2003).
Course Schedule Ann Arbor, MI 48109
January Park,
College 16: Introduction,
MD 20742 Overview of the Colloquium ffwherry@umich.edu
mryan@socy.umd.edu
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
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200
Craig Calhoun, “New Social Movements” of Juliet
Miller
Laura the Early
SchorNineteenth Century,” Social
Department
Science History 17:3 (1993): 385-427.
Nader
Pearlman 103 Sohrabi, “Global Waves, Local Actors:140 What the Young Turks
Commonwealth Ave.Knew about Other
BrandeisRevolutions
University and Why it Mattered,” Comparative Boston in Society and History (2002):
College
Studies
Waltham,45-79.
Hilda Sabato, “Citizenship, Political Participation,
lamiller@brandeis.edu and the Formation of the Public
juliet.schor@bc.edu
Sphere in Buenos Aires 1850s to 1880s,” Past and Present 136 (1992).
Part II. Analytical
College of BusinessPerspectives on Social Movements Department of Sociology
Week 3: February
University 6
of Colorado Political OpportunityUniversity
Structuresof Colorado
Herbert
Boulder, Kitschelt, “Political Opportunity Structures
CO 80309 Boulder, andCOPolitical
80309 Protest: Anti-Nuclear
Movements in Four Democracies,” British Journal
penaloza@colorado.edu of Political Science 16:1 (January
steen@colorado.edu
1986): 57-85.
Sidney Tarrow, “States and Opportunities: The
JanPhillips Joelpolitical structuring of social
Stillerman
movements,”
Department of Socialin McAdam, McCarthy, and Zald,
and 2166 eds., Comparative
AuSable Hall Perspectives on
Social
Behavioral Movements, 41-61.
Doug
University of McAdam, “On the International Origins
Southern Maine/ of Domestic
Allendale, Political Opportunities,” in
MI 49401
Anne Costain
Lewiston-Auburn and Andrew McFarland, eds., Social
College Movements and American Political
stillejo@gvsu.edu
Institutions
Lewiston, ME 04240 (Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield, 1998), 251-67.
Eitan Alimi, “Constructing Political Opportunity:
jphillip@bates.edu Deborah1987—The
Thorne Palestinian Year of
Discontent,” Mobilization 11:1 (February 2006): 67-80. of Sociology and
Department
Week 4: February
Department 13
of Sociology and Organization
and Resource Mobilization
John McCarthy and Mayer Zald, “Resource Mobilization
Justice Athens, OH 45701and Social Movements: A
Partial
University Theory,” American Journal of Sociology
of Delaware 82:6 (May 1977): 1212-41.
thorned@ohio.edu
Marshall
Newark, DE 19716 Ganz, “Why David Sometimes Wins: Strategic Capacity in Social Movements,”
in Jeff Goodwin and James Jasper, RethinkingMelanie
megrich@udel.edu Social Movements:
Wallendorf Structure, Meaning,
and Emotion (Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers,
Department 2004), 177-200.
of Marketing
Kim
George Voss, “The Collapse of a Social Movement:
Ritzer Ellerthe interplay
College of mobilizing structures,
of Management
framing,
Department and political opportunities in the Knights
of Sociology of Labor,”
University in McAdam, McCarthy,
of Arizona
and of
University Zald, eds., Comparative Perspectives on Tucson,
Maryland AZ 85721 227-260.
Social Movements,
Francesca
College Park, MDPolletta,
20742 “How Participatory Democracy Became White: Culture and
Organizational Choice,” Mobilization (June 2005): 271 – 288.
ritzer@socy.umd.edu
Frederick Wherry
One-page
J. Michaelresearch
Ryan paper proposal and 10-item annotated bibliography
due in class February
Department 13
Week 5:Park,
College February
MD 2020742 “Framing”: Identity, ffwherry@umich.edu
Ideology, Emotions
Mayer Zald, “Culture, ideology, and strategic framing,” in McAdam, McCarthy, and
mryan@socy.umd.edu
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.
117
200
Rachel Schurman and William Munro, “Ideas,
Miller
Laura thinkers,
Juliet Schorand social networks: the process
of grievance-construction
Department of Sociology in the anti-genetic engineering
519 McGuinn movement,” Theory and Society
Pearlman 35:1
103(February 2006): 1-38. 140 Commonwealth Ave.
Part III. Movements,
Waltham, MA 02454 Parties, and States Chestnut Hill, MA 02467
Week 6: February 27
lamiller@brandeis.edu Are Movements Alternatives to or Precursors of Political Parties?
juliet.schor@bc.edu
Ronald Aminzade, “Between Movement and Party: The Transformation of Mid-
Nineteenth-Century French Republicanism,” Sara
Lisa Peñaloza in Craig
SteenJenkins and Bert Klandermans, The
CollegePolitics
of Business Department
of Social Protest: Comparative Perspectives of Sociology
on States and Social Movements
Bus 468(Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press,219 1995).
Ketchum Hall
JohnofK.
University Glenn, “Parties Out of Movements: Party
Colorado Emergence
University in Postcommunist Eastern
of Colorado
Boulder,Europe,”
CO 80309 in Jack Goldstone, ed., States, Parties, and Social
Boulder, Movements (Cambridge:
CO 80309
Cambridge University Press, 2003), 147-69. steen@colorado.edu
Mona Harb and Reinoud Leenders, “Know Thy Enemy: Hizbullah, “Terrorism,” and the
Politics of Perception,” Third World Quarterly
Jan Phillips Joel(February
Stillerman2005): 173-197.
Herbert
Department Kitschelt,
of Social and “Landscapes of Political Interest Intermediation:
2166 AuSable Hall Social Movements,
Interest
Behavioral Groups, and Parties in the Early Twenty-First
Science Grand Valley Century,”
State in Pedro Ibarra, ed.,
University
Social
University Movements
of Southern and Democracy (New York:
Maine/ PalgraveMI
Allendale, Macmillan,
49401 2003), 81-103.
February 27
Lewiston, ME is 04240
the last week to hand in your second position paper
Week 7: March 6 Movements and States Department of Sociology and
Dingxin
Meghan Zhao, “State-Society Relations and the
Ashlin Rich Discourses and Activities of the 1989
Anthropology
Beijing
Department Student Movement,”
of Sociology American Journal
and Criminal Ohio Sociology 105:6 (May 2000): 1592-
of University
Justice 1632. Athens, OH 45701
Ruud
University of Koopmans,
Delaware “Movements and Media: Selection Processes and Evolutionary
thorned@ohio.edu
Newark,Dynamics
DE 19716in the Public Sphere,” Theory and Society (June 2004): 367-91.
Mary Bernstein, “Celebration and Suppression:
megrich@udel.edu the Strategic
Melanie Uses of Identity by the
Wallendorf
Lesbian and Gay Movement,” American Journal Department (November 1997): 531-65.
of Marketing
of Sociology
Dan
George Lainer-Vos, “Social Movements and Citizenship:
Ritzer Eller CollegeConscientious Objection in
of Management
France,
Department the United States, and Israel,” Mobilization
of Sociology University11:3of(October
Arizona2006): 357-75.
CollegeBreak
Spring Park, March
MD 20742 12-16 mwallendorf@eller.arizona.edu
ritzer@socy.umd.edu
Week 8: March 20 Movements and States: Frederick
Dynamics Wherry
of Repression
David
J. Michael RyanCunningham, “State Versus Social Movement:
Department FBIofCounterintelligence
Sociology Against
the New
Department Left,” in Goldstone, ed., States, Parties,
of Sociology and Social
University Movements,
of Michigan
Vincent
University Boudreau, “State Repression and Democracy
of Maryland Ann Arbor, Protest in Three Southeast Asian
MI 48109
CollegeCountries,”
Park, MD 20742in Meyer et al eds., Social Movements: Identity, Culture, and the State (New
ffwherry@umich.edu
York: Oxford University Press, 2002).
mryan@socy.umd.edu
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.
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One-page paper
Department progress report due in class March 20
Part IV. Do
Brandeis Social Movements Promote or Hinder Democratization?
Week 9: March 27
Charles Tilly, “When Do (and Don’t) Social Movements Promote Democratization?” in
Ibarra, ed., Social Movements and DemocracySara
Lisa Peñaloza (2003),
Steen21-45.
Judith
College Adler Hellman, “Mexican Popular Movements,
of Business Department Clientelism,
of Sociologyand the Process of
Bus 468Democratization,” Latin American Perspectives 21921:2 (Spring
Ketchum 1994): 124-42.
Hall
Diane
University Davis and Christina Rosan, “Social Movements
of Colorado Universityinofthe Mexico City Airport
Colorado
Boulder,Controversy:
CO 80309 Globalization, Democracy, and Boulder,
the Power CO of 80309
Distance,” Mobilization 9:3
(October 2004): 279-93.
Margaret Power, “Class and Gender in the anti-Allende Women’s Movement: Chile
1970-1973,” Social Politics (Fall 2000): 289-308.
Week 10: April
Behavioral 3
Science Movement Diffusion Grand Valley State University
Debra
University Minkoff, Maine/
of Southern “The Sequencing of Social Movements,”
Allendale, MIAmerican
49401 Sociological Review
62:5 (October
Lewiston-Auburn 1997): 779-799.
Margaret
Lewiston, ME 04240Keck and Kathryn Sikkink, “Historical Precursors to Modern Transnational
Social Movements and Networks,” in John Guidry
jphillip@bates.edu Deborah et al, eds., Globalizations and Social
Thorne
Movements: Culture, Power, and the Transnational
DepartmentPublic ofSphere (Ann
Sociology Arbor: The
and
MeghanUniversity
Ashlin Rich of Michigan Press, 2000), 35-53. Anthropology
SarahofSoule,
Department “The and
Sociology Student Divestment Movement
Criminal in the United States and Tactical
Ohio University
Justice Diffusion: The Shantytown Protest,” Social Forces
Athens,75OH (March
457011997): 855-883.
Sean
University ofChabot
Delawareand Jan Williem Duyvardak, “Globalization
thorned@ohio.edu and transnational diffusion
Newark,between
DE 19716social movements: Reconceptualizing the dissemination of the Gandhian
repertoire and the “coming out” routine,” Theory
megrich@udel.edu Melanie Society 31 (2002): 697-740.
and Wallendorf
Part V. Ritzer
George What is Social Movement “Success”? Eller College of Management
Week 11: April
University 10
of Maryland Policy Change Tucson, AZ 85721
Elisabeth
College Park, MDClemens,
20742 “Organizational Repertoires and Institutional Change: Women’s
Groups and the Transformation of U.S. Politics, 1890-1920,” American Journal of
ritzer@socy.umd.edu
Sociology 98 (1993): 755-98. Frederick Wherry
Katrin
J. Michael RyanUba, “Political Protest and Policy Change: The Direct
Department Impacts of Indian Anti-
of Sociology
Privatization
Department Mobilizations, 1990-2003,” Mobilization
of Sociology University10:3 (October 2005): 383-96.
of Michigan
Theda
University Skocpol et al, “Women’s AssociationsAnn
of Maryland and Arbor,
the Enactment
MI 48109 of Mothers’ Pensions in
Collegethe United
Park, MD States,”
20742 American Political Science Review 87:3 (September 1993): 686-701.
ffwherry@umich.edu
Kelly Moore, “Political Protest and Institutional Change: The Anti-Vietnam Movement
mryan@socy.umd.edu
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).
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200
Week 13: 103
Pearlman April 24 Justice 140 Commonwealth Ave.
Javier
Brandeis Auyero, Contentious Lives: Two Argentine
Women, Two Protests, and the Quest
Waltham,forMA 02454 (Durham, NC: Duke University
Recognition Press, Hill,
Chestnut 2003).MA 02467
Research Paper Due on Tuesday May 8 at Noon

Lewiston, ME 04240
Newark, DE 19716
ritzer@socy.umd.edu
Frederick Wherry
mryan@socy.umd.edu
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Laura
SocialMiller
Justice in a Global Context Juliet Schor
Department
Mathew Williamsof Sociology 519 McGuinn
Pearlman 103
Boston College 140 Commonwealth Ave.
Waltham, MA 02454
Course Description Chestnut Hill, MA 02467
This class is structured around a teaching game, the Global
lamiller@brandeis.edu Justice Game, developed (with some
juliet.schor@bc.edu
help from me and others) by Bill Gamson, a professor emeritus here at BC. (All materials
necessary
Lisa to play the game are available at the Global
Peñaloza Justice
Sara SteenGame website,
http://www.globaljusticegame.mrap.info/)
College of Business Although Department
playing it should be fun, it should also be a
of Sociology
meaningful
Bus 468 learning experience--the game is structured 219toKetchum
simulateHall
various real-world social
dynamics
Universitytoofhelp you better understand them. Specifically,
Colorado the game
University deals with economic
of Colorado
globalization
Boulder, CO 80309and the global justice movement (often--andBoulder,somewhat
CO 80309 incorrectly--known as the
anti-globalization
penaloza@colorado.edu movement). In addition to helpingsteen@colorado.edu
you understand the forces of globalization,
this game should also help you understand some bigger sociological concepts. The game and
class come from what is known in sociology as a “critical”
Jan Phillips perspective--that is, one that believes
Joel Stillerman
sociologists
Department of should
Socialfocus
and on questions connected to social justice and
2166 AuSable Hallsupport movements
working
BehavioralforScience
social justice. Thus the game is designedGrandnot only to help
Valley State students learn about the
University
sociology
Universityofofglobalization,
Southern Maine/but to help activists learnAllendale,
to think strategically.
MI 49401 Students of any
political persuasionCollege
Lewiston-Auburn are welcome to take the class--and to challenge me--but you should be aware
stillejo@gvsu.edu
of this basic
Lewiston, ME political
04240 orientation when you decide if this class is one you will enjoy.
We will start with a couple classes centered around lectures,
Department in which we will go
of Sociology andover the basics
about
Meghan economic globalization, the global justice movement
Ashlin Rich and the mass media. Though most of
Anthropology
the readings of
Department will be from aand
Sociology progressive
Criminal perspective, there
Ohio will be readings representing all sides
University
of the globalization debate. There will be a fair amount
Justice of reading
Athens, during these first few weeks.
OH 45701
Once we have
University completed these introductory lectures,thorned@ohio.edu
of Delaware we will begin to play the Global Justice
Game.
Newark, TheDEGame19716is 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
megrich@udel.edu Melanie by one-and-a-half classes of lecture
Wallendorf
and discussion, for a total of four classes per scenario. The sixth and
Department final scenario, which is
of Marketing
structured
George Ritzerslightly differently, will take only two classes
EllertoCollege
play, with one class set aside for class
of Management
discussion.
DepartmentEach scenario has game-related material University
of Sociology you will need to read, plus more scholarly
of Arizona
readings
University that
of will build on the introductory material, Tucson,
Maryland to give you
AZ a85721
progressively more in-depth
picture
Collegeof economic
Park, MD 20742globalization and the global justice movement. The amount of reading
during this second part of the class shouldn’t be as heavy as during the first few weeks.
ritzer@socy.umd.edu
Frederick Wherry
The
J. GlobalRyan
Michael Justice Game is a role-playing game--forDepartment
each scenario, a group of you will be
of Sociology
assigned to play
Department a particular organization, such as a branch
of Sociology of the
University of US government, a corporation,
Michigan
a third-world
University of government,
Maryland an activist organization, orAnn a media
Arbor,outlet. Which team you will play
MI 48109
will varyPark,
College fromMD scenario
20742to scenario, so by the end of ffwherry@umich.edu
the semester, you will have played a wide
range of roles. Each team has its own distinct set of success indicators; these success indicators
mryan@socy.umd.edu
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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200
Laura Miller should have an easier time raising theirJuliet
Organization) scores than others (activist groups or third-
Schor
world countries),
Department reflecting the inequalities in power519
of Sociology of the real world.
McGuinn
One of theUniversity
Brandeis goals of this class is for you to come awayBoston
with aCollege
better understanding of how social
structures shape
Waltham, MA 02454the decisions people make in the realChestnut
world. People
Hill, MAform goals and make
02467
decisions that affect the course of events, but they dojuliet.schor@bc.edu
lamiller@brandeis.edu not make them with total freedom--they
form goals and make decisions under pressure from larger structural forces over which no one
has total
Lisa control, pressures that make some goals easier
Peñaloza SaratoSteen
achieve and some decisions more
attractiveofthan
College others. Thus the fact that the corporations
Business in the Global
Department Justice Game have price
of Sociology
of stock
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Ketchum of Hall
financial markets on
corporations
University ofinColorado
the real world. This class should alsoUniversity
help you understand
of Coloradohow inequalities in
power
Boulder,play
COout in the real world--even as people decide
80309 on goals
Boulder, COand
80309make decisions under
pressure, some have an easier time achieving their goals
penaloza@colorado.edu because the social structure is organized
steen@colorado.edu
in such a way that in favors them and their goals. Finally, this class should help you think about
how social justice movement can best strategize to achieve
Jan Phillips their goals--what means are effective
Joel Stillerman
for pressuring
Department of governments
Social and and corporations to change 2166 theAuSable
way theyHalloperate. These questions of
social structure,
Behavioral Scienceinequalities in power and social change
Grand areValley
centralState
concerns of sociology, which
University
will be looking
University at specifically
of Southern Maine/in the context of economic globalization
Allendale, MI 49401 and the global justice
movement.
Lewiston-AuburnFor anyCollege
of you actively involved in socialstillejo@gvsu.edu
justice movements, this will also help you
think aboutME
Lewiston, the04240
challenges and opportunities your group faces.
Readings Department of Sociology and
Department of Sociology and Criminal
Books Ohio University
The following books will be used in the class and areAthens,
Justice available OHat45701
the BC bookstore; they will
also be on course
University reserve at the library:
•Newark,
John Cavanagh
DE 19716 & Jerry Mander (editors), Alternatives to Economic Globalization: Another
World is Possible (2nd ed.) (San Francisco, Berrett-Koehler
megrich@udel.edu Publishers, 2004)
Melanie Wallendorf
• Philip McMichael, Development and Social Change: Department
A Global Marketing (3rd ed.)
of Perspective
(Thousand Oaks CA, Pine Forge Press, 2004)
•Department
David Meyer,of Sociology University
The Politics of Protest: Social Movements of Arizona
in America (New York, Oxford
University Press, 2007) Tucson, AZ 85721
College
• Amory Park, MDGlobal
Starr, 20742Revolt: A Guide to the Movements
Against Globalization (New York,
ritzer@socy.umd.edu
Zed Books, 2005)
• Joseph Stiglitz, Globalization and Its DiscontentsFrederick (New York, Wherry
W.W. Norton, 2002)
Department
On-Line of Sociology
Course Reserve University of Michigan
University
Many of theofreadings
Maryland will be available in PDF formatAnn Arbor,
in the MI 48109
library’s on-line course reserve
system. While this may be less convenient than a pre-printed coursepack, it is also considerably
mryan@socy.umd.edu
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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Grading Miller Juliet Schor
Your final grade
Department will be calculated as follows: each of
of Sociology 519 theMcGuinn
three written assignments will be
worth 25%103
Pearlman of your grade, class participation worth 20%, and attendance worth
140 Commonwealth Ave. 5%.
Waltham,
Attendance MA and02454
Class Participation Chestnut Hill, MA 02467
Attendance is required for this class and will be worth
lamiller@brandeis.edu 5% of your grade. In order to learn from
juliet.schor@bc.edu
this class and do the written assignments, you must be present to play the game. Additionally,
sincePeñaloza
Lisa you will be playing in teams, your absence willSara takeSteen
away from others’ experience of the
game. of Business
College Department of Sociology
For the same
University of reasons
Colorado that attendance is important, soUniversity
is class participation.
of ColoradoTherefore class
participation
Boulder, CO will80309 be worth 20% of your grade. Your Boulder,
class participation
CO 80309grade will be based both
on your involvement in the game and class discussion.
penaloza@colorado.edu I know some students are shy about
steen@colorado.edu
speaking up in class, therefore for the class discussion component, you have two options. You
can participate orally in class or you may participate Joel
Jan Phillips in the Global Justice Game’s on-line forum,
Stillerman
accessible
Departmentatof http://www.globaljusticegame.mrap.info/.
Social and 2166 ForAuSable
those who Hallchoose the later option, I
will post questions
Behavioral Sciencein response to the results of each Grand
scenario, to which
Valley Stateyou may respond. You
University
may, of course,
University participate
of Southern both in class and on-line. Allendale, MI 49401
Maine/
Lewiston,Assignments
Written ME 04240
NOTE: This part of the syllabus is subject to revision,
jphillip@bates.edu as I amThorne
Deborah still trying to fine tune what the
written assignments will look like. I do not plan, however,Departmenton departing dramatically
of Sociology and from what
is laid outAshlin
Meghan here. Rich Anthropology
All three of the written assignments will be in response
Justice to a scenario
Athens, OH 45701 you play from the Global
Justice Game.
University Each will be an 8-12 page essay, drawing
of Delaware on 1) your experience playing the game,
thorned@ohio.edu
2) the readings
Newark, DE 19716assigned for that scenario, and 3) the readings from the appropriate unit from the
first part of the class (see below). Your first two assignments
megrich@udel.edu will be written in response to your
Melanie Wallendorf
choice among the first five scenarios, with some limitations
Department as described below. For all five,
of Marketing
there will
George be a set of three questions for you to choose
Ritzer among.
Eller CollegeWhich question you can answer in
of Management
response to any
Department given scenario will depend on whichUniversity
of Sociology team you are playing. If you are playing a
of Arizona
governmentof(first
University or third world), a multilateral organization
Maryland Tucson, (the IMF, EU, etc.) or corporation,
AZ 85721
you will Park,
College draw MD
on the unit on “Neoliberalism and Its Discontents”.
20742 If you are playing a social
movement organization, you will draw on the unit on “Globalization from Below”. If you are
ritzer@socy.umd.edu
playing a journalist team, you will draw on the unit “The MassWherry
Frederick and Alternative Media”. Since
you
J. may not
Michael answer the same question twice, you will
Ryan need to plan
Department ahead to make sure that you
of Sociology
don’t find yourself
Department in a position where you can’t complete
of Sociology both of
University assignments.
Michigan For the third
assignment,ofallMaryland
University of you will be required to write a response to the MI
Ann Arbor, final48109
scenario. I will pass out
more details--including
College Park, MD 20742the actual questions--later onffwherry@umich.edu
in the semester, as we begin playing the
game.
mryan@socy.umd.edu
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
Making a Better
Department World (required): Friday, May 11 (during
of Sociology the exam period)
519 McGuinn
Brandeis University
Paper format Boston College
All writtenMA
Waltham, assignments
02454 should be typed and double-spaced. ChestnutPlease number
Hill, MA 02467your pages and use
12-point type in a common font such as Times or Courier.
lamiller@brandeis.edu The quality of your writing counts--
juliet.schor@bc.edu
papers should use proper grammar, be well organized and be written in a clear style. Please
provide
Lisa citations to all sources you cite. Citations should
Peñaloza Sara be provided not only for direct quotes,
Steen
but for also
College any facts or ideas you have taken from someone
of Business Departmentelse’s
of writings.
SociologyFailure to do so
constitutes
Bus 468 a violation of academic integrity (see below). 219 Ketchum Hall
Boulder, CO 80309
Course Schedule Boulder, CO 80309
NOTE: This schedule is subject to revision. I will inform
penaloza@colorado.edu you of any changes, both in class and
steen@colorado.edu
by e-mail.
Part I: Introduction 2166 AuSable Hall
During the first
Behavioral part of the class, please try to have asGrand
Science muchValley
of the reading as you can done by the
State University
first day of of
University theSouthern
unit. Maine/ Allendale, MI 49401
January 16,ME
Lewiston, Introduction
04240
Movie (in-class): Deadly Embrace: Nicaragua, the World
jphillip@bates.edu DeborahBank,
Thorne
and the IMF
No reading--first day of class Department of Sociology and
January 18 &of23,
Department Neoliberalism
Sociology and its Discontents Ohio University
and Criminal
Justice
World-Systems Theory Athens, OH 45701
McMichael,ofchs.
University 1, 4-5
Newark,
Keynesian DE 19716
Theory
Stiglitz, ch. 3
Neoclassical/Neoliberal Theory Department of Marketing
Course Reserve:
George Ritzer Jagdish Bhagwati, “Poverty: Enhanced EllerorCollege
Diminished?” (pp. 51-67), In Defense
of Management
of Globalization
Department (New York, Oxford University Press,
of Sociology 2004) of Arizona
University
University
Recommended of Maryland Tucson, AZ 85721
Cavanagh
College & Mander,
Park, MD 20742 chs. 1-3 mwallendorf@eller.arizona.edu
McMichael, ch. 6
ritzer@socy.umd.edu
Stiglitz, ch. 1 Frederick Wherry
January 25 &of30,
Globalization from Below University of Michigan
University
The Globalof Maryland
Justice Movement Ann Arbor, MI 48109
Starr, chs.
College 2-3,MD
Park, 8-9,20742
12-15, 18-19, 22-26 ffwherry@umich.edu
mryan@socy.umd.edu
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
Department
The Mass Mediaof Sociology 519 McGuinn
Course reserve:
Pearlman 103 Ben H. Bagdikian, “Common Media140 for Commonwealth
an Uncommon Nation”
Ave. (ch. 1), The
New Media
Brandeis Monopoly (2nd ed.) (Boston, Beacon Press,
University 2004)
Boston College
Course Reserve:
Waltham, MA 02454Charlotte Ryan, “Getting Framed: How the Media
Chestnut Shape
Hill, MA Reality” (ch. 3), Prime
02467
Time Activism (Boston, South End Press, 1991)
The Alternative Media
Course
Lisa reserve: Laura Stein, “Access Television andSara
Peñaloza Grassroots
Steen Political Communication in the
United States”
College (ch. 20), Radical Media, by John D.H.Department
of Business Downing (Thousand Oaks CA, Sage
of Sociology
Publications,
Bus 468 2001) 219 Ketchum Hall
Starr, ch. 20of Colorado
University University of Colorado
Part II: The Global Justice Game steen@colorado.edu
During the second part of the class, you should have the readings done by the third day of the
unit,Phillips
Jan when we will begin class discussion. Joel Stillerman
February 6,Science
Behavioral 8, 13 & 15, Factory Fire in Fabrikistan Grand Valley State University
University
The IMF and of the
Southern Maine/
Debt Crisis Allendale, MI 49401
Stiglitz, chs. 2 & 8College
Lewiston-Auburn stillejo@gvsu.edu
Starr, ch. 4ME 04240
Lewiston,
jphillip@bates.edu
Transnational Corporations Deborah Thorne
Course reserve: Charles Derber, “The End of the Century” & “The
Department of Mouse, Mickey
Sociology and Mouse, and
Baby Bells”
Meghan (chs.
Ashlin 1 & 3), Corporation Nation (New Anthropology
Rich York, St. Martin’s Griffin, 1998)
Department
Labor and the of Global
Sociology and Criminal
Factory Ohio University
McMichael, ch. 3
Course reserve:
University Kim Moody, “Looking South” & “Rank-and-File
of Delaware thorned@ohio.eduInternationalism” (chs. 9 &
11), Workers
Newark, in a Lean World (New York, Verso, 1997)
DE 19716
Course Reserve: Ethel Brooks, “Transnational Campaigns
megrich@udel.edu Melanie Against Child Labor” (pp. 121-139),
Wallendorf
Coalitions Across Borders, edited by Joe Bandy and Department
Jackie Smithof(Lanham
MarketingMD, Rowman &
Littlefield,
George 2005), pp. 121-139
February 20,
University of 22, 27 & March 1, Biopiracy in Plantanoguay
College
The World Park, MDOrganization
Trade 20742 mwallendorf@eller.arizona.edu
Course reserve: Lori Wallach & Patrick Woodall, “It’s Not About Trade” & “The WTO’s
ritzer@socy.umd.edu
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
The Environment and the Economy University of Michigan
Course reserve:
University Herman E. Daly, “Moving to a Steady
of Maryland Ann State Economy”
Arbor, MI 48109 & “Elements of
Environmental
College Park, MDMacroeconomics”
20742 (chs. 1-2), Beyondffwherry@umich.edu
Growth (Boston, Beacon Press, 1996)
Course reserve: Vandana Shiva, “Threats to Biodiversity” & “Biopiracy” (pp. 40-68), Protect or
mryan@socy.umd.edu
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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March 6&8
NO CLASS--Spring
Department Break
March 13,University
Brandeis 15, 20 & 22, Cancer Alley Boston College
Waltham,
Free TradeMA 02454 (FTAs)
Agreements Chestnut Hill, MA 02467
Course reserve: Gus Van Harten, “Private Authority juliet.schor@bc.edu
lamiller@brandeis.edu and Transnational Governance” (pp. 600-
623), Review of International Political Economy (vol. 12, no. 4, 2005)
Lisa
SocialPeñaloza
Hierarchies: Race, Class and Gender Sara Steen
Course reserve:
College Allan G. Johnson, “Privilege, Oppression,
of Business and Difference”
Department & “Capitalism, Class,
of Sociology
and the
Bus 468Matrix of Domination” (chs. 2-3), Privilege, 219 Power, and Difference
Ketchum Hall (2nd ed.) (Boston,
McGraw Hill,
University 2006)
Boulder,
The LaborCO and80309
Environmental Justice Movements Boulder, CO 80309
Course reserve: Rick Fantasia & Kim Voss, “Why Labor
penaloza@colorado.edu Matters” & “Practices and Possibilities
steen@colorado.edu
for a Social Movement Unionism” (chs. 1 & 4), Hard Work (Berkeley, University of California
Press,
Jan 2004)
Course reserve:
Department Robertand
of Social D. Bullard, “Environmentalism2166andAuSable
Social Justice”
Hall & “Dispute
Resolution and
Behavioral Toxics” (chs. 1 & 3), Dumping in Dixie
Science Grand(3rdValley
ed.) (Boulder CO, Westview Press,
State University
2000)
March 27, ME
Lewiston, 29 &04240
April 3, Strip-Mining Banglabush
jphillip@bates.edu
The World Bank Deborah Thorne
Course reserve: Michael Goldman, “The Rise of the Department
Bank” & “Privatizing Water,
of Sociology and
Neoliberalizing
Meghan Civil Society” (chs. 2 & 6), ImperialAnthropology
Ashlin Rich Nature (New Haven CT, Yale University
Press, 2005)of Sociology and Criminal
Justice
Development and Its Critics Athens, OH 45701
McMichael,ofch.
University 2
Course reserve:
Newark, DE 19716Pam Simmons, “‘Women in Development’: A Threat to Liberation” (pp. 16-21),
The Ecologist (vol. 22, no. 1, 1992)
Course reserve: Al Geddicks, “Resource ColonialismDepartment
and Nativeof Resistance”
Marketing(ch. 1), The New
Resource Wars (Boston, South End Press, 1993)
Course reserve:
Department Majid Rahnema, “Towards Post-Development”
of Sociology University of (pp. 377-403), The Post
Arizona
Development
University of Reader,
Maryland edited by Majid Rahnema & Victoria
Tucson,Bawtree
AZ 85721 (Atlantic Highlands NJ, Zed
Books, 1997)
Starr, ch. 16
ritzer@socy.umd.edu
Frederick Wherry
April
J. 5
Michael Ryan Department of Sociology
NO CLASS--Easter
Department Weekend
April 10,Park,
College MD 20742
Strip-Mining Banglabush continued ffwherry@umich.edu
See above
mryan@socy.umd.edu
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)
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Course reserve: Winifred Poster & Zakia Salime, “The
Laura Miller Limits
Juliet of Microcredit” (ch. 12), Women’s
Schor
Sociology edited by Nancy A. Naples
Activism andofGlobalization,
Department 519& Manisha Desai (New York,
McGuinn
Routledge,103
Pearlman 2002) 140 Commonwealth Ave.
Course reserve:
Brandeis Martha Honey, “Giving a Grade to Costa
University Boston Rica’s Green Tourism” (pp. 39-46),
College
Waltham,
NACLA Report on the Americas (May/June 2003) Chestnut Hill, MA 02467
MA 02454
Cultural Imperialism juliet.schor@bc.edu
On-line: Benjamin Barber, “Jihad vs. McWorld”, The Atlantic on-line (March 1992):
http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/199203/barber
Course reserve:
College Helena Norberg-Hodge, “The Pressure
of Business to Modernize
Department and Globalize” (ch. 3), The
of Sociology
Case Against the Global Economy, edited by Jerry Mander
Bus 468 & Edward
219 Ketchum HallGoldsmith (San Francisco,
Sierra ClubofBooks,
University 1996)
Course
Boulder,reserve:
CO 80309John Sinclair et al., “Peripheral Vision” (ch. 1),
Boulder, CONew
80309
Patterns in Global
Television (New York, Oxford University Press, 1996)
The Other Movement Against Globalization: Islamic Fundamentalism
Course reserve: Samuel Huntington, “The Clash of Civilizations?”
Jan Phillips Joel Stillerman(pp. 22-49), Foreign Affairs
(vol. 72, no. of
Department 3, Social
1993) and 2166 AuSable Hall
Course reserve:
Behavioral Shireen Hunter, “Introduction” (pp. 1-30),
Science Grand The Future
Valley StateofUniversity
Islam and the West
(Westport
UniversityCT, Praeger Publishers,
of Southern Maine/ 1998) Allendale, MI 49401
April 26, May
Lewiston, ME 104240
& 3, Making a Better World
jphillip@bates.edu
Alternatives to Neoliberalism Deborah Thorne
Cavanagh & Mander, chs. 4, 6, 9-10 Department of Sociology and
Stiglitz,
Meghan ch. 9 Rich
Ashlin Anthropology
Department
Social of Sociology
Movements and Criminal
and Institutional Change Ohio University
Meyer,
Justice ch. 7 Athens, OH 45701
Recommended thorned@ohio.edu
Cavanagh
Newark, DE & 19716
Mander, ch. 5
McMichael, ch. 8
Meyer, ch. 7 Department of Marketing
ritzer@socy.umd.edu
Frederick Wherry
mryan@socy.umd.edu
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Laura
SocialMiller
Department
Paul Almeida of Sociology 519 McGuinn
Pearlman
Texas A&M 103University 140 Commonwealth Ave.
Waltham,
Description:MASocial
02454movements are a permanent feature of politics
Chestnut in the
Hill, MA modern world. We
02467
will examine social movements defined as outsiders juliet.schor@bc.edu
lamiller@brandeis.edu to institutional politics, that use
nonconventional strategies to exercise political influence, and that engage in sustained
interaction
Lisa with political and economic elites. SocialSara
Peñaloza movements
Steen vary widely in terms of their
size, strategies,
College goals, organizational forms and success.
of Business For example,
Department analysts study social
of Sociology
movements
Bus 468 ranging from local chapters of environmental organizations
219 Ketchum Hall to national revolutionary
movementsofand
University international terrorist networks.
Course Objectives: This course analyzes the dynamics
penaloza@colorado.edu of social movements from their
steen@colorado.edu
ideological appeals, individual recruitment strategies, and mobilization features to their final
outcomes
Jan and demise. Specific attention is given to Joel
Phillips theories of social movements, levels of
Stillerman
analysis of social
Department movement
of Social and activity, movement participation,
2166 AuSable movement
Hall emergence/
mobilization,
Behavioral movement outcomes, social revolutions,
Science social
Grand movements
Valley outside of advanced
State University
capitalist democracies,
University of Southern coercion
Maine/ and social movements, and transnational
Allendale, MI 49401 social movements.
Students will develop
Lewiston-Auburn a deeper understanding of the role
College and impact of social movement activity
stillejo@gvsu.edu
in contemporary
Lewiston, democratic and nondemocratic societies.
ME 04240
Required Course Readings: Department of Sociology and
1) McAdam,
Meghan Ashlin Rich1982 [1999] (2nd Edition). Political
Doug. Anthropology
Process and the Development of Black
Insurgency,
Department of 1930-1970.
Sociology andChicago: University of Chicago
Criminal Press. (Available at MSC Bookstore)
Ohio University
2) Schock, Kurt. 2005. People Power Movements in Athens,
Justice OH 45701Minneapolis: University
Nondemocracies.
of Minnesota
University Press. (Available at MSC Bookstore)thorned@ohio.edu
of Delaware
3) Johnston,
Newark, DE Hank
19716and Paul Almeida. (eds.) 2006. Latin American Social Movements:
Globalization, Democratization, and Transnational
megrich@udel.edu Networks.
Melanie Lanham, MD: Rowman &
Wallendorf
Littlefield. (Available at MSC Bookstore) Department of Marketing
4) Almeida,
George Paul D. 2008. Waves of Protest: PopularEller
Ritzer Struggle
College
in El
of Salvador,
Management 1925-2005.
Minneapolis:
Department University of Minnesota Press. (Available
of Sociology at MSC
University Bookstore)
of Arizona
5) Course Packet
Prerequisites:
College Park, SOCI 205 – Introduction to Sociologymwallendorf@eller.arizona.edu
MD 20742
ritzer@socy.umd.edu
Course Evaluation/Grades: Frederick Wherry
Mid
J. Term Exam
Michael Ryan I 25% (February 20) Department of Sociology
Mid Term Exam
Department II 25% (April 2)
Analytical Paper
University 20% (Due April 14)
Final Exam
College 30%
Park, MD(May
207425) ffwherry@umich.edu
mryan@socy.umd.edu
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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CourseMiller
Schedule: Juliet Schor
Week 1: Course
Department Introduction
Monday, January
Pearlman 103 14: Course Introduction: Course Requirements
140 Commonwealthand Expectations
Ave. (Read
“MappingUniversity
Brandeis the Terrain”) Boston College
Wednesday,
Waltham, MAJanuary
02454 16: Definition of Social Movements,
Chestnut Levels
Hill,of
MAAnalysis,
02467 Basic Terms and
Concepts (Read Rucht, Koopmans, and Neidhardt pages
lamiller@brandeis.edu 7-16 “Introduction: Protest as a Subject
juliet.schor@bc.edu
of Empirical Research”)
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 Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
Hall
(Read Bert of
University Klandermans
Colorado and Suzanne Staggenborg “Introduction” pages ix – xx)
Wednesday,
Boulder, CO January
80309 23: Social Movement Methods Boulder,
(Read Almeida,
CO 80309Paul D. and Mark I.
Lichbach. 2003. “To the Internet, from the Internet: Comparative
penaloza@colorado.edu Media Coverage of
steen@colorado.edu
Transnational Protest.” pages 249-272).
Week 3: Social
Department Movement
of Social and Theories 2166 AuSable Hall
Monday, January
Behavioral Science28: Early Models of Social Movement
Grand Dynamics (Read
Valley State McAdam Book
University
Chapter 1).of Southern Maine/
University Allendale, MI 49401
Wednesday, January
Lewiston-Auburn 30: The Political Process Modelstillejo@gvsu.edu
College (Read McAdam Book Chapter 2)
Lewiston, ME 04240
Week 4: Social Movement Theories
Monday, February 4: The Political Process Model II Department
(Read McAdam Book Chapters
of Sociology and 3-4)
Wednesday,
Meghan February
Ashlin Rich 6: Tarrow’s Version of Political Process (Read Tarrow “Political
Anthropology
Opportunities
Department ofand Constraints”
Sociology pages 71-90).
Week 5: Movement
University Emergence
Monday, DE
Newark, February
1971611: Forces Explaining the Initial Rise of Movements (Read McAdam Book
Chapter 5 and Putnam “Bowling Alone”).
Wednesday, February 13: Film: Eyes on the Prize Part I (Read McAdam
Department Book Chapters 6-7)
of Marketing
Week 6: Ideological
Department and Cultural Components of Movements:
of Sociology UniversityThe Framing Process
of Arizona
Monday, February
University 18: The Framing Process and Mobilization
of Maryland Tucson, AZ Appeals
85721 (Read McAdam Book
ChaptersPark,
College 8-9).MD 20742 mwallendorf@eller.arizona.edu
Wednesday, February 20: * Midterm Exam I
ritzer@socy.umd.edu
Frederick Wherry
Week
J. 7: Movement
Michael Ryan Recruitment/Participation. Department of Sociology
Monday, February
Department 25: Why People Join Social Movements
of Sociology University(Read McAdam, Doug. 1986.
of Michigan
“Recruitment
University to High-Risk Activism: The Case of Freedom
of Maryland Ann Arbor,Summer.” American Journal of
MI 48109
College
Sociology 92(1):
Park, MD64-90).
Wednesday, February 27: Individual Levels of Participation
mryan@socy.umd.edu
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 Spring Break March 10-14 (No Classes) Juliet Schor
Miller
Week 10: 103
Pearlman Social Revolutions 140 Commonwealth Ave.
Monday, University
Brandeis March 17: Social Revolutions (Read Goodwin Chapter
Boston 1, pages 1-34).
College
Wednesday,
Waltham, MA March
0245419: Social Revolutions: The CaseChestnut
of Central America
Hill, (Read Goodwin
MA 02467
Chapter 5, pages 142-179)
Week 11: Revolutions Continued

Monday,ofMarch
College Business24: Social Revolutions part II. (ReadDepartment
Goodwin Chapter 9, pages 289-306).
of Sociology
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
Week 12: State Repression and Mobilization
Monday, March 31: State Repression and Social Movements: Deterrent or Precipitant of
Protest?
Jan (Read Schock book – Chapters 2 and 3)
Wednesday, of
Department April 2: *Midterm
Social and II (Read Schock Chapter
21664) AuSable Hall
Week 13: Social
University Movements
of Southern Maine/in the Global South Allendale, MI 49401
Monday, April 7: Social
Lewiston-Auburn CollegeMovements outside of advanced capitalist democracies: The Case of
stillejo@gvsu.edu
Anti-Austerity
Lewiston, Protests. (Read Schock book – Chapters 5-6)
ME 04240
Wednesday, April 9: Austerity Protests in Latin America
jphillip@bates.edu Deborah(Read Almeida and Johnston, Chapter
Thorne
1 in Latin American Social Movements read ChapterDepartment
4, Almeida,ofinSociology
Latin American
and Social
Movements).
Week 14: Transnational Social Movements
Monday, April
University 14: *Analytical Paper Due; Transnational
of Delaware Social Movements Defined. (Read
thorned@ohio.edu
Stewart Chapter
Newark, DE 19716 12 and Carty Chapter 13 in Latin American Social Movements book by
Johnston and Almeida).
Wednesday, April 16: Transnational Social Movements II Film Clip
Department on the “Battle in Seattle”
of Marketing
Week 15: Transnational
Department of SociologyMovements Continued University of Arizona
Monday,
UniversityApril 21: Islamic Social Movements (ReadTucson,
of Maryland Paul Lubeck,
AZ 85721“The Islamic Revival:
Antinomies
College Park, ofMDIslamic Movements under Globalization”).
Wednesday, April 23: International Terrorism (Read Jack A. Goldstone “States, Terrorists, and
ritzer@socy.umd.edu
the Clash of Civilizations”) Frederick Wherry
Week 16: Course
Department Summary
Monday, April
University 28: Final Class (Course Summary) Ann Arbor, MI 48109
of Maryland
Week 17: Final Exam
mryan@socy.umd.edu
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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2. Rucht,
Laura Dieter, Ruud Koopmans and Friedhelm Neidhardt
Miller 1999. “Introduction: Protest as
Juliet Schor
Subject
Department of Empirical Research.” Pp. 7-16 in D.
of Sociology 519Rucht, R. Koopmans, and F. Neidhardt,
McGuinn
Pearlmaneds.,
103Acts of Dissent: New Developments in the 140Study of Protest. Lanham,
Commonwealth Ave. MD: Rowman
Brandeisand Littlefield.
3. Klandermans,
Waltham, Bert and Suzanne Staggenborg. 2002.
MA 02454 “Introduction.”
Chestnut Hill, MA Pp. ix-xx in B.
02467
Klandermans and S. Staggenborg (eds.) Methods
of Social Movement Research.
Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.
4. Almeida,
Lisa PeñalozaPaul D. and Mark I. Lichbach. 2003. “ToSara the Steen
Internet, from the Internet:
CollegeComparative
of Business Media Coverage of Transnational Protest.” Mobilization
Department of Sociology 8(3): 249-272
Bus 468(October). 219 Ketchum Hall
5. Tarrow, Sidney.
University 1998. “Political Opportunities andUniversity
of Colorado Constraints.” Ch. 5 in Power in Movement.
of Colorado
Boulder,Cambridge:
CO 80309 Cambridge University Press. Boulder, CO 80309
6. Putnam, Robert. 2000. Bowling Alone: The Collapse
and Revival of American Community.
New York: Simon and Schuster. (pages 18-28).
7. McAdam,
Jan Phillips Doug. 1986. “Recruitment to High-RiskJoel Activism: The Case of Freedom Summer.”
Stillerman
Department
American
of Social and of Sociology 92(1): 64-90 2166 AuSable Hall
Journal
8. Almeida,Science
Behavioral Paul and Linda Brewster Stearns. 1998. Grand
“Political Opportunities
Valley and Local
State University
Grassroots
University Environmental
of Southern Maine/ Movements: The Case of Minamata.”
Allendale, MI 49401Social Problems 45(1):
37-60.
9. Halebsky,
Lewiston, MEStephen.
04240 2006. “Explaining the Outcomes of Antisuperstore Movements: A
Comparative Analysis of Six Communities.” Deborah
jphillip@bates.edu Mobilization
Thorne11(4): 443-460.
10. Goodwin, Jeff. 2001. No Other Way Out: States and Revolutionary
Department Movements,
of Sociology and 1945-1991.
MeghanCambridge:
Ashlin RichCambridge University Press. (Chapters 1, 5, and 9).
Anthropology
11. Lubeck, of
Department Paul M. 2000.and
Sociology “The Islamic Revival: Antinomies
Criminal of Islamic Movements under
Ohio University
Justice Globalization.” Pp. 146-164 in R. Cohen andAthens,
S. Rai (eds.) Global Social Movements.
OH 45701
London:
University Althane Press.
12. Goldstone,
Newark, Jack. 2002. “States, Terrorists, and the Clash of Civilizations.” Pp. 139-158 in C.
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Ann Arbor, do an internship with a
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College Park, MDfor three hours a week and attend several
20742 meetings during the semester to
ffwherry@umich.edu
reflect on their experiences.
mryan@socy.umd.edu
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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I. SOCIALof Sociology
MOVEMENTS 519 McGuinn
Pearlman
Week #1: 103 Introduction/ Social Movements 140 Commonwealth Ave.
Tuesday:University
Brandeis Introductions, review syllabus Boston College
Thursday:MA Selections
Waltham, 02454 from Welton, Neva and Linda Wolf,Hill,
Chestnut 02467 (Gabriola
MAUprising,
Global
Island: New Society, 2001), 33-37, 99-103, 121-124,juliet.schor@bc.edu
lamiller@brandeis.edu 153-156, 216-220, 221-223, 232-233, 262-
264. (Read any 4.)
McAdam,
Lisa Doug and David Snow, “Introduction,” McAdam
Peñaloza Sara Steenand Snow, Social Movements:
College
ReadingsofonBusiness
their Emergence, Mobilization, and Dynamics, (LosofAngeles:
Department SociologyRoxbury, 1997),
xviii-xxvi.
University
Film: Chicano! Struggle in the Fields, National Latino
of Colorado Communications
University of Colorado Center, (Los Angeles:
NLCC Educational
Boulder, CO 80309 Media, 1996). Boulder, CO 80309
Week #2: Social Movements/ Globalization from Below
Jan Phillips Tarrow, Sidney, “Introduction” and “Collective
Tuesday: Action and Social Movements,”
Joel Stillerman
in Power in Movement:
Department of Social andSocial Movements, Collective 2166
Action
AuSable Hall (Cambridge:
and Politics,
Cambridge Science
Behavioral University Press, 1995), 1-6, 9-27. Grand Valley State University
University Brecher,Maine/
Thursday:of Southern Jeremy et al, "Globalization Allendale,
and Its Specter" and "The Power of Social
MI 49401
Movements" in Globalization
Lewiston-Auburn College from Below, (Cambridge: South End, 2000 and 2002), 1-31.
stillejo@gvsu.edu
Lewiston, ME 04240
jphillip@bates.edu
***Initial proposal for fieldsite due. Deborah Thorne
Meghan Ashlin Rich
II. GLOBALIZATION AS FORCES Anthropology
Department
Week #3: of Globalization
Sociology andfrom
Criminal
Above Ohio University
Tuesday:
Justice Harvey, David, The Condition of Postmodernity,
Athens, OH(Cambridge:
45701 Blackwell, 1990),
132-140, 147-165.
Korzeniewicz,
Newark, Miguel, “Commodity Chains and Marketing Strategies,” in Lechner and Boli, The
DE 19716
Globalization Reader, (Malden: Blackwell, 2004), 167-176.
Thursday: Klein, Naomi, “The Discarded Factory: Degradedof
Department Production
Marketingin the Age of the
Superbrand,”
George Ritzerin No Logo: Taking Aim at the Brand Bullies, (New York:
Eller College St. Martin’s, 1999),
of Management
195-229. of Sociology
Department University of Arizona
Film: Zoned
University for Slavery, David Belle et al, NationalTucson,
of Maryland Labor Committee,
AZ 85721 (New York: Crowing
Rooster Park,
College Arts, 1995).
ritzer@socy.umd.edu
***Inventory of prior assumptions about your fieldsite due.
Frederick Wherry
Department
Week #4: of Anti-Sweatshop
Sociology Movements University of Michigan
University Klein, Naomi, “Bad Mood Rising: The
Tuesday: of Maryland AnnNew Anticorporate
Arbor, MI 48109Activism,” in No
Logo, 325-343.
Lefkowitz, Joel, “Students, Sweatshops and Local Power,” in Shepard and Hayduk, From ACT
mryan@socy.umd.edu
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.
200
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Laura Miller Transnational Challenges/ Debt andJuliet
Week #5: SchorAdjustment
Structural
Tuesday: of Bickham
Department SociologyMendez, Jennifer, “Creating519Alternatives
McGuinnfrom a Gender Perspective,” in
Naples and103
Pearlman Desai, Women’s Activism and Globalization, (NY: Routledge,Ave.
140 Commonwealth 2002), 121-141.
Brandeis
***Plan of University
Action due. Boston College
Film: Made
Waltham, Thailand, Eve-Laure Moros and Linzy
MAin02454 Emery,Hill,
Chestnut (NewMA York: Women Make
02467
Movies, 1999).
Thursday: Elwood, Wayne, The No-Nonsense Guide to Globalization, (Oxford: New
Internationalist/Verso,
Lisa Peñaloza 2001), 24-52. Sara Steen
Sparr,
CollegePamela, “What is Structural Adjustment?” in Sparr,
of Business Mortgaging
Department Women’s Lives, (Atlantic
of Sociology
Highlands:
Bus 468 Zed, 1994), 1-12. 219 Ketchum Hall
Boulder,
Week #6:CO 80309
Resisting the Debt Boulder, CO 80309
Tuesday: NO CLASS. steen@colorado.edu
Thursday: Collins, Carole J.L., Zie Gariyo, and Tony Burdon, “Jubilee 2000: Citizen Action
across the North-South Divide,” in Edwards and Gaventa,
Jan Phillips Global Citizen Action, (Boulder:
Joel Stillerman
Lynne Rienner,
Department 2001),and
of Social 135-148. 2166 AuSable Hall
Njehu, Njoki,
Behavioral “Cancel the Debt,” in Mertes, A Movement
Science GrandofValley
Movements: Is Another World Really
State University
University(NY:
Possible? Verso, 2004),
of Southern Maine/94-110. Allendale, MI 49401
Film:
Lewiston-Auburn and Debt, Stephanie Black, (NY:stillejo@gvsu.edu
LifeCollege New Yorker Video, 2003).
Lewiston, ME 04240
jphillip@bates.edu
Week #7: Rethinking North-South Relationships Deborah Thorne
Oct. 16: Cuautémoc, Cuaicaipuro, “The Marshalltezuma
DepartmentPlan,” reprintedand
of Sociology in Bigelow and
Peterson, Rich Globalization, 92-93.
Rethinking
Meghan Ashlin Anthropology
Department
Oct. 18: of MIDTERM
University
II. of Delaware AS CONNECTIONS
GLOBALIZATION thorned@ohio.edu
Newark,
Week #8:DE 19716
Networks in Theory and Practice
Tuesday:
megrich@udel.edu Castells, Manuel, “The Network Society,” in Held
Melanie and McGrew, The Global
Wallendorf
Transformations Reader, 76-81. Department of Marketing
Massey, Doreen, “A Global Sense of Place,” in Space,
George Ritzer Place
Eller and Gender,
College (Minneapolis:
of Management
University
DepartmentofofMinnesota,
Sociology 1994), 146-156. University of Arizona
***Fieldnotes #1 due. Tucson, AZ 85721
Thursday:
College Park, MD Keck, Margaret E., and Kathryn Sikkink,
20742 “Transnational Advocacy Networks in
International Politics: Introduction,” in Keck and Sikkink, Activists beyond Borders: Advocacy
ritzer@socy.umd.edu
Networks in International Politics, (Ithaca: Cornell, 1998), 1-38.
Frederick Wherry
Department
Week #9: of Networking
Sociology across Differences University of Michigan
University Moghadam, Valentine, “TransnationalAnn
Oct. 30: of Maryland Feminist
Arbor,Networks:
MI 48109Collective Action in
an Era ofPark,
College Globalization,”
MD 20742 International Sociology, 15: 1 (3/00), 57-85.
ffwherry@umich.edu
Film: The Shape of Water, Kum-Kum Bhavnani, 2006.
mryan@socy.umd.edu
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
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Corcoran-Nantes,
Laura Miller Yvonne, “Female Consciousness Juliet or Feminine
Schor Consciousness? Women’s
Consciousness
Department Raising in Community-Based Struggles
of Sociology 519inMcGuinn
Brazil,” in McCann and Kim, Feminist
103 (NY: Routledge, 2003), 126-137. 140 Commonwealth Ave.
Theory Reader,
Pearlman
Karides, Marina,
Brandeis “Linking Local Efforts with GlobalBoston
University Struggle: Trinidad’s National Union of
College
Domestic Employees,”
Waltham, MA 02454 in Naples and Desai, Women’s Chestnut
ActivismHill,
andMA 02467
Globalization, (NY:
Routledge, 2002), 156-171.
Bates, Dawn and Maureen C. McHugh, “Zines: Voices of Third Wave Feminists,” in Reger,
Different
Lisa Wavelengths, (NY: Routledge, 2005), 179-194.
Pande, Rekha,
College “Solidarity, Patriarchy and Empowerment:
of Business Women’s
Department Struggles against Arrack in
of Sociology
India,”
Bus 468in Ricciutelli et al, Feminist Politics, Activism219 Vision, (NY:
andKetchum Hall Inanna/Zed, 2004), 212-
226.
Turner,
Boulder,Terisa E. and Leigh S. Brownhill, “The Curse
CO 80309 of Nakedness:
Boulder, CO 80309 Nigerian Women in the Oil
War,” in Ricciutelli et al, 169-191.
Jan Phillips
Week #10: Feminist Connections and Disconnections Joel Stillerman
Department of Narayan,
Tuesday: Social andUma, “Cross-Cultural Connections, Border-Crossings,
2166 AuSable Hall and “Death by
Culture,” inScience
Behavioral Dislocating Cultures, (New York: Routledge,Grand1997),
Valley83-117.
State University
University of Southern#2
***Fieldnotes Maine/
due. Allendale, MI 49401
Thursday:
Lewiston-Auburn Markowitz,
College Lisa and Karen W. Tice, “Paradoxes of Professionalization: Parallel
stillejo@gvsu.edu
Dilemmas ME
Lewiston, in Women’s
04240 Organizations in the Americas,” Gender and Society 16:6 (12/02), 941-
958.
Meghan AshlinGlobal
Week # 11: Rich Feminisms/ Identity Politics Anthropology
Tuesday: of Bunch,
Department Charlotte
Sociology et al, “International Ohio
and Criminal Networking for Women’s Human Rights,”
University
in Edwards and Gaventa, Global Citizen Action, (Boulder:
Justice Athens,Lynne Rienner, 2001), 217-229.
OH 45701
Film: Beyond
University Beijing, Frogleap, Shirini Heerah andthorned@ohio.edu
of Delaware Enrique Berrios, (New York: Women
Make Movies,
Newark, 1996).
DE 19716
Thursday:
megrich@udel.edu Taylor, Verta and Nancy E. Whittier, Melanie
“Collective Identity in Social Movement
Wallendorf
Communities: Lesbian Feminist Mobilization,” in Morris and Mueller,
Department Frontiers in Social
of Marketing
Movement
George Theory, (New Haven: Yale, 1992), 104-129.
Department of Sociology statement due.
***Topic question/thesis University of Arizona
College
Week Park, MD
#12: 20742
Queer mwallendorf@eller.arizona.edu
Identities and Transnational Connections
Tuesday: Gamson, Josh, “Must Identity Movements Self-Destruct? A Queer Dilemma,” in
ritzer@socy.umd.edu
Seidman, Queer Theory/Sociology, (Cambridge: Blackwell, Frederick1996), 395-420.
Wherry
Shephard,
J. Michael Benjamin,
Ryan “Culture-Jamming a SexPanic,”Department
in Shephard
ofand Hayduk, From ACT UP
Sociology
to the WTO:of
Department Urban
Sociology
Protest and Community BuildingUniversity
in the Eraof Globalization, (NY: Verso,
ofMichigan
2002), 202-213.
mryan@socy.umd.edu
***Fieldnotes #3 due.
Thursday: [THANKSGIVING]
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III. GLOBALIZATION AS IMAGINATIONS Juliet Schor
Department
Week #13: of Sociology
Social Movement Visions/ Water Wars 5191McGuinn
Tuesday:103 Appadurai, Arjun, “Here and Now,” in
Pearlman Appadurai,
140 Commonwealth Ave.at Large: Cultural
Modernity
Dimensions
Brandeis of Globalization, (Minneapolis: Minnesota,
University 1997),
Boston 1-11; 32-37.
College
Karliner,
Waltham,Joshua,
MA 02454“The Greening of Global Reach: Corporate
Chestnut Environmentalism,”
Hill, MA 02467 in The
Globalization, (San Francisco: Sierra Club,
Corporate Planet: Ecology and Politics in the Age ofjuliet.schor@bc.edu
1997), 30-57.
Peñaloza Shiva, Vandana, Water Wars: Privatization,
Thursday:
Lisa Sara SteenPollution and Profit, (Boston: South
End, 2002),
College 19-37.
Flynn,
Bus 468Sean and Kathryn Boudouris, “Democratising219 theKetchum
Regulation and Governance of Water in
Hall
the US,” inof
University Balanya et al (eds.), Reclaiming Public Water,
Colorado (Porto
University ofAlegre:
ColoradoTransnational
Institute/Corporate
Boulder, CO 80309Europe Observatory, 2005), 73-84. Boulder, CO 80309
***Reflections on Readings assignment due. steen@colorado.edu
Film: Thirst, Alan Snitow and Deborah Kaufman, (Oley, PA: Bullfrog, 2004).
Department
Week #14: of Water
Social Wars
and 2/ Challenging Globalization
2166 AuSable
from AboveHall
Tuesday: Science
Behavioral Olivera, Oscar, “Privatization” and “Organization,”
Grand Valley Statein Olivera, with Lewis,
University
Cochabamba!
University Water War
of Southern in Bolivia, (Cambridge: South
Maine/ End, 2004),
Allendale, MI 494017-32.
Olivera, Oscar, “War,”
Lewiston-Auburn in Olivera, with Lewis, Cochabamba!
College Water War in Bolivia, (Cambridge:
stillejo@gvsu.edu
South End,ME
Lewiston, 2004), 33-49.
04240
Thursday: Smith, Jackie, “Globalizing Resistance,” in Johnston
Department and Smith,and
of Sociology Globalization
and Resistance:
Meghan Movements, (Lanham: Rowman and
Transnational Dimensions of SocialAnthropology
Ashlin Rich
Littlefield, 2002),
Department 207-227.
Starhawk, “How We Really Shut Down the WTO,” in
Justice Shephard
Athens, OH and
45701Hayduk, From ACT UP to
the WTO: Urban
University the Era of Globalization, (NY: Verso,
Protest and Community Building inthorned@ohio.edu
of Delaware
2002), 52-56.
Newark, DE 19716
Week #15: Contested Imaginations Department of Marketing
George Ritzer Klein, Naomi, “The Vision Thing: Were
Tuesday: EllertheCollege
DC andofSeattle Protests Unfocused
Management
or Are Critics
Department ofMissing
Sociologythe Point?” in Shephard and Hayduk,
University From ACT UP to the WTO: Urban
of Arizona
Protest andofCommunity
University Maryland Building in the Era of Globalization,
Tucson, AZ (NY: Verso, 2002), 264-273.
85721
Ponniah, Thomas
College Park, MDand William F. Fisher, “Introduction:
20742 The World Social Forum and the
Reinvention of Democracy,” in Fisher and Ponniah, Another World Is Possible, (Zed, 2003), 1-
ritzer@socy.umd.edu
20. Frederick Wherry
You will be assigned to read one of the following andUniversity
make a groupof Michigan
presentation:
Jubilee South,
University “South-South Summit Declaration Towards
of Maryland a Debt-Free
Ann Arbor, MI 48109Milennium, in Broad,
Global Backlash:
College Park, MDCitizen Economy, (Lanham: Rowman and
20742 Initiatives for a Just Worldffwherry@umich.edu
Littlefield, 2002), 275-276.
mryan@socy.umd.edu
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.
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Durning, Alan Thein, “How Much is ‘Enough’?” in Broad,
Laura Miller 287-291.
Juliet Schor
Bello, Walden,
Department “Toward a Deglobalized World,” in Broad,
of Sociology 292-295.
519 McGuinn
World Social
Pearlman 103 Forum, “Porto Alegre Call for Mobilization,” in Lechner and
140 Commonwealth Boli, The
Ave.
Globalization
Brandeis Reader, (Malden: Blackwell, 2000), 435-437.
International
Waltham, MAForum
02454on Globalization, “A Better World Is Possible!
Chestnut Ten02467
Hill, MA Principles for
Democratic and Sustainable Societies,” in Lechner and
lamiller@brandeis.edu Boli, 443-445.
juliet.schor@bc.edu
Lisa Peñaloza No reading. Bring rough drafts to class.

Thursday: Sara Steen
Bus
FINAL468 PAPERS AND ALL FIELDNOTES DUE,219 Ketchum
4 PM, FRIDAY! Hall
Boulder, CO 80309
Requirements Boulder, CO 80309
1. Attendance/participation. Attendance is extremely
penaloza@colorado.edu important. Everyone is expected to attend
steen@colorado.edu
all sessions, be on time and have completed the assigned reading. More than two absences
Jan will affect your grade. Two late arrivals equal one
Phillips absence.
Joel Stillerman
Activities will
Behavioral include discussions, group work, role Grand
Science plays, films
Valleyand guest
State speakers. In terms of
University
participation,
University what is important
of Southern Maine/ is whether you are making an effort
Allendale, to participate in discussions
MI 49401
and small group activities,
Lewiston-Auburn College not whether or not your answers are “right.”
stillejo@gvsu.edu
Lewiston, ME 04240
Sociology touches on experiences which involve deeply
jphillip@bates.edu felt aspects
Deborah Thorneof our identities. To have
good discussions of the material, it’s important that comments
Department and
of disagreements
Sociology andbe expressed in
a respectful
Meghan wayRich
Ashlin that allows everyone to feel safe about sharing their ideas. Please come talk to
Anthropology
me if there isofanything
Department Sociology in the
andclassroom
Criminal environmentOhio
that is making you feel uncomfortable or if
University
you have any special needs that I should know about.Athens, OH 45701
Justice
2. In-class
Newark, 19716 The midterm will cover the reading, lectures, films, speakers, and
DE midterm.
discussions for the first seven weeks of class. It will
megrich@udel.edu be a Wallendorf
Melanie combination of essays and short
answers. Department of Marketing
3. Quizzes. of
Department There will be no final exam. Instead, weUniversity
Sociology will have of popArizona
quizzes on the reading in the
latter half
University of the semester. These will be graded: Tucson,
of Maryland plus, check AZplus,
85721 check, check minus, zero. I
will be
College looking
Park, MD 20742for evidence that you have done the reading and have some understanding of
the content.
ritzer@socy.umd.edu
Frederick Wherry
J.
4. Michael Ryan As a final project, you’ll be requiredDepartment
Final paper. to write a 10-12 page paper about a social
of Sociology
movement
Department of in this area. Your paper will be basedUniversity
Sociology on 12 hours of of volunteer field work during
Michigan
the semester
University with the movement of your choice AND
of Maryland on classMI
Ann Arbor, readings
48109 and secondary
research.
College Park,You
MDwill 20742get help on selecting a movement, getting access as a volunteer, writing
ffwherry@umich.edu
field notes, and reflecting on what you learn.
mryan@socy.umd.edu
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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GRADING of Sociology 519 McGuinn
1) Attendance/participation/presentations
Pearlman 103 20% 140 Commonwealth Ave.
2) QuizzesUniversity
Brandeis 15% Boston College
3) MidtermMA 02454
Waltham, 20% Chestnut Hill, MA 02467
4) Final paper
lamiller@brandeis.edu 25% juliet.schor@bc.edu
5) Fieldwork 20%
Lisa Peñaloza 100% Sara Steen

Lewiston, ME 04240
Newark, DE 19716
ritzer@socy.umd.edu
Frederick Wherry
mryan@socy.umd.edu
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Department
The PoliticalofEconomy
Sociologyof Social Movements 519 McGuinn
Pearlman
Lesley Wood103 140 Commonwealth Ave.
Brandeis University
York University Boston College
“The anatomy of civil society is to be sought
in political economy” – Karl Marx
College
Calendar of Description
Social
Bus 468movements are intrinsic to societies 219 Ketchum Hall
characterized
University by unequal access to property,
political power,
Boulder, CO 80309 and cultural resources. In this Boulder, CO 80309
course, the relevance of political economy to the study
penaloza@colorado.edu of social movements will be critically
steen@colorado.edu
reviewed in relation to other approaches.
Fuller Description 2166 AuSable Hall
This course compares a political economy approach Grand
Behavioral Science to studying
Valleysocial
Statemovements
University with
approachesof
University rooted in collective
Southern Maine/ behaviour theory, resource mobilization
Allendale, MI 49401theory, political process
theory, and newer approaches that emphasize culture, networks, and recurrent processes and
mechanisms.
Lewiston, ME 04240
Format: Three hour seminar Department of Sociology and
Learning
Department Objectives of theand
of Sociology course
1. To be able to critically assess the relationshipAthens,
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movements
3. To be able to critically evaluate the different Department
theoretical approaches to understanding
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4. To gain
Department basic knowledge of Canadian anti-poverty
of Sociology movements,
University First Nations struggles,
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the US
University civil rights movement, and contemporary
of Maryland anti-globalization
Tucson, AZ 85721 and anti-war
Collegemovements
Park, MD 20742 mwallendorf@eller.arizona.edu
5. To be able to write more effectively and critically
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6. To be able to lead group discussions more effectively
Frederick Wherry
Text (available at York Bookstore) University of Michigan
SOCI 4220of
University Course Reader
mryan@socy.umd.edu
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 Juliet Schor
Use a particular
Department theoretical approach to answer a question
of Sociology about a social movement campaign or
519 McGuinn
organization,
Pearlman 103and evaluate its usefulness. 140 Commonwealth Ave.
Waltham,
Step one –MA 02454
choose Chestnut Hill, MA 02467
a campaign or organization to study
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 campaign
College of Iraq Veterans Against the War against
of Business the War of
Department in Sociology
Iraq
Organizations? There are millions. Talk to me if you’re
University of Colorado having difficulty.
I’ll link aCO
Boulder, list 80309
of organizations on the moodle page. Boulder, CO 80309
Step two – Select a single clear question you have about that campaign or organization.
Questions
Departmentmight include
Why was that
Behavioral campaign or organization successful inGrand
Science changing policy
Valley StateorUniversity
relations of power?
Why was itofa failure?
University Southern Maine/ Allendale, MI 49401
Why were the activists
Lewiston-Auburn able to mobilize their community?
How has identity
Lewiston, ME 04240 been important in a particular organization or campaign?
How have organizational dynamics played out?
Step
Meghan threeAshlin
– choose
Richtwo theoretical approaches to answering that question
Anthropology
Theoretical
Department approaches
of Sociology include
Political
Justice economy approach Athens, OH 45701
Collective
University behaviour
of Delaware approach thorned@ohio.edu
Resource
Newark, DE mobilization
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Political process approach
New social movements approach Department of Marketing
Network approach
Organizational dynamics approach
Dynamics
University of of contention
Maryland approach Tucson, AZ 85721
Step four – evaluate the strengths and weaknesses of the two approaches for answering that
ritzer@socy.umd.edu
question. Frederick Wherry
Example
Department of aofthesis for this paper:
Final
College paper
Park,proposal
MD 20742 ffwherry@umich.edu
This three page proposal will answer describe the campaign chosen, the question asked, and the
mryan@socy.umd.edu
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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The
Lauraartifact
Millermight be a button, a bumper sticker, a placard, a speech, or call to action, a t-shirt, a
Juliet Schor
flyer, a pieceofofSociology
Department music, art or something else. You will 519tell us about this item, the context of its
McGuinn
use and relation
Pearlman 103 to particular events, campaigns, organizations and the larger
140 Commonwealth Ave.movement. You can
then suggest
Brandeis how this artifact might (or might not) relate
University to the
Boston readings of the week.
College
Facilitating the Discussion juliet.schor@bc.edu
Each week two or three members of the class will lead the discussion about the readings.
On the
Lisa first day of class, we will divide up the readings.
On the day
College that it is your turn to facilitate the discussion,
of Business you should
Department know the readings very
of Sociology
well, and have developed a number of interesting questions
Bus 468 about them.
219 Ketchum Hall Think about the readings
in terms of of
University comparisons,
Colorado contradictions and implications. University of Colorado
You will CO
Boulder, be evaluated
80309 for your preparation, and yourBoulder, effort andCOability
80309to increase the level of
comprehension in the class.
Jan Phillips
Reading Responses and Questions 15% Joel Stillerman
Three times of
Department during theand
Social term you will write a two page analysis
2166 of one
AuSable of the readings in the
Hall
course and submit
Behavioral Scienceit to the moodle discussion group.Grand
TheseValley
will beState
graded by both me and your
University
peers for of Southern Maine/
University Allendale, MI 49401
- engagementCollege
Lewiston-Auburn with the material stillejo@gvsu.edu
- writing
Lewiston, and argument
ME 04240
- use of comparisons or current events
Each reading response is worth 5% Department of Sociology and
The reading
Meghan responses
Ashlin Rich for a particular week are due at midnight on the Tuesday before each
Anthropology
class.
University
Participationof Delaware
15% thorned@ohio.edu
This classDE
Newark, is one that demands your participation. Your participation grade is evaluated on the
19716
basis of attendance, and active participation in discussions.
megrich@udel.edu MelanieIf Wallendorf
you believe that you are unable to
verbally participate in classes for some reason, pleaseDepartment
talk to me and I will assign a written
of Marketing
alternative.
University
Readings and of Maryland
Discussions Tucson, AZ 85721
Sept 5 – intro to course, introduction to political economy and social movements
ritzer@socy.umd.edu
Frederick Wherry
Sept
J. 12 – Marxist
Michael Ryan political economy Department of Sociology
Bantjes,
University Rod. 2007. Ch 1 - Workers of the World
of Maryland Ann Unite
Arbor,from Social Movements in a
MI 48109
CollegeGlobalizing Context, CSPI, pp. 5-40 reader ffwherry@umich.edu
Park, MD 20742
mryan@socy.umd.edu
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
Sept Theories of Social Movement Emergence –JulietotherSchor
theories
PearlmanJohn
103McCarthy and Mayer N. Zald “Resource140 Mobilization and Social
Commonwealth Ave. Movements: A
BrandeisPartial theory.” American Journal of Sociology
University 82 (1977):
Boston 1212-1241 ejournals
College
Tarrow, Sidney. 1998. Power in Movement, Chapter
lamiller@brandeis.edu 1, (pp-10-25) reader
juliet.schor@bc.edu
Louis A Zurcher and David A. Snow. 1981 “Collective

Lisa Peñaloza Sara Steen Behavior: Social Movements” pp.
College447-482 in Social Psychology: Sociological Perspectives,
of Business Department ofedited by M. Rosenberg and
Sociology
Bus 468R.H. Turner. reader 219 Ketchum Hall
Boulder, CO 80309
Anti-Poverty Movements Today Boulder, CO 80309
Sept 26 – Attend Toronto Anti-Poverty march
Jan 2:30 Queen’s Park Station
We’ll beof
Department being participant
Social and observers at this event,2166
examining
AuSablewho attends, the response by
Hall
authorities,
Behavioral relationships between activists, tactics,
Science strategies
Grand Valleyand frames.
State The following
University
week, we’ll
University discuss Maine/
of Southern our observations, and the subsequent
Allendale,media coverage.
MI 49401
If you are unable
Lewiston-Auburn to attend this event, you’ll be assigned
College to do some background research on
stillejo@gvsu.edu
the participating
Lewiston, ME 04240organizations or issues being contested.
Reading: Piven and Cloward. 1977. “The Welfare Rights of
Department Movement”
Sociologyfrom
and Poor People’s
MeghanMovements,
Ashlin Richselection in reader. Anthropology
Oct 3 – Political Opportunities and constraints
David
University Meyer and Debra C. Minkoff . 2004 “Conceptualizing
of Delaware thorned@ohio.edu Political Opportunity,”
Newark,Social
DE 19716
Forces 82: 1457 – 1492 (ejournals)
Benford, Robert D. and David Snow. 2000. “Framing Department Processes and Social Movements”
of Marketing
George Annual
Ritzer Review of Sociology 26:611-39 (ejournals) Eller College of Management
Jasper,
University James M. 2005. “A Strategic Approach
of Maryland to Collective
Tucson, AZ 85721Action: Looking for
CollegeAgency
Park, MDin Social
20742 Movement Choices” In Mobilization 9(1):1-16 reader
ritzer@socy.umd.edu
Community Organizing as a Strategy Frederick Wherry
Oct 10 Movement
Department Building – Community Organizing
CollegeFreire, Paulo.
Park, MD 1993. Pedagogy of the Oppressed,
20742 Chapter 1, 25-51. reader
ffwherry@umich.edu
mryan@socy.umd.edu
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

http://sandiego.indymedia.org/en/2002/09/2403.shtml
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Scott, James C. 1990 “The infrapolitics of subordinate
Laura Miller Juliet Schorgroups” from The Global
Department
Resistance Reader (2005) Edited by Louie Amoore,
of Sociology 65-73. reader
519 McGuinn
Brandeis
US Civil University
Rights Movement Boston College
Oct 17 – Cycles
Waltham, of Movements
Doug McAdam 1983 “Tactical Innovation and the Pace of Insurgency ASR 48:737-754.
Lisa Peñaloza
ejournals Sara Steen
Bus 468Haines, Herbert. 1984. “Black Radicalization219andKetchum
the FundingHallof Civil Rights: 1957-
1970”
University in Social Problems 32:1, p. 31-43. ejournals
Polletta, Francesca.”A Band of Brothers Standing
penaloza@colorado.edu in a Circle of Trust: Southern Civil
steen@colorado.edu
Rights Organizing.” from Freedom is an Endless Meeting (2002), 55-87. reader
Morris,
Department Aldon.and
of Social 1989. “Black Southern Sit-In 2166
Movement:
AuSableAn Analysis of Internal
Hall
organization”
Behavioral Science American Sociological ReviewGrand 46:744-767.
Valley ejournals
State University
Oct 24 –DifferenceCollege
Lewiston-Auburn and Unity stillejo@gvsu.edu
Proposal
Lewiston, MEdue04240
Thompson, Becky. “Will the Circle…” from Department
A Promise and A Way of Life,
of Sociology and 2001. 45-73.
Meghanreader
Justice Rustin, Bayard. “The Great Lessons of Birmingham”
Athens, OH from45701
Black Protest Thought in the
Twentieth
University Century. P. 332-341. reader
Newark, DE 19716
Williams, Robert F. For Effective Self Defense”
megrich@udel.edu BlackWallendorf
Melanie Protest Thought in the
Twentieth Century. 360-372. reader Department of Marketing
BlackofPanther
Department Party, 1967. “What we want, what
Sociology we believe”
University 491-5. reader
of Arizona
CollegeMartinez,
Park, MDBetita.
20742Where Was the Color in Seattle?
http://www.colorlines.com/printerfriendly.php?ID=82 Moodle
ritzer@socy.umd.edu
Frederick Wherry
J. Michael
First Ryan
Nations Struggles Department of Sociology
Oct 31 – Emergence
Department and Organization
Alfred,
University Taiaiake and Lana Lowe. Warrior Societies
of Maryland in Contemporary
Ann Arbor, MI 48109 Indigenous
CollegeCommunities
http://www.ipperwashinquiry.ca/policy_part/research/pdf/Alfred_and_Lowe.pdf
mryan@socy.umd.edu
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
Department is To be Done?
Pearlmanhttp://www.wsu.edu:8080/~wldciv/world_civ_reader/world_civ_reader_2/lenin.html.
103 140 Commonwealth Ave.
Nov 7 – Global
Waltham, Identities and cultures
Hall, Thomas and James Fenelon. 2005. “Trajectories of Indigenous Resistance Before
and After 9/11” in Podobnik and Reifer. Transforming
Lisa Peñaloza Sara SteenGlobalization. P. 95-100. reader
Bus 468Stewart, Julie 2004. “When Local Troubles Become Transnational:
219 Ketchum Hall The Transformation
of aof
University Guatemalan
Colorado Indigenous Rights Movement,”
University 9: 259-278 . reader
of Colorado
Mobilization
Roundtable on the Six Nations Land Reclamation,
penaloza@colorado.edu Upping the Anti 3. 135-167.
steen@colorado.edu
Jan Phillips
From Anti-Globalization to Anti-War Joel Stillerman
Nov 14 – Emergence
Department of Social and Organization 2166 AuSable Hall
Notes
University from Nowhere.
of Southern Maine/2003. “Emergence: AnAllendale,
IrresistibleMI
Global
49401Uprising” from We Are
Lewiston-Auburn
Everywhere. 19-29. Moodle.
Lewiston, ME 04240
Della Porta, Donatella et al. “The Development
jphillip@bates.edu of a Global
Deborah ThorneMovement : Network
Strategies, Democracy, Participation “ in Globalization
Departmentfromof Sociology and 27-60 reader.
Below. 2006.
Lainer-Vos,
Department Dani “Social
of Sociology Movements and Citizenship:
and Criminal Conscientious Objection
Ohio University
Justice Movements in France, US, and Israel. Mobilization
Athens,11(3):277-295.
OH 45701 reader
Newark,Carty, Victoria and Jake Onyett. Protest, Cyberactivism and New Social Movements: The
DE 19716
Reemergence of the Peace Movement Post 9/11
Social Movement Studies; December
2006; Volume 5 No. 3 Pages 229 – 249 . ejournals
Nov 21 – Outcomes
CollegeKlein, Naomi.
Park, MD “The Vision thing: were the DC
20742 and Seattle protests unfocused or are
critics missing the point?” moodle
ritzer@socy.umd.edu
Frederick Wherry
Roy,Ryan
J. Michael Arundhati. Confronting Empire. From Confronting of Sociology2004 Eds. Yuen,
Department Capitalism.
Eddie et al. reader
CollegeSitrin
Park, Marina.
MD 207422004. “Waving Imagination and Creation: The Future in the Present” in
ffwherry@umich.edu
Globalize Liberation. Edited by David Solnit. 263-276. reader
mryan@socy.umd.edu
Uba, Katrin. “Political Protest and Policy Change: The Direct Impacts of Indian Anti-
Privatization Moblizations 1990-2003” Mobilization. reader
Final paper due
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Lewiston, ME 04240
INSTRUCTIONAL MATERIALS
Newark, DE 19716
ritzer@socy.umd.edu
Frederick Wherry
mryan@socy.umd.edu
200
Laura Miller Designing Your Own SocialJuliet Schor Exercise
Movement
Emily A. Bowman
Indiana University
TEACHING/LEARNING OBJECTIVES & OUTCOMES juliet.schor@bc.edu
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 on social change.
Department Although I have used
of Sociology
roughly
Bus 468 the same exercise as both an individual paper219 assignment
Ketchum andHalla take-home essay exam
question, I think
University it really works best as a group project
of Colorado assignment
University that culminates in a classroom
of Colorado
presentation.
Boulder, When used as a group assignment, I randomly
CO 80309 Boulder,place students in groups (generally
CO 80309
consisting of 3 to 5 people depending on class size) by
penaloza@colorado.edu having them draw numbers from a hat.
steen@colorado.edu
Because the groups are randomly selected, group members often initially struggle in making
decisions
Jan about what type of social movement they want
Phillips to create since they often have different
Joel Stillerman
political andof
Department social
Socialviews.
and I find these initial group discussions
2166 AuSable are Hall
quite interesting as group
members teach
Behavioral each other about social problems theyGrand
Science personally
Valleyfind vexing.
State University
Beyond spurring students
Lewiston-Auburn Collegeto discuss and teach each other about social problems, the assignment
stillejo@gvsu.edu
encouragesME
Lewiston, students
04240to use their creativity while motivating them to think of ways to
ameliorate/solve social issues. It also stimulates extensive
jphillip@bates.edu Deborah classroom
Thorne discussion about these
matters and the possibilities and pitfalls of social movement
Departmentactivity on the day(s)
of Sociology and of
presentation.
Meghan Ashlin Overall,
Rich I think this is an effective group assignment because it forces students to
Anthropology
place themselves
Department within a and
of Sociology social movement, thus facilitating
Criminal a deeper understanding not only of
Ohio University
social movement concepts and dynamics, but also ofAthens,
Justice the interplay between structure and agency.
OH 45701
Newark, DE 19716
megrich@udel.edu
EXERCISE Melanie Wallendorf
George Ritzerto start your own social movement, huh?
So you want Eller College of Management
Describe your
University plan for organizing and managing an ideal
of Maryland Tucson,social
AZmovement.
85721 In writing your
response,Park,
College you MDcan either
20742create your own movement mwallendorf@eller.arizona.edu
or discuss the ways in which you would
improve upon a present or past social movement. You need only briefly identify the movement;
ritzer@socy.umd.edu
the overwhelming majority of your response should focus on demonstrating
Frederick Wherry and applying your
knowledge
J. of social movement dynamics. In constructing
Michael Ryan your response,
Department be sure to support your
of Sociology
ideas with evidence
Department from the course readings and lecture
of Sociology notes. ofYou
University will need to address the
Michigan
following topics:
(a) Think of a social movement you are interested in—be it currently in action, long since dead,
mryan@socy.umd.edu
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?)
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(b) Identify
Laura Millerand describe the adherents/participants, beneficiaries,
Juliet Schor and antagonists associated
with the of
Department movement.
(c) GivenUniversity
Brandeis what you have learned about social movements,
BostonifCollege
you were to be the key figure(s) or
(humorMA
Waltham, me 02454
here) the “mastermind(s)” behind thisChestnut
social movement, what steps would you
Hill, MA 02467
take to ensure (as much as you possibly could) success?
lamiller@brandeis.edu How would you convince,
juliet.schor@bc.edu
encourage, and recruit people to participate in your movement? What strategies and non-
Lisainstitutional
Peñaloza tactics would you use to create opportunities
Sara Steen for success? Why do you think
theseofstrategies
College Businessand tactics are the best options? Department
What types of of social movement
Sociology
Busorganizations
468 (SMOs) would you want to become219 involved?
KetchumHow Hallwould the strategies and
tactics used
University by these organizations differ? In what
of Colorado ways would
University these organizations
of Colorado
complement
Boulder, CO 80309one another? Boulder, CO 80309
(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 movement successful?) What
Stillerman
barriers would
Department youand
of Social face in achieving success? 2166 AuSable Hall
Lewiston-Auburn
POTENTIAL College
PITFALLS stillejo@gvsu.edu
Lewiston, ME 04240
One of the potential pitfalls of using this exercise in class
jphillip@bates.edu Deborahis the issue of time. I try to give
Thorne
groups some initial time to work on the project in class, but mostof
Department ofSociology
the work on
andit will be done
outside ofAshlin
Meghan class time.
Rich I also try to limit groups to 15 Anthropology
minute presentations, but find that students
often becomeofso
Department invested and
Sociology in and excited about the project
Criminal Ohio that they want more time to present
University
their work. Another potential problem is that the exercise
Justice Athens, in OH
some ways forces students to think
45701
a bit simplistically
University about major social issues. Although
of Delaware I am always prepared as the instructor to
thorned@ohio.edu
remind students
Newark, DE 19716that there are many other factors to consider when attempting to solve a social
problem, I find that the students themselves usually make
megrich@udel.edu MelaniethisWallendorf
point either in their own
presentations or in response to the presentations of others.
ritzer@socy.umd.edu
Frederick Wherry
mryan@socy.umd.edu
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Laura Miller
Final Assignment: Board Game Juliet Schor
Neal Caren
Department
Brandeis of Sociology
UniversityMA
Waltham, of North
02454Carolina at Chapel Hill Chestnut Hill, MA 02467
This is the major assignment for the semester. Working

Lisa Peñaloza SarainSteen
your group, you will design a board
game about
College the social movement that you have selected.
of Business This assignment
Department will require you to
of Sociology
apply468
Bus the theoretical concepts from the course to the 219 specifics of your
Ketchum Hallmovement. You will be
graded on your
University use of social movement theory; your University
of Colorado mastery of oftheColorado
facts surrounding the history
of your social
Boulder, movement; your application of theory Boulder,
CO 80309 to the movement;
CO 80309and how well the game
plays. Each member of the group will receive the same
penaloza@colorado.edu grade for this assignment. This
steen@colorado.edu
assignment is in place of both a final exam and a final paper. Plus, there will be a couple of you
working
Jan on it. As such, I expect something really, really
Phillips good.
Joel Stillerman
The Sociology
Behavioral Science
(50% of Grade) Grand Valley State University
As this is a of
University sociology
Southernclass, the aspects of social movement
Maine/ Allendale,theory
MI that
49401that you incorporate into
your game is the most
Lewiston-Auburn important part of the project. stillejo@gvsu.edu
College The rules of your game should be based on
your sociologically
Lewiston, ME 04240 informed understanding of how social movements operate. You should not
try to cram everything we cover during the semester Deborah
jphillip@bates.edu into the game,
Thornebut rather the game should
reflect your nuanced understanding of the most relevant ideas. SoofifSociology
Department you were and
Doug McAdam in
1982 building
Meghan Ashlina Rich
board game on the civil rights movement, you would focus largely on
Anthropology
indigenous organization
Department of Sociologystrength, cognitive liberation,
and Criminal OhioandUniversity
political opportunities, and not spend
any time on framing. For building your game, you will
Justice probably
Athens, need to draw from more than
OH 45701
one author of
University or Delaware
topic. For example, if your focus werethorned@ohio.edu
on the media and social movements, you
would also
Newark, DEwant
19716 to include things on framing. Finally, the game should not merely mimic what
the authors we have read believe, but rather should be
megrich@udel.edu based on
Melanie your critical understanding of
Wallendorf
how movements actually function. Should frames beDepartment divided between diagnostic, prognostic and
of Marketing
motivational?
George Ritzer Explain why you make the distinctions youCollege
Eller do. of Management
The Movement
University (30% of Grade)
You should
College Park,beMD
very20742
familiar with the social movement that your game is modeling. It will make
the game more interesting, and it is part of your grade. Your game can focus on the entire life
ritzer@socy.umd.edu
span of a movement, or upon a single campaign or event. MostWherry
Frederick of the game should involve
events
J. that Ryan
Michael actually occurred, but it might make senseDepartment
to also allow for the path not taken.
of Sociology
Movements of
Department thatSociology
succeed in real life might be able to University
fail in yourofgame. At the end of your game
Michigan
instructions,ofyou
University should include a “Suggestions for further
Maryland reading”
Ann Arbor, MI list, including books and
48109
other resources
College Park, MD that20742
you found particularly helpful. Two great places for including specific
ffwherry@umich.edu
historic details are in the squares that players land on, and on the cards that they draw.
mryan@socy.umd.edu
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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Lauracould
You use a wide variety of currently existing games
Miller Julietas your model for this project, such as
Schor
Monopoly, Life,
Department Risk or Chutes and Ladders. The game
of Sociology can not be a merely a question and
519 McGuinn
answer game,
Pearlman 103 such as Trivial Pursuit or Scruples, and140 it can’t be role playing
Commonwealth Ave.game like
DungeonsUniversity
Brandeis & Dragons. You might want to start by thinking Boston how Collegeyou would adapt a current
game, or you
Waltham, MAcould
02454 begin from scratch, importing ideas from one
Chestnut Hill,game or another.
MA 02467
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 encounter the same squares as they rotate
of Business along theofboard;
Department or a map game, like
Sociology
Risk.
Bus 468Players could represent either individuals who219 participate
Ketchum in Hall
the movement, opposing
sides, the government,
University of Coloradomovement organizations, or just about anything.
University of ColoradoThink creatively.
For me—and I grade these things—fun games generally
penaloza@colorado.edu involve letting players make decisions.
steen@colorado.edu
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. Theories where large structural
Stillerman
forces determine
Department everything,
of Social and and individual action means 2166 nothing
AuSabledon’tHall describe the social world
very well. Movements
Behavioral Science make decisions, and these decisions have consequences.
Production qualityCollege
Lewiston-Auburn need only be high enough so that stillejo@gvsu.edu
it won’t interfere with the game play.
Lewiston, ME 04240
The final product should be playable without any member
jphillip@bates.edu Deborah of your
Thornegroup present. This means
that not only do you have to include a board and pieces, but you also
Department have to include
of Sociology and a manual.
The manual
Meghan is anRich
Ashlin excellent opportunity for you to defend your theoretical and empirical
Anthropology
decisions, and
Department of to go into greater
Sociology detail. The full rulesOhio
and Criminal for “Class Struggle” are a great example of
University
this. You should also have a list of five to ten resources
Justice Athens,that OH
people can turn to find out more
45701
about the movement.
University of DelawareI can not say strongly enough that you must have a thorough manual.
thorned@ohio.edu
Pretend asDE
Newark, if your
19716entire grade was based merely on the weight of your manual.
The Group Department of Marketing
This project
George is a group assignment, and each memberEller
Ritzer will College
receive the same grade. This means
of Management
that each member
Department should be doing approximately theUniversity
of Sociology same amount of work. Groups should meet
of Arizona
both in andof
University outMaryland
of class. If there is any problem withTucson,
a groupAZ member’s
85721 level of participation,
this should
College be MD
Park, brought to the instructor’s attention asmwallendorf@eller.arizona.edu
20742 soon as possible. The instructor may
remove an individual from the group, and he or she will be required to complete his or her own
ritzer@socy.umd.edu
game, based on a different social movement. No freeFrederick riders. Wherry
Some Example
Department that I made up
“Political Process:
University of MarylandThe Game” Ann Arbor, MI 48109
Each player
College Park,isMD
an African
20742 American minister in a different city in the South, circa 1950. The
ffwherry@umich.edu
object is to win full equality for all town residents. Players go through a board very similar to
mryan@socy.umd.edu
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!”
In this game,ofplayers
Department compete for the civil rights of lesbian
Sociology and gay Americans. This is for 2-4
519 McGuinn
players, and
Pearlman 103is played on a map of the U.S. Players compete to implementAve.
140 Commonwealth or revoke gay rights
in every state
Brandeis across the country. The pro-gay team wins
University Boston when they get equality legislation in 30
College
states; the MA
Waltham, anti-gay
02454team when they repeal all but five. With two
Chestnut players,
Hill, one player is pro-gay,
MA 02467
the other anti-gay. With more players, the anti-gay side
lamiller@brandeis.edu can be split between a secular movement
juliet.schor@bc.edu
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 given
College ofturn, a player can either initiate a new stateDepartment
Business battle, attempt grassroots organizing, or
of Sociology
simple
Bus 468accumulate resources. A state battle is decided 219byKetchum
the dice Hall
rolling, with extra points
awarded forofa Colorado
University variety of factors... (The model for this game is the
University WWII strategy game Axis and
of Colorado
Allies.) CO 80309
Boulder, Boulder, CO 80309
“Commitment”
In this
Jan game, players compete to see who can becomeJoel
Phillips theStillerman
most active in the animal liberation
movement.
Department of TheSocial
playerand
who liberates the most animals 2166from laboratories,
AuSable Hall factory farms, or fur
traps wins. Science
Behavioral The board is in the form of a calendar, and players
Grand move
Valley through
State the month, with
University
Action spaces
University every Wednesday.
of Southern Maine/ Only players with Allendale,
sufficient socialization
MI 49401 or contact with other
activists may participate
Lewiston-Auburn Collegein actions, except those whostillejo@gvsu.edu
have been through a moral shock, who may
begin immediately
Lewiston, ME 04240 actions immediately. Every time a player lands on an Action and is able to
participate, a dice is thrown. For those who have notDeborah
jphillip@bates.edu participated in high-risk activism, a roll of
Thorne
1-3 draws a Low Risk Activism Card, a 4-5 draws a Department
High Risk Activism Card,and
of Sociology and a 6 draws a
Repression
Meghan Card.Rich
Ashlin For those who have already committed a high risk activity, a roll of 1 draws a
Anthropology
Low Risk Activism
Department Card, and
of Sociology a 2-4Criminal
draws a High Risk Activism Card, and a 5-6 draws a Repression
Ohio University
Card... [This is a little simplistic.]
Newark, DE 19716
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Frederick Wherry
mryan@socy.umd.edu
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Laura Miller
Final Take-home Exam Juliet Schor
Jim Conley
Trent University
This exam is presented along with a file of news articles
lamiller@brandeis.edu on a particular struggle. These have not
juliet.schor@bc.edu
been included in the collection.
College
Recommended length of answers: 8-10 pages (2000-2500
of Business words).
Final Take-home Exam University of Colorado
This examCO
Boulder, is designed
80309 to test your understanding of the concepts,
Boulder, theories, and case studies of
CO 80309
protest, contention, and social movements examined steen@colorado.edu
penaloza@colorado.edu 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
Vancouver,
Jan Phillips BC, in the last 6 months (see the file of newspaper
Joel Stillermanarticles on Vancouver anti-
poverty issues).
Based on the
University of 8Southern
steps recommended
Maine/ by Tilly & Tarrow in Box A.3,
Allendale, p. 207 of Contentious
MI 49401
Politics, your task College
Lewiston-Auburn is to analyse the 17 news reports from that file under the following headings:
stillejo@gvsu.edu
Lewiston, ME 04240
1. Description: Specify the site of contention using descriptive
jphillip@bates.edu Deborah Thorne concepts.
2. Summary: Summarize the stream of contention, identify Department its episodes and specify
of Sociology and the outcome
(which may
Meghan or may
Ashlin Richnot be connected to the stream ofAnthropology
contention).
3. Mechanisms
Department and Processes:
of Sociology Describe the mechanisms
and Criminal and processes that make a difference
Ohio University
to the course of the episodes.
4. Comparisons:
University Make comparisons with similar mechanisms
of Delaware and processes elsewhere to
thorned@ohio.edu
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
megrich@udel.edu
There will
George not always be sufficient information in these
Ritzer Ellernews reports
College for you to identify all the
of Management
mechanisms of
Department and processes necessary to construct a good
Sociology explanation.
University Therefore, when
of Arizona
appropriate,ofyou
University should specify what other information
Maryland you would
Tucson, AZ 85721need to obtain (as if you were
engagedPark,
College in a research
MD 20742 project) in order to confirm or mwallendorf@eller.arizona.edu
disprove explanations.
ritzer@socy.umd.edu
Please organize your paper under the 4 topics listed above,
Frederick andWherry
use the titles in bold as headings.
Grading criteria: University of Michigan
• yourofunderstanding
University Maryland of concepts and how theyAnn fit together
Arbor, MI 48109
• your ability to use concepts to interpret evidence
• your knowledge of relevant course materials
mryan@socy.umd.edu
• 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
Juliet Schor
based on course
Department materials
• if you need
Pearlman 103to, refer to the articles in Vancouver anti-poverty.pdf use theAve.
140 Commonwealth article
number, e.g.
Brandeis (article 15)


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Newark, DE 19716
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Laura MillerResearch Paper
Qualitative Juliet Schor
Angela Mertig
Middle Tennessee
Brandeis UniversityState University Boston College
OVERVIEW:
You are to conduct field observation and/or qualitative
interviews of social movement actors in orderSara
Lisa Peñaloza to explore
Steen
Collegewhat motivates movement participants to act—from
of Business Department theirof Sociology
Bus 468point of view. 219 Ketchum Hall
DATA COLLECTION:
1) Choose an example (or two if you would likesteen@colorado.edu
penaloza@colorado.edu to compare http://academic.evergreen.edu/k/kenkat24/Grassr
two examples) of a social movement, group or individuals ootshome.htm
that take some action on behalf of some socialJoel

Jan Phillips movement
Stillerman
causeof(defined
Department broadly—see me if you are unsure
Social and 2166 ifAuSable
your selection
Hall can be considered
reflective
Behavioral of a social movement).
2) Choose a combination
Lewiston-Auburn College of the following methods to use:
stillejo@gvsu.edu
Lewiston, MEa. 04240
Field observation at a group meeting
jphillip@bates.edu i. Take extensive notes on what Deborah
you observe at the meeting, paying
Thorne
particular attention to how people at the meeting
Department talk about
of Sociology and their reasons
Meghan Ashlin Rich for becoming involved Anthropology
ii. Theand
Department of Sociology meeting that you observe Ohio
Criminal should last at least 1 hour (if it is less than 1
University
Justice hour, please engage in additional observation
Athens, OH 45701 to get more information)
b. Delaware
University of “Short” in-depth interview with an individual activist
thorned@ohio.edu
Newark, DE 19716i. Set up a time to meet with a particular individual at a location where there
megrich@udel.edu will be no (or minimal) interruptions Melanie Wallendorf
ii. Prepare a loose set of questions that you will
Department use to ask the individual
of Marketing
George Ritzer about their reasons for participating in socialofmovement
Eller College Management activities (if you
Department of Sociology would like, I can give you feedback on your
University questions ahead of time)
of Arizona
iii. The interview should last for at
University of Maryland least 30AZ
Tucson, minutes
85721
3) Conduct at least the equivalent of EITHER two field observations of a group meeting,
ritzer@socy.umd.edu
two interviews, OR a combination of the twoFrederick
methods (i.e.,
Wherryone field observation of a
group
J. Michael meeting along with one interview). Department of Sociology
Ryan
MATERIALS TO TURN IN:
1) Any
College Park,material collected through your data collection
MD 20742 ffwherry@umich.edu
a. Field notes from field observation
mryan@socy.umd.edu
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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Laura Millerd. I will keep personal identities of people youSchor
Juliet observe/interview confidential.
Department of However,
Sociology it is probably a good idea if519
youMcGuinn
exclude personally identifying
Pearlman 103 information (to the extent possible—i.e.,140itCommonwealth
might be hard to talk about the leader
Ave.
of a campus group without me knowing
Brandeis University how College
Boston to find out who it is) when you turn
Waltham, MA in your materials.
2) A brief paper (~3-5 pages) interpreting your results
a. What did you learn about why peopleSara
Lisa Peñaloza 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
ii. Use your data to support your University
University of Colorado arguments of (e.g., use quotes from the
Colorado
Boulder, CO 80309 interviews that are particularlyBoulder,
enlightening; use examples from your field
CO 80309
penaloza@colorado.edu observation notes to point out steen@colorado.edu
something interesting)
b. Discuss your overall experience.
Jan Phillips i. How did you find people to observe or interview?
Joel Stillerman
ii. and
Department of Social How did you feel conducting the2166research?
AuSableIfHallyou did field observation,
Behavioral Science how did you feel taking notes Grandat a group meeting?
Valley How receptive were
State University
University of Southernpeople
Maine/to what you were doing? Allendale, MI 49401
Lewiston-Auburn iii. Do you think your method ledstillejo@gvsu.edu
College you to different conclusions than what you
Lewiston, ME 04240 might have gotten with a different approach?
jphillip@bates.eduiv. Did you learn other things related to course
Deborah material?
Thorne
Newark, DE 19716
ritzer@socy.umd.edu
Frederick Wherry
mryan@socy.umd.edu
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Laura Miller Assignment: Evaluating Social Movement
Final Paper Juliet Outcomes
Schor
Gillian Murphy
UniversityUniversity
Brandeis of Washington Boston College
Even though we are covering a lot of ground in this course, there is one very important topic that
we will
Lisa not address directly – social movement outcomes.
Peñaloza In general, this assignment asks you to
Sara Steen
College of Business
predict the future. Department of Sociology
Bus
Given what you know about social movements, what 219
468 Ketchum
do you imagineHall
the future will bring for the
campaign advocating gay marriageUniversity of Colorado
social movement in the United States? (and why is it called a
social movement campaign anyway?) Do you think the campaign will achieve full success,
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
outcome? Joel Stillerman
Behavioral Science
Organize your paper around the topics that we will cover GrandinValley State(see
this course University
below). In other
University
words, this of Southern
paper Maine/
asks you Allendale,
to apply what you know about socialMI 49401 in general to a novel
movements
Lewiston-Auburn
problem – the campaignCollegefor gay marriage. You shouldstillejo@gvsu.edu
refer to (and cite) readings from the class.
Lewiston,
You ME choose
may also 04240 to refer to outside sources, such as journal articles, books, newspaper
jphillip@bates.edu
articles and websites (see below). While this is in some Deborah
respectsThorne
an opinion paper, your opinion
Department of Sociology and material to
in this case must be informed by the literature on social movements. Use course
Meghan Ashlin Rich
bolster your argument. Anthropology
It may be helpful to think of this paper as one that can be tackled in sections. Consider the impact
that each aspects of social movements we have covered thorned@ohio.edu
this quarter will likely have on the future
Newark, DE 19716
of the campaign.
Example: What effect do you think that the framingDepartment of Marketing
of the gay marriage debate will have on the
George Ritzer
future of the campaign? Eller College of Management
You may have difficulty developing a prediction. If this Tucson, AZ 85721
problem arises, write about the dilemma
College
face,Park, MD the20742 mwallendorf@eller.arizona.edu
you noting different approaches you could take and how each is informed by the
ritzer@socy.umd.edu
literature. Note areas in which the literature points to contradictory outcomes.
Frederick Wherry
1. Political opportunity structure
2. Framing
3. Strategy & Tactics
4. Culture
mryan@socy.umd.edu
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
Juliet Schor
Department of errors
Pearlman 103 8 : Good coverage of topic, adequate 140
references to course content,
Commonwealth Ave. few errors
6 : Weak coverage of topic, missing links
Brandeis University Bostonto course
Collegecontent, obvious errors
• UseMA
Waltham, 02454 sources : 20 points
of outside Chestnut Hill, MA 02467
• Style (organization, clarity of expression, citations,
grammar, spelling) : 10 points
Lisa Note: For the purposes of this assignment,

Peñaloza
Important Sara only acceptable websites to use are
theSteen
those related
College to organizations or institutions involved
of Business in the campaign
Department advocating gay
of Sociology
marriage.

Lewiston, ME 04240
Newark, DE 19716
ritzer@socy.umd.edu
Frederick Wherry
mryan@socy.umd.edu
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Laura
MemoMiller
on Term Papers: The Roots of Social Protest Juliet Schor
Susan Olzak
Stanford University
This memo outlines the sections for preparing a term paper in the area of social movements and
collective
Lisa protest.
Bus1.468Topic Statement 219 Ketchum Hall
This section
Boulder, CO 80309 outlines the social movement or collective
Boulder, action for your term paper. One way
CO 80309
to organize this section would be to provide somesteen@colorado.edu
penaloza@colorado.edu motivations for studying this issue: What
was its impact? Why is this form of collective action intrinsically important or interesting?
2. Research
Department Question(s)
For thisofsection,
University SouthernyouMaine/
should describe the single most important
Allendale, MI question
49401 that you want to
answer in yourCollege
Lewiston-Auburn research. In this section, you should refer to specific theories and concepts
stillejo@gvsu.edu
from the
Lewiston, ME readings
04240 on our syllabus, plus any other readings by sociologists on your topic
found on JSTOR. Some examples of framing your
jphillip@bates.edu research
Deborah question are:
Thorne
a. Why
Meghan AshlindidRich
this social movement emerge whenAnthropology
it did? What theories in sociology literature
address
Department the timing and
of Sociology of the emergence of a newOhio
Criminal socialUniversity
movement? What evidence will you
Justice look for to evaluate these theories? Athens, OH 45701
b. What
Newark, are the underlying causes of this form of collective action? Who are the
DE 19716
participants? What theories best explain the underlying
megrich@udel.edu causes of your social movement?
Melanie Wallendorf
If this topic is not a traditional social movement, then discuss
Department why social movement
of Marketing
George theories
Ritzer are useful for understanding the dynamics of this institution
Eller College or organization.
of Management
c. What
University of accounts
Marylandfor the growth of this social movement?
Tucson, AZWhat 85721 factors can be traced to its
Collegerise andMD
Park, support?
20742 What coalitions did this movement build? Were elites in support or
against this movement, or was this more of a grassroots movement?
ritzer@socy.umd.edu
Frederick Wherry
d. What
J. Michael factors account for the decline of this social
Ryan movement?
Department Did the government
of Sociology
repress
Department collective protest? Why did repressionUniversity
of Sociology occur when it did? Were there internal
of Michigan
organizational
University of Marylandconflicts that eroded support forAnn theArbor,
movement?
MI 48109What theories suggest to
Collegeyou
Park,whyMD this movement failed?
mryan@socy.umd.edu
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
Laura Review of Previous Research Juliet Schor
This section
Pearlman 103 reviews some other research on your140 topic. You should review
Commonwealth Ave. at least 2-4
studiesUniversity
Brandeis that are relevant to your example of a social movement
Boston Collegeor protest and tell us what
they found,
Waltham, why these studies are useful, and howChestnut
MA 02454 they informed the02467
Hill, MA way you thought about
your case study.
Lisa4.Peñaloza
Assessment of the Fit Between Your Case and OneSteen
Sara or More Theories
BusThis
468 is the core of your paper where you tie the research question
219 Ketchum Hallin section 1, previous
researchoffrom
University section 2, to the historical or case University
Colorado study evidence you review. For example, to
of Colorado
answer
Boulder, COquestions
80309 about why the women's movement aroseCO
Boulder, again during the 1960s, you might
80309
ask: Were there more organizations at that time? steen@colorado.edu
penaloza@colorado.edu Were there other kinds of opportunities
(where more women going into higher education, etc.)? Think about the evidence and
Jan whether
Phillips or not it fits the arguments or hypothesesJoelthatStillerman
are associated with the theories.
5. Conclusion
This section
Lewiston, could go in two different directions:
ME 04240
a. Summary. Step back from the details here and Department
present someof general
Sociologyimplications
and from
your Ashlin
Meghan project.Rich
What surprised you about your research findings? Were there any conventional
Anthropology
assumptions
Department (from other
of Sociology andarticles or books that your
Criminal Ohiowork contradicted or supported?) What
University
did you find most interesting about your research?
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
megrich@udel.edu Melanieyour particular social movement?
Wallendorf
What implications does your term paper have forDepartment
theories of why collective action emerges,
of Marketing
increases
George Ritzerand/or declines? What is the future of yourEllersocial
Collegemovement, and why?
of Management
ritzer@socy.umd.edu
Frederick Wherry
mryan@socy.umd.edu
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Laura Miller Assignment 1—“Seeing” Social Movements
Imagination Juliet Schor
Stephen J.103
Pearlman Scanlan 140 Commonwealth Ave.
Ohio University
An important component of studying social movements
lamiller@brandeis.edu is seeing their activities unfold. In this
juliet.schor@bc.edu
regard one can explore their dynamics and outcomes, analyze their tactics, understand social
movement
Lisa organizations and participants, and get at Sara
Peñaloza the reasons
Steen for their mobilization and
beliefs. of
College This assignment is an effort to get you “intoDepartment
Business the field” toofenable you to “see” social
Sociology
movement
Bus 468 activities. Students can do this in one of two219 ways:
Ketchum1) Critically
Hall evaluating a film for
its significance
University to the study of social movements, be University
of Colorado it in its depiction of a social movement or
of Colorado
the voice CO
Boulder, that80309
it gives to a movement, or 2) Witnessing firsthand
Boulder, COand critically evaluating a social
80309
movement activity or collective action event.
Jan Phillips
Option 1: Sociologically analyzing a film Joel Stillerman
Film is not just
Behavioral a component of popular culture or key
Science formValley
Grand of massState
media; it is also an
University
important voice
University that brings
of Southern relevance to numerous political
Maine/ Allendale,issues
MIand debates occurring in
49401
society. In addition
Lewiston-Auburn it is a viable means with which to
College observe social movement activity when it
stillejo@gvsu.edu
is otherwise
Lewiston, MEunobservable
04240 as when it occurred in the past, or in places other than in our own
backyard. With this option, you are to observe a social
jphillip@bates.edu movement
Deborah Thorne depicted in film as if you were
“in the field” and analyze it using the theoretical perspectives,
Department ideas, and otherand
of Sociology tools you have
developed
Meghan in sociology.
Justice
The details and write-up Athens, OH 45701
As when DE
Newark, observing
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
megrich@udel.edu witnessing it as if reality. Thus, you must
Wallendorf
try to become engulfed in the activities, characters, images,
Departmentand themes of the film so as to
of Marketing
analyze Ritzer
George the events from a sociological perspective. Eller College of Management
In analyzingofthe
University film you want to provide not only description
Maryland Tucson, AZ of 85721
events and background of the
social movement/protest
College Park, MD 20742activities but also must analyze it by considering the following
guidelines and questions as appropriate:
ritzer@socy.umd.edu
Frederick Wherry
1.
J. Michael Ryan Can the actions depicted in the film beDepartment
consideredof a social movement or is
Sociology
it more
Department an example of less permanent or transitory
of Sociology collective
University action events? How
of Michigan
doesofitMaryland
University fit the definition and conceptualizationAnnof social
Arbor,movements
MI 48109 that we have
Collegeexamined? Discuss, citing what evidence of ffwherry@umich.edu
Park, MD 20742 ideology, organization, and tactics is
present in the protest activities. Make your argument citing clear evidence from
mryan@socy.umd.edu
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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Laura3. Miller Discuss a component of the social movement Juliet Schordynamics as depicted in the
film. ofThere
Department are a large number of possible options
Sociology here, so be specific with what
519 McGuinn
Pearlman best103fits your movement and film. For example, 140 what role does institutional
Commonwealth Ave.
Brandeis authority
University have in provoking or limiting movement Bostonactivities
College or how is the
Waltham, movement
MA 02454 or events surrounding it framed byChestnut
participants
Hill,orMAthose outside of the
02467
movement? Other options include movementjuliet.schor@bc.edu
lamiller@brandeis.edu decline/history, barriers to
mobilization, internal struggles and leadership, bureaucratization, cooptation,
globalization, etc.
4. of Business
College Finally, briefly critique the film for itsDepartment
usefulness of in capturing
Sociologythe essence
Bus 468of the social movement of interest and the broader study of Hall
219 Ketchum social movements.
What
University of were its strengths and weaknesses? How
Colorado close didofitColorado
University depict reality as
Boulder,opposed
CO 80309 to being merely “Hollywood fluff”? Boulder, CO 80309
These are the essential points that you could consider in your paper, assuming their relevance to
the film
Jan of choice. Focus on the elements most appropriate
Phillips for your analysis and feel free to
Joel Stillerman
include additional
Department of Socialextensions
and as appropriate. There are
2166 multiple
AuSable waysHallthat the write-up for this
assignment Science
Behavioral can be done depending on the film and social Grandmovement
Valley Stateof interest and the above
University
considerations
University will be easier
of Southern Maine/to do for some films than for others.
Allendale, MI 49401
I have attached
Lewiston, ME 04240a list of potential films from which you can select as an appendix to this
document. I encourage you to select something that Deborah
jphillip@bates.edu reflects your interest in a particular social
Thorne
movement. If you have questions about any of these Department please let meofknow. Also,and
Sociology this list is by no
Meghan Ashlin Rich
means exhaustive Anthropology
and I am always searching for additional options, so if you are interested in
viewing something
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of Sociology the list or give me ideas forOhio
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be on the list, please let me know.
University
Option 2: of Delaware analyzing a social movement
Sociologically thorned@ohio.edu
or collective action event
Newark, DE 19716
For this option you can take part at a couple of levels.Melanie
megrich@udel.edu You can either fully participate in the
Wallendorf
activity, thus doing what marchers and protestors do,Department or you can simply observe from the
of Marketing
sidelines.
George Ritzer This choice is yours. The most important Eller thingCollege
is that you enable yourself to become
of Management
engulfed
Department in the surroundings of the activities so as toUniversity
of Sociology adequatelyofdescribe
Arizonaand analyze the events
from a sociological
University of Maryland perspective. This is what the essence
Tucson,of fieldwork
AZ 85721to study social movements
is all about!
ritzer@socy.umd.edu
At the event you want to look for and record a number of thingsWherry
Frederick including, but certainly not
limited
J. Michaelto the
Ryanfollowing considerations: Department of Sociology
1. HowofisMaryland
University this event indicative of a social movement as depicted
Ann Arbor, in course materials?
MI 48109
CollegeThatPark,is,MD
what makes it a movement? Does it ffwherry@umich.edu
20742 fit with your expectations of what
you thought it was going to be? How is it similar to other movements/protest
mryan@socy.umd.edu
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
Laura Miller What areSchortheir demands? Why are
they of
Department here?
4. Are103
Pearlman there counter-protests? How do opposing140 sides interact with each
Commonwealth Ave. other?
Brandeis What claims do counter-protestors make? Boston College
University
5. What
Waltham, MArole did institutional authorities play inChestnut
02454 the day's Hill,
events?
MAWhat
02467role did the
police have? Were they a large presence? juliet.schor@bc.edu
6. What kind of media presence was there? Did local news and mainstream media
portray events differently than you observed?Sara Steen
Lisa Peñaloza
7. How
College do you feel about participating/observing?
of Business Why didofyou
Department choose one option
Sociology
Bus 468versus another? 219 Ketchum Hall
While in the
Boulder, CO field
80309you will want to record your observations
Boulder,asCO carefully
80309 as possible, either with a
miniature voice recorder or small notebook. A digital
penaloza@colorado.edu cameral is an excellent research tool as
steen@colorado.edu
well. Thorough field notes and visual or recorded material are essential because the human mind
retains
Jan vastly greater details of what is written down Joel
Phillips or captured
Stillermanelectronically as opposed to
what is just heard
Department or seen.
of Social and In addition to observations,2166interviewing
AuSable Hall participants is also a
valuable
Behavioral source of information, enabling you to garner
Science a number
Grand ValleyofState
feelings and perspectives on
University
the event. Finally,
University it is Maine/
of Southern also important to collect otherAllendale,
data and supplementary
MI 49401 materials
associated with theCollege
Lewiston-Auburn event including various flyers being distributed, newspaper articles, and so
stillejo@gvsu.edu
forth. Search
Lewiston, MEfor media coverage of the event prior to and after it takes place. Such archival
04240
material has important stories to tell. The more details
jphillip@bates.edu you walk
Deborah away with from the days
Thorne
events, the better your analysis will be so be a good scavenger.
Department
Writing of Sociology
up your observationsand Criminal Ohio University
In general, of
University I expect
Delawareeveryone to briefly answer the question "what is a social movement?" using
thorned@ohio.edu
course materials
Newark, DE 19716 and observations from the day. Then, with regard to the events you witness,
you should decide upon a theme to guide their observations
megrich@udel.edu Melanieand use this to write the remainder of
Wallendorf
the paper. See the questions above pertaining to films for additional
Department ideas. This is what will
of Marketing
make
George theRitzer
paper scholarly and sociological, as opposed to aCollege
Eller mere reporting of events. The social
of Management
movement
Departmentorofcollective
Sociologyaction event will serve as your case andof
University principle
Arizonadata source. The key
is that you want
University to make observations and use them as
of Maryland evidence
Tucson, AZto support more analytical
85721
considerations.
ritzer@socy.umd.edu
General guidelines for both options Frederick Wherry
The paper isof
Department due in class on January 30 and is worthUniversity
Sociology a total of 50 points. Be certain to keep a
of Michigan
disk or hardofcopy
University of your work when turning in the paper.
Maryland If youMI
Ann Arbor, are48109
unable to turn the paper in
during class,
College Park,please give it in to the administrative assistant
MD 20742 or student worker in the Department
ffwherry@umich.edu
of Sociology and Anthropology, Bentley Annex 162, so that they can stamp and/or sign it to
mryan@socy.umd.edu
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
Laura Miller that Schor
contains your name, date, and title of
the paper as of
Department well as a separate bibliography page at the
Sociology 519end to include scholarly references you
McGuinn
have used 103
Pearlman (if any—these are not required). The cover 140page and bibliography
Commonwealth Ave.page do not count
against your
Brandeis page total.
As stated in the syllabus, late papers will be accepted,
lamiller@brandeis.edu but only at the cost of a 2 point deduction
juliet.schor@bc.edu
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.
Bus
Some 468
final thoughts 219 Ketchum Hall
I understand
Boulder, CO that because it is the first part of the quarter
80309 you will
Boulder, not have all of the analytical
CO 80309
tools at your disposal that you will for the second assignment
penaloza@colorado.edu and term paper. Therefore, this
steen@colorado.edu
paper will likely include more description and reflection upon the event than will be necessary in
latterPhillips
Jan papers. In this regard, students should feel freeJoel to use whatever outside references
Stillerman
necessary to of
Department provide
Socialcontext
and for the paper. 2166 AuSable Hall
I am willingoftoSouthern
University assist you in any way possible duringAllendale,
Maine/ the research MIprocess,
49401 be it deciding on a
film, discussing your
Lewiston-Auburn ideas, finding sources, or assistance
College with any number of other questions
stillejo@gvsu.edu
you may have.
Lewiston, Please come to me with concerns and problems. Past experience has shown that
ME 04240
students typically do better on papers when they consult
jphillip@bates.edu the instructor
Deborah Thorne along the way. If you
need help, please do not hesitate to ask! Department of Sociology and
Good luck! of Sociology and Criminal
Newark, DE 19716
ritzer@socy.umd.edu
Frederick Wherry
mryan@socy.umd.edu
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Laura MillerA sample of social movement films:
Appendix: Juliet Schor
Pearlman 103• American Standoff • Long Night's
140 Commonwealth Ave. Journey into Day
• And the Band Played On
Brandeis University • The Lorax
Boston College
Waltham, MA • Animal
02454 Farm Chestnut•Hill, MA 02467
Malcolm X
• Beyond Rangoon juliet.schor@bc.edu
• Matewan
• Born on the Fourth of July • The Milagro Beanfield War
Lisa Peñaloza
• Bloody Sunday Sara Steen• Moving the Mountain
• Bread and Roses • A Place Called Chiapas
• Breaking the Bank • Romero
• 80309
Chicano! History of the • Schindler's List
Boulder, CO Boulder, CO 80309
Mexican American Civil Rights • Sir No Sir
Movement • Some Mother's Son
•
Jan Phillips Citizen Ruth • Stonewall
Joel Stillerman
Department•of Cry Freedom
Social and • Store
2166 AuSable HallWars: When Wal-Mart
Behavioral •Science
Do the Right Thing Grand ValleyComes to Town
State University
• Southern
University of Erin Brockavich
Maine/ •
Allendale, MI 49401A Story of Solidarity
Sweat:
• Eyes
Lewiston-Auburn on the Prize (Part I or II)
College • The Big One
stillejo@gvsu.edu
Lewiston, ME• 04240
Fight Back, Fight AIDS: 15 • The Birth of a Nation
Years of ACT UP
jphillip@bates.edu Deborah•Thorne
The Boys in the Band
• Four Little Girls Department• The Burning Season
of Sociology and
• Freedom
Meghan Ashlin Rich on My Mind • The Power of One
Anthropology
Department•of Get on the and
Sociology Bus Criminal Ohio University
• The Righteous Babes
Justice • Gandhi Athens, OH 45701
• The War at Home
University of
• Delaware
Hairspray thorned@ohio.edu
• This is What Democracy Looks
Newark, DE• 19716
Harlan County U.S.A. Like
megrich@udel.edu
• In Whose Honor? Melanie Wallendorf
• To Save the Land and People
• Iron Jawed Angels • Union Maids
• Justice in the Coalfields • ofWith God on Our Side
Department of Sociology University Arizona
• Maryland
University of Las Madres: The Mothers of the Tucson, AZ 85721
Plaza de Mayo
ritzer@socy.umd.edu
Frederick Wherry
mryan@socy.umd.edu
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Laura Miller Social Movements in the News
Assignment: Juliet Schor
Stephen J.103
Pearlman Scanlan 140 Commonwealth Ave.
Ohio University
In this assignment you are to become a “media expert”
lamiller@brandeis.edu on a specific contemporary social
juliet.schor@bc.edu
movement by examining coverage of it using media outlets in the United States or from around
the world.
Lisa PeñalozaYou are responsible for compiling a collection/journal
Sara Steen of news, popular press or
alternative
College media treatments and summarizing coverage
of Business of the social
Department movement and its key
of Sociology
components,
Bus 468 issues, actors, framing, dynamics, or other
219elements
KetchumofHallinterest. In total you are to
collect, analyze,
University and synthesize at least 3 but no moreUniversity
of Colorado than 7 treatments discussing a social
of Colorado
movement
Boulder, COof 80309
choice. The movement can be the same one thatCO
Boulder, you80309
are examining for your term
paper or another of interest.

Department
Why Social of Social and and the Media?
Movements 2166 AuSable Hall
In an era ofofincreased
University Southernaccess
Maine/ to various media and growing public
Allendale, MIawareness
49401 of and interest in
numerous economic,
Lewiston-Auburn social, and political issues and the
College activities of movements, it is essential to
stillejo@gvsu.edu
critically evaluate
Lewiston, ME 04240 how the media portrays contentious politics. This is especially true because
the media is often the only source of information thatDeborah
jphillip@bates.edu a great many
Thorne citizens will have on these
issues. Print and television media outlets and electronic sources such
Department as the Internet
of Sociology and are powerful
forces in Ashlin
Meghan shapingRich
the public perception of social movement concerns and the image of those
Anthropology
movements and
Department their participants.
of Sociology In addition, the mainstream
and Criminal media can potentially act as
Ohio University
gatekeepers with regard to the importance of variousAthens,
Justice social issues and the movements that
OH 45701
address them.
University It is therefore essential that social movement
of Delaware scholars examine these outlets
thorned@ohio.edu
critically DE
Newark, and19716
evaluate their role with regard to social movement dynamics. The popular media
are most likely the primary source for peoples’ understanding
megrich@udel.edu various issues and developing
Melanie Wallendorf
sympathy or disdain for the social movement and its Department
cause. of Marketing
Potential Media
Department Outlets
For this assignment
College Park, MD 20742 you are to use your sociological mwallendorf@eller.arizona.edu
imagination to analyze examples of how the
media presents a social movement to the public. You will collect evidence from the public
ritzer@socy.umd.edu
record to which the media contributes and portrays aFrederick
social movement’s
Wherry image and activities.
There
J. is a broad
Michael Ryan range of sources that shape public perception
Department of of
theSociology
world’s social issues and
the relationships
Department that the social movements have to them.
of Sociology Unlike
University of academic
Michiganresearch that is
grounded inofempiricism
University Maryland and theory akin to the scientificAnnmethod,
Arbor, MImedia and Internet presentation
48109
of issuesPark,
College have MD
the freedom
20742 to illicit more emotion and social action, while at the same time
ffwherry@umich.edu
potentially take some liberties with truth or reality. The media has more leeway to manipulate
mryan@socy.umd.edu
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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search on the LexisNexis Academic Database accessible
Laura Miller Julietthrough
Schor the library’s website
(http://www.library.ohiou.edu/find/articles-newspapers.html).
Department of Sociology 519 McGuinn LexisNexis is especially helpful
for pulling103
Pearlman articles on a specific movement from multiple outlets in addition
140 Commonwealth to obtaining archival
Ave.
articles
Brandeisspanning more than three decades. Students Boston
University can thenCollege
move to other archived and more
recent
Waltham,coverage from specific outlets such as:
1. ABC News (http://abcnews.go.com/)
Lisa Peñaloza 2. BBC Online (http://www.bbc.co.uk/)
Sara Steen
College of Business 3. CBS News (http://www.cbsnews.com/)
Bus 468 4. CNN (http://www.cnn.com/) 219 Ketchum Hall
University of Colorado5. The Economist (http://www.economist.com/index.html)
Boulder, CO 803096. Fox News (http://www.foxnews.com/) Boulder, CO 80309
penaloza@colorado.edu 7. NBC News/MSNBC (http://www.msnbc.msn.com)
steen@colorado.edu
8. Newshour with Jim Lehrer (http://www.pbs.org/newshour/)
Jan Phillips 9. National Public Radio (http://www.npr.org/)
Joel Stillerman
Department of Social 10. and
Newsweek (http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3032542/site/newsweek/)
2166 AuSable Hall
Behavioral Science11. The New York Times (http://www.nytimes.com/)
University of Southern12. Reuters
Maine/ (http://today.reuters.com/news/home.aspx)
Allendale, MI 49401
13. Time (http://www.time.com/time/)
Lewiston, ME 04240 14. U.S. News and World Report (http://www.usnews.com/usnews/home.htm)
jphillip@bates.edu15. The Washington Post (http://www.washingtonpost.com/)
Deborah Thorne
The above
Meghan sources
Ashlin are mainstream media outlets. For
Rich an extensive list of alternative outlets you
Anthropology
may wish to of
Department consult the Alternative
Sociology Press Center’s suggestions
and Criminal at
Ohio University
http://www.altpress.org/direct.html
Justice or examine the offerings
Athens, OHof the Independent Media Center
45701
(http://www.indymedia.org/en/index.shtml)
University of Delaware and its numerous links or the International
thorned@ohio.edu
Progressive
Newark, DEPublications
19716 Network (http://www.ippn.ws/). Finally, there are other specific print
and electronic sources that might be helpful for locating
megrich@udel.edu both Wallendorf
Melanie feature and news length articles
including The Christian Science Monitor, In These Times, Department
MotherofJones, Ms., The Nation, or The
Marketing
Progressive
George Ritzer among numerous others. Eller College of Management
You are free
University oftoMaryland
select articles from any combination Tucson,
of sources.
AZ You
85721can concentrate on one
source
CollegeorPark,
examine multiple outlets. You can compare
MD 20742 mainstream and alternative media outlets,
domestic or international. Do what best suits your needs and provides the most in-depth and
ritzer@socy.umd.edu
detailed analysis of your social movement of choice.Frederick Wherry
Doing the write-up Ann Arbor, MI 48109
You are to write a synopsis and critique of how the social movement has been portrayed
mryan@socy.umd.edu
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
Laura Miller on the second floor of the
Juliet Schor
Alden Library
Department of (call # HM586 .A54 1997x)
Your write-up
Brandeis should be a critical assessment of the Boston
University social movement
College as presented in the
media. Note
Waltham, MA that “critical” does not necessarily mean
02454 “criticize”
Chestnut Hill,but
MAinstead
02467implies that
you discuss the positive and negative features of howjuliet.schor@bc.edu
lamiller@brandeis.edu the social movement has been
portrayed—that is, how the media has framed the movement, its actors, goals, tactics, and
so forth.
Lisa Note that articles about the same movementSara
Peñaloza from various media outlets or other
Steen
sources may
College provide alternative views of the movement’s
of Business activities,
Department thus making for
of Sociology
interesting
Bus 468 comparison. A key consideration for the 219 writeKetchum
up wouldHallbe whether the
movement is
University of viewed
Coloradosympathetically or critically byUniversity
the media outlet and how this might
of Colorado
help or hinder
Boulder, the movement. In other words, could Boulder,
CO 80309 the mediaCO serve as an asset or a
80309
barrier to social movement success?
Other components of interest (though certainly all cannot

Jan Phillips be addressed given the
Joel Stillerman
limitations ofofthe
Department paper)
Social andcould include differences between mainstream
2166 AuSable Hall versus alternative
media coverage
Behavioral Scienceof a movement, how media sources inside
Grand and outside
Valley Statea University
country might
portray the of
University same movement,
Southern Maine/how social movement organizations
Allendale, MIrepresenting
49401 the
movement might attempt
Lewiston-Auburn Collegeto influence how they are portrayed in the media, the
stillejo@gvsu.edu
significance
Lewiston, ME of 04240
visual imagery (film, still photos) for presenting the movement, how
individuals (leaders or rank and file activists) within Deborah
jphillip@bates.edu the movement
Thorneare portrayed, the
political implications of the movement, how the media is a platform
Department for movement-
of Sociology and
countermovement
Meghan Ashlin Rich dynamics, and so forth. There areAnthropology
countless other possibilities and you
should feel free
Department to exploreand
of Sociology what you believe is most fitting
Criminal to your interests and the
Ohio University
movement
Justice itself. Thus, you should feel free to modify any ofOH
Athens, these considerations, or
45701
better yet develop
University of Delawareyour own creative way to synopsize/synthesize
thorned@ohio.edu your analysis of the
social
Newark,movement
DE 19716 as seen through the media. There is a lot of flexibility in the write-up,
so focus on what develops out of your media sources.Melanie Wallendorf
megrich@udel.edu
Finally, feel free to use your media sources to complement
George Ritzer your term
Eller College paper research.
of Management
Although
Department your term paper incorporate scholarly sources
of Sociology familiarity
University with articles from the
of Arizona
media will of
University help you to become an informed scholar and
Maryland contribute
Tucson, greatly to your
AZ 85721
understanding
College Park, MD not only to the social movement of interest
20742 but the media dynamics
surrounding it.
ritzer@socy.umd.edu
Frederick Wherry
Department
General of Sociology
guidelines University of Michigan
This assignment
College Park, MD is 20742
due in class on February 27 and ffwherry@umich.edu
is worth a total of 75 points Be
certain to keep a disk or hard copy of your work when turning in the paper. If you are
mryan@socy.umd.edu
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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Papers should contain no more than 2-3 pages of text.
Laura Miller They
Juliet should be typed, double-spaced,
Schor
with one-inch
Department ofmargins
Sociologyall around. Font should be of519
legible size, no larger than 12, and no
McGuinn
smaller than
Pearlman 10310 point (this document is 11 pt.). Papers
140should be stapled (please,
Commonwealth Ave. no wasteful
plastic or University
Brandeis cardboard covers) with a separate title pageBoston
that contains
Collegeyour name, date, and title of
the paper as
Waltham, MA well as a separate bibliography page at the
02454 end asHill,
Chestnut noted
MAabove.
02467The cover page and
bibliography page do not count against your page total.
As stated
Lisa in the syllabus, late papers will be accepted,
Peñaloza butSteen
Sara only at the cost of a 3 point deduction
for each of
College workday
Businesslate. Completion of this and the other imagination
Department paper is required to receive
of Sociology
credit468
Bus for the course, regardless of the grade that would
219be receivedHall
Ketchum without doing the project.
Boulder,
Some final COthoughts
80309 Boulder, CO 80309
I am willing to assist you in any way possible during the process of completing this assignment,
be itPhillips
Jan locating articles, discussing your ideas, finding Joel
sources, or assistance with any number of
Stillerman
other questions
Department you may
of Social andhave. Please come to me with 2166 concerns
AuSableand problems. Past experience
Hall
has shown that
Behavioral students typically do better on assignments
Science Grand when
Valleythey consult
State the instructor along
University
the way. Ifof
University you need help,
Southern please do not hesitate to ask!
Good luck!ME 04240
Lewiston,
Newark, DE 19716
ritzer@socy.umd.edu
Frederick Wherry
mryan@socy.umd.edu
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StudentMiller
activism exercise Juliet Schor
Amory Starrof Sociology
Department 519 McGuinn
Chapman 103
Pearlman University 140 Commonwealth Ave.
This exercise
Waltham, MAcan be used in any sociology class, notChestnut
02454 just social movements.
Hill, MA 02467 I have used it as an
alternative final exam in my courses on Food, Introduction
lamiller@brandeis.edu to Sociology, and Race Class &
juliet.schor@bc.edu
Gender, as well as Social Movements. It could also be used as a course-long project, or in lieu of
a term-paper.
A few
Bus 468prefatory notes: 219 Ketchum Hall
1. This exercise
Boulder, CO 80309 presumes that the instructor has fairly advanced
Boulder, COfacilitation
80309 skills. I don’t
recommend using this process without these skills. More
penaloza@colorado.edu specifically, you need to be able to
steen@colorado.edu
completely withhold your own assessments of the problems and solutions being discussed and
yourPhillips
Jan own recommendations. You need familiarity with Joelconsensus-style
Stillerman decision-making, and to
be able to assist the
Department of Social and group in a highly inclusive and accountable
2166 AuSable Hall of choosing between
method
various proposals.
Behavioral ScienceYou need high sensitivity to participants’ feelings
Grand Valley about
State the process and you
University
need to be able to successfully
University of Southern Maine/ engage people at moments
Allendale, MI 49401 well as prevent
of withdrawal, as
2
people from dominating
Lewiston-Auburn College the group. stillejo@gvsu.edu
Lewiston, ME 04240
2. As David Croteau points out, social movements scholars
jphillip@bates.edu Deborah “are at a distinct disadvantage in
Thorne
pursuing mainstream academic careers”, finding lessDepartment publication of opportunities
Sociology and since their subject
does
Meghannot Ashlin
lend itself
Richto large survey data sets nor to “incremental”
Anthropologycontributions to theoretical
“paradigm development”, and
Department of Sociology and Criminal being less likely to receive
Ohio external
University funding than other subfields,
which
Justice“marginalizes social movements scholarship in the eyes
Athens, OHof45701
educational institutions
increasingly fixated
University of Delaware on externally funded research.” While “applied
thorned@ohio.edu sociological work…is less
valued inDE
Newark, many sociology departments than theory development and basic research”, some
19716
megrich@udel.eduinterests are acceptable when linked
subfields’ applied to professions
Melanie Wallendorf (urban planning, policing,
social work). The activist industry neither demands nor accommodates
Department professional graduates,
of Marketing
and the suggestion
George Ritzer of training activists makes universities quite uncomfortable.
Eller College of Management He points out
that “a century of
Department of Sociology struggle and an honor roll of committed scholars have
University of Arizona failed to fundamentally
change the of
University barriers facing scholar-activists in the academy.”
Maryland Tucson, And he warns that “refusal or
AZ 85721
inability to
College Park, conform to the dominant disciplinary conventions means greatly diminished job
3 MD 20742 mwallendorf@eller.arizona.edu
prospects.” There are a variety of professional risks in engaging students in activism. The
ritzer@socy.umd.edu
experiences of many of our elder colleagues are not representativeFrederick Wherry of what is happening to junior
faculty
J. in universities
Michael Ryan and on the job market today. Department of Sociology
Department of Sociology in campus politics in threeUniversity
I have participated ways: [1] of
I sometimes
Michigan work as a regular
member of of
University organizations
Maryland that include students, staff,Ann and faculty.
Arbor, MI [2]48109
I use service-learning to
provide students
College Park, MD 20742 with powerful experiences of witness and participation
ffwherry@umich.edu in local political
activity. [3] This
mryan@socy.umd.edu exercise provides guided but not directed experience in political organizing.
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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Despite my clarity about the differences and limitations
Laura Miller Julietof Schor
my roles, campus administration has
accused
Department me ofof masterminding
Sociology and orchestrating student
519activities
McGuinnwhen undertaken by groups of
which
Pearlman I am103only a normal member, as well as student140 activities and organizations
Commonwealth Ave. with which I
had no connection
Brandeis Universitywhatsoever (really). Once my connection with student activism became
Boston College
known,
Waltham, rather
MAwild 02454rumours were generated. (My wearied Chestnut chair would
Hill, MAcall me in and say “I’m
02467
quite sure you are not giving your students extra credit
lamiller@brandeis.edu for throwing bricks through Starbucks’
juliet.schor@bc.edu
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 Departmentwere ofwidely interpreted as directive,
Sociology
despite
Bus 468the fact that I have no history of political activity or writingHall
219 Ketchum which can be taken to
endorse hierarchical
University of Colorado organizations. I am continually University
puzzled by of how my peers across the
Colorado
campus, who
Boulder, like me are frustrated by the failure of our
CO 80309 maximum
Boulder, powers of manipulation at the
CO 80309
task of getting students to read, can imagine that I somehow
penaloza@colorado.edu successfully manipulate students to
steen@colorado.edu
the inconveniences of activism.
Setting out as an assistant professor to do what
Jan Phillips JoelI thought was “good sociology” by
Stillerman
forging
Department connections
of Socialbetween
and the issues in our books,2166
our campus,
AuSableand Hallour society, I have been
taken by surprise
Behavioral Science when some of my colleagues, whose ideologies
Grand Valleyand scholarly
State focus differ little
University
from my own,
University have taken
of Southern offense to my public exhortations
Maine/ Allendale, to action.
MI 49401 I was not aware that I was
engaging in activity
Lewiston-Auburn that would be seen as professionally
College inappropriate by colleagues in
stillejo@gvsu.edu
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
jphillip@bates.edu lectures
Deborah (as reported by students). A
Thorne
colleague expresses the same problem: “They wantedDepartment to hire a ‘political’ person,
of Sociology andbut it has
become
Meghan clearAshlin that the faculty is divided over what that
Rich means, and few of them think _doing_
Anthropology
politics is appropriate.
Department of Sociology The
andlast year has been eye-opening
Criminal for me as people I thought were
Ohio University
supportive of my political agenda appear to be far more
Justice moderate
Athens, than I am… and I am no
OH 45701
radical.” of Delaware
University thorned@ohio.edu
I giveDE
Newark, this19716
rather extensive prefatory note not to encourage self-censorship, but because I
believe that activist-scholars should be aware of the institutional
megrich@udel.edu interpretations of such work
Melanie Wallendorf
before embarking on it. At the very least, we need toDepartmentbe savvy about addressing these issues in
of Marketing
annual
Georgereviews,
Ritzer etc., and in order to do that, we needEller a sense of how
College of such work is often
Management
misinterpreted
Department of or used against people. The friend quoted
Sociology above of
University goes on to provide some strategic
Arizona
advice:
University“The of way I do it now is by wrapping myself Tucson,
Maryland in the rhetoric
AZ 85721of service learning/global
citizenship/public
College Park, MD sociology/civic
20742 engagement...wrapmwallendorf@eller.arizona.edu
it in their orthodoxy…”
ritzer@socy.umd.edu
The exercise Frederick Wherry
I usually startofby
Department asking the students if they would like
Sociology to have some
University kind of participatory project
of Michigan
in lieu of a paper
University of Maryland or an exam. They usually say “yes”. I ask them what
Ann Arbor, MI 48109 they would like to do.
They usually have
College Park, MD 20742 a lot of good ideas. Several students usually express
ffwherry@umich.edu the desire to do
something about one (or all) of the social problems we have been studying during the semester. I
mryan@socy.umd.edu
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
Laura Miller Juliet Schor methods of trying to hear from
nearly everyone
Department instead of only the ones who have a 519
of Sociology lot to say. I do not react to any of the ideas.
McGuinn
Once the board
Pearlman 103 is overflowing and I feel that they’ve140 runCommonwealth
out of ideas, I stopAve.and step back and
look at it with
Brandeis them. This is a good time to mention how
University Boston great it is that they care about all of
College
these things
Waltham, MA and02454
how many great ideas they have. Chestnut Hill, MA 02467
The things on the board will be of many different
lamiller@brandeis.edu types. Some will be a problem like
juliet.schor@bc.edu
“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 I draw connections (lines on the board,Department
Business or making another list, without erasing
of Sociology
anything)
Bus 468 between groups of ideas. I try to get the 30219 items on the board
Ketchum Hall down to 5-8 issues that
capture almost
University all of the original ideas. (Always, a few
of Colorado outliers are
University discarded. I am attentive to
of Colorado
not discarding
Boulder, CO 80309 anything that was the only suggestionBoulder,
of a particular
CO 80309student. I feel more
comfortable discarding ideas that were proposed as one
penaloza@colorado.edu of several by a single student.) I give
steen@colorado.edu
short names to each of these 5-8 ideas, each of which are jumbles of possibilities, different
levels,
Jan etc. Then I use some sort of democratic process
Phillips Joel forStillerman
getting down to one or two of these.
(Note that atof
Department this point,and
Social what they are choosing still contains
2166 AuSablea lot ofHall
different possibilities.) I say
“one or two”
Behavioral because at this point I have to make a judgment
Science Grand Valley aboutState
whether enough of them are
University
going to beof
University happy with Maine/
Southern one idea, whether there need Allendale,
to be two groups.
MI 49401 (Personally, I would work
with topics in multiples
Lewiston-Auburn Collegeof 20 students. In a class of 80, I would have 4 topics. But if I had a class
stillejo@gvsu.edu
of 20 with ME
Lewiston, two 04240
really strong interests, I would probably let them have 2 groups.) Also sometimes
one of the ideas is problematic because it is not closely
jphillip@bates.edu enoughThorne
Deborah related to course materials or I
know that they will not have much to work with if they take on that
Department issue. Sometimes
of Sociology and I get them
down to three
Meghan Ashlinand I say that I reserve the right to choose
Rich one of the three topics, and I’ll
Anthropology
announce myofdecision
Department Sociology next
andclass. (The authority thatOhio
Criminal I reserve as part of this process is not used
University
as my political preference, but to try to make sure that
Justice they will
Athens, OHhave45701a good organizing
experience,ofwhich
University means, that they will find some resources
Delaware to work with, they will be relatively
thorned@ohio.edu
safe, theyDE
Newark, will19716
be able to get something accomplished, etc. Sometimes I do not exercise my
reserved authority at all, sometimes I do it several times
megrich@udel.edu Melanieduring a project.)
Wallendorf
At this point I let them know that I will be announcingDepartment to of
them the procedures, grading,
Marketing
etc. for the
George Ritzerassignment and I emphasize that any student Ellerwho becomes
College uncomfortable with any
of Management
aspect of theofprocess
Department at any time, can make a specialUniversity
Sociology arrangement of with me to get their grade in a
Arizona
different way
University (more about this below.)
CollegeOnce
Park,the MDtopics
20742 are chosen, its time for some mwallendorf@eller.arizona.edu
background research and reflection. Betsy
Leondar-Wright of MRAP4 suggests having the students develop research questions about the
ritzer@socy.umd.edu
issue based on the course readings and class discussions. Kim Bachechi
Frederick Wherry of MRAP suggests
finding
J. all of
Michael Ryan the organizations in the local area who Department
work on thisofissue, and do a little
Sociology
comparison of
Department of their approaches. (So as not to bother University
Sociology these organizations,
of MichiganI would instruct the
students to of
University justMaryland
do web research on this. More research Ann comes
Arbor,later.)
MI 48109
CollegeThePark, nextMD phase
20742 of the process is action planning. I use the attached “strategic action
ffwherry@umich.edu
planning” worksheet, which is a combination of several very similar documents gathered from
mryan@socy.umd.edu
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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and keeps
Laura track of our progress through it, which may
Miller spanSchor
Juliet 2 or 3 class sessions. Please look at it
now, as I amofgoing
Department to continue this discussion assuming
Sociology that you are familiar with it.
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Lewiston, ME 04240
Newark, DE 19716
ritzer@socy.umd.edu
Frederick Wherry
mryan@socy.umd.edu
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One of the most important lessons of this process
Laura Miller Julietand exercise is that goals must be
Schor
established before
Department tactics. This is a difficult lesson to519
of Sociology learn. Tactics are fun and creative and
McGuinn
exciting, and
Pearlman 103people have such fun coming up with them. Lots of tactics will
140 Commonwealth Ave.be suggested during
the goals-setting
Brandeis Universitypart of the process. Assign someoneBoston to keepCollege
track of them. In the process, you
are teaching
Waltham, MA students
02454 to distinguish between a goal and a tacticHill,
Chestnut – a very useful analytic process.
MA 02467
It may take several class sessions to get all the way through
lamiller@brandeis.edu the worksheet, and several parts of it
juliet.schor@bc.edu
may require some research outside of class (such as finding out about what approaches have
already
Lisa been tried to addressing this problem). In mySara
Peñaloza experience,
Steen students volunteer for these
early research
College tasks. You will probably establish a point
of Business system or
Department ofsomething
Sociology to track and reward
this activity,
Bus 468 as well as distribute the opportunities fairly. 219 Ketchum Hall
UniversityDuring the action planning phase, I am a neutral
of Colorado facilitator.
University I do help identify when two
of Colorado
people areCO
Boulder, saying
80309 the same thing in different ways, orBoulder, when two COconflicting
80309 proposals could be
seen as complementary (“you can do both!”). The most
penaloza@colorado.edu interventionist thing that I do is try to
steen@colorado.edu
nudge them toward a semi-realistic scope of action in terms of time. Here again one of the major
things
Jan they are to learn in this process, is how long itJoel
Phillips all takes. They will inevitably trip against
Stillerman
this problem,ofand
Department I doand
Social not want to rescue them from 2166 it entirely. However,
AuSable Hall I do try to rescue them
from it a little
Behavioral bit, in the interest of their having a somewhat
Science satisfying
Grand Valley Stateexperience
Universityof collective
action. In the
University of interest
SouthernofMaine/
successful scope, I might, only if necessary,
Allendale, provide my opinion during
MI 49401
an evaluation of various
Lewiston-Auburn College tactical options. I would do stillejo@gvsu.edu
this by saying “this one looks very do-able
to me” or “that
Lewiston, will be quite hard to do in 5 weeks, but you can do a piece of it.” Or “this one
ME 04240
requires fewer resources and is less dependent on getting
jphillip@bates.edu DeborahotherThorne
groups to do it with you, so it
might be easier.” I should point out that I give opinions in inverseofrelation
Department Sociology withandmy sense that the
group reveres
Meghan AshlinmeRichand will listen. (Ergo, if the group Anthropology
seems highly dependent and respectful, I
restrain my opinions
Department more.and
of Sociology If ICriminal
feel confident that they willUniversity
Ohio ignore me if they see fit, then I am
more comfortable sharing.) As a facilitator I do feel comfortable
Justice Athens, OH reminding
45701 them, frequently, of
how much time
University they have available.
Newark,Once the action plan is in place, we brainstorm a list of necessary working groups:
DE 19716
Common working groups are:
George •Ritzer logistics Eller College of Management
Department• mediaof Sociology University of Arizona
University• of research
Maryland& publications Tucson, AZ 85721
College•Park, artwork
• outreach to other groups
ritzer@socy.umd.edu
• legal5 Frederick Wherry
5
I have extensive
University of Maryland training as a legal worker with regard to activism
Ann Arbor,andMIcivil liberties, and am able to assess
48109
legal situations very
College Park, MD 20742 well. If you are in doubt exercise caution, but
ffwherry@umich.eduabout free speech rights and
also educate yourself
students’ rights on campus, to be sure you are not discouraging students from activities that are legal. Ask the legal
mryan@socy.umd.edu
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
Laura Miller want Schor
to be part of. At this point I reiterate
that any students
Department who are not comfortable with the project,
of Sociology the process, or who do not see a
519 McGuinn
group
Pearlmanthey103want to work with can be “sideliners”. They 140will make privateAve.
Commonwealth arrangements with me
about
Brandeisdoing comparable work. This also applies to students
University Boston who have schedule constraints that
College
would
Waltham, prevent
MA them
02454from working in a group outsideChestnut of class. Hill, MA 02467
I keep a list of special tasks for sideliners andjuliet.schor@bc.edu
lamiller@brandeis.edu other students who need special
arrangements, which I distribute according to their various issues and needs. Here are some
tasks,Peñaloza
Lisa but you should watch for others (keep an ongoing Saralist):
Steen
• vibes-watcher.
Bus 468 This person is responsible for paying 219 attention
Ketchumto the human dynamics of the
Hall
organizing
University group and giving feedback about things
of Colorado like people
University dominating, people feeling
of Colorado
left out,
Boulder, COconflicts
80309 that were resolved badly, some Boulder, people being too overloaded with work, etc.
CO 80309
they report to the group, not to the instructor. Their
penaloza@colorado.edu mission is to encourage the group
steen@colorado.edu
process, not to police or report on freeloaders, etc. They will write a report on what they
Jan learned
Phillips from this job as their final piece of work.Joel (obviously
Stillermanthis is not a good job for a
student who
Department is politically
of Social and opposed to the class project, but it could
2166 AuSable Hallbe a good job for a student
who hasScience
Behavioral severe schedule constraints, or a very quiet Grandstudent
Valleywho feels
State uncomfortable with
University
“contention”,
University or an international
of Southern Maine/ student, who is concerned
Allendale, not MI to participate in anything
49401
political.)
Lewiston, ME 04240
• researchers. These are great jobs for “sideliners”,Deborah
jphillip@bates.edu particularly students who are politically
Thorne
opposed to the class project. You can assign themDepartment all kinds ofofhistorical
Sociology or and
organizational
research
Meghan relevant
Ashlin Rich to the project, which they can present to the class. one person could
Anthropology
research how this issue
Department of Sociology and Criminalhas been addressed in national history,
Ohio University another could look at it
internationally, and another person or team couldAthens,
Justice contactOH community
45701 members who have
worked on this
University of Delaware issue. (I am strongly opposed to letting students
thorned@ohio.edu loose on community
organizations,
Newark, DE 19716 because it is a huge burden on organizers’ time. But assigning one student or a
team of two to be responsible for doing some interviews
megrich@udel.edu Melanieand then bringing this information
Wallendorf
back to the group would be ok. I would encourage them to interview
Department of Marketing ordinary members,
rather
George than leaders of organizations. In campus projects,
Ritzer it would
Eller College be really useful to contact
of Management
alumni who have
Department of Sociology been part of past struggles.) University of Arizona
•College
notetaker & document
Park, MD 20742 master. This person might be responsible for photocopying tasks for
the group,
ritzer@socy.umd.eduand keeping track of documents that multiple groups need to access.
Frederick Wherry
J. MichaelIf I Ryan
have students who are really opposed to the project, I of
Department usually just ask them what
Sociology
they’d like to do
Department of Sociologyinstead, and let them do it. It might University of Michigan aspect of the class
e a media report on some
they disagreed
University with, or even a term paper. I add someAnn
of Maryland questions
Arbor, and criteria, usually to bring
MI 48109
their project more
College Park, MD 20742 into focus of course material. It’s hard for them
ffwherry@umich.eduto complain disruptively if
you ask them what they want to do and then let them do it. With these people happy, I can focus
mryan@socy.umd.edu
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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Often, but not always, the projects in my classes
Laura Miller Juliethave ended with some kind of action:
Schor
delivering petitions
Department to the university president, leafleting
of Sociology and doing street theater, meeting with
519 McGuinn
an administration
Pearlman 103 official, organizing a campus event. 140Since I think it important
Commonwealth Ave. that the students
do not defer
Brandeis to my wisdom and experience during these
University events,
Boston I often do not attend. I require
College
the students
Waltham, MAto 02454
provide some minimal documentationChestnut of the eventHill,(aMA
few02467
photographs), and
report on it during a debriefing. They also show me any
lamiller@brandeis.edu posters and educational material that
juliet.schor@bc.edu
they created. When the student organizing is clearly strong enough that I am not worried they
will turn
Lisa to ask my advice part way through and I canSara
Peñaloza justSteen
be a participant, or when it is possible
for me toofattend
College the event anonymously or at a distance,
Business I do so. of Sociology
Department
Some logistical
University notes:
• If you are
penaloza@colorado.edugoing to use this exercise as a semester-long project, great! A few things to
steen@colorado.edu
keep in mind:
Departmentoof It is very
Social anddifficult for students to work2166in groups
AuSableoutside
Hallof class. If you want this
to
Behavioral Science happen you need to emphasize thisGrand Valley State in
aspect of the class a contractual way up
University
front, at the
University of Southern beginning of the class. Allendale, MI 49401
Maine/
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
think I would like to give separate grades to each working group. I tend not to use
very complicated grading procedures. I find that about 2/3 of the students are
more interested in the project than their grade. You could make this very detailed,
with the students coming up with criteria for grading, etc., or different grades for
different work.
Newark, DEo 19716I think journaling would be a really nice addition to this exercise, but I have not
megrich@udel.edu tried it. Melanie Wallendorf
George Ritzer Try to schedule the final pieceEller of workCollege of project,
on the Management
including the action
Department of Sociology nd 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 debriefingTucson, AZ and85721
making connections to course
material. It is really sad when somehow the action happens during finals
ritzer@socy.umd.edu week and I never get a chance to meet with the students all together about
it to celebrate and debrief. Frederick Wherry
Departmentoof Schedule
Sociologya series of “deliverables” from the working
University groups during the course of
of Michigan
the project, with due dates and grades.Ann
University of Maryland If all the work
Arbor, is focused on a final event,
MI 48109
College Park, MD things move too slowly and sometimes a few people end up doing all of the last
minute work. Also it’s harder to grade their courageous action as a whole, than
mryan@socy.umd.edu
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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Contributors Juliet Schor
Paul Almeida
Pearlman 103 NewCommonwealth
140 York, NY 20027 Ave.
Dept of Sociology
Brandeis University melghoba@barnard.edu
Boston College
Texas A& M University
311 Academic Bldg Louis Esparza
College Station, TX 77840-4351
juliet.schor@bc.edu
Dept of Sociology
USA SUNY Stony Brook
Lisa Peñaloza
almeida@tamu.edu Sara
StonySteen
Brook, New York 11794-4356 USA
louis.esparza@stonybrook.edu
Emily468
Bus A. Bowman 219 Ketchum Hall
University of Colorado Marshall Ganz
Indiana
Boulder,University
CO 80309 John F. Kennedy
Boulder, School Of Government
CO 80309
SISR Room 206
penaloza@colorado.edu Mailbox 143
steen@colorado.edu
1020 E. Kirkwood Ave., Room 79 JFK Street
744 Bloomington, IN 47405-7103
Jan Phillips Cambridge,
Joel MA 02138
Stillerman
USA Marshall_Ganz@ksg.harvard.edu
emibowma@indiana.edu
Darcy K. Leach
University
Phil Brown of Southern Maine/ Allendale,
Department MI 49401
of Sociology
Lewiston-Auburn
Brown University College stillejo@gvsu.edu
Boston College
Lewiston,
Maxcy HallME
20104240 140 Commonwealth Avenue
Providence, RI 02912, USA
jphillip@bates.edu Chestnut Hill,
Deborah MA 02467-3807 USA
Thorne
phil_brown@brown.edu darcykl@umich.edu
Robert J. Brulle
Department of Sociology and Criminal Liam Leonard
Ohio University
Department
Justice of Culture and Communications School ofOH
Athens, Political
45701Science & Sociology, NUI
Affiliate
UniversityProfessor of Environmental Health
of Delaware Galway & SSRC:
thorned@ohio.edu
School
Newark, of DE
Public Health
19716 St. Declan's Distillery Rd, NUI,
Drexel University Galway, Ireland
Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA Liam.Leonard@nuigalway.ie
brullerj@drexel.edu Department of Marketing
George Ritzer Eller
AngelaCollege
Mertig of Management
Department
Neal Caren of Sociology University
Department of
of Arizona
Sociology
Department of Maryland
University Sociology Tucson, AZ 85721
Middle Tennessee State University
University of North
College Park, MD Carolina
20742 Chapel Hill Murfreesboro TN 37132-0001
Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3210, USA
ritzer@socy.umd.edu amertig@mtsu.edu
Neal.caren@unc.edu Frederick Wherry
J. Michael Ryan Ziad Munson of Sociology
Department
Jim Conley of Sociology
Department Department of
University of Michigan
Sociology & Anthropology
Dept. of Sociology
University of Maryland Lehigh University
Ann Arbor, MI 48109
Trent University 681 Taylor Street
1540 Otonabee College Bethlehem, PA 18015
mryan@socy.umd.edu
Peterborough Ontario munson@lehigh.edu
K9J 7B8 Canada
jconley@trentu.ca Gillian Murphy
Dept of Sociology
Mona El-Ghobashy University of Washington
Dept of Political Science 223J Condon Hall, Box 353340
Barnard College Seattle WA 98195-3340 USA
3009 Broadway gmurphy@u.washington.edu
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Juliet Staggenborg
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Susan Olzak of Sociology
Department Department
519 McGuinn of Sociology
Pearlman 103 McGill University
Stanford
BrandeisUniversity
University Stephen College
Boston Leacock Bldg 713
MC2047 855 Sherbrooke Street West
Main Quad, 450 Serra Hall Montreal, Quebec H3A 2T7 Canada
Bldg 120, Room 160
juliet.schor@bc.edu
Suzanne.staggenborg@mcgill.ca
Stanford, CA 94305-9991, USA
Lisa Peñaloza
olzak@stanford.edu Sara
AmorySteen
Starr
Department ofofSociology
Sociology
Benita
Bus 468Roth Chapman University
219 Ketchum Hall
Department Sociology and Women’s Studies
University of Colorado 1 University
University ofDrive
Colorado
SUNY Binghamton
Boulder, CO 80309 Orange, CA
Boulder, CO92866
80309USA
LT 313
penaloza@colorado.edu starr@chapman.edu
steen@colorado.edu
Binghamton, NY 13902-6000 USA
broth@binghamton.edu
Jan Phillips Millie
Joel Thayer
Stillerman
Department of Social and Department
2166 AuSableof Hall
Sociology
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Laura Miller Juliet Schor

Lisa Peñaloza Sara Steen

Lisa Peñaloza Sara Steen

Jan Phillips Joel Stillerman

Lisa Peñaloza Sara Steen

AMERICAN SOCIOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION

Lisa Peñaloza Sara Steen

Jan Phillips Joel Stillerman

Lisa Peñaloza Sara Steen

4 Social Movements Ziad Munson, Lehigh University 89

5 Social Movements and Film Beate Sissenich, Indiana University - 96

6 Social Change in Action Darcy Leach, Boston College 104

Lisa Peñaloza Sara Steen

Jan Phillips Joel Stillerman

Lisa Peñaloza Sara Steen

Jan Phillips Joel Stillerman

Jan Phillips Perspectives on Social Movements edited

II. CULTURAL AND POLITICAL CONTEXTS AND DYNAMICS

Oct 18 Collective identity

Polletta and Jasper, “Collective Identity and Social Movements”

Nov 22 Opposition and Repression

Jan Phillips Joel Stillerman

Andrews, Kenneth T. 2004. Freedom is a Constant Struggle: The Mississippi Civil

Foran, John. 1997. Theorizing Revolution, New York: Routledge.

Power, Margaret. 2002. Right-Wing WomenJoel

García de León, Antonio. 1985. Resistencia yJoel

Rockwell, Rick / Janus, Noreen. 2003. Media

Jan Phillips Joel Stillerman

Jeffrey Rubin, “Participatory Budgeting: An Ethnographic View,” manuscript

Week Ten: Case Study of an Environmental Dispute: Anti-Incinerator

Health social movements

Nov. 15 9) Disability Rights Movement

Dec. 13 Presentations of student papers

Final papers due

3. Civil Rights Movements

Lisa Peñaloza Sara Steen

Jan Phillips Joel Stillerman

Week 5 –October 23 & 25

B. Policy and Protest: Does Protest Matter?

November 29: Panel 2--Student Presentations

6. Shifting Scales of contention Feb. 16

Week 4: Networks and Differential Recruitment

Jan Phillips Joel Stillerman

Case studies will include organized racism, the US civil

2/2 Films as Source/ Case Study: Organized Racism (Cont’d)

7. Feb. 28 Movement Democracy: Organizational Structure & Decision-making

Lisa Peñaloza Sara Steen

Jan Phillips Joel Stillerman

Week 2: January 30 19th Century Social Movements

Week 12: April 17 Regime Change

Jan Phillips Joel Stillerman

The due dates will be as follows:

April 12, 17, 19 & 24, Selling Green in Fabrikistan

Week 8: Social Movement Outcomes

Week 11: Revolutions Continued

SOCI 413 Course Packet List

Lisa Peñaloza No reading. Bring rough drafts to class.

Jan Phillips Joel Stillerman

Movement Artifact Show and Tell (15%)

Louis A Zurcher and David A. Snow. 1981 “Collective

Domick, Brian. An Introduction to Dual Power Strategy. On moodle

Final paper due

Lisa Peñaloza Sara Steen