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Essay question: 2.What kind of conditions favour the mobilization capacity of social movements and under what kind of conditions do they radicalize?
– Essay should be completed within 2,200 words (8 pages), 275 words per page, double spacing, standard grade, undergraduate level, assignment coursework for the comparative politics module, due on the 24th August.
– Bibliography needed.
– Harvard referencing.
Week 16 Social Movements (MB)
Q1: What is a social movement? What is its relation to interest groups, political parties, and the media?
Q2: Describe the three major models for the analysis of social movements and discuss the weaknesses of each.
Q3: When do social movements have success, i.e. under what conditions are they able to reach their goals?
Required Readings:
*Edwin Amenta et al. “The political consequences of social movements,”Annual Review of Sociology, Vol. 36 (2010), pp. 287-307.
*Vincent Boudreau, “Northern theory, southern protest: Opportunity structure analysis in crossnational perspective,” Mobilization: An International Quarterly, Vol. 1, No. 2 (1996), pp. 175189.
*Mario Diani and Ivano Bison, “Organizations, coalitions, and movements,” Theory and Society, Vol. 33, No. 3-4 (2004), pp. 281-309.
(M) Doug McCarthy, and Zald N. Mayer, Eds. Comparative perspectives on social movements: Political opportunities, mobilizing structures, and cultural framings. (Cambridge University Press, 1996), pp. 1-22.
Recommended Readings:
William A. Gamson, The strategy of social protest. (Dorsey Press, 1975).
Myra Marx Ferree and Carol McClurg Mueller, “Feminism and the women’s movement: A global perspective,” The Blackwell companion to social movements. (Wiley 2004), pp. 576-607.
Doug McAdam, Political process and the development of black insurgency, 1930-1970. (University of Chicago Press, 2010), pp. 1-59.
Karl-Dieter Opp, Theories of political protest and social movements: A multidisciplinary introduction, critique, and synthesis. (London: Routledge, 2009).
Sidney Tarrow, The new transnational activism. (Cambridge University Press, 2005).
Sidney Tarrow, “Old movements in new cycles of protest: The career of an Italian religious community,” In Bert Klandermanns, Hanspeter Kriesi, and Sidney Tarrow. Ed. International Social Movement Research, Vol. 1 From Structure to Action: Comparing Social Movement Research Across Cultures (1988), pp. 281-304.
Sidney Tarrow and Tollefson. Power in movement: Social movements, collective action and politics. (Cambridge University Press, 1994).
Charles Tilly, From mobilization to revolution. (McGraw-Hill, 1978).
Meredith L. Weiss, Protest and Possibilities: Civil Society and Coalitions for Political Change in Malaysia. (Stanford University Press, 2006), pp.1-22,240-253.
Quintan Wiktorowicz, Ed. Islamic activism: A social movement theory approach. (Indiana University Press, 2004).
