Waves of Protest

Social Movements Since the Sixties

Contributions by David G. Bromley, Diana Gay Cutchin, Luther P. Gerlach, John C. Green, Abigail Halcli, Eric L. Hirsch, James M. Jasper, J Craig Jenkins, Roberta Ann Johnson, Doug McAdam, David S. Meyer, Frederick D. Miller, Suzanne Staggenborg, Emily Stoper, Verta Taylor, Nancy E. Whittier Edited by Jo Freeman, Victoria Johnson

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Publication date:

18 March 1999

Length of book:

400 pages

Publisher

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

ISBN-13: 9781461646877

This book updates and adds to the classic Social Movements of the Sixties and Seventies, showing how social movement theory has grown and changed_from an earlier emphasis on collective behavior, to the resource mobilization approach, and currently to analyses that emphasize culture, ideology, and collective identity. Top social scientists combine insiders' insights with critical analyses to examine a wide variety of social movements active in the most recent U.S. cycle of protest. Waves of Protest is a must-read for students of social movements, social change, political sociology, and American studies.

Chapter 1 Introduction
Part 2 Mobilization
Chapter 3 On the Origins of Social Movements
Chapter 4 Mobilizing the Disabled
Chapter 5 Sacrifice for the Cause: Group Processes, Recruitment, and Commitment in a Student Social Movement
Chapter 6 Recruiting Intimates, Recruiting Strangers: Building the Contemporary Animal Rights Movement
Part 7 Organization
Chapter 8 The Structure of Social Movements: Environmental Activism and Its Opponents
Chapter 9 The Consequences of Professionalization and Formalization in the Pro-Choice Movement
Chapter 10 AIDS, Anger, and Activism: ACT UP as a Social Movement Organization
Part 11 Consciousness
Chapter 12 The Spirit Willing: Collective Identity and the Development of the Christian Right
Chapter 13 Collective Identity in Social Movement Communities: Lesbian Feminist Mobilization
Chapter 14 The Social Construction of Subversive Evil: The Contemporary Anticult and Anti-Satanism Movements
Part 15 Strategy and Tactics
Chapter 16 A Model for Analyzing the Strategic Options of Social Movement Organizations
Chapter 17 The Strategic Determinants of a Countermovement: The Emergence and Impact of Operation Rescue Blockades
Chapter 18 Civil Disobedience and Protest Cycles
Chapter 19 The Transformation of a Constituency into a Movement Revisited: Farmworker Organizing in California
Part 20 Decline
Chapter 21 The End of SDS and the Emergence of Weatherman: Demise Through Success
Chapter 22 The Decline of the Civil Rights Movement
Chapter 23 The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee: The Rise and Fall of a Redemptive Organization
Chapter 24 Index
Chapter 25 About the Contributors

Waves of Protest is excellent social science. It is well-written, empirical, and intellectually stimulating. The book will be useful for students and scholars of political science, sociology, and social movements, and for people interested in working in such movements. In comparison with other sociological treatments of organizational behavior, Waves of Protest provides theoretical breadth, new concepts about organizations, and substantive empirical results. It offers new understanding of recent U.S. social history.