List of Key Concepts

Acknowledgments

Part I Introduction

Editors' Introduction

Jeff Goodwin

James M. Jasper

Part II When and Why Do Social Movements Occur?

Introduction

Discussion Questions

The Civil Rights Movement (from Civil Rights: The 1960s Freedom Struggle)

Rhoda Lois Blumberg

The Women's Movement (from ``The Origins of the Women's Liberation Movement'')

Jo Freeman

The Gay Liberation Movement (from Sexual Politics, Sexual Communities)

John D'Emilio

The Iranian Revolution (from ``Structural and Perceived Opportunity: The Iranian Revolution of 1979'')

Charles Kurzman

Part III Who Joins or Supports Movements?

Introduction

Discussion Questions

Recruits to Civil Rights Activism (from Freedom Summer)

Doug McAdam

Changing Values in Post-Industrial Societies (from The Silent Revolution)

Ronald Inglehart

Middle-Class Radicalism and Environmentalism (from ``Environmentalism, Middle-Class Radicalism and Politics'')

Stephen Cotgrove

Andrew Duff

``Christian Patriots'' (from The Politics of Righteousness: Idaho Christian Patriotism)

James A. Aho

Part IV Who Remains In Movements, and Who Drops Out?

Introduction

Discussion Questions

Generating Commitment Among Students (from ``Sacrifice for the Cause: Group Processes, Recruitment, and Commitment in a Student Social Movement'')

Eric L. Hirsch

Sustaining Commitment Among Radical Feminists (from Feminist Generations)

Nancy Whittier

Disengaging from Movements (from The Social Psychology of Protest)

Bert Klandermans

Part V What Do Movement Participants Think and Feel?

Introduction

Discussion Questions

World Views of Pro- and Anti-Abortion Activists (from Abortion and the Politics of Motherhood)

Kristin Luker

Ideological Purity in the Women's Movement (from Why We Lost the ERA)

Jane J. Mansbridge

The Emotions of Protest (from ``The Emotions of Protest'')

James M. Jasper

Part VI How Are Movements Organized?

Introduction

Discussion Questions

Social Movement Organizations (from ``Resource Mobilization and Social Movements: A Partial Theory'')

John D. McCarthy

Mayer N. Zald

Organizational Repertoires (from ``Organizational Repertoires and Institutional Change: Women's Groups and the Transformation of U.S. Politics, 1890--1920'')

Elisabeth S. Clemens

Transnational Environmental Activism (from ``Politics Beyond the State: Environmental Activism and World Civic Politics'')

Paul Wapner

Affinity Groups and the Movement Against Corporate Globalization (from ``After Seattle'')

William Finnegan

Part VII What Do Movements Do?

Introduction

Discussion Questions

Protest Tactics (from Rules for Radicals)

Saul D. Alinsky

Tactical Innovation in the Civil Rights Movement (from The Origins of the Civil Rights Movement)

Aldon Morris

The Strategic Uses of Identity by the Lesbian and Gay Movement (from ``Celebration and Suppression'')

Mary Bernstein

Discursive Activism by Catholic Feminists (from Faithful and Fearless)

Mary Fainsod Katzenstein

Part VIII How Do the State and Mass Media Influence Movements?

Introduction

Discussion Questions

The ``Smothering'' Allies of the Nuclear Freeze Movement (from A Winter of Discontent)

David S. Meyer

Farmworkers' Movements in Changing Political Contexts (from ``Insurgency of the Powerless'')

J. Craig Jenkins

Charles Perrow

Another Look at Farmworker Mobilization (from ``Resources and Resourcefulness'')

Marshall Ganz

The Media in the Unmaking of the New Left (from The Whole World Is Watching)

Todd Gitlin

Part IX Why Do Movements Decline?

Introduction

Discussion Questions

The Decline of the Labor Movement (from The War on Labor and the Left)

Patricia Cayo Sexton

The Decline of the Women's Movement (from ``What Happened to the Women's Movement?'')

Barbara Epstein

The Dilemmas of Identity Politics (from ``Must Identity Movements Self-Destruct? A Queer Dilemma'')

Joshua Gamson

Part X What Changes Do Movements Bring About?

Introduction

Discussion Questions

Defining Movement ``Success'' (from The Strategy of Social Protest)

William A. Gamson

The Case of Huey Long and the New Deal (from ``Stolen Thunder? Huey Long's Share Our Wealth, Political Mediation, and the Second New Deal'')

Edwin Amenta

Kathleen Dunleavy

Mary Bernstein

Movements and Cultural Change (from Music and Social Movements)

Ron Eyerman

Andrew Jamison

Biographies

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Betty Friedan

Cesar Chavez

Abbie Hoffman

Lois Gibbs

Joan Andrews

References

Index