• Introduction to the course

• "Introduction" by Costain & McFarland (Costain & McFarland, pp. 1-4)
• "Preface" and "Introduction" by Freeman & Johnson (Freeman & Johnson, pp. ix-xi, 1-4)
• "Introduction. Social Movements: Conceptual and Theoretical Issues" by McAdam & Snow (McAdam & Snow, pp. xviii-xxxvi)

• "Social Movements and Theories of American Politics" by McFarland (Costain & McFarland, pp. 7-19)
• "'The Very Excesses of Democracy': State Building and Contentious Politics in America" by Tarrow (Costain & McFarland, pp. 20-38)

• "Interest Organizations, Political Parties, and the Study of Democratic Politics" by Burstein (Costain & McFarland, pp. 39-56)
• "Citizen Groups, Political Parties, and Electoral Coalitions" by Berry & Schildkraut (Costain & McFarland, pp. 136-156)

• "Part 1. Conditions of Strain: Conflict and Breakdown" by McAdam & Snow (McAdam & Snow, pp. 2-4)
• "A Democratic/Structural Model of State Breakdown" by Goldstone (McAdam & Snow, pp. 5-12)
• "Ethnic Movements and the Competition Model: Some Missing Links" by Belanger & Pinard (McAdam & Snow, pp. 13-22)

• "On the Origins of Social Movements" by Freeman (Freeman & Johnson, pp. 7-24)
• "Disorganization and the New Mexico Prison Riot of 1980" by Useem (McAdam & Snow, pp. 23-33)

• "Part 2. Conditions of Conduciveness: Political Opportunities" by McAdam & Snow (McAdam & Snow, pp. 34-36)
• "New Social Movements and Political Opportunities in Western Europe" by Kriesi, Koopmans, Duyvendak, & Giugni (McAdam & Snow, pp. 52-65)
• "Structural Opportunity and Perceived Opportunity in Social-Movement Theory: The Iranian Revolution of 1979" by Kurzman (McAdam & Snow, pp. 66-79)

• "American Social Movements and Presidential Administrations" by Imig (Costain & McFarland, pp. 159-170)
• "Insurgency of the Powerless: Farm Worker Movements (1946-1972)" by Jenkins & Perrow (McAdam & Snow, pp. 37-51)

• "Mobilizing Gay Activists" by Dufour (Costain & McFarland, pp. 59-72)
• "Use of the Initiative Process by Women Suffrage Movements" by Banaszak (Costain & McFarland, pp. 99-114)

• "On the International Origins of Domestic Political Opportunities" by McAdam (Costain & McFarland, pp. 251-267)
• "Less than Conquerors: The Christian Right in State Republican Parties" by Green, Guth, & Wilcox (Costain & McFarland, pp. 117-135)

No class

Film #1 - The War at Home to be viewed on Sept. 25 or in the Library's Listening Room before this date

Due: Readings reaction paper #2 to Carnegie 115 by 4:30 pm (political opportunities and structural factors)

• "Part 3. Conditions of Organizations: Facilitative Contexts" by McAdam & Snow (McAdam & Snow, pp. 80-81)
• "Miners and Agrarian Radicalism" by Petras & Zeitlin (McAdam & Snow, pp. 82-89)
• "Mobilization at the Margins: Organizing by the Homeless" by Cress & Snow (Costain & McFarland, pp. 73-98

• "Black Southern Student Sit-In Movement: An Analysis of Internal Organization" by Morris (McAdam & Snow, pp. 90-109)
• "Institution Building in the African-American Community, 1931-1954" by McAdam (McAdam & Snow, pp. 110-117)

Due: Film #1 reaction paper

• "The Structure of Social Movements: Environmental Activism and Its Opponents" by Gerlach (Freeman & Johnson, pp. 85-97)
• "AIDS, Anger, and Activism: ACT UP as a Social Movement Organization" by Halcli (Freeman & Johnson, pp. 135-150)

Guest speaker: Christian Leffler, Deputy Chief of Staff for Chris Patten, European Commissioner of External Relations, European Union

Click here for Mr. Leffler's bio

• "The Consequences of Professionalization and Formalization in the Pro-Choice Movement" by Staggenborg (Freeman & Johnson, pp. 99-134, OR McAdam & Snow, pp. 421-439)
• "Black Radicalization and the Funding of Civil Rights: 1957-1970" by Haines (McAdam & Snow, pp. 440-449)

• "Part 4. Microstructural Factors: Social Networks" by McAdam & Snow (McAdam & Snow, pp. 120-121)
• "Social Networks and Social Movements: A Microstructural Approach to Differential Recruitment" by Snow, Zurcher, Jr., & Ekland-Olson (McAdam & Snow, pp. 122-132)
• "Multiple Networks and Mobilization in the Paris Commune, 1871" by Gould (McAdam & Snow, pp. 133-144)

Due: Readings reaction paper #3 (organization in social movements)

Film #2 - Eyes on the Prize: America's Civil Rights Years, video 1 (Awakenings, 1954-1956) & video 2 (Fighting Back, 1957-1962) - to be viewed on Thursday, Oct. 11 or in the Library's Listening Room before this date

• "Specifying the Relationship between Social Ties and Activism" by McAdam & Paulsen (McAdam & Snow, pp. 145-157)
• "Conflict Networks and the Origins of Women's Liberation" by Mueller (McAdam & Snow, pp. 158-171)

• "Mobilizing the Disabled" by Johnson (Freeman & McFarland, pp. 25-45
• "Sacrifice for the Cause: Group Processes, Recruitment, and Commitment in a Student Social Movement" by Hirsch (Freeman & Johnson, pp. 47-64, OR McAdam & Snow, pp. 303-311)
• "Recruiting Intimates, Recruiting Strangers: Building the Contemporary Animal Rights Movement" by Jasper (Freeman & Johnson, pp. 65-82)

• "Part 5. Motivational Factors I: Barriers to and Correlates of Participation" by McAdam & Snow (McAdam & Snow, pp. 172-173)
• "Why Social Movement Sympathizers Don't Participate: Erosion and Nonconversion of Support" by Oegema & Klandermans (McAdam & Snow, pp. 174-189)
• "Repression, Micromobilization, and Political Protest" by Opp & Roehl (McAdam & Snow, pp. 190-206)

Due: Film #2 reaction paper

• "'If You Don't Do It, Nobody Else Will': Active and Token Contributors to Local Collective Action" by Oliver (McAdam & Snow, pp. 207-215)
• "Social Movement Involvement in the Wake of a Nuclear Accident: Activists and Free Riders in the TMI Area" by Walsh & Warland (McAdam & Snow, pp. 216-231)

• "Introduction. Social Psychology and Social Movements: Cloudy Past and Bright Future" by Stryker, Owens, & White (Stryker, Owens & White, pp. 1-17)
• "Self-Concept as a Force in Social Movement Involvement" by Owens & Aronson (Stryker, Owens & White, pp. 191-214)

Due: Readings reaction paper #4 (recruitment and participation)

• "Volition and Belongingness: Social Movements, Volition, Self-Esteem, and the Need to Belong" by Baumeister, Dale & Muraven (Stryker, Owens & White, pp. 239-251)
• "From Shame to Pride in Identity Politics" by Britt & Heise (Stryker, Owens & White, pp. 252-268)

• "The Spirit Willing: Collective Identity and the Development of the Christian Right" by Green (Freeman & Johnson, pp. 153-168)
• "Collective Identity in Social Movement Communities: Lesbian Feminist Mobilization" by Taylor & Whittier (Freeman & Johnson, pp. 169-194)

Due: One page final paper proposal with five references

• "Emotions and Identity in Women's Self-Help Movements" by Taylor (Stryker, Owens & White, pp. 271-299)
• "Developing Working-Class Feminism: A Biographical Approach to Social Movement Participation" by Roth (Stryker, Ownes & White, pp. 300-323)

Film #3 - Showdown in Seattle - to be viewed on Monday, Nov. 5 or in the Library's Listening Room before this date

Due: Readings reaction paper #5 (identity and social movements)

• "Part 6. Interpretive Factors: Framing Processes" by McAdam & Snow (McAdam & Snow, pp. 232-234)
• "Frame Alignment Processes, Micromobilization, and Movement Participation" by Snow, Rochford, Jr., Worden & Benford (McAdam & Snow, pp. 235-251)
• "Women Against the State: Political Opportunities and Collective Action Frames in Chile's Transition to Democracy" by Noonan (McAdam & Snow, pp. 252-267)

Due: Film #3 reaction paper

• "Understanding the Dialectic of Discourse and Collective Action: Public Debate and Rioting in Antebellum Cincinnati" by Ellingson (McAdam & Snow, pp. 268-280)
• "The Social Construction of Subversive Evil: The Contemporary Anticult and Anti-Satanism Movements" by Bromley & Cutchin (Freeman & Johnson, pp. 195-218)

• "Part 8. Movements in Action: Strategies and Tactics" by McAdam & Snow (McAdam & Snow, pp. 326-327)
• "Cycles of Collective Action: Between Moments of Madness and the Repertoire of Contention" by Tarrow (McAdam & Snow, pp. 328-339)
• "Tactical Innovation and the Pace of Insurgency" by McAdam (McAdam & Snow, pp. 340-356)

Due: Readings reaction paper #6 (framing processes)

• "The Success of the Unruly" by Gamson (McAdam & Snow, pp. 357-364)
• "Civil Disobedience and Protest Cycles" by Meyer (Freeman & Johnson, pp. 267-276)

Special screening of A Force More Powerful, Part 1 at 6:30 - 8:00 pm and Part 2 at 8:15 - 9:45 pm in ARH 131.

Film #4 - A Force More Powerful, Part 1 or Part 2 - to be viewed on Monday, Nov. 10 or in the Library's Listening Room before this date

• "A Model for Analyzing the Strategic Options of Social Movement Organizations" by Freeman (Freeman & Johnson, pp. 221-240)
• "The Strategic Determinants of a Countermovement: The Emergence and Impact of Operation Rescue Blockades" by Johnson (Freeman & Johnson, pp. 241-265)

• "Women Lobby Congress" by Costain (Costain & McFarland, pp. 171-184)
• "The Environmental Movement and Congress" by Costain & Lester (Costain & McFarland, pp. 185-198)

Due: Film #4 reaction paper

• "The Transformation of a Constituency into a Movement Revisited: Farmworker Organizing in California" by Jenkins (Freeman & Johnson, pp. 277-299)
• "Fighting Back: Vulnerabilities, Blunders, and Countermobilization by the Targets in Three Animal Rights Campaigns" by Jasper & Poulsen (McAdam & Snow, pp. 397-406)

• "Social Movements and the Mobilization of Law" by McCann (Costain & McFarland, pp. 201-215)
• "Litigation as Rebellion" by Meranto (Costain & McFarland, pp. 216-232)

• "Social Movements and Abortion Law" by Woliver (Costain & McFarland, pp. 233-247)
• "Legal Control of the Southern Civil Rights Movement" by Barkan (McAdam & Snow, pp. 384-396)

• "Factionalism, Group Defection, and Schism in the Hare Krishna Movement" by Rochford, Jr. (McAdam & Snow, pp. 450-460)
• "The End of SDS and the Emergence of Weathermen: Demise Through Success" by Miller (Freeman & Johnson, pp. 303-324)

Due: Readings reaction paper #7 (strategies and tactics)

• "The Decline of the Civil Rights Movement" by McAdam (Freeman & Johnson, pp. 325-348)
• "The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee: The Rise and Fall of a Redemptive Organization" by Stoper (Freeman & Johnson, pp. 349-364

Due: Final paper and self-evaluation to Carnegie 115 by 12 pm