Social movements

Michael Novak gave especially sharp voice to the otherwise diffuse ethnic revival. As he summarized the inchoate social movement among second-, third-, and fourth-generation Poles, Italians, Greeks, and Slavs in 1974, the new ethnicity entailed... 

Hobsbawn, E. J. Primitive Rebels Studies in Archaic Forms of Social Movement in the 19th and 20th Centuries. New York Norton, 1965. 

Organic agriculture developed as a social movement based on and involving joint efforts by many different interests farmers, consumers and traders, as well as scientists and ordinary citizens (Michelsen 2001a). The first underpinning principles (Woodward and Vogtmann 2004) were ... 

This book is a historical sociological account of the rise of genetic toxicology and the scientists social movement that created it. It covers the period 1910 to the mid-1970s but concentrates on events that occurred mainly in the United States between about 1968 and 1976. This narrower focus underscores the intensity and speed of the new field s consolidation. As late as 1966, neither... 

The idea that an intimate link exists between social movements and science is inimical to traditionalist students of scientific institutions such as Robert Mer-... 

Other work views the importance of movements in the sciences and professions more metaphorically. Scholars writing in the sociology of ideas tradition use the language of intellectual movements and countermovements as heuristic devices to characterize moments of growing coordination and/or fragmentation within knowledge communities with respect to a particular set of research practices, claims, and identities (e.g., Camic 1983 Collins 1998). Rarely do these studies employ theoretical concepts from social movement theory to analyze these phenomena, however. Citing Nicholas Mullins s (1973)... 

To attract new adherents and political allies, social movement actors must construct collective action frames that resonate with the audiences they re attempting to mobilize (Snow and Benford 1988). For this very practical reason, most collective action frames are knit from existing cultural resources—the values, beliefs, and ideas that are embedded in cultural tradition. Collective action frames are not, in other words, cut primarily from new cloth. Rather, they are stitched together from the old and familiar. However, frames constructed from the existing popular culture may reinforce complacency rather than inspire action to the extent that they embody and reflect normative social arrange-... 

My understanding of social movement dynamics owes much to the variously termed but basically similar resource mobilization, political process, and contentious politics perspectives. See McAdam et al. (1996), McAdam et al. (2001), and Tarrow (1998). 

Amsterdamska, Olga, 1987, Intellectuals in social movements The experts of solidarity. In The Social Direction of the Public Sciences, edited by S, Blume, J, Bunders, L. Ley-desdorff, and R, Whitley, 153-186, Dordrecht, Boston, and London D. Reidel. 

Benford, Robert D., and David A, Snow, 2000, Framing processes and social movements An overview and assessment, Annual Review of Sociology 26 611-639. 

Brown, Phil, Stephen Zavestoski, Sabrina McCormick, and Brian Mayer. Forthcoming. Health social movements Uncharted territory in social movement research. Sociology of Health and Illness. 

Brulle, Robert J. 1996. Environmental discourse and social movement organizations A historical and rhetorical perspective on the development of U.S. environmental organizations. Sociological Inquiry 66 58-83. 

Bucher, Rue. 1962. Pathology A study of social movements within a profession. Social Problems 10 40-51. 

Fuchs, Stephan, and Peggy S. Plass. 1999. Sociology and social movements. Contemporary Sociology 2 8 2 71-2 77. 

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