Theorizing Social Movements

Moss, Dana M.; Snow, David A.

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“…Civic engagement is a type of collective behavior that is part of the broad research area of collective behavior in social movement (CBSM) (McCarthy & Zald, 1977;Moss & Snow, 2016). Considering CBSM is broadly dominated by the work on social movements, it is worth revisiting the importance of the relationship between civic engagement, social movements, and race (Watkins Liu, 2018).…”

Section: Future Directions: Civic Engagement Social Movements Andmentioning

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(Re)theorizing civic engagement: Foundations for Black Americans civic engagement theory

Robinson

2019

Sociology Compass

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Commonly known as “civic engagement,” getting involved within communities in a formalized way has served a foundational role in the development of the United States. Missing from foundational conceptualizations of analyses is theoretical and empirical research that does not center White people and experiences. In this article, I argue that researchers need to incorporate an understanding of Black American's relationship with civic engagement to increase the accuracy of literature on civic engagement. Toward this goal, I first outline the foundational conceptualizations of civic engagement. I next discuss the limitations of civic engagement theories with a focus on data sources and the exclusion of non‐White persons within foundational texts. I then highlight the historical civic activities of Black Americans that has been foregrounded in research on Black voluntary associations. This project pushes for a discussion on the relationship between civic engagement and race with a focus on Black Americans that is relevant to sociological understandings of civil society. I conclude by discussing how filling this gap has a far‐reaching impact in the field of collective behavior and social movements.

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Section: Future Directions: Civic Engagement Social Movements Andmentioning

confidence: 99%

(Re)theorizing civic engagement: Foundations for Black Americans civic engagement theory

Robinson

2019

Sociology Compass

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“…As Moss and Snow (2016 : 554) note: ‘Strategies are broad plans for attaining goals, and tactics are the specific means and methods by which strategies are enacted.’ One sort of strategy is shifting forms of political activities. This is a strategic choice, not only in terms of the available tactics but also in which arena the struggle is fought out, what identity is deployed and which issue is targeted ( Bernstein, 1997 ; Klandermans, 1984 ; Meyer and Staggenborg, 2012 ).…”

Section: ‘Choice Points’: Windows To Look Into the Blackboxmentioning

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From ‘the effect of repression’ toward ‘the response to repression’

Honari

2018

Current Sociology

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Scholars have long been interested in explaining the effect of state repression on political participation. Recent reviews of research on state repression highlighted contradictory findings about this effect, yet the core question is still debated: what accounts for the variation in the effects of repression? This article posits that, to make sense of the variation in repression’s effect on political participation, theorization needs to move toward predictions about individuals’ responses to repression. The article, thus, attempts to lay the foundations for such theorization by reviewing the scholarship on the relationship between repression and political participation through the lens of the strategic choices individuals can make. Seeing individuals as having agency and shifting focus to their responses to repression (1) offers a broader picture of the activities available to discontented people under repression and (2) provides a better account of the contentious politics occurring under repression. A number of strategies in response to repression are identified. The notion of ‘choice points’ is applied to formulate hypotheses about why or under what conditions people choose a particular strategy in response to repression. In doing so, this article outlines new avenues for empirical research on repression.

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“…Goldstone () proposed a three‐level and three‐stage comparison of ‘causes,’ ‘mobilization,’ and ‘outcome’ in the literature on social movements and revolutions. Most recently, Moss and Snow () have mapped the literature on social movements along three main stages – emergence, dynamics, and outcomes – which may herald a renewed interest in the stages approach. These contributions, however, are an exception in a literature that has largely neglected the notion of stages as a useful analytic tool in the study of mass mobilization.…”

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“…For instance, the economic crisis in Iceland in late 2008 revealed information about scandalous financial policies and resulted in new grievances that underpinned the protests against the government (Bernburg, ). Short‐term grievances may result from breakdown of infrastructure, natural disasters, outbreak of social conflict, or a policy that harms the entire population or a certain group of people within the country (Foran, ; Kuran, ; Moss & Snow, , p. 549; Oberschall, , pp. 16–19; Snow, Cress, Downey, & Jones, ; Staggenborg, , p. 323).…”

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The stages of mass mobilization: separate phenomena and distinct causal mechanisms

Shultziner

Goldberg

2018

J Theory Soc Behav

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The notion that mass mobilization has analytically important stages is underappreciated in the literature. This paper proposes an approach that decomposes mass mobilization into three main phenomena: origins, protest and outcome. Each stage is characterized by unique factors and mechanisms. Accordingly, the research questions pertaining to each stage are dealt with by multiple levels of analysis and alternative explanations, allowing theory testing and theory development. The paper highlights separate causal mechanisms that operate in the emergence of grievances and protest motivation during the origins stage; mechanisms involving different forms of pressure, organization, psychological processes, and external forces during the protest stage; and mechanisms pertaining to key players and strategies that determine outcomes of mass mobilization. We illustrate that certain factors and mechanisms which are key in one stage have little or no causal relevance in the other stages. Other factors and mechanisms may also dramatically change in content, meaning or configuration between the stages. This theoretical approach facilitates the integration of a large and diverse body of scholarship into a structured analysis of mass mobilization that allows for both a detailed case study as well as comparison of stages across mass protests. The analysis of stages and causal mechanisms is illustrated across cases of democratization, revolution, and protest within democracy.

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Theorizing Social Movements

Cited by 22 publications

References 124 publications

(Re)theorizing civic engagement: Foundations for Black Americans civic engagement theory

(Re)theorizing civic engagement: Foundations for Black Americans civic engagement theory

From ‘the effect of repression’ toward ‘the response to repression’

The stages of mass mobilization: separate phenomena and distinct causal mechanisms

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