Frontiers in social movement theory

Abstract

Building social movement theory / Carol McClurg Mueller -- The political context of rationality / Myra Marx Ferree -- The social psychology of collective action / William A. Gamson -- The social construction of protest and multiorganizational fields / Bert Klandermans -- Collective identity in social movement communities : lesbian feminist mobilization / Verta Taylor and Nancy E. Whittier -- Master frames and cycles of protest / David A. Snow and Robert D. Benford -- Collective identity and activism / Debra Friedman and Doug McAdam -- Mentalities, political cultures, and collective action frames / Sidney Tarrow -- Resource mobilization versus the mobilization of people : why consensus movements cannot be instruments of social change / Michael Schwartz and Shuva Paul -- Communities of challengers in social movement theory / Clarence Y.H. Lo -- Mobilizing technologies for collective action / Pamela E. Oliver and Gerald Marwell -- Consensus movements, conflict movements, and the cooptation of civic and state infrastructures / John D. McCarthy and Mark Wolfson -- Normalizing collective protest / Frances Fox Piven and Richard A. Cloward -- Looking backward to look forward / Mayer N. Zald -- Political consciousness and collective action / Aldon D. Morris