"Eehh, What's Up (with) DOC?" Clarifying the Program

In: Mobilization: the international quarterly review of social movement research, Band 8, Heft 1, S. 126-134

Abstract

Responds to comments made in a review symposium on a book by Doug McAdam, Sidney Tarrow, & Charles Tilly, Dynamics of Contention (New York: Cambridge U Press, 2001). This book's arguments regarding the numerous biases in current social movement theory are reiterated. Specific criticisms regarding three areas -- the authors' "overly narrow" definition of contention, lack of theoretical support for their identification of the mechanisms & processes of contentious politics, & abandonment of the "classical model" of social movements -- are addressed. Directions are offered for future elaboration of the model offered here to improve its utility in the study of social movements, focusing on suggestions for ethnographic research. 1 Figure, 25 References. K. Hyatt Stewart