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The rise of scientific sociology in America -- Du Bois, scientific sociology, and race -- Du Bois's Atlanta School of Scientific Sociology -- Robert E. Park and Booker T. Washington vs. Du Bois -- Sociology of black America : Park vs. Du Bois -- Max Weber meets W.E.B. Du Bois -- Intellectual schools and the Atlanta School -- Legacies and conclusions

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

This article addresses why movement scholars had no idea that the civil rights and black power movements of the 1960s and 70s were imminent. In fact, their theories led them to predict that these movements were impossible because only whites possessed history-making agency. These scholars accepted the dogma that black people, their culture, and their institutions were inferior and incapable of organizing and leading powerful movements. This article demonstrates that the black sociologist W. E. B. Du Bois predicted those movements a half century before they occurred. He did so because he conducted concrete empirical analyses of the black community, and his lived experiences led him to reject the thesis of black inferiority. This article argues that the field of social movements remains too white and elitist and that this condition causes less robust and accurate analysis. The article suggests ways to make needed changes.

▪ Abstract  This review provides an analysis of the political and intellectual contributions made by the modern civil rights movement. It argues that the civil rights movement was able to overthrow the Southern Jim Crow regime because of its successful use of mass nonviolent direct action. Because of its effectiveness and visibility, it served as a model that has been utilized by other movements both domestically and internationally. Prior to the civil rights movement social movement scholars formulated collective behavior and related theories to explain social movement phenomena. These theories argued that movements were spontaneous, non-rational, and unstructured. Resource mobilization and political process theories reconceptualized movements stressing their organized, rational, institutional and political features. The civil rights movement played a key role in generating this paradigmatic shift because of its rich empirical base that led scholars to rethink social movement phenomena.

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