Comparative Perspectives on Social Movements: Political Opportunities, Mobilizing Structures, and Cultural FramingsDoug McAdam, John D. McCarthy, Mayer N. Zald Social movements such as environmentalism, feminism, nationalism, and the anti-immigration movement are a prominent feature of the modern world and have attracted increasing attention from scholars in many countries. Comparative Perspectives on Social Movements, first published in 1996, brings together a set of essays that focus upon mobilization structures and strategies, political opportunities, and cultural framing and ideologies. The essays are comparative and include studies of the former Soviet Union and eastern Europe, the United States, Italy, the Netherlands, and Germany. Their authors are amongst the leaders in the development of social movement theory and the empirical study of social movements. |
Contents
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MOBILIZING STRUCTURES | 139 |
Constraints and opportunities in adopting adapting and inventing | 141 |
The organizational structure of new social movements in a political context | 152 |
FRAMING PROCESSES | 259 |
Culture ideology and strategic framing | 261 |
Framing political opportunity | 275 |
Accessing public media electoral and governmental agendas | 291 |
Media discourse movement publicity and the generation of collective action frames Theoretical and empirical exercises in meaning construction | 312 |
The framing function of movement tactics Strategic dramaturgy in the American civil rights movement | 338 |
Notes | 357 |
References | 379 |
The impact of national contexts on social movement structures A crossmovement and crossnational comparison | 185 |
Organizational form as frame Collective identity and political strategy in the American labor movement 18801920 | 205 |
The collapse of a social movement The interplay of mobilizing structures framing and political opportunities in the Knights of Labor | 227 |
Index | 411 |
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action preparedness action repertoires actors agenda American analysis arena associations challengers civil rights movement collective action frames Communist comparative concept conflict confrontation context countries cultural democracy democratic demonstrations dimensions DOUG MCADAM dynamics East Germany ecology movement elections electoral elites emergence employers environmental movements federal formal framing efforts framing processes France French Gamson Germany goals Greenpeace ideology important industry influence institutional institutionalized internal issues Knights of Labor Kriesi labor movement leaders mass media McAdam McCarthy media discourse membership ment mobilizing structures movement activists movement organizations movement scholars movement structure NSMs organizational development organizational form parties peace peace movement perestroika political opportunity structure protest cycle protest policing radical reform regime repression revolutions role Rucht Sidney Tarrow SMOs social move social movements solidarity Soviet specific strategic framing strategy symbols tactics Tarrow tion unions variable workers Zald