Political Sociology Comprehensive Exam Reading List
Day 2: Participation in Social Movements
1. Abers, Rebecca. (1998). “From Clientelism to Cooperation: Participatory Policy and Civic
Organizing in Porto Alegre, Brazil,” Politics and Society 26:4
2. Baiocchi, G. (2005). Militants and citizens: the politics of participatory democracy in Porto
Alegre. Stanford University Press.
3. Corrigall-Brown, C. (2011). Patterns of protest: trajectories of participation in social
movements.
4. Fillieule, O (2010). “Some Elements of an Interactionist Approach to Political
Disengagement”. Social Movement Studies.
5. Fishcher, D. & McInerney, P. (2012). “The Limits of Networks in Social Movement
Retention: On Canvassers and Their Careers”. Mobilization, 17:2, 102-128.
6. Gould, Roger V. (1995). Insurgent identities: Class, community, and protest in Paris from
1848 to the Commune. University of Chicago Press.
7. Hagan, J. and Hansford-Bowles, S. (2005) "From Resistance To Activism: The Emergence
And Persistence Of Activism Among American War Resisters in Canada,” Social Movement
Studies. University of Chicago Press.
8. Hirsch, E. (1990). “Sacrifice for the Cause: Group Processes, Recruitment, and Commitment
in a Student Social Movement”. ASR, 55.
9. Jasper, J. (2011). “Emotions and Social Movements: Twenty Years of Theory and Research”.
Annual Review of Sociology, 37, 285-303.
10. Juris, J. S. (2008). Networking Futures: The Movements Against Corporate Globalization.
Duke University Press, Durham, NC.
11. Klandermans, B. (1997). The Social Psychology of Protest. Wiley-Blackwell.
12. Kleinman, Sherryl. (1996). Opposing Ambitions: Gender and Identity in an Alternative
Organization. University of Chicago Press.
13. Mansbridge, J. and Morris, A., eds. (2001). Oppositional Consciousness: The Subjective
Roots of Social Protest. (Especially the theoretical chapters).
14. McAdam, Doug. (1988). Freedom Summer. Oxford University Press.
15. Melucci, Alberto. (1989). Nomads of the Present: Social Movements and Individual Needs in
Contemporary Society. University of California Press.
16. Munson, Z. (2009). The Making of Pro-Life Activists: How Social Movement Mobilization
Works.
17. Nepstad, Sharon E. (2004). “Persistent Resistance: Commitment and Community in the
Plowshares Movement”. Social Problems. 51:1, 43-60.
18. Olin-Wright, Erik. (2010). Envisioning Real Utopias. Harper & Row.
19. Passy, F. and Giugni, M. (2000). “Life-spheres Networks and Sustained Participation in
Social Movements. A Phenomenological Approach to Political Commitment.”
20. Polletta, Francesca. (2002). Freedom Is an Endless Meeting: Democracy in American Social
Movements. University of Chicago Press, Chicago, IL.
21. Saunders, C., Grasso, M., Olcese, C., Rainsford, E., & Rootes, C. (2012). “Explaining
Differential Protest Participation: Novices, Returners, Repeaters, and Stalwarts.”
Mobilization 17:3 263-280.
22. Schusmann and Soule (2005). “Process and Protest: Accounting for Individual Protest
Participation”. Social Forces, 84:2.
23. Somma, N. (2010). “How do voluntary organizations foster protest? The role of
organizational involvement on individual protest participation”. The Sociological Quarterly,
51:3
24. Staggenborg, S. (2008). “Social Movement Communities and Cycles of Protest: The
Emergence and Maintenance of a Local Women's Movement”. Social Problems
25. Stoddart, M. and Tindall, D. (2010) “We've also become Quite Good Friends:
Environmentalists, Social Networks and Social Comparison in British Columbia” Social
Movement Studies.
26. Tarrow, S. (1994). Power in Movement: Social Movements and Contentious Politics.
Cambridge University Press.
27. Tilly, Charles and Leslie Wood. (2012). Social Movements 1768-2012. 3rd edition. Paradigm
Publishers
28. Viterna, J. (2006) “Pulled, Pushed and Persuaded. Explaining Women's Mobilization into the
Salvadoran Guerrilla Army”. American Journal of Sociology.
29. Walder, M. (2009). “Political Sociology and Social Movements”. Annual Review of
Sociology.
30. White, R. (2010). “Structural Identity Theory and the Post-Recruitment of Irish Republicans:
Persistence, Disengagement, Splits, and Dissidents in Social Movement Organizations”.
Social Problems, 57:3, 341-370.
31. Wolford, Wendy. (2010). This Land Is Ours Now: Social Mobilization and the Meanings of
Land in Brazil. Duke University Press
32. Wood, E. (2003). Insurgent Collective Action and Civil War in El Salvador.
33. Zwerman G. & Steinhoff, P. (2012). “The Remains of the Movement: The Role of Legal
Support Networks in Leaving Violence While Sustaining Movement Identity”. Mobilization,
17:1, 67-84.
Books: 16
Articles: 17