Day 2: Social Movements: Cultural and agrarian perspectives
Book ideas for comps (NOTE: Dynamics of Contention and Power in Movement, From
Mobilization to Revolution, Snow & Benford framing article, Poor People’s Movements
on Day 1 list)
1. Goodwyn, Lawrence. 1978. Populist Moment: A short history of the agrarian
revolt in America.
2. Gould, Roger. 1995. Insurgent Identities: Class, community, and protest in Paris
from 1848 to the Commune
3. Hunt, Lynn. 1992. The Family Romance of the French Revolution
4. Jasper, James. 1997. The Art of Moral Protest.
5. Lipset, Seymour. 1950. Agrarian Socialism.
6. Marx, Karl. 1978. “The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte.”
7. McConnell, Grant. 1969. The Decline of Agrarian Democracy.
8. McNall, Scott G. 1988. The Road to Rebellion: Class formation and Kansas
Populism, 1865-1900.
9. Melucci. 1989. Nomads of the Present.
10. Meyer, Whitier, & Robnett (eds). 2002. Social Movements: Identity, Culture, and
the State. Esp. Intro, 6, 7, 8, 12, 14, 16.
11. Ostler, Jeffrey. 1993. Prairie Populism: The fate of agrarian radicalism in
Kansas, Nebraska, and Iowa, 1880-1892.
12. Paige, Jeffrey. 1975. Agrarian Revolution.
13. Polletta, Francesca. 2002. Freedom is an Endless Meeting: Democracy in
American Social Movements.
14. Schwartz, Michael. 1976. Radical protest and social structure: the Southern
Farmers’ Alliance and Cotton Tenancy, 1880-1890. The University of Chicago
Press: Chicago.
15. Scott, James C. 1985. Weapons of the Weak: Everyday forms of peasant
resistance.
16. Sewell, Jr., William. 1980. Work & Revolution in France: The language of labor
from the Old Regime to 1848
17. Stock, Catherine McNicol. 1996. Rural Radicals: Righteous Rage in the
American Grain. Cornell University Press: Ithaca, NY.
18. Swidler, Ann. “Cultural power in social movements.” In Social movements and
culture, ed. Hank Johnston and Bert Klandermans, 25-41. Minneapolis, MN:
University of Minnesota Press.
19. Tilly, Charles. 1964. Vendée.
20. Tilly, Charles. 1995. Popular Contention in Great Britain, 1758-1834.
21. Wolf, Eric R. 1969. Peasant Wars of the Twentieth Century.
Article ideas for comps
1. Armstrong, Elizabeth, A., and Mary Bernstein. 2008. “Culture, Power, and
Institutions: A multi-institutional politics approach to social movements.”
Sociological Theory, 26(1):74-99.
2. Bell, Michael M., Sarah E. Lloyd, and Christine Vatovec. 2010. “Activating the
Countryside: Rural Power, the Power of the Rural and the Making of Rural
Politics.” Sociologia Ruralis, 50(3):205-224.
3. Goodwin, Jeff, James M. Jasper, and Francesca Polletta. 2000. “The Return of the
Repressed: The fall and rise of emotions in social movement theory.”
Mobilization, 5(1):65.84.
4. Gould, Robert V. 1996. “Patron client ties, state centralization, and the Whiskey
Rebellion.” American Journal of Sociology, 102:400-429.
5. Isaac, Larry. 2008. “Movement of Movements: Culture moves in the long Civil
Rights struggle.” Social Forces, 87(1):33-63.
6. Jasper, James. 2011. “Emotions and Social Movements: Twenty Years of Theory
and Research.” Annual Review of Sociology, 37:285-303.
7. Kane, Anne. 2000. “Reconstructing Culture in Historical Explanation: Narratives
as Cultural Structure and Practice.” History and Theory, 39(3):311-330.
8. Markoff, John. 1997. “Peasants help destroy and old regime and defy a new one:
some lessons from (and for) the study of social movements.” American Journal of
Sociology, 102(4):1113-1142.
9. Mooney, Patrick H. 2000. “Specifying the “Rural” in Social Movement Theory.
Polish Sociological Review 129:35-55.
10. Mooney, Patrick H., and Scott A. Hunt. 1996. “A Repertoire of Interpretations:
Master Frames and Ideological Continuity in U.S. Agrarian Mobilization.” The
Sociological Quarterly 37(1): 177-197.
11. Polletta, Francesca. 1998. “It Was like a Fever …” Narrative and Identity in
Social Protest.” Social Problems, 45(2):137-159.
12. Polletta, Francesca. 2008. “Culture and Movements.” Annals of the American
Academy of Political and Social Science, 619:78-96.
13. Reed, Matt. 2004. “The Mobilisation of Rural Identities and the Failure of the
Rural Protest Movement in the UK, 1996-2001.” Space and Polity, 8(1):25-42.
14. Swidler, Ann. 1986. “Culture in Action: Symbols and Strategies.” American
Sociological Review, 51:273-286.
15. Walder, Andrew G. 2009. “Political Sociology and Social Movements.” Annual
Review of Sociology, 35:393-412.
16. Woods, Michael. 2003. “Deconstructing rural protest: the emergence of a new
social movement.” Journal of Rural Studies, 19:309-325.