Tag: Doug McAdam

• Political action’s psychological layer

  The “classical model” of social movement theory explains the emergence of social movements in terms of collective psychological reactions to structural changes in society. In short, people are alienated and therefore join protest movements. Hating on this approach is something of a cornerstone of the sociological canon of contemporary social movement theory. Central among the…

  Jonathan Matthew Smucker

  March 21, 2014

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  alienation, anomie, classical model, collective action, Doug McAdam, OWS, social psychology

• more geeking out about floating signifiers

  I’m reading Dynamics of Contention by Doug McAdam, Sidney Tarrow, and Charles Tilly. I’ll be posting some notes as I digest it over the next few days. It’s been interesting to see different language for some of the same concepts—or at least overlapping concepts—that I’ve been working on, influenced by many others of course. I…

  Jonathan Matthew Smucker

  August 15, 2012

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  Beigno Aquino, Charles Tilly, Doug McAdam, Dynamics of Contention, Ferdinand Marcos, floating signifiers, Sidney Tarrow