PSCI 6400
Civil Society and
Social Movements
Schedule of Classes
and Assignments
I. September 8
VI. October 13
XI. November 17
II. September 15
VII. October 20
XII. November 24
III. September 22
VIII. October 27
XIII. December 1
IV. September 29
IX. November 3
XIV. December 8
V. October 6
X. November 10
XV. December 15
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I. September 8   Organizational matters. Introduction.
II. September 15   The classical approach.
      Seligman, Adam. 1992. "The Modern Idea of Civil Society." Ch 1 in Seligson, The Idea of Civil Society. <e-reserve>
      de Tocqueville, Alexis (any edition). Democracy in America. <Waldo reserve and online>

Actual chapter titles (to avoid confusion from among different editions):

Volume I

  • Origin of the Anglo-Americans, and the Importance of this Origin in Relation to their Future Condition.
  • Social Condition of the Anglo-Americans.
  • How it can be Strictly Said That the People Govern in The United States.
  • Parties in the United States
  • Liberty of the Press in The United States.
  • Political Associations in The United States.
  • Unlimited Power of the Majority in The United States, and its Consequences.
  • Principal Causes which Serve to Maintain the Democratic Republic in The United States.

Volume II, Part II (or Section II)

  • Why Democratic Nations Show a more Ardent and Enduring Love of Equality than of Liberty.
  • Of Individualism in Democratic Countries.
  • Individualism Strong at the Close of a Democratic Revolution than at Other Periods.
  • That the Americans Combat the Effects of Individualism with Free Institutions.
  • Of the Uses which the Americans Make of Public Associations.
  • Of the Relation of Public Associations and the Newspapers.
  • Relation of Civil to Political Associations.
  • How the Americans Combat Individualism by the Principle of Self-Interest Rightly Understood.
III. September 22   Reactions.
      Gramsci, Antonio. 1994 [and other editions]. Selections from the Prison Notebooks (Columbia University Press). Part II, Ch. 2, "State and Civil Society." <Waldo reserve, e-book on library web site, or purchase>
Bobbio, Norberto. 1979. "Gramsci and the Conception of Civil Society." In Chantal Mouffe (ed.), Gramsci and Marxist Theory. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 21-47. <e-reserve>
Hann, Chris. 1996 "Introduction: Political Society and Civil Anthropology." In Chris Hann and Elizabeth Dunn (eds), Civil Society: Challenging Western Models. Routledge, 1-26. <e-reserve>
IV. September 29   Reactions (continued).
      Berman, Sheri. 1997. "Civil Society and the Collapse of the Weimar Republic."World Politics 49:3 (April) 401-429. <e-reserve>
      Encarnacion, Omar. 2006. "Civil Society Reconsidered: Review Article." Comparative Politics 38: 3 (April), 357-376. <e-reserve>
      Carothers, Thomas. 1999/2000. "Civil Society: Think Again." Foreign Policy 117 (Winter) 18-29 . <e-reserve>
      Ndegwa, Stephen. 1996. The Two Faces of Civil Society: NGOs and Politics in Africa. Kumarian Press. <Waldo reserve or purchase>
V. October 6   No Class.
VI. October 13   Collective action.
Olson, Mancur. 1965. The Logic of Collective Action. Harvard U Press. Intro, chs 1 & 2. <Waldo reserve>
Hardin, Garrett. 1968. "The Tragedy of the Commons." Science 13 (December), 1243-1248. <e-reserve>
Ostrom, Elinor. 1990. Governing the Commons: The Evolution of Institutions for Collective Action (New York: Cambridge University Press), chs. 1 & 6. <Waldo reserve>
VII. October 20   Social movements I: Classical explanations; resource mobilization theory.
Weber, Max. "The Sociology of Charismatic Authority." In H. H. Gerth and C. Wright Mills (eds). From Max Weber: Essays in Sociology. Oxford University Press 1946: 245-252. <e-reserve>
Kornhauser, William. 1959. "The Politics of Mass Society." Excerpted in Vincenzo Ruggiero and Nicola Montagna (eds.), Social Movements. Routledge 2008, 73-78. <e-reserve>
Smelser, Neil. 1962. "Theory of Collective Behavior." Excerpted in Vincenzo Ruggiero and Nicola Montagna (eds.), Social Movements. Routledge 2008, 79-85. <e-reserve>
Jenkins, Craig. 1983. "Resource Mobilization Theory and the Study of Social Movements." Annual Review of Sociology 9, 527-553. <e-reserve>
McAdam, Doug, John McCarthy, and Mayer Zald. 1996. "Introduction." In Doug McAdam, John McCarthy, and Mayer Zald (eds.), Comparative Perspectives on Social Movements: Political Opportunities, Mobilizing Structures, and Cultural Framings, 1-20. <Waldo reserve or purchase>
     

McCarthy, John. 1996. "Constraints and Opportunities in Adopting, Adapting and Inventing." Ch 6 in Comparative Perspectives on Social Movements, 141-151.

     

Rucht, Dieter. 1996. "The Impact of National Contexts on Social Movement Structures: A Cross-Movement and Cross-National Comparison." Ch 8 in Comparative Perspectives on Social Movements, 185-204.

VIII. October 27   Social movements II: New social movements; political opportunity structures.
      Offe, Claus. 1985. "New Social Movements: Challenging the Boundaries of Institutional Politics." Social Research 52:4, 817-872.<e-reserve>
      D'Anieri, Paul, Claire Ernst, and Elizabeth Kier. 1990. "New Social Movements in Historical Perspective." Comparative Politics 22:4 (July) 445-458. <e-reserve>
      Melucci, Alberto. 1994. "A Strange Kind of Newness: What's 'New' in New Social Movements?" In Enrique Larana, Hank Johnston and Joseph Gusfield (eds.), New Social Movements: From Ideology to Identity. Temple University Press, 101-130. <e-reserve>
Jenkins, Craig and Charles Perrow, 1977. "Insurgency of the Powerless: Farm Worker Movements (1946-1972)." American Sociological Review 42:2 (April), 249-268. <e-reserve>
McAdam, James. 1996. "Conceptual Origins, Current Problems, Future Directions." Ch 1 in Comparative Perspectives on Social Movements, 23-40.
della Porta, Donatella. 1996. "Social Movements and the State: Thoughts on the Policing of Protest." Ch 4 in in Comparative Perspectives on Social Movements, 62-92.
IX. November 3   Social movements III: Framing and culture.
      Robert Benford and David Snow. 2000 "Framing Processes and Social Movements: An Overview and Assessment," Annual Review of Sociology 26, 611-639. <e-reserve>
Zald, Mayer. 1996. "Culture, Ideology, and Strategic Framing." Ch 11 in Comparative Perspectives on Social Movements, 261-274.
McCarthy, John, Jackie Smith, and Mayer Zald. 1996. "Accessing Public, Media, Electoral, and Governmental Agendas. " Ch 13 in Comparative Perspectives on Social Movements, 291-311.
Armstrong, Elizabeth and Mary Bernstein. 2008. "Culture, Power, and Institutions: A Multi-institutional Politics Approach to Social Movements." Sociological Theory 26:1, 74-99. <e-reserve>
X. November 10   Social Capital.
      Putnam, Robert. 1995. "Bowling Alone: America's Declining Social Capital." Journal of Democracy 6:1, 65-78. <e-reserve>
Putnam, Robert, 1993. Making Democracy Work. Princeton. <Waldo reserve or purchase>
XI. November 17   Contentious Politics.
      Tarrow, Sidney. 1998. Power in Movement. 2nd edition (NOTE). <Waldo reserve or purchase>
XII. November 24   Thanksgiving -- No Class.
XIII. December 1   Presentations. Papers are due to me by Saturday, November 26. Final revised papers are due by Tuesday, December 6 at midnight.
      Skylar Bre'z, "Women’s History: A Framework for Collective Action."
      Dervaish Khan, "The State and Discursive Hegemony: A Case Study of Pakistan."
      Josh Varnell, "Civil Society and the Integration of Diverse Values."
XIV. December 8   Presentations. Papers are due to me by Saturday, December 3. Final revised papers are due by Tuesday, December 13 at midnight.
      Thora Giallouri, "Social Change in the U.S.: The LGBT Movement."
      Beenish Kulsoom, "The Lawyers' Movement in Pakistan."
      Zaw Thein, "Three Contentious Episodes in Recent History."
XV. December 15   Final Exam.