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Patterns of Protest: Trajectories of Participation in Social Movements

Autor Catherine Corrigall-Brown
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 12 mar 2013
Asked to name an activist, many people think of someone like Cesar Chavez or Rosa Parks—someone uniquely and passionately devoted to a cause. Yet, two-thirds of Americans report having belonged to a social movement, attended a protest, or engaged in some form of contentious political activity. Activism, in other words, is something that the vast majority of people engage in. This book examines these more common experiences to ask how and when people choose to engage with political causes.

Corrigall-Brown reveals how individual characteristics and life experiences impact the pathway of participation, illustrating that the context and period in which a person engages are critical. This is the real picture of activism, one in which many people engage, in a multitude of ways and with varying degrees of continuity. This book challenges the current conceptualization of activism and pushes us to more systematically examine the varying ways that individuals participate in contentious politics over their lifetimes.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780804786898
ISBN-10: 0804786895
Pagini: 192
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 18 mm
Greutate: 0.3 kg
Editura: Stanford University Press
Colecția Stanford University Press

Recenzii

Patterns of Protest: Trajectories of Participation in Social Movements [...] is a welcome addition to the literature on social movement participation . . . [Corrigall-Brown] makes a compelling case that her typology remains useful, positing that we will be more likely to see the transfer and abeyance trajectories, with fewer participants disengaging . . . This book jumps right into the dense social movements literature and claims its rightful place."—Katrina Kimport, Social Forces

"Patterns of Protest is an original contribution, rich with theoretical insights and practical implications. It succeeds in providing constructive knowledge and new aspects on the study of social movement organisations."—Alexios Alecou, Political Studies Review

"Patterns of Protest carefully investigates various dimensions of political activists' lives, including the duration of their engagement, the strength of their activist identities, and the significance of social interactions within the social movement organizations."—Marguerite G. Rosenthal, Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare

"The book is necessary reading for scholars who are interested in understanding what motivates entry into and exit from social activism. Corrigall-Brown's work will hopefully encourage a wave of new research that analytically demarcates and empirically evaluates the nuances of involvement as people engage in various challenges to the powers that be." — Kraig Beyerlein, American Journal of Sociology

"Sociologist Corrigall-Brown (Univ. of Western Ontario) breaks new ground in presenting a major systematic study of how individuals particiapte in or stop participating in protest activism . . . The author artfully combines quantitative analyses of panel data and qualitative life-history interviews and writes in a vivid, provocative manner. The end product is a theoretically rich, empirically rigorous book that students of contentious politics cannot afford to ignore. Summing Up: Essential."—J. Li, CHOICE
"Patterns of Protest is a path breaking examination of participation in social movements. Rather than focusing on the correlates of initial engagement, as most movement participation studies have done, Corrigall-Brown takes us on a journey, based on life history interviews with participants in four different movements, that elaborates the various degrees and trajectories of participation in a more thorough and nuanced fashion than has been done heretofore. A most welcome contribution to the study of social movements in general and participation in particular."—David A. Snow, University of California, Irvine
"For all the studies we have of movement recruitment, we know next to nothing about what happens after that. Or rather we knew nothing until this exceptional book came along. Corrigall-Brown's rich study is must reading for anyone who wants to understand the longer-term ebb and flow of participation that tend to define activist lives."—Doug McAdam, Stanford University
"Through a skillful use of quantitative and qualitative evidence, Patterns of Protest explains who is more likely to be a lifetime activist and who is more likely to be an intermittent participant or disengage from activism. This is a significant theoretical and empirical addition to our understanding of the dynamics of contentious citizenship across the life course."—Russell J. Dalton, University of California, Irvine
"This work is destined to become the authoritative text on the variety of ways individuals participate in social activism. Very few studies move beyond initial engagement to explore life-course trajectories of protest participation. While some research explores the social psychology behind decisions to protest, this book reveals the significant ways in which the organizational context of activist groups shapes participation."—Holly McCammon, Vanderbilt University

Notă biografică

Catherine Corrigall-Brown is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of Western Ontario.

Descriere

This book examines what happens to individuals after they initially engage in protest or social movement organizations, offering a reconceptualization of social movement participation.