Social Movements and Political Participation (920112) Spring 2012 Prof.

Marco Verweij Jacobs University Bremen

Course Overview This course will introduce you to the history, theory and current impact of social movements. We will explore the claims, actions, forms, causes and consequences of the main social movements during the last few centuries. We will critically discuss past and current theories of social movements. As it is hard to fully comprehend social movements without understanding their main rivals in the political arena (interest groups and bureaucracies), we will also focus on the rationales and ways of organising of these other groups. During the last four weeks, we will analyse the roles of social movements in a variety of the major issues of today, including climate change, globalization and anti-poverty efforts, and Islamic fundamentalism. The readings for this course may be a bit on the heavy side. However, there is neither a midterm nor a final exam. Moreover, I have done my utmost to pick the most readable and interesting publications. You will be required to finish all the required readings in advance, and prepare at least one question for class discussion every week. (Please note: the background readings are recommended only). In order to help you get motivated (and much in line with the famous words once uttered by erstwhile social movement-leader Vladimir Lenin: trust is good, but control is better), I will test your knowledge of the literature with a brief, written quiz every week. This is a seminar, and class participation will be much appreciated (and likewise rewarded). In addition to the weekly quizzes and class participation, you will be graded on the basis of a class presentation and a research paper, for which I will help you prepare. Assessment & Evaluation Class participation Weekly quiz Class presentation Research Paper 10% 20% 30% 40%

The research paper will have to comprise 15-20 pages (single to double-spaced; letter size 11-12), and the presentation will have to last for about 20 minutes (with an additional 10 minutes for subsequent class debate).

Course Schedule Week 1: Introduction: A Very Brief History of Social Movements Readings: Rudolf Heberle, Social Movements, in David L. Sills (ed.), The International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences (New York: MacMillan, 1968), pp. 438-44. Background readings: Charles Tilly, Social Movements 1768-2004 (London: Paradigm, 2004). Week 2: The Theory of Social Movements (I): Mass Society/Social Strain & Relative Deprivation Readings: William Kornhauser, Mass Society, in David L. Sills (ed.), The International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences (New York: MacMillan, 1968), pp. 58-64; Neil J. Smelser, Theoretical Issues of Scope and Problems of Collective Behavior, Sociological Quarterly (Vol. 5, No. 2, 1964), pp. 116-22. Background readings: mile Durkheim, The Division of Labour in Society (New York: The Free Press, 1997, originally published 1893); William Kornhauser, The Politics of Mass Society (New York: The Free Press, 1959); Talcott Parsons, An Outline of the Social System, in Talcott Parsons, Edward Shills, Kaspar D. Naegele and Jesse R. Pitts (eds), Theories of Society: Foundations of Modern Sociological Thought (New York: The Free Press, 1965); Neil J. Smelser, Theory of Collective Behavior (New York: The Free Press, 1962); Ted R. Gurr, Why Men Rebel (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1970). Week 3: The Theory of Social Movements (II): Political Process & Resource Mobilization. Readings: Doug McAdam, Institution Building in the African-American Community, 19311954, and Hanspeter Kriesi, Ruud Koopmans, Jan Willem Duyvendak and Marco G. Giugni, New Social Movements and Political Opportunities in Western Europe, both in Doug McAdam and David A. Snow (eds), Social Movements: Readings on Their Emergence, Mobilization and Dynamics (Los Angeles, CA: Roxbury, 1997), chapters 9 and 5, respectively; Charles Dobson, Successful Movements: A Summary of What Works (2001), available at: www.vcn.bc.ca/citizens-handbook/movements.pdf. Background readings: Doug McAdam, Political Process and the Development of Black Insurgency 1930-1970 (Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 2001); Herbert P. Kitschelt, Political Opportunity Structures and Political Protest: Anti-Nuclear Movements in Four Democracies, British Journal of Political Science (Vol. 16, No. 1, 1986), pp. 57-85; Marco Verweij, Why Is the River Rhine Cleaner than the Great Lakes (Despite Looser Regulation)?, Law & Society Review (Vol. 34, No. 4, 2000), pp. 1007-54; Mancur Olson, The Logic of Collective Action: Public Goods and the Theory of Theory of Groups (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, rev. ed., 1971); J. Craig Jenkins, Resource Mobilization Theory and the Study of Social Movements, Annual Review of Sociology (Vol. 9, 1983), pp. 527-553. Week 4: The Theory of Social Movements (III): New Social Movements & Framing

Readings: Herbert Marcuse, Liberation from the Affluent Society, in David Cooper (ed.), The Dialectics of Liberation (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1968), pp. 175-92; Scott Long, Gay and Lesbian Movements in Eastern Europe: Romania, Hungary, and the Czech Republic, in Barry Adam, Jan Willem Duyvendak and Andr Krouwel (eds), The Global Emergence of Gay and Lesbian Politics: National Imprints of a Worldwide Movement (Philadelphia, PE: Temple University Press, 1999), pp. 242-65; Dan Berrett, Intellectual Roots of Wall St. Protest Lie in Academe, Chronicle of Higher Education (16 October 2011); Bill Moyer, The Movement Action Plan: A Strategic Framework Describing Eight Stages of Successful Social Movements (1987), available at: http://www.historyisaweapon.org/defcon1/moyermap.html. Background readings: Herbert Marcuse, An Essay on Liberation (Boston: Beacon Press, 1969); Alain Touraine, The May Movement: Revolt and Reform; May 1968; the student rebellion and workers strikes the birth of a social movement (New York: Random House, 1971); Erving Goffman, Frame Analysis: An Essay on the Organization of Experience (London: Harper and Row, 1974); Robert D. Benford and David A. Snow, Framing Processes and Social Movements: An Overview and Assessment, Annual Review of Sociology (Vol. 26, 2000), pp. 611-39; Hank Johnston and Bert Klandermans (eds), Social Movements and Culture (Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press, 1995); Nelson A. Pichardo, New Social Movements: A Critical Review, Annual Review of Sociology (Vol. 23, 1997), pp. 411-30. Week 5: The Theory of Social Movements (IV): Weapons of the Weak Readings: Frances Fox Piven and Richard A Cloward, Poor Peoples Movements: How They Succeed, Why They Fail (New York: Vintage, 1977), Chapter 1, The Structuring of Protest. Background readings: Jaroslav Haek, The Good Soldier vejk and his Fortunes in the World War (London: Penguin, 1990; originally published 1923); Joseph Heller, Catch 22 (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1961); James C. Scott, Weapons of the Weak: Everyday Forms of Peasants Resistance (New Haven, CN: Yale University Press, 1985), Week 6: Political Participation Readings: Michiel Schwarz and Michael Thompson, Divided We Stand: Redefining Politics, Technology and Social Choice (Philadelphia; PE: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1990), chapters 1 & 5. Week 7: Social Movements, Interest Groups and Bureaucracies Readings: Mary Douglas and Aaron Wildavsky, Risk and Culture: An Essay on the Selection of Technological and Environmental Dangers (Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1982), chapters 6 & 7. Week 8: Social Movements, Interest Groups and Bureaucracies Readings: Milton Friedman, Capitalism and Freedom (Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 2nd revised edition, 1963), Introduction, plus chapters 1 and 2. Week 9: Social Movements, Interest Groups and Bureaucracies Readings: Mary Douglas and Aaron Wildavsky, Risk and Culture: An Essay on the Selection of Technological and Environmental Dangers (Berkeley, CA: University of California Press,

1982), pp. 90-101; Christopher Hood, The Art of the State: Culture, Rhetoric and Public Management (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1998), chapter 4. Background readings: Mary Douglas, A Feeling for Hierarchy, in James L. Heft (ed.), Believing Scholars: Ten Catholic Intellectuals (New York: Fordham University, 2005). Week 10: Absence of Social Movements Readings: Edward Banfield, The Moral Basis of a Backward Society (New York: The Free Press, 1958), Introduction, plus chapters 1, 5 and 6. Background readings: Robert D. Putnam, Making Democracy Work (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1993). Week 11: Climate Change Readings: Marco Verweij, et. al., Clumsy Solutions for a Complex World: The Case of Climate Change, Public Administration (Vol. 84, No. 4, 2006), pp. 817-43; John C. Camillus, Strategy as a Wicked Problem, Harvard Business Review (Vol. 86, No. 5, 2008), pp. 98-106. Background readings: Marco Verweij and Michael Thompson (eds), Clumsy Solutions for a Complex World: Governance, Politics and Plural Perceptions (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006). Week 12: Student Presentations Frank Hendriks, Cars and Culture in Munich and Birmingham: The Case for Cultural Pluralism, in Dennis Coyle & Richard Ellis (eds), Politics, Policy and Culture (Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1994); Geert Lovink, Inside Networked Movements: Interview with Jeffrey Juris (10 October 2008), at: http://networkcultures.org/wpmu/geert/inside-networkedmovements-interview-with-jeffrey-juris/. Week 13: Student Presentations Readings: Olivier Roy, The Failure of Political Islam (London: I.B. Taurus, 1999), chapters 2, 3 & 4. Background readings: Gabriel A. Almond, R. Scott Appleby, and Emmanuel Sivan, Strong Religion: The Rise of Fundamentalisms around the World (Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 2002). Week 14: Student Presentations