Sociology
179:
Social Movements and Collective Action
Winter 2016 MWF
1:10-2
Watkins 1101 C.
Chase-Dunn
v. 1-6-16
This
is a 4-unit lecture course for upper division undergraduates. The course
focuses on social movements, revolutions, rebellions, protests and other forms
of collective behavior. We will study the causes of social movements
and the ways in which social movements, rebellions and revolutions affect
social change and sociocultural evolution. We will examine the prehistory and history
of social movements and the development of transnational social movements since
the 18th century. Regarding transnational social movements, we will
consider inter-movement relations, North-South issues within movements, global
party formation and the relationships between transnational movements and
states in the semiperiphery. We will also study world
revolutions since the Protestant Reformation and the emergence of global civil
society. Each student is required to do one
of two optional research projects.
The course will employ the comparative world-systems
perspective to examine the relationships between social movements and social
change. A primer on the modern world-system perspective is Thomas Richard
Shannon’s An Introduction to the World-Systems Perspective (Westview
1996). Used copies are widely available.
Grading is
based on the midterm exam (30%) [February
12], the final exam
(30%), [March 16, 7pm] attendance (15%), and a 10 page
research paper (25%) [due March 9].
The midterm and the final will be in-class essay exams. Your proposed research
paper topic is due in class on February
5. The requirements for the research paper are on the Ilearn
course web site under Assignments.
The Academic Resources Center
(ARC) provides peer-led supplemental instruction, tutoring, writing support,
and study skills workshops for students who want to excel in their studies, as
well as for students who are having difficulty in their courses. The
reception room for the ARC is located in Room 156 of the Surge Building.
The ARC’s website is: www.arc.ucr.edu.
The
following books are available at the Campus Store and are on reserve:
David A. Snow
and Sarah A. Soule 2009 A Primer on
Social Movements New York:
Norton.
Valentine Moghadam 2009 Globalization
and Social Movements: Islamism, Feminism and the Global
Justice
Movement. Lanham, MD:
Rowman and Littlefield
Robert K.
Schaeffer 2014 Social Movements and
Global Social Change. Lanham, MD: Rowman
and Littlefield.
Guy Standing, The Precariat: the New Dangerous Class 2011 London: Bloomsbury
Reading Schedule: Asterisked (*) readings are required. Others are recommended. Required readings should be read prior to the class meeting under which they are listed.
Monday
January 4: Syllabus handed out and overview of the course.
*Immanuel Wallerstein 1974 “The
Rise and Future Demise of the World Capitalist System: Concepts for Comparative
Analysis.” Comparative Studies in Society and History 16:387-415. (also under
Course Materials/Readings on the Ilearn site).
Wednesday
January 6 Collective Behavior: crowds,
fads, riots, panics, herd behavior, the stock market, fashion cycles, etc.
Herbert Blumer, Collective Behavior
Neil J. Smelser 1962 Theory of Collective Behavior.
New York: Free Press
Gustave LeBon, The Crowd
Robert R. Evans (ed.) 1969 Readings
in Collective Behavior Chicago: Rand McNally
Friday
January 8 Social Movements1
*David A. Snow
and Sarah A. Soule 2009 A Primer on
Social Movements , Preface and Chapter
1: Conceptualizing Social Movements
Suzanne Staggenborg, Social
Movements
Michael Freeden 2003 Ideology.
New York: Oxford University Press.
Monday
January 11 Social Movements2
*David A. Snow
and Sarah A. Soule 2009 A Primer on
Social Movements ,
Chapter
2: Mobilizing Grievances
Charles Tilly, The Politics of Collective Violence
Georges Sorel, Reflections on Violence
Jack A.
Goldstone 1994 Revolutions
Stephen
Sanderson 2010 Revolutions
Wednesday
January 13 Social Movements3
*David A. Snow
and Sarah A. Soule 2009 A Primer on
Social Movements
Chapter 3: Contextual Conditions
Mayer N. Zald and John D. McCarthy, Social Movements in an Organizational Society
David
S. Meyer The Politics of Protest: Social Movements in America
Friday
January 15 Social Movements3
*David A. Snow
and Sarah A. Soule 2009 A Primer on
Social Movements Chapter 4:
Participation in Social Movements
Donatella Della
Porta and Mario Diani, Social Movements:
An Introduction
Giovanni
Arrighi, Terence K. Hopkins, and Immanuel
Wallerstein 1989 Antisystemic
Movements
Monday
January 18 University Holiday: MLK
Wednesday
January 20 Social
Movements4
*David A. Snow
and Sarah A. Soule 2009 A Primer on
Social Movements Chapters 5 and 6.
“Dynamics” and “Consequences”
Doug McAdam and David A. Snow (eds.) 2010 Readings On Social Movements
Friday
January 22 The
prehistory of social movements: social change in small-scale human societies
(no lecture on Monday)
*A.F.C. Wallace 1956 “Revitalization
movements” American Anthropologist
58: Pp 264-281. (also under Course
Materials/Readings on the Ilearn site).
Cora DuBois 2007 [1939] The 1870
Ghost Dance. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press
James Mooney 1896 The Ghost
Dance Religion and the Sioux Outbreak of 1890
Gregory E. Smoak 2006 Ghost Dances and Identity University of
California Press
Abraham M. Halpern 1988 Southeastern Pomo Ceremonials: The Kuksu Cult and Its Successors.
University of California Publications,
Anthropological Records Volume 29,
Berkeley: University
of California Press.
Monday
January 25 No Lecture
Wednesday
January 27 More prehistory of social
movements: Cargo cults
*Russell Thornton 1981 “Demographic Antecedents of a
Revitalization Movement:
Population Change, Population Size and
the 1890 Ghost Dance” American
Sociological
Review, Vol. 46, No. 1 (Feb.), pp. 88-96. (also under Course Materials/Readings on the Ilearn site).
______________ 1986 We Shall
Live Again: The 1870 and 1890 Ghost Dance movements as
demographic revitalization. ASA
Rose Monograph Series, Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press
Peter Worsley The Trumpet Shall Sound: A Study of
'Cargo Cults' in Melanesia.
Peter
Lawrence, Road Belong Cargo: A study of
the cargo movement in the Southern Madang District,
New
Guinea
Friday
January 29 Social movements and the rise of the early state: Cahokia. Moral entrepreneurs,
theocracies, human sacrifice. Mesopotamia and the temple economy. Egypt and
ideologies of order and chaos.
Timothy R. Pauketat 2009 Cahokia: Ancient America’s Great City on the
Mississippi, New York:
Penguin Books
Norman Cohn 1995 Cosmos, Chaos
and the World to Come: The Ancient Roots of Apocalyptic Faith.
Monday
February 1 Peasant revolts, slave rebellions and cycles of rise and fall of
states and empires
Peter Turchin and Sergey Nefadov,
The Secular Cycle
Marvin Harris, Cannibals and
Kings
Eric Hobsbawm, Primitive Rebels
Wednesday
February 3 World Revolutions: The
Protestant Reformation
*C.
Chase-Dunn and B. Lerro, Social Change: Globalization From the Stone Age to the Present. Chapter
14: “The Early Modern Systems in the Fifteenth to the Eighteenth Centuries”
Norman Cohn, 1957 The Pursuit of the Millennium.
Max Weber, Protestantism and the
Spirit of Capitalism
Friday
February 5 The World Revolution of 1789 (Research Topic is due) Midterm Study Questions Handed Out
*Robert Schaeffer,
Social Movements and Global Social Change,
Chapters 1-3
Charles Tilly
2004 Social Movements, 1768-2004
Janet Polasky 2015 Revolutions
Without Borders: The Call to Liberty in the Atlantic World
Peter Linebaugh and Marcus Rediker, The
Many-Headed Hydra
William G.
Martin et al 2008 Making
Waves: Worldwide Social Movements, 1750-2005. Boulder,
CO: Paradigm
Charles Tilly, The Vendee
Laurent Dubois,
Avengers of the New World: The Story of
the Haitian Revolution
Monday February
8 The World Revolution of 1848
*Robert Schaeffer,
Social Movements and Global Social Change,
Chapters 4-6
*C. Chase-Dunn and B. Lerro Social
Change: Globalization From the Stone Age to the Present.
Chapter 15 “The
global 19th century”
Immanuel
Wallerstein 2011 The Modern
World-System, Volume 4: Centrist Liberalism Triumphant, 1789-1914 Berkeley: University of California
Press.
Karl Marx 1852 The 18th
Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte
William G.
Martin et al 2008 Making Waves: Worldwide Social Movements,
1750-2005. Boulder,
CO: Paradigm
Mike Rapport 2008 1848:Year of
Revolution. New York: Basic Books.
Edmund Burke III (ed.) Global
Crises and Social Movements: Artisans, Peasants, Populists and the
World Economy.
Adam Hochschild 2005 Bury
the Chains: Prophets and Rebels in the Fight to Free an Empire’s
Slaves. New York: Houghton Mifflin
Franz H. Michael
1966 The Taiping Rebellion. Seattle:
University of Washington Press.
Jonathan Spence
God’s
Chinese Son
Wallace Stegner The Coming of
Zion
Charles Tilly
2008 Contentious Performances
Wednesday
February 20 The World Revolution of 1917
*Robert Schaeffer,
Social Movements and Global Social Change,
Chapter 7
* C. Chase-Dunn and
B. Lerro 2013 Social
Change: Globalization From the Stone Age to the Present.
Chapter 17 “The
Twentieth Century Age of Extremes”
William G.
Martin et al, 2008 Making
Waves: Worldwide Social Movements, 1750-2005. Boulder,
CO: Paradigm
Robert MacPherson 2014 “Antisystemic Movements in Periods of Hegemonic
Decline:
Syndicalism in World-Historical Perspective” Pp. 193-220
in Christian Suter and C.
Chase-Dunn (eds.) Structures
of the World Political Economy and the Future of Global Conflict
and Cooperation. Zurich: LIT Verlag
Georges Haupt 1970 Socialism
and the Great War: The Collapse of the Second International
John Reed, Ten Days the Shook
the World
Eric R. Wolf Peasant Wars of the
20th Century
John Womack 1970
Zapata and the Mexican Revolution.
Michael Mann
2004 Fascists
Friday
February 12 Midterm Exam
Monday
February 15 University Holiday: President’s Day
Wednesday
February 17 The World Revolution of 1955;
the last wave of decolonization, the Bandung Conference and non-alignment
*Arif Dirlik “The
Bandung legacy and the People's Republic of China in the perspective of global
modernity” ( under Course
Materials/Readings on the Ilearn site).
*C.
Chase-Dunn and B. Lerro, Social Change: Chapter 18 “The
world-system since 1945”
Friday
February 19 The World Revolution of 1968
*Immanuel
Wallerstein “1968:
revolution in the world-system” (also
under Course Materials/Readings on the Ilearn site).
*Robert Schaeffer,
Social Movements and Global Social Change,
Chapters 8-9
William G.
Martin et al, 2008 Making Waves: Worldwide Social Movements,
1750-2005. Boulder,
CO: Paradigm
Giovanni
Arrighi, Terence K. Hopkins, and Immanuel
Wallerstein. 1989. Antisystemic
Movements.
Chapter 5 “1968: the great rehearsal”
Tom Hayden 2006
Radical Nomad: C. Wright Mills and His
Times.
Todd Gitlin 1987 The Sixties: Years of Hope, Days of Rage
Jack A. Goldstone, Ted Robert Gurr and
Farrokh Moshiri (eds.)1991 Revolutions of the Late
Twentieth Century
Michael Vickery 1984 Cambodia
1975-1982 Chaing Mai, Thailand: Silkworm Books
Monday February
22 The World Revolution of 1989
*Robert Schaeffer,
Social Movements and Global Social Change,
Chapter 10
Terry
Boswell and C. Chase-Dunn 2000 The Spiral
of Capitalism and Socialism Chapter 3 “The
Revolutions of 1989” Boulder,
CO: Lynne Rienner
Ellen Reese
2005 The Backlash Against Welfare Mothers.
Press.
Mary Kaldor, 2003 Global
Civil Society. London: Polity Press
Wednesday
February 24 The World Revolution of 200x
*Robert Schaeffer,
Social Movements and Global Social Change,
Chapter 11
*C.
Chase-Dunn and R.E. Niemeyer 2009 “The world revolution of
20xx” Pp. 35-57 in
Mathias Albert, Gesa Bluhm, Han Helmig, Andreas Leutzsch, Jochen Walter (eds.)
Transnational Political Spaces.
Campus Verlag: Frankfurt/New York
C.
Chase-Dunn, Global Formation, Chapter
5: World Culture, Normative Integration and
Community
Stephen Gill 2000 “Toward a post-modern prince?: the battle of
Seattle as a
moment in the new
politics of globalization” Millennium 29,1: 131-140
Manfred Steger, James Goodman and Erin K. Wilson
2013 Justice Globalism:
Ideology,
Crises, Policy. Thousand Oaks, CA:
Sage.
Helmut Anheier
and Hagai Katz 2003 “Mapping Global Civil Society”
pp. 241-258 in Mary
Kaldor,
Helmut Anheier and Marlies Glasius (eds.) Global
Civil Society 2003. New
York: Oxford University Press.
Jackie Smith
and Dawn Weist 2012 Social Movements in the World-System. New York: Russell
Sage.
Charles Lindholm and Jose Pedro Zuquete
2010 The Struggle for the World:
Liberation Movements
for
the 21st Century
Boaventura DeSousa
Santos 2006 Rise of the Global Left
Savan Savas
Karatasli, Sefika Kumral, Ben
Scully and Smriti Upadhyay 2014 “Class, Crisis,
and the 2011 Protest Wave: Cyclical
and Secular Trends in Global Labor Unrest” in
Immanuel Wallerstein, Christopher Chase-Dunn and
Christian Suter (eds.) Overcoming
Global
Inequalities. Boulder,
CO: Paradigm Publishers.
Manuel Castells 2012 Networks of outrage
and hope : social movements in
the Internet age Cambridge: Polity Press
Medea
Benjamin and Andrea Freedman 1989 Bridging
the Global Gap: A Handbook to Linking
Citizens
of the First and Third Worlds. Cabin John, MD: Seven Locks Press.
Friday
February 26 Comparing World Revolutions
*Robert Schaeffer,
Social Movements and Global Social Change,
Chapters 12-13
* C.
Chase-Dunn, “The
Piketty Challenge: World Revolutions and Global Inequality”
William G.
Martin et al, 2008 Making Waves: Worldwide Social Movements,
1750-2005. Boulder,
CO: Paradigm
Terry Boswell and Christopher Chase-Dunn 2000 The Spiral of Capitalism and
Socialism:Toward
Global Democracy. Boulder:
Lynne Rienner.
Colin
J. Beck 2011 “The world cultural origins of revolutionary waves: five centuries
of
European contestation. Social Science History 35,2: 167-207.
Lelia J. Rupp and Verta Taylor 1987 Survival in the Doldrums: the American
Women’s Rights
Movement, 1945 to the 1960s New York: Oxford University
Press
Beverly Silver 2003 Forces
of Labor: Workers Movements and Globalization since 1870.
Paul Mason 2013
Why Its Still Kicking
Off Everywhere: The New Global Revolutions
Monday
February 29 Transnational Social Movements
*Valentine Moghadam, Globalization
and Social Movements, Chapters 1-3
Tarrow, Sidney
2005 The
New Transnational Activism, Cambridge, UK:
Cambridge
University Press
The UCR
Research Working Group on Transnational Social Movements
http://www.irows.ucr.edu/research/tsmstudy.htm
Jackie
Smith, Marina Karides, et al. 2007. The World Social
Forum and the Challenges of Global
Democracy. Boulder, CO: Paradigm Publishers
Ruth Reitan 2007 Global
Activism. London: Routledge.
Margaret Keck and Kathryn Sikkink 1998 Activists
Beyond Borders: advocacy networks in
international politics.
Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press.
Paul Almeida 2014 Mobilizing
Democracy: Globalization and Citizen Protest. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins
University Press.
Tom Reifer
(ed.) Global Crises and the Challenges of
the 21st Century
Wednesday
March 2 North-South relations within the movements
*Valentine Moghadam, Globalization
and Social Movements, Chapters 4-5
* Christopher Chase-Dunn, Ellen Reese, Mark Herkenrath, Rebecca Giem, Erika Guttierrez,
Linda Kim, and Christine Petit. 2008 “North-South
Contradictions and Bridges at
the World Social Forum,” in NORTH AND SOUTH IN THE WORLD
POLITICAL ECONOMY, edited by Rafael Reuveny
and William R. Thompson.
Blackwell.
Susan
Olzak 2006 The
Global Dynamics of Racial and Ethnic Mobilization
Friday
March 4 Transnational Social Movements and Semiperipheral
development: regimes and movements
*Valentine Moghadam, Globalization
and Social Movements, Chapters 6-7
*C.
Chase-Dunn Contemporary Semiperipheral Development: the
Regimes and the
Movements
C. Chase-Dunn, Alessandro Morosin, A., and Alexis Álvarez 2015. “Social Movements and Progressive Regimes in Latin America: World Revolutions and Semiperipheral Development”. in Almeida, Paul D. and Allen Cordero. Eds. 2015. Handbook of Social Movements across Latin America. New York: Springer.
Patrick Bond (ed.) 2013 Brics in
Africa: anti-imperialist, sub-imperialist of in between? Centre for
Civil Society,
University of Kwa-Zulu-Natal.
David Graeber 2013 The
Democracy Project: A History, A Crisis, A Movement.
Todd Gitlin 2012 Occupy
Nation
Ruth Milkman,
Stephanie Luce and Penny Lewis 2013 “Changing
the subject: a bottom-up
account of Occupy Wall Street in New
York City” CUNY: The
Murphy Institute
(also
under Course Materials/Readings on the Ilearn site).
Michaela
Curran, Elizabeth A. G. Schwarz* and C Chase-Dunn 2014 “The Occupy Movement in
California” in Todd A. Comer ed. What
Comes After Occupy?: The Regional Politics of Resistance. Cambridge Scholars Publishing.
Jennifer Earl and Katrina Kimport
2011 Digitallly Enabled Social Change: Activism in
the Internet Age. Cambridge,
MA: MIT Press.
Jackie Smith, Scott Byrd, Ellen Reese and Elizabeth
Smythe (eds) 2015 Handbook on World
Social Forum Activism.
Occupy Oakland shuts
down the Port
Monday
March 7 Global Class Formation: the Precariat
*Guy Standing, The Precariat Chapters 1-4
____________2014 A Precariat Charter : From Denizens to Citizens New York: Bloomsbury
Susan Banki 2013 “ Precarity of Place: a complement to the growing precariat
literature”
Christopher Chase-Dunn and Shoon Lio “Global Class Formation and the New Global Left in World
Historical Perspective”
Amin,
Samir. 1980 “The class structure of the contemporary imperialist system.” Monthly Review 31,8:9-26.
Francis Fukuyama, 2013
“The middle class revolution” Wall
Street Journal, June 29,2013, p.
C-1.
Ruth Milkman and Ed Ott (eds)
2014 New Labor in New York: Precarious
Workers and the Future
of the Labor Movement
Arne L Kalleberg 2009 “Precarious
Work, Insecure Workers: Employment Relations in
Transition”
American Sociological Review 74,1:
1-22
_____________2011 Good Jobs, Bad
Jobs: The Rise of Polarized and Precarious Employment
Systems in the United States,
1970s-2000s . New York: Russell Sage Foundation
Dmitris Stevis and Terry Boswell
2008 Globalization and Labor
Jeffrey Harrod and Robert O’Brien (eds.) Global Unions?
Randall Collins 2013 “The
end of middle-class work: no more escapes” Pp. 37-70 in
Immanuel
Wallerstein, Randall
Collins, Michael Mann, Georgi Derlugian and Craig
Calhoun Does Capitalism Have a Future? New York: Oxford University Press.
Wednesday
March 9 [Research Paper is Due]
Relations among movements in the New Global Left
*Guy Standing, The Precariat Chapters 5-7
*Christopher Chase-Dunn and Matheu Kaneshiro 2009 “Stability and Change in
the
contours of Alliances Among movements in the social
forum process”
Pp. 119-
133 in David Fasenfest (ed.) Engaging Social Justice. Leiden: Brill.
Peter B. Evans 2010 “Is it Labor’s Turn to Globalize? Twenty-first
Century opportunities
and Strategic
Responses” Global Labour Journal (1)3:
352-‐379.
Christopher
Chase-Dunn, Richard Niemeyer, Preeta Saxena, Matheu Kaneshiro, James
Love and Amanda Spears, The New Global Left:
Movements and Regimes
C. Chase-Dunn
and Ian Breckenridge-Jackson “Changes in the Sizes
and contours of
C.
Chase-Dunn, James Fenelon, Thomas D. Hall, Ian Breckenridge-Jackson and
Joel Herrera 2015 Global Indigenism and the Web of Transnational Social Movements
C. Chase-Dunn,
Joel Herrera, John Aldecoa, Ian Breckenridge-Jackson
and Nicolas Pascal 2015 “Anarchism in the web
of transnational social movements”
Nella Van Dyke and Holly J McCammon
(eds.) 2010 Strategic Alliances: Coalition Building and
Social Movements.
Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.
Friday
March 11 Articulation among the movements and building a united front of the
new global left
*Chase-Dunn, Christopher and Ellen Reese 2008
“Global party
formation in world historical
perspective” in Katarina Sehm-Patomaki
and Marko Ulvila (eds.) Global Party
Formation. London: Zed Press.
*Chris
Chase-Dunn, Anne-Sophie Stäbler, Ian
Breckenridge-Jackson and Joel Herrera
“Articulating the web of
transnational social movements”
Samir Amin 2008. “Towards the fifth international?” Pp. 123-143 in Katarina Sehm-
Patomaki and Marko Ulvila
(eds.) Global Political Parties. London: Zed Press.
Bond, Patrick.
2012. The Politics of Climate Justice :
Paralysis Above, Movement Below. Durban, SA:
University of Kwa-zulu Natal Press.
William K. Carroll and J. P. Sapinski Embedding Post-Capitalist
Alternatives: The Global Network of Alternative Knowledge Production Journal of
World Systems Research Volume 19, Number 2, Pages 211-240 ( under Course Materials/Readings on the Ilearn site).
Final Exam Wednesday March 16 at 7 to 9 PM
Ghost shirt