Social Movement Organizations: Guide to

The authorative and richly detailed handbook is divided into three parts: (1) procedures for studying SMOs; (2) propositions or generalizations about them; and (3) perspectives or wider considerations relating to them. Included are discussions of such basic questions as: What causes SMOs and why do people join them? What are the beliefs and practices of SMOs? What effect do SMOs have, and what are the social reactions to them?

List of Figures

xi

Preface and Acknowledgments

xiii

Introduction: What Social Movement Organizations (SMOs) Are and Why People Study Them

1

(22)

What Are SMOs?

2

(14)

Why Do People Study SMOs?

16

(7)

Notes

19

(4)

PART I. PROCEDURES: Four Case Study Steps

Steps One and Two: Selecting Cases and Collecting Data

23

(24)

The Case Study Approach

23

(2)

Step (1), Selecting: Pertinence, Practicality, Passion

25

(4)

Step (2), Collecting: Sources of Data and Types of Methods

29

(18)

Notes

45

(2)

Step Three: Asking Questions

47

(54)

Seven Main Questions about SMOs

47

(4)

Separating Aspects and Generic Questions

51

(9)

Combining Aspects and Generic Questions: A Resource Matrix

60

(4)

Note

61

(3)

Step Four: Answering Questions

Generic Propositions as Answers to Questions

64

(11)

Mind-Set in Answering Questions

75

(10)

Immersion-Induction in Answering Questions

85

(2)

Physical Procedures in Answering Questions

87

(4)

Frustration, Anxiety, Exhilaration in Answering Questions

91

(1)

Desirable Features of Reports: A Checklist

92

(9)

Notes

96

(5)

PART II: PROPOSITIONS: Answers to Questions about Aspects

What Are SMO Beliefs?

101

(38)

SMO Beliefs Are Contextual Rather Than Inherent

102

(1)

What SMO Beliefs Are: Similarities

103

(1)

What SMO Beliefs Are: Differences

104

(16)

Questions and Answers about Variations in SMO Beliefs

120

(8)

The Broader Context of Beliefs: Culture

128

(11)

Notes

136

(3)

How Are SMOs Organized?

139

(36)

How SMOs Are Organized: Similarities

140

(1)

How SMOs Are Organized: Differences/Variations

141

(8)

What Are SMO Structures?

149

(4)

Other Differences/Variations and Structures

153

(1)

Selected Other Questions and Answers about Given Variations

154

(11)

How Are SMOs Financed?

165

(10)

Notes

172

(3)

What Are Causes of SMOs?

175

(26)

The Dependent Variable Reemphasized

176

(1)

Organizing Causal Variables

177

(2)

Causal Logic

179

(1)

Macro-SMO Causal Variables

180

(12)

Meso-Micro-SMO Causal Variables

192

(6)

Causes of SMO Differences

198

(1)

Sustaining Causes

199

(2)

Notes

199

(2)

Why Do People Join SMOs?

201

(56)

Four Complications in the Study of Joining

202

(12)

Why People Join SMOs: Individual Variables

214

(12)

Why People Join SMOs: Structural Variables

226

(10)

Causal Logic Reiterated

236

(1)

Membership Maintenance

237

(5)

Membership Consequences

242

(3)

Recruitment

245

(12)

Notes

254

(3)

What Are SMO Strategies?

257

(48)

What SMO Strategies Are: Similarities

258

(1)

What SMO Strategies Are: Differences

259

(22)

Factors Affecting Selection and Change of Strategies

281

(8)

Effects of Strategies and SMO Success

289

(12)

Other Questions and Answers about Strategy

301

(4)

Notes

303

(2)

What Are Reactions to SMOs?

305

(40)

The Concept of Reactions

305

(4)

Primary Reactors and Types of Reaction

309

(23)

Other Reactors

332

(4)

Potpourri of Other Reactions

336

(3)

A Third Vantage Point: Interaction

339

(3)

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Social Movement Organizations: Guide to Research on Insurgent Realities

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