Social Movements in the United States, 1865-1939 (Ruchy społeczne w Stanach Zjednoczonych, 1865-1939) 4219-SA127z
The main idea of the course is to use methods and theories from the sociology of social movements to analyze the most important forms of collective behavior that shaped the social and political life in the United States from 1865 to 1939. Analyzing social movements we will talk about such aspects as: leadership, mobilization, protest and demonstration, allies and adversaries, strategies and tactics such as coalition building. We will use resource mobilization theory, Weber-Michels model, the divisions between social movements and social movements organizations, reform and revolutionary movements, general and social movements. Cultural and political context of movements' emergence and activities will be taken into consideration and their victories and failures will be discussed. Academic articles written by historian and sociologists as well as historical documents will be analyzed. We will have a close look at both "progressive movements" (such as suffrage, temperance, birth control, socialist, pacifist) that wanted to reform the American society as well as the forms of collective behavior that can be labeled "conservative" (nativism, eugenics, populism). We will ponder about radicalism of some movements and about the appropriateness of terminology in context of some forms of collective behavior.
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Literatura
J. D. McCarthy, M. N. Zald, Resource Mobilization and Social Movement: A Partial Theory, "The American Journal of Sociology" Vol. 82, nr 6/1977, p. 1212-1241.
J. Eyerman, Social Movements. A Cognitive Approach, Cambridge: Polity Press, 1991.
B. L. Epstein, The Politics of Domesticity. Women, Evangelism and Temperance in the Nineteenth Century America, Middletown: Connecticut: Wesleyan University Press, 1981.
H. H. Alonso, Peace as a Women's Issue: The History of the U.S. Movement for World Peace and Women's Rights, Syracuse, N.Y.: Syracuse University Press, 1993.
J. Gerteis, A. Goolsby, Nationalism in America: The Case of the Populist Movement, "Theory and Society, Vol. 34, nr 2, 2005, p. 197-225.
J. Gerteis, Class and the Color Line. Interracial Class Coalition in the Kinghrs of Labor and Populist Movement, Durham: Duke University Press, 2007.
D. J. Pivar, Purity and Hygiene: Women, Prostitution, and the "American Plan," 1900-1930, Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 2002.
S. Selden, Transforming Better Babies into Fitter Families: Archival Resources and the History of the American Eugenics Movement, 1908-1930, "Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society" Vol. 149, no 2, June 2005.
A. Stern, Eugenic Nation. Faults and Frontiers of Better Breeding in Modern America, Berkley, California: University of California Press, 2005.
M. Sanger, Woman and the New Race, New York: Blue Ribbon Books, 1920.
J. E. W. Meyer, Any Friend of the Movement. Networking for Birth Control, 1920-1940, Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 2004.
E. Flexner, Century of Struggle. The Woman's Rights Movement in the United States, Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1996.
H. Matsubara, The 1910s Anti-prostitution Movement and Transformation of American Political Culture, "The Japanese Journal for American Studies" nr 17, 2006, p. 53-69.
N. Thoburn, The Hobo Anomalous: Class, Minorities, and Political Invention in the Industrial Workers of the World, "Social Movement Studies" V. 2, nr 1, 2003, p. 61-84.
J. Gerteis, The Possession of Civic Virtue: Movement Narratives of Race and Class in the Knights of Labor, "American Journal of Sociology" vol. 108, nr 3/2002, p. 580-605.
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