SOCIOLOGY 3323

DR. RAYMOND A. EVE

RIOTS, CULTS, AND SOCIAL MOVEMENTS

READING LIST

What is "Collective Behavior?"

            Miller, Chapter 1 - "Collective Events and Social Life

            Miller, Chapter 2 - "Perspectives on Collective Behavior                                  And Collective Action

            Miller, Chapter 3 - "Studying Collective Behavior and                                  Collective Action”

Verbal communication characteristic of collective behavior: RUMOR!

             Miller, Chapter 4 - "Rumor and Communication

The "Elementary Forms" of Collective Behavior:

Panics, Milling, Circular Reactions, and Mass Hysteria

             1. The War of the Worlds and UFOs

2. Religious ecstasy

Readings:

            1. Miller, Chapter 5 - "Mass Hysteria"

             2. Miller, Chapter 6 - "UFOs"

Fads and Fashion

            Miller, Chapter 7 - "Fads and Fashion"

Sports

            Miller, Chapter 8 – “Sports”

Riots

            Miller, Chapter 12 - "Individuals and Riots"

Miller, Chapter 13 - "Organizational, Community, and

                                  Societal Responses to Riots"

Protests

             Miller, Chapter 14 - "Protest"

 1. Lynchings

   “CNN - America's grim past on display in lynching

photographs”  See:

http://www.cnn.com/2000/US/01/18/lynching.photography/index.html

2. Anti-pornography campaigns and Smelser's value-added theory

(pdf) - "The Anti-Pornography Campaign: A Symbolic Crusade."

Zurcher, L. et al

click the link just below:

http://www.global-college.com/readings/antiporn.pdf

Social Movements and Countermovements

Civil Rights, Black Liberation, Rainbow Coalitions, and

Beyond

 (pdf) - "Upon this Rock: The Black Church, Nonviolence, and the Civil

Rights Movement."  Calhoun-Brown, Allison.

click the link just below:

http://www.global-college.com/readings/blackchurch.pdf

Material above this line will be covered on the first exam

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Miller, Chapter 15 - "Social Movements as Collective Behavior"

   Miller, Chapter 16 - "Social Movements as Collective Action"

The Women’s Movement (“the 51% minority)

Click on:

http://www.global-college.com/reading/womens.pdf

Social Movements and "status politics"

   (pdf) - Page and Clelland, "The Kanawha County textbook

controversy"  Click the link just below to download:

http://www.global-college.com/readings/kanawhacounty.pdf

Cults

(pdf)Shupe, Anson and David Bromley, "The Tnevnoc Cult"

Click the link just below to download:

http://www.global-college.com/readings/tnevnoc.pdf

    (IMPORTANT:  You should think long and hard about the title just above -- there's something

     deeply ironical about it, and the reading doesn't make sense until you figure it out.

I. Jonestown:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonestown

     and:

http://www.global-college.com/readings/jjonesch3.pdf

     and:

http://www.global-college.com/readings/jjonesch4.pdf

II. Heaven's Gate

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heaven%27s_Gate_(religious_group)

http://www.global-college.com/readings/seekersandsaucers.pdf

    III. Scientology

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientology

Antiwar Movements: Then and Now

Terrorism

        Eve, Raymond A. – “The Logic of Terrorism” can found at:

http://www.global-college.com/rayeve/courses/riots/rayevereterrorism.htm

Globalization and Environmentalism:  Social Movements

           Goldstone text: Marx and Engles – “Manifesto of the Communist 

                                              Party”

       T. Friedman, The Lexus and the Olive Tree, Chapters 1, 3, and 6:

(pdf) www.global-college.com/readings/lexusandolive.pdf

        Critique of Friedman:

(pdf) Marshall, Stephen.  "Sorry, Thomas Friedman, the World

is Round."   

www.global-college.com/readings/round.pdf

The Largest Scale Social Movement: The Revolution.

     Goldstone’s – Part One: Theories of Revolutions

Goldstone - "Introduction"

     Goldstone - Classic Approaches

de Tocqueville – “The French Revolution and the Growth

of the State” and

             Weber – “Charisma, Bureaucracy, and Revolution”

Material above this line will appear on the 2nd exam

       Goldstone – The Debate on Modernization

Tilly – Does Modernization Breed Revolution?

       Goldstone – The Outcome of Revolutions

             Kelly and Klein – “Revolution and the Rebirth of

                               Inequality” and

Foran and Goodwin – “Dictatorship or Democracy: Outcomes

of revolutions in Iran and Nicaragua”

      Goldstone – Part Two: Comparative and Historical Studies

of Revolution

      Goldstone – Republican Revolutions

Markoff – The French Revolution: The Abolition of

Feudalism 

and

             Wood – “The American Revolution: The Radicalism

of Revolution”

            Goldstone – Marxist Revolutions

Selden – “The Chinese Communist Revolution”

            Goldstone – Revolutions against Dictatorships

Goldfrank – “The Mexican Revolution” and

Walker – “The Nicaraguan Revolution”

            Goldstone – Revolutions against Communism

            Goodwin – “The East European Revolutions of 1989 and

            Goldstone – “Revolution in the U.S.S.R., 1989-1991

            Goldstone – Guerrilla and Ethnic Revolts

            Robinson – “The Palestinian “Intifada” Revolt”

and

Ahady – “The Afganistan Revolutionary Wars”