Check also Alain Touraine's concept of sociological intervention http://jwsr.ucr.edu/archive/vol6/number3/pdf/jwsr-v6n3-touraine.pdf a method he used to study social movements.
You may also want to check TRAIL at ASA webpage, but it cost $25.
Wojtek
On Mon, Oct 3, 2011 at 9:05 AM, Alan Rudy <alan.rudy at gmail.com> wrote:
> Dear All:
> I am teaching the "Social Movements since the 60s" class this Spring - not
> my course or my title but interesting and probably fun, nevertheless - and I
> am looking for suggestions w/r/t readings and media.
> Some initial thoughts:
> 1. Clearly there's far far too much that's occurred to even begin to claim
> to cover at all comprehensively.
> 2. I categorically do not want this to be a sociology of social movements
> class - I want it to be about movements not resource mobilization, framing,
> etc. I want to excite and provoke students NOT put them to sleep.
> 3. I clearly have to set a baseline with an overview of Progressive, Old
> Left, New Left efforts before, say, 1968.
> 4. I am somewhere between interested in and committed to showing that the
> movements "before" the 60s didn't disappear and are in fact intertwined with
> the ones "since". Again, not my class, not my title/formulation.
> 5. I have to cover the New Right and, at first blush, want to present it as
> a strategic melding of romantic right wing cultural populism and hard-nosed
> right wing neoliberal political economy... not that my students will know
> what these things are ahead of time.
> 6. I also have to cover ongoing struggles for national liberation,
> indigenous resistance and transnational movements.
> Any and all suggestions - sent to me here or privately - would be
> appreciated and I will certainly share what I get and finally decide on.
> I first sent this out to the list associated with Critical Sociology, but
> got very little back.
> Yours,
> Alan
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