Sociology 391A
Intermediate Analysis of Collective Contention I
Fall 2002
Time and Location TBA
Professor Dan Myers
Office: 735 Flanner Hall, 631-3839
e-mail: Myers.33@nd.edu
Office Hours: M 9-11, or by Appointment
Web Page for this course: http://www.nd.edu/~dmyers/team/
Listserv address (send mail to this address and it will be distributed to everyone in the class):
RIOTS-L@listserv.nd.edu
Purpose of the Course:
This course is a year-long class examining theoretical developments and empirical analysis of collective contention. Students will conduct intensive research projects involving thorough literature review, formal proposal, statistical and interpretive analysis, and the writing of a professional research report. Enrollment in Sociology 391B in spring semester is required. Student participants are selected as part of the National Science Foundation's Research Experiences for Undergraduates Program.
Specific requirements for the course will be discussed in detail when we first meet. Foremost among these though, is the design and execution of an independent research project. By the end of the first semester, you will have reviewed literature in the area of your intended project and written a formal proposal for it. The second semester's activities will focus on analyzing your data and producing a professional research report suitable to submit for presentation at a professional sociology conference.
Readings:
Required readings will be distributed by the instructor; there is no text or course packet to purchase. The anticipated reading schedule is given below, however, this schedule is subject to changes as the activities and interest of the team evolve throughout the semester. Students are encouraged to suggest reading topics or specific selections.
This semester we are going to write BRIEF reading reactions and distribute them via the listserv. By 5:00pm on Monday, you should send a one-two paragraph reaction to the reading to the listserv. DO NOT summarize the reading in your reaction. Just simply state what you thought was interesting about the piece, what was wrong with it, what you'd like to discuss about it, or how it seems to fit or not fit with what you are learning from reading articles/interviews etc. during your research work time. Try to be provocative—your reading reactions form the agenda for our discussions during class. Don’t worry if the content of your reading reaction overlaps with others.
Week of August 25th – 31st: No Readings
Week of September 1st – September 7th: An Overview of Collective Behavior Theories I
Locher, David A. 2002. “Chapter 2: Social Contagion Theory.” Pp. 11-23 in Collective Behavior. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall.
Locher, David A. 2002. “Chapter 3: The Emergent Norm Perspective.” Pp. 24-38 in Collective Behavior. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall.
Locher, David A. 2002. “Chapter 4: The Value-Added Theory.” Pp. 39-53 in Collective Behavior. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall.
Locher, David A. 2002. “Chapter 5: The Assembly Perspective and Sociocybernetic Theory.” Pp 55-68 in Collective Behavior. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall.
Locher, David A. 2002. “Chapter 6: Individualist Approaches to Collective Behavior.” Pp. 71-85 in Collective Behavior. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall.
Week of September 8th – September 14th: An Overview of Collective Behavior Theories II
McPhail, C. 1994. “The Dark Side of Purpose: Individual and Collective Violence in Riots.” The Sociological Quarterly, 35: 1-16.
Useem, B. 1998. “Breakdown Theories of Collective Action.” Annual Review of Sociology, 24: 215-38.
Gamson, William A. “The Success of the Unruly.” Pp. 357 – 364 in Readings on Their Emergence, Mobilization, and Dynamics edited by Doug McAdam and David A. Snow. Los Angeles, CA: Roxbury Publishing Comopany
Locher, David A. 2002. “Chapter 13: Social Movements.” Pp 231 – 247 in Collective Behavior. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall.
Locher, David A. 2002. “Chapter 14: Understanding Social Movements.” Pp. 248 – 267 in Collective Behavior. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall.
Week of September 15th – September 21st: The Civil Rights Movement: History and Process
McAdam, Doug. 1997. “Tactical Innovation and The Pace of Insurgency.” Pp. 340 – 356 in Readings on Their Emergence, Mobilization, and Dynamics edited by Doug McAdam and David A. Snow. Los Angeles, CA: Roxbury Publishing Comopany
Branch, Taylor. 1988. “To Birmingham.” Pp. 673 – 707 in Parting the Waters: America in the King Years, 1954-63. New York: Simon & Schuster.
Jenkins, J. Craig, David Jacobs, and Jon Agnone. 2002. Political Opportunities and African-American Protest, 1947-1997. Presented at the 2002 Collective Behavior/Social Movement section of the American Sociological Association’s Authority in Contention Conference, August 14-15, 2002, Notre Dame, IN.
Week of September 22nd – September 28th: Race Related Riots/Riots Team Research
Locher, David A. 2002. “Deadly Riots: The Los Angeles Riot of 1992.” Pp. 109 – 130 in Collective Behavior. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall.
Useem, B. 1997. “The State and Collective Disorders: The Los Angeles Protest/Riot, 1992.” Social Forces, 76: 357 – 377.
Perez, Anthony D., and Kimberly M. Berg. “The Contribution of Policing to the Racial Riots of the 1960s”. Grant proposal. Notre Dame Research Workshop on Riots and Protests, Department of Sociology, University of Notre Dame, IN. http://www.nd.edu/~dmyers/team/ktprop.html
Perez, Anthony D., Kimberly M. Berg, and Daniel J. Myers. “Police and Riots, 1967-1969.” Notre Dame Research Workshop on Riots and Protests, Department of Sociology, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN. Unpublished Manuscript.
Monroy, Tiffany Dyan Kuniko, and Anthony Barber. “Examining the Contemporary Media’s Adherence to Past Recommendations during Civil Disturbances.” Grant Proposal. Notre Dame Research Workshop on Riots and Protests, Department of Sociology, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN.
http://www.nd.edu/~dmyers/team/taprop.html
Monroy, Tiffany Dyan Kuniko, and Daniel J. Myers. “Fanning the Flames? Riot Commissions and the Mass Media.” Notre Dame Research Workshop on Riots and Protests, Department of Sociology, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN. Unpublished manuscript.
Week of September 29th – October 5th: Sports/Concert Riots
Rosenfeld, Michael J. 1997. “Celebration, Politics, Selective Looting and Riots: A Micro Level Study of the Bulls Riot of 1992 in Chicago.” Social Problems, 44: 483 – 502
Horak, Roman. 1991. “Things Change: Trends in Austrian Football Hooliganism from 1977 – 1990.” The Sociological Review, 39: 531 – 548.
Lewis, Jerry M. 1986. “A Protocol for the Comparative Analysis of Sports Crowd Violence.” International Journal of Mass Emergencies and Disasters, 4: 211- 225.
Roadberg, Alan. 1980. “Factors Precipitating Fan Violence: A Comparison of Professional Soccer in Britian and North America.” British Journal of Sociology, 2: 265 - 276.
Stott, C., P. Hutchison, and J. Drury. 2001. “‘Hooligans’ abroad? Inter-group dynamics, social identity and participation in collective ‘disorder’ at the 1998 World Cup Finals.” British Journal of Social Psychology, 40: 359 – 384.
Week of October 6th – October 12th: “Issueless”/Beer Riots/Campus Riots
Marx, Gary T. 1977. “Issueless Riots.” The Annals of the American Academy, XXXXXXXX
Marcus, Jon. 2000. “Sacking of Fiery US Coach Sparks Riots.” The Times Higher Education Supplement, 1455: Sept 29, 2000, p. 10
Maslon, Geoff. 1988. “Tuition Tax Provokes Student Riot.” The Times Higher Education Supplement, 812: May 27, 1988, p. 1+
Cornwell, Tim. 1997. “Boulder Rocks in Drinking Riot.” The Times Higher Education Supplement, 1279: May 9, 1997, p. 56.
Week of October 13th – October 19th: WTO and Anti-Globalization Riots
Smith, Jackie. 2001. “Globalizing Resistance: The Battle of Seattle and the Future of Social Movements.” Mobilization, 6: 1-19.
Gillham, Patrick F., and Gary T. Marx. 2000. “Complexity and Irony in Policing and Protesting: The World Trade Organization in Seattle.” Social Justice, 27: 212-236.
Week of October 20th – October 26th: Fall Break!
Week of October 27th – November 2nd: Prison Riots
Useem, Bert. 1985. “Disorganization and the New Mexico Prison Riot of 1980.” American Sociological Review, 50: 677 – 688.
Useem, Bert, and Peter Kimball. 1987. “A Theory of Prison Riots.” Theory and Society, 16: 87 – 122.
Colvin, Mark. 1982. “The 1980 New Mexcio Prison Riot.” Social Problems, 29: 449 – 463.
Week of November 3rd – November 9th: Police and the Riots I
Bergesen, Albert. 1982. “Race Riots of 1967: An Analysis of Police Violence in Detroit and Neward.” Journal of Black Studies, 12: 261 – 274.
Reiner, Robert. 1980. “Forces of Disorder: How the Police Control ‘Riots.’” New Society, 52: 51 –54.
Kitch, Thomas D. 1970. “Police Perception of Riot Activity.” Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency, 7: 120 – 156.
Week of November 10th – November 16th: Police and the Riots II
Hahn, Harlan, and Joe R. Feagin. 1970. “Riot-Precipitating Police Practices: Attitudes in Urban Ghettos.” Phylon, 31: 183 – 193.
Quarantelli, E. L., John Fitzpatrick, and J. Rick Ponting. 1974. “Police Department Perceptions of the Occurrence of Civil Disturbances.” Sociology and Social Research, 59,1: 30 –38.
Stark, Rodney. 1972. “Police Riots: An Anatomical Report.” Urban Life and Culture, 1: 7 – 38.
Fogelson, R. M. 1968. “From Resentment to Confrontation: The Police, the Negroes and the Outbreak of the Nineteen-Sixties Riots.” 2: 217 – 247.
Week of November 17th – November 23rd: Media and the Riots
Johnson, Paul B., David O. Sears, and John B. McConahay. 1971. “Black Invisibility, the Press and the Los Angeles Riot.” American Journal of Sociology, 76: 698 – 721.
Jacobs, Ronald M. 2001. “The Problem with Tragic Narratives: Lessons from the Los Angeles Uprising.” Qualitative Sociology, 2: 221 – 243.
Mahan, Sue, and Richard Lawrence. 1996. “Media and Mayhem in Corrections: The Role of the Media in Prison Riots.” Prison Journal, 76: 420 – 441.
Pfau, Michael R. 1995. “Covering Urban Unrest: The Headline Says it All.” The Journal of Urban Affairs, 17: 131 – 141.
Young, Kevin. 1986. “‘The Killing Field’: Themes in Mass Media Responses to the Heysel Stadium Riot.” International Review of the Sociology of Sport, 21: 253 – 266.
Week of November 24th – November 30th: Thanksgiving Break!
Week of December 1st – December 7th: Diffusion
Andrews, Kenneth, and Michael Biggs. 2002. “The Dynamics of Protest Diffusion: The 1960 Sit-In Movement in the American South.” Presented at the 2002 Collective Behavior/Social Movement section of the American Sociological Association’s Authority in Contention Conference, August 14-15, 2002, Notre Dame, IN.
Pitcher, Brian L., Robert L. Hamblin, and Jerry L. L. Miller. 1978. “The Diffusion of Collective Violence.” American Sociological Review, 43: 23 – 35.
Myers, Daniel J. 2000. “The Diffusion of Collective Violence: Infectiousness, Susceptibility, and Mass Media Networks.” American Journal of Sociology, 106: 173-208.
Week of December 8th – December 11th: Last 3 days of Classes!