The recent proliferation of scholarship on collective action frames and framing processes in
relation to social movements indicates that framing processes have come to be regarded …

Sociologists have turned to collective identity to fill gaps in resource mobilization and
political process accounts of the emergence, trajectories, and impacts of social movements …

The Logic of Connective Action explains the rise of a personalized digitally networked
politics in which diverse individuals address the common problems of our times such as …

Transparency is often cited as essential to the trust stakeholders place in organizations.
However, a clear understanding of the meaning and significance of transparency has yet to …

From the Arab Spring and los indignados in Spain, to Occupy Wall Street (and beyond),
large-scale, sustained protests are using digital media in ways that go beyond sending and …

Winner, 2016 Best Authored Book presented by the Society for Research on Adolescence
Diverse case studies on how youth build political power during an era of racial and …

This book is about securitization as a theory, a policy, and a framework. 1 Since the
publication of Buzan, Wæver and de Wilde's Security: A New Framework for Analysis in …

In thirteen succinct chapters, Buechler traces movement theories from the classical era of
sociology to the most recent examples of transnational activism. He identifies the socio …

In Challenging Codes Melucci brings an original perspective to research on collective action
which both emphasizes the role of culture and makes telling connections with the …

Despite the centrality of meaning to institutionalization, little attention has been paid to how
meanings evolve and amplify to become institutionalized cultural conventions. We develop …