Stratification and Social Justice Preliminary Examination; Revised March 27, 2009
The Stratification and Social Justice area committee has substantially changed the exam format from previous years. Beginning with the exam in January, 2009, examinees will be responsible for all the readings in one of two areas: (1) Politics and Social Movements or (2) Gender, Race, and Class Reproduction.
As before, the exam consists of three sets of questions. Each set will contain at least two questions, and students must answer one question in each set.
While we encourage students to write practice answers under time pressure in order to simulate examination conditions, committee members will not read practice answers. In the past, this practice had led to students spending too much time carefully crafting one or two questions for faculty review rather than preparing for a multiple number of possible questions.
You will notice that, with few exceptions, when a book is on the list we specified only certain chapters. You should nevertheless get a general sense of the book’s full argument and the data used. Thus, while you are not responsible for details about the book (except for the assigned chapters, where details will provide material for crafting an answer), you should be familiar with the overall outline of the argument. Book reviews in AJS, Contemporary Sociology, Social Forces and elsewhere will be helpful in this task.
Your answers should show that you have critically thought enough about a content area that you can identify, explain and illustrate the key themes, plus be able to take positions and back up those positions. In order to do this, you need to be on top of content, theoretical issues, and methods/research issues.
The Chair of the Stratification and Social Justice Committee will be glad to meet with you. (That person is identified on the Department Committee list at www.fsu.edu/~soc/department).
POLITICS AND SOCIAL MOVEMENTS
P Politics, States, and Social Policy
Theories of the State
Alford, Robert and Roger Friedland. 1985. Powers of Theory: Capitalism, the State, andDemocracy. New York: Cambridge University Press. (Chapters 1, 2, and 3)
Campbell, John. 1993. “The State and Fiscal Sociology.” Annual Review of Sociology. 19: 163-85.
Gilbert, Jess and Carolyn Howe. 1991. “Beyond State vs. Society: Theories of the State and New Deal Agriculture Policies.” American Sociological Review 56:204-220.
Goodwin, Jeff. 2001. No Other Way Out: States and Revolutionary Movements, 1945 – 1991. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (Chapters 1, 2, and 3)
Markoff, James. 1996. Waves of Democracy. New York: Routledge. (Chapters 1 and 4)
Marx, Karl. 1978 [1845, 1852]. “The German Ideology” p. 148-186 and “The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte.” p. 594-617 in The Marx Reader edited by Robert C. Tucker. New York: Norton and Company.
Omi, Michael and Howard Winant. 1994. Racial Formation in the United States, From the 1960s to the 1990s. (Chapter 5)
Welfare State Research
Amenta, Edwin, Chris Bonastia and Neal Caren. 2001. “U.S. Social Policy in Comparative and Historical Perspective: Concepts, Images, Arguments and Research Strategies.” Annual Review of Sociology, 27: 213-234.
Anderson, Karen, Paula Blomqvist and Ellen Immergut. 2008. “Sweden: Markets within Politics.” In Public and Private Social Policy, Daniel Beland and Brian Gran, Eds. Palgrave. Chap. 7.
Arts, Wilhelmus and John Gelissen . 2002. “Three worlds of welfare capitalism or more? A state-of-the-art report.” Journal of European Social Policy 12 (2): 137-158.
Esping-Andersen, Gosta. 1990. The Three Worlds of Welfare Capitalism. Cambridge: Polity Press. (Chapters 1 and 5)
Esping-Andersen, Gosta. 1999. Social Foundations of Postindustrial Economies. Oxford University Press. Chaps. 6 and 7.
Korpi, Walter and Joachim Palme. 1998. “The Paradox of Redistribution and Strategies of Equality: Welfare State Institutions, Inequality, and Poverty in the Western Countries.” American Sociological Review 63(5):661-687.
Orloff, Ann S. 2002. “Explaining US Welfare Reform: Power, Gender, Race and the US Policy Legacy.” Critical Social Policy 22: 96-118
Quadagno, Jill, 1994. The Color of Welfare: How Racism Undermined the War on Poverty. New York: Oxford University Press. (Introduction and Chapter 1)
Quadagno, Jill. 2004. ”Why the United States Has No National Health Insurance: Stakeholder Mobilization Against the Welfare State, 1945-1996.” Journal of Health and Social Behavior. 45:25-44
Wennemo, Irene. 1998. “The Development of Family Policy: A Comparison of Family Benefits and Tax Reductions for Families in OECD Countries. In Power Resource Theory and the Welfare State, Julia O’Connor and Gregg Olsen, Eds. University of Toronto Press. Chap. 2.
Politics, Taxes, and Redistribution
Allen, Michael Patrick and John Campbell. 1994. “State Revenue Extraction from Different Income Groups: Variations in Tax Progressivity in the United States, 1916-1986.” American Sociological Review 59: 169-86.
Blank, Rebecca M. and Alan S. Blinder. 1986. Macroeconomics, Income Distribution, and Poverty. Pp. 180-208 in Fighting Poverty: What Works and What Doesn’t. Edited by Sheldon Danziger and Daniel H. Weinberg.
Jacobs, David and Ronald Helms. 2001. “Racial Politics and Redistribution: Isolating the Contingent Influence of Civil Rights, Riots, and Crime on Tax Progressivity.” Social Forces 80: 91-121.
Piven, Frances Fox and Richard Cloward. 1993. (2nd Edition). Regulating the Poor: The Functions of Public Welfare. Vintage. Read the introduction, Chapter 1, Chapter 2, and Chapter 3.
Prasad, Monica. 2006. The Politics of Free Markets: The Rise of Neoliberal Economic Policies in Britain, France, Germany, & The United States. University of Chicago Press. Read the Introduction, Chapter 1, and the conclusion.
Political Cleavages (Race and Religion)
Brooks, Clem. 2000. "Civil Rights Liberalism and the Suppression of a Republican Political Realignment in the United States, 1972 to 1996." American Sociological Review 65:483-505.
Brooks, Clem. 2004. "A Great Divide? Religion and Political Change in U.S. National Elections, 1972-2000." The Sociological Quarterly 45:421-50.
Brooks, Clem and Jeff Manza. 1997. "Social Cleavages and Political Alignments: U.S. Presidential Elections, 1960 to 1992." American Sociological Review 62:937-46.
Campbell, John L. 2002. “Ideas, Politics, and Public Policy.” Annual Review of Sociology 28:21-38.
Burstein, Paul and April Linton. 2002. “The Impact of Political Parties, Interest Groups, and Social Movement Organizations on Public Policy: Some Recent Evidence and Theoretical Concerns.” Social Forces 81:380-408.
Davis, Nancy J. and Robert V. Robinson. 1996. "Religious Orthodoxy in American Society: The Myth of a Monolithic Camp?" Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion 35:229-245.
Davis, Nancy J. and Robert V. Robinson. 1996. "Rejoinder to Hunter: Religious Orthodoxy-an Army without Foot Soldiers?" Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion 35:249-51.
Edsall, Thomas Byrne and Mary D. Edsall. 1991. Chain Reaction: The Impact of Race, Rights, and Taxes on American Politics. W. W. Norton & Co.: New York. Read Chapters 1, 2, 6, and 10.
Hunter, James Davison. 1991. Culture Wars: The Struggle to Define America. Basic. (Prologue and Chapter 1)
Hunter, James Davison. 1996. Response to Davis and Robinson: Remembering Durkheim." Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion 35:246-248.
Jacobs, David and Daniel Tope. 2007. “The Politics of Resentment in the Post Civil-Rights Era: Minority Threat, Homicide, and Ideological Voting in Congress.” American Journal of Sociology 112: 1458-1494.
Lipset, Seymour Martin. 1981 [1959, 1960]. Political Man: The Social Bases of Politics. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. (Chapters 1 and 9).
Lipset, Seymour Martin and Stein Rokkan. 1990 [1963]. “Cleavage Structures, Party Systems, and Voter Alignments” p. 91-94 in The West European Party System edited by Peter Mair. New York: Oxford University Press.
Manza, Jeff and Clem Brooks. 1999. Social Cleavages and Political Change. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Introduction and Conclusion.
Skrentny, John. 2002. The Minority Rights Revolution. Cambridge: Harvard. (Chapters 1, 4, and 10).
Uggen, Christopher and Jeff Manza, 2002. “Democratic Contraction? Political Consequences of Felon Disenfranchisement in the United States.” American Sociological Review 67: 777-803.
Social Movements
Theoretical Overviews
Garner, Roberta. 1997. “Fifty Years of Social Movement Theory: An Interpretation. In Garner,
Roberta and John Tenuto. Social Movement Theory and Research: An Annotated
Bibliographical Guide. Magill Bibliographies: Salem/Scarecrow Press, pp. 1-58.
Buechler, Steven. 2000. “Social Movement Theory: A Sociology of Knowledge Analysis.” In his
Social Movements in Advanced Capitalism: The Political Economy and Cultural
Construction of Social Activism. NY: Oxford University Press, pp. 19-57.
Collective Behavior
McPhail, Clark and Ronald Wohlstein. 1983. “Individual and Collective Behavior Within Gatherings, Demonstrations, and Riots.” Annual Review of Sociology 9: 579-600.
Granovetter, Mark. 1978. “Threshold Models of Collective Behavior.” American Journal of Sociology 83(6): 1420-1443.
Snow, David, Louis Zurcher, and Robert Peters. 1981. "Victory Celebrations as Theater: A
Dramaturgical Approach to Crowd Behavior." Symbolic Interaction 4:21-42.
Vider, Stephen. 2004. "Rethinking Crowd Violence: Self-Categorization Theory and the
Woodstock 1999 Riot." Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour 34:141-166.
Resource Mobilization Theory
McCarthy, John, and Mayer Zald. 1977. “Resource Mobilization and Social Movements: A
Partial Theory. American Journal of Sociology 82: 1212-1241.
Gamson, William. 1990. The Strategy of Social Protest (2nd edition). Belmont, California: Wadsworth. (Chapters 1, 2, 6)
Cress, Daniel and David Snow. 1996. “Mobilization at the Margins: Resources, Benefactors, and
the Viability of Homeless Social Movement Organizations.” American Sociological
Review, 61:1098-1109.
Staggenborg, Suzanne. 1988. “The Consequences of Professionalization and Formalization in the
Pro- Choice Movement.” American Sociological Review, vol. 53(4), pp. 585-605.
Piven, Frances Fox. 2006. Challenging Authority: How Ordinary People Change America. New York: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc. (Different view on
organizations)
Political Process Theory and Political Opportunity
McAdam, Doug. 1999. Political Process and the Development of Black Insurgency, 1930 –
1970. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. (chapters 3, 4,5)
Meyer, David. 2004. “Protest and Political Opportunities.” Annual Review of Sociology, 30:
125-145.
The Framing Perspective and its Micro, Meso and Macro level applications
Benford, Robert and David Snow. 2000. “Framing Processes and Social Movements: An Overview and Assessment.” Annual Review of Sociology 26:611-639.
Schrock, Douglas, Daphne Holden, and Lori Reid. 2004. “Creating Emotional Resonance: Interpersonal Emotion Work and Motivational Framing in a Transgender
Community.” Social Problems 51:61-81.
Benford, Robert. 1993. "Frame Disputes within the Nuclear Disarmament Movement." Social
Forces 71:677-701.
Croteau, David, and Lindsi Hicks. 2003. "Coalition Framing and the Challenge of a Consonant
Frame Pyramid: The Case of a Collaborative Response to Homelessness." Social Problems 50:251-272.
McAdam, Doug, John McCarthy, and Mayer Zald. 1996. Comparative Perspectives on Social
Movements: Political Opportunities, Mobilizing Structures, and Cultural Framings. New
York: Cambridge University Press.
Social Movements and Repression
Cunningham, David. 2004. There's Something Happening Here: The New Left, The Klan, and FBI CounterIntelligence. Los Angeles: University of California Press.
Earl, Jennifer. 2003. "Tanks, Tear Gas and Taxes: Toward a Theory of Movement Repression." Sociological Theory 21:44-68.
The Cultural Turn: Identity, Narrative, and Emotion in the Study of Social Movements
Armstrong, Elzabeth and Suzanna Crage. 2006. "Movements and Memory: The Making of the
Stonewall Myth." American Sociological Review 71:724-751.
Blee, Kathleen. 2002. Inside Organized Racism: Women in the Hate Movement. Los Angeles:
University of California Press.
Einwohner, Rachel. 2006. "Identity work and collective action in a repressive context: Jewish
Resistance on the "Aryan side" of the Warsaw ghetto." Social Problems 53:38-56.
Gaventa, John. 1980. Power and Powerlessness: Quiescence and Rebellion in an Appalachian
Valley. Urbana: University of Illinois Press. (Chapters 1,5,6)
Goodwin, Jeff, James Jasper, and Francesca Polletta. 2001. Passionate Politics: Emotions and
Social Movements. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press (intro, chapters 6 & 3)
Polletta, Francesca, and James Jasper. 2001. "Collective Identity and Social Movements."
Annual Review of Sociology 27:283-305.
Polletta, Francesca. 1998. “‘It Was Like a Fever….’ Narrative and Identity in Social Protest.”
Social Problems 45: 137-159.
Movement Dynamics (general)
Taylor, Verta. 1989. "Social Movement Continuity: The Women's Movement in Abeyance." American Sociological Review 54:761-775.
Meyer, David, and Nancy Whittier. 1994. "Social Movement Spillover." Social Problems 41:277-298.
Whittier, Nancy. 1997. “Political Generations, Micro-Cohorts, and the Transformation of Social Movements.” American Sociological Review, 62(5): 760-778.
Minkoff, Debra. 1997. “The Sequencing of Social Movements.” American Sociological Review, 62(5): 779-799
Taylor, Verta. 1996. Rock-A-By Baby. New York: Routledge.
Movement-Countermovement Dynamics
Meyer, David and Suzanne Staggenborg. 1996. “Movement, Countermovements, and the
Structure of Political Opportunity.” American Journal of Sociology: 101(6):1628-1660.
Marshall, Susan. 1991. "Who Speaks for American Women? The Future of Antifeminism." The
Annals of Political and Social Science 515:50-62.
Intramovement Dynamics
Downey, Dennis and Deana A. Rohlinger. 2008. “Linking Strategic Choice with Macro
Organizational Dynamics: Strategy and Social Movement Articulation,” Research on Social Movements, Conflicts and Change, 28.
Zald, Mayer, and John McCarthy. 2003. Social Movements in an Organizational Society: Collected Essays. New Brunswick, New Jersey: Transaction Publishers (chapters 5, 7, 12
and 13)
Social Movement Strategies (individual organizations and coalitions)
McAdam, Doug. 1983. "Tactical Innovation and the Pace of Insurgency." American Sociological Review 48:735-754.
McCammon, Holly. 2003. ""Out of the Parlors and into the Streets": The Changing Tactical Repertoire of the U.S. Women's Suffrage Movements." Social Forces 81:787-818.
Maney, Gregory, Lynne Woehrle, and Patrick Coy. 2005. "Harnessing and Challenging Hegemony: The U.S. Peace Movement After 9/11." Sociological Perspectives 48:357 -381.
Rohlinger, Deana. 2006. "Friends and Foes: Media, Politics, and Tactics in the Abortion War." Social Problems 53:537-561.
Mobilization
Snow, David, Louis Zurcher, and Sheldon Olson-Ekland. 1980. "Social Networks and Social Movements: A Microstructural Approach to Differential Recruitment." American Sociological Review 45:787-801.
Fisher, Dana. 2006. Activism, Inc.: How the Outsourcing of Grassroots Campaigns is Strangling Progressive Politics in America. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press.
Gould, Roger. 1991. "Multiple Networks and Mobilization in the Paris Commune." American Sociological Review 56:716-729.
Mueller, Carol McClurg. 1994. "Conflict Networks and the Origins of Women's Liberation." Pp.
234-263 in New Social Movements: From Ideology to Identity, edited by Enrique Larana, Johnston, Hank, and Joesph Gusfield. Philadelphia, PA: Temple University Press.
Movements and Mass Media
Gamson, William, David Croteau, William Hoynes, and Theodore Sasson. 1992. "Media Images and the Social Construction of Reality." Annual Review of Sociology 18:373-393.
Myers, Daniel. 2000. "The Diffusion of Collective Violence: Infectiousness, Susceptibility, and Mass Media Networks." American Journal of Sociology 106:173-208.
Roscigno, Vincent, and William Danaher. 2001. "Media and Mobilization: The Case of Radio and Southern Textile Worker Insurgency, 1929-1934." American Sociological Review 66:21-48.