Caught in a Winding, Snarling Vine: The Structural Bias of Political Process Theory
Caught in a Winding, Snarling Vine: The Structural Bias of Political Process Theory
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陷入缠绕、咆哮的藤蔓中：政治进程理论的结构性偏见
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1999
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J. Jasper
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作者：
J. Goodwin;J. Jasper
社会运动的研究最近因强调“政治机会”的工作激增而活跃起来--“政治机会”是一个旨在把握运动所面临的复杂环境的概念。在对这个新隐喻的兴奋中，有一种趋势是将它扩展到涵盖各种各样的经验现象和因果机制。在对政治机会的理解方式和研究案例的选择方面，也明显存在严重的结构性偏见。即使是那些被用来纠正政治机会方法的一些问题的因素，如“动员结构”和“文化框架”，也受到同样的结构性扭曲。我们建议社会运动分析，拒绝不变的建模，警惕概念的延伸，并认识到文化和机构，包括情感和战略，塑造集体行动的不同方式。
The study of social movements has recently been energized by an explosion of work that emphasizes “political opportunities”—a concept meant to come to grips with the complex environments that movements face. In the excitement over this new metaphor, there has been a tendency to stretch it to cover a wide variety of empirical phenomena and causal mechanisms. A strong structural bias is also apparent in the way that political opportunities are understood and in the selection of cases for study. Even those factors adduced to correct some of the problems of the political opportunity approach—such as “mobilizing structures” and “cultural framing”—are subject to the same structural distortions. We recommend social movement analysis that rejects invariant modeling, is wary of conceptual stretching, and recognizes the diverse ways that culture and agency, including emotions and strategizing, shape collective action.