CAREER: The Diffusion of Collective Protest in the U.S., 1950-1996

职业生涯：美国集体抗议的扩散，1950 年至 1996 年

• 批准号: 9874000
• 负责人: Sarah Soule
• 金额: $ 22.52万
• 依托单位: University of Arizona
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 1999
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1999-09-01 至 2004-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9874000&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: CAREER; Diffusion; Collective; Protest; U.S.

This is a study of the diffusion of social protest in the United States. Using news media reports, this project will attempt to gather and code data on all protest events in the United States between 1950 and 1996 associated with all social movements that took place during this critical period. Additionally, it will gather a number of important independent variables associated with the different movements in this period. The ultimate goal is to compile a data set which will be comparable with one that was recently completed in Germany (at the Wissenshaftzentrum by Friedhelm Neidhardt and colleagues) which includes protest event data and associated covariates for the identical time period.This research is theoretically informed by general questions about the diffusion of social phenomena. Social movement scholars have noted that social movements are not bounded entities; rather, protest tactics, frames, organizations, ideologies, and symbols often diffuse between different social movements. Recent advances in the statistical modeling of diffusion in an event history framework allow for the testing of hypotheses about the diffusion between social movements in this period, both within the U.S. and between the U.S. and Germany.Data collection will focus on the identification and coding of protest events reported in four daily newspapers. Both a coding mechanism and a codebook detailing coding instructions have already been devised and tested. Both of these are comparable to the German counterparts. In addition, a list of independent variables, and potential sources and techniques for gathering them, was compiled. Using advances in the collection of event data from newspapers and in the measurement of bias of this method, this research will allow for a careful examination of diffusion processes in social movements. Questions about within-movement, between-movement, and between-country diffusion will ultimately be addressed. Additionally, these data will allow researchers to fully exploit advances in the statistical modeling of diffusion in an event history framework.This award is made under the Faculty Early Career Development rubric. In addition to supporting scientifically meritorious research on a central sociological question, it will also provide innovative educational experiences for students of the social sciences.

这是一项关于美国社会抗议活动扩散的研究。利用新闻媒体报道，该项目将试图收集和编码1950年至1996年期间美国发生的所有抗议事件的数据，这些事件与这一关键时期发生的所有社会运动有关。此外，它还将收集与这一时期的不同运动有关的一些重要的独立变量。最终目标是汇编一个数据集，该数据集将与最近在德国完成的数据集(由Friedhelm Neidhardt和他的同事在Wisenshaftzentum完成)相媲美，其中包括相同时间段的抗议事件数据和相关协变量。这项研究从理论上受到有关社会现象扩散的一般问题的启发。社会运动学者指出，社会运动不是受限制的实体；相反，抗议策略、框架、组织、意识形态和符号往往在不同的社会运动之间传播。在事件历史框架中扩散的统计建模方面的最新进展允许测试关于这一时期美国国内以及美国和德国之间社会运动之间扩散的假设。数据收集将集中在四家日报报道的抗议事件的识别和编码上。已经设计并测试了编码机制和详细说明编码指令的码本。这两个指标都可以与德国同行相媲美。此外，还汇编了一份独立变量清单，以及收集这些变量的潜在来源和技术。利用从报纸收集事件数据和测量这种方法的偏差方面的进展，这项研究将允许仔细检查社会运动中的扩散过程。关于内部流动、国家间流动和国家间扩散的问题最终将得到解决。此外，这些数据将允许研究人员在事件历史框架内充分利用扩散的统计建模方面的进展。该奖项是在教师早期职业发展题目下颁发的。除了支持社会学核心问题的科学研究外，它还将为社会科学学生提供创新的教育体验。