Doctoral Dissertation Research: Mobilization in the American Pro-Life Movement

这个项目研究个人如何被招募到反堕胎运动中，并动员起来参加反堕胎运动。该设计借鉴了社会运动、宗教和政治社会学的观点；它强调了思想在这场社会运动中的作用。这项研究使用了反堕胎团体制作的文件，以及对活动人士和非活动人士的采访。选择了四个代表不同宗教组成、人口统计特征和对反堕胎运动兴趣程度的地点：波士顿、明尼阿波利斯、俄克拉何马城和查尔斯顿。这个项目的成果应该包括更全面地理解宗教在社会激进主义中的作用(S)，以及当代美国社会动员社会运动的条件和过程。

SES 0000353PI: Theda Skocpol, Ziad MunsonThis project studies how individuals are recruited into, and mobilized to activity within, pro-life movements. The design draws on ideas from social movements, religion, and political sociology; it emphasizes the role of ideas in this social movement. The research uses documents produced by pro-life groups, and interviews with both activists and non-activists. Four sites that represent different religious composition, demographic characteristics, and levels of interest in the pro-life movement have been chosen: Boston, Minneapolis, Oklahoma City, and Charleston. Outcomes of this project should include a fuller understanding of the role(s) of religion in social activism, and conditions and processes of mobilization of social movements in contemporary U.S. society.