Doctoral Dissertation Research: The Constructive Side of Social Movements

这个项目研究社会运动的建设性方面。 虽然注意力和研究往往集中在罢工和抗议等有争议的行动上，但运动也通过一系列建设性的战略和战术来寻求目标，例如积极创造替代经济机构。 本研究将探讨解决方案议程如何适应集体目标的追求，以及同时使用建设性和有争议的行动的效果。 调查结果将增加社会运动的理论理解，也将是有用的政策制定者和公众代表谁寻求谈判解决紧迫的社会问题。本项目使用的工具，民族志在多个网站分析的一般社会运动的做法“抵制和建设”的背景下，一个具体的运动的金融剥离。 研究设计三角访谈，观察，并在三个社会运动组织收集的文件：一个基层非营利组织，一个中介召集人，和一个跨国社会运动组织。 该项目将有争议的政治学理论扩展到与社会学理论辩论的对话中，询问为什么演员将争论和建设的剧目配对，以及由此产生的实践如何塑造了社会运动。 作为一个基线研究，该项目旨在建立一个新的理论桥梁之间的两个实质性领域的社会学和通知社会运动的实践，通过扩大调查范围，以一套新的repertoires.This奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并已被认为是值得的支持，通过评估使用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响力审查标准.

This project examines the constructive aspect of social movements. Although attention and research often focus on contentious actions like strikes and protests, movements also seek their goals through a range of constructive strategies and tactics such as proactively creating alternative economic institutions. This study will investigate how a solutions agenda fits into the pursuit of collective goals and what the effects of simultaneous use of constructive and contentious actions are. Findings will increase theoretical understanding of social movements and also will be useful to policy makers and public representatives who seek to negotiate solutions to pressing social issues.This project uses the tools of ethnography in multiple sites to analyze the general social movement practice of "resist and build" in the context of a specific campaign of financial divestiture. The research design triangulates interviews, observations, and documents collected at three social movement organizations: a grassroots nonprofit, an intermediary convener, and a transnational social movement organization. Bringing scholarship extending theories of contentious politics into dialogue with theoretical debates in sociology, the project asks why actors paired repertoires of contention and construction and how the resulting practice has shaped the social movement. As a baseline study, the project seeks to establish a new theoretical bridge between two substantive areas of sociology and to inform social movement practice by broadening the scope of inquiry to a new set of repertoires.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.