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

这是一项关于美国社会抗议扩散的研究。 利用新闻媒体的报道，这个项目将试图收集和编码的数据，所有抗议事件在美国1950年至1996年与所有社会运动发生在这一关键时期。此外，它还将收集与这一时期不同运动相关的一些重要自变量。最终的目标是编制一个数据集，这将是一个最近在德国完成的（在Wissenshaftzentrum由Friedhelm Neidhardt和同事），其中包括抗议事件的数据和相关的协变量为同一时间段。社会运动学者指出，社会运动不是有界的实体;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扩散。在事件历史框架中扩散的统计建模的最新进展允许在这一时期的社会运动之间的扩散的假设进行测试，无论是在美国和美国之间和德国。数据收集将集中在四个日报报道的抗议事件的识别和编码。编码机制和详细说明编码指令的码本都已经设计和测试。这两个国家都与德国同行相当。此外，还编制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。利用从报纸上收集事件数据和测量这种方法的偏见的进步，这项研究将允许仔细检查社会运动的扩散过程。关于内部运动，运动之间，和国家之间的扩散问题将最终得到解决。此外，这些数据将使研究人员能够充分利用事件历史框架中扩散统计建模的进展。该奖项是根据教师早期职业发展的规则颁发的。 除了支持对一个中心社会学问题的科学研究之外，它还将为社会科学的学生提供创新的教育经验。

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.