教學大綱 Syllabus

Lecture 

Topics 

In-class activity 

1 

Housekeeping & Introduction  

• What is political participation? Types of Political participation, Participation and Democracy  

• Why social movement matters?  

Readings 

Arnstein, S. R. (1969) A ladder of citizen participation, Journal of the American Institute of Planners, 35(4)216–22. 

van Deth,  Jan W. (2016) What is Political Participation? Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Politics. Available from:  http://politics.oxfordre.com/view/10.1093/acrefore/9780190228637.001.0001/acrefore-9780190228637-e-68.  

Russell J. Dalton. 2008. Citizen Politics: Public Opinion and Political Parties in Advanced Industrial Democracies, 5th ed. Washington: CQ Press. Chapter 3.  

Dalton, Russell J. , “Is citizen participation actually good for democracy?”, British Politics and Policy, London School of Economics and Politics Science, available at: http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/politicsandpolicy/is-citizen-participation-actually-good-for-democracy/?utm_content=buffer29030&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_campaign=buffer (25 August 2017).  

Cox, Laurence. (2018) “Focus: Why Social Movements Matter?”, Discover Society. Available from: https://discoversociety.org/2018/11/06/focus-why-social-movements-matter/?fbclid=IwAR0uSA77FjNnEpiUQLiGJipSwAOJgqYuXHxTYth-CTsjB9SbkIkToYSlM5k (6 November 2018)  

Nil. 

2 

Why People Participate? Who participates and who does not?  

• How do people become politically mobilized? 

• Socialization and political participation  

• What barriers to political participation do some groups face? 

Readings  

Hibbing, John and Elizabeth Theiss-Morris. 2005. “Citizenship and Civic Engagement”, Annual Review of Political Science, Vol. 8 Issue 1: 227-249. 

Russell J. Dalton. 2008. Citizen Politics: Public Opinion and Political Parties in Advanced Industrial Democracies, 5th ed. Washington: CQ Press. Ch 4. 

Mettler, Suzanne and Joe Soss. 2004. “The Consequences of Public Policy for 

Democratic Citizenship: Bridging Policy Studies and Mass Politics.” Perspectives on Politics 2(1):55-73. 

Teorell, Jan. 2006. "Political participation and three theories of democracy: A research inventory and agenda." European Journal of Political Research 45 (5):787-810. 

Discussion 1 

3 

What is a Social Movement? When and why do movements emerge…and decline?  

• Grievances transform to social movement  

• Social Movement Theory  

Readings  

Tarrow, Sidney (1994). Power in Movement: Social Movements, Collective Action and Politics. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, pp.1-27. 

Olson, Mancur. The Logic of Collective Action: Public Goods and the Theory of 

Groups. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1965, pp. 5-52. 

Tarrow, Sidney. 1993. “Cycles of Collective Action: Between Moments of Madness and the Repertoire of Contention.” Social Science History Vol. 17 (2): 281-307. 

Gamson, William A. and Gadi Wolfsfeld. 1993. “Movements and Media as Interacting Systems.”Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, 528:114-125. 

Discussion 2 

4 

Impacts of social movement & policy change 

- How social movements matter? Do they make a difference? 

Readings  

Whittier, N. (2004) The Consequences of Social Movements for Each Other, in The Blackwell Companion to Social Movements (eds D. A. Snow, S. A. Soule and H. Kriesi), Blackwell Publishing Ltd, Oxford, UK. 

Giugni, Marco G. 1998. “Was It Worth the Effort? The Outcomes and Consequences of Social Movements.” Annual Review of Sociology 24:371-393. 

Meyer, David S. 2003. “How Social Movements Matter.” Contexts Vol. 2 (4): 30-35. 

Amenta, Edwin, Neal Caren, Elizabeth Chiarello, and Yang Su. 2010. “The Political  

      Consequences of Social Movements.” Annual Review of Sociology 36:287-307. 

Burstein, P. 1999. “Social Movements and Public Policy”, in How Social Movements Matter (eds Giugni, M. & Mcadam, D. & Tilly, C.), Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press. 

Discussion 3 

5 

Participation in International Politics  

- Debate: Power of transnational social movement vs. “the dangers” of global civil society 

Readings 

Keck, M. E. and Sikkink, K. (1999), Transnational advocacy networks in international and  

        regional politics. International Social Science Journal, 51: 89–101. 

Elyachar, Julia. "Empowerment Money: The World Bank, Non-Governmental Organizations,  

        and the Value of Culture in Egypt.” Public Culture 14, no.3:493-513. 

Howell, Jude, and Jenny Pearce. "Manufacturing Civil Society from the Outside: Donor 

      Interventions." Chapter 5 in Civil Society and Development. Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner  

      Publishers, 2001. 

Fisher, William. "Doing Good? The Politics and Antipolitics of NGO Practices." Annual Review 

     of Anthropology 26 (1997): 439-464. 

Smith, Jackie. "Bridging Global Divides?". International Sociology 17, no. 4 (2002): 505-28. 

Discussion 4 

6 

Environment movements 

• Environmental Movements in the Global South  

Readings  

Dwivedi, R. 2001.  “Environmental Movements in the Global South: Issues of Livelihood and Beyond”, International Sociology, 16(1):11-31.  

Discussion 5 

7 

Social Movement & Democratization  

- Case of South Korea 

Readings 

Garretón, Manuel Antonio. "Social Movements and Democratization." In Social Movements in Development: The Challenge of Globalization and Democratization, edited by Staffan Lindberg and Árni Sverrisson, 67-77. London: Palgrave Macmillan UK, 1997. 

della Porta, D. 2013. Democracy and Social Movements. The Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Social and Political Movements. 

Kim, Sunhyuk. "Civil Society and Democratization in South Korea." Korea Journal 38, no. 2 (1998): 214-36. 

Shin, G.W. and Chang, P. Y. eds (2011), South Korean Social Movements: From Democracy to Civil Society. Oxon: Routledge.  

Discussion 6 

8 

Democratization and retreat 

• Case of Hong Kong (I)  

Readings 

Ngok, M. (2008), “ Civil Society and Democratization in Hong Kong Paradox and Duality”.     Taiwan Journal of Democracy, Volume 4, No.2: 155-175 

Stephan Ortmann (2015), “The Umbrella Movement and Hong Kong’s Protracted Democratization Process”, Asian Affairs, 46:1, 32-50, DOI: 10.1080/03068374.2014.994957 

Francis Lee (2020) Solidarity in the Anti-Extradition Bill movement in Hong Kong, Critical Asian Studies, 52:1, 18-32 

Discussion 7 

9 

Elite and State response and counter-movements  

• Case of Hong Kong (II) 

Readings 

David S. Meyer and Suzanne Staggenborg. 1996. “Movements, Countermovements, and the Structure of Political Opportunity.” American Journal of Sociology, pp.1628-1660. 

Carey, S.C. 2006. “The Dynamic Relationship between Protest and Repression”, Political Research Quarterly, 59(1):1-11. 

della porta, D. and Fillieule, O. (2004) Policing Social Protest, in The Blackwell Companion to Social Movements (eds D. A. Snow, S. A. Soule and H. Kriesi), Blackwell Publishing Ltd, Oxford, UK. 

King, M & Widdington (2013) “Riots and social protest in an age of austerity”, Policing and Society: An International Journal of Research and Policy, 23:1, 1-5 

GIllham, P., Edwards, B. & Noakes J. (2013) “Strategic incapacitation and policing the Occupy Wall Street protests in New York City 2011”, Policing and Society: An International Journal of Research and Policy, 23:1, 81-102 

Body-Gendrot, S. (2013) “Urban Violence in France and England: comparing Paris 2005 and London 2011”, Policing and Society: An International Journal of Research and Policy, 23:1, 6-25.  

N/A 

10 

Social Movement in authoritarian regime 

-Case of China  

Readings 

Wong, Natalie W.M. (2016) “Environmental protests and NIMBY activism: Local politics and waste management in Beijing and Guangzhou”, China Information, 30(2):143-164. 

Xi Chen (2012), Social Protest ad Contentious Authoritarianism in China (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press), Chapter 5. 

Andrew Mertha (2008), China’s Water Warriors: Citizen Action and Policy Change (Cornell Cornell University Press), Chapters 5 & 6. 

Lianjiang Li and Kevin O’Brien (2008), “Protest Leadership in Rural China,” China Quarterly, 193: 1-23. 

Xi Chen and Ping Xu (2011), “From Resistance to Advocacy: Political Representation for Disabled People in China,” China Quarterly, 207: 649-667.] 

Discussion 8 

11 

The Role of the Media  

• The case of #metoo movements 

Readings 

Smith, Jackie, John D. McCarthy, Clark McPhail and Boguslaw Augustyn. (2001). “From 

      Protest to Agenda Building: Description Bias in Media Coverage of Protest Events in  

      Washington, D.C.” Social Forces 79(4): 1397-1423.  

Barker-Plummer, Bernadette and David Barker-Plummer. (2017). "Twitter as a Feminist  

      Resource: #YesAllWomen, Digital Platforms, and Discursive Social Change" Pp. 91-118 in 

      Social Movements and Media Studies (Studies in Media and Communications, Vol. 14),  

      edited by Jennifer Earl and D.A. Rohlinger. Emerald Publishing. 

Marx Ferree, M. and McClurg Mueller, C. (2004) “Feminism and the Women's Movement: A 

      Global Perspective”, in The Blackwell Companion to Social Movements (eds D. A. Snow, 

      S. A. Soule and H. Kriesi), Blackwell Publishing Ltd, Oxford, UK. 

Discussion 9 

12 

From Civil Rights Movements to Black Live Matter  

Readings: 

McAdam, D. , Political Process and the Development of Black Insurgency.  

      Excerpts of Chapter 7. (Pp.146-147; 149-152; 156-161; 162-163; 166; 169- 

     180) 

Garza, Alicia. “A Herstory of the #BlackLivesMatter Movement.” Feminist Wire,  

      October 7, 2014. (http://www.thefeministwire.com/2014/10/blacklivesmatter-2/) 

Discussion 10 

13 

Anti-capitalist movement: Occupy Wall Street  

Readings: 

Wright, E.O. 2018. “ How to be an Anti-capitalist for the 21st Century”   ( https://www.ssc.wisc.edu/~wright/How%20to%20be%20an%20anticapitalist%20for%20the%2021st%20century%20--%20full%20draft,%20July%2025%202018.pdf) 

Calhoun, C. (2013), Occupy Wall Street in perspective. The British Journal of  

       Sociology, 64: 26-38. https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-4446.12002 

Discussion 11 

14 

What Makes a Social Movement Successful?  

Readings:  

McCammon, Holly J., Karen E. Campbell, Ellen M. Granberg and Christine Mowery. 2001.  

      “How Movements Win: Gendered Opportunity Structures and U.S. Women’s Surage   

      Movements, 1866 to 1919.”American Sociological Review 66(1):49-70. 

Gamson, William A. (2015). “Defining Movement “Success”” Pp. 383-385 in The Social  

       Movements Reader: Cases and Concepts, 3rd Ed, edited by Jeff Goodwin and James  

       M. Jasper. Oxford: Wiley Blackwell.  

Pellow, David N and Robert J. Brulle. (2015) “Environmental Justice.” Pp. 391-397 in The  

      Social Movements Reader: Cases and Concepts, 3rd Ed, edited by Jeff Goodwin and  

      James M. Jasper. Oxford: Wiley Blackwell.  

Stephan, Maria J. and Erica Chenoweth. (2008). “Why civil resistance works: The Strategic  

      Logic of Nonviolent Conflict.” International Security, 33(1): 7-44. 

Discussion 12 

15 

Doing Social Movement Research  

Readings: 

Lichterman, Paul. (2001). “Seeing Structure Happen: Theory-Driven Participant Observation,” in Suzanne Staggenborg and Bert Klandermans (eds), Methods of Social Movement Research. Minneapolis: The University of Minnesota Press, pp. 118–45.  

Balsiger, Philip and Alexandre Lambelet. (2014). “Participant Observation” Pp. 144-172 in Methodological Practices in Social Movement Research, edited by Donatella della Porta. Oxford: Oxford University Press.  

Lindekilde, Lisa. (2014). “Discourse and Frame Analysis: In-Depth Analysis of Qualitative Data in Social Movement Research” Pp. 195-227 in Methodological Practices in Social Movement Research, edited by Donatella della Porta. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 

Discussion 13 

16 

                           Class Presentations (I) 

17 

                  Class Presentations (II) 

18  

                  Class presentation (III)   

Discussion Topics 

Lecture 2 

How and why do we participate in public life? How do we get drawn into community and political affairs? 

Lecture 3 

What are the best ways to sustain a social movement? How do we achieve them? Please give example(s) and explain.  

Lecture 4 

What are the most important social movements today? How are these different movements portrayed in the media? Please pick a case and explain.  

Lecture 5 

What is the “best strategy” for making your voices heard and influencing policy-making today? Please give example(s) and explain. 

Lecture 6 

How does social movement today extend beyond national boundaries and become, in effect, global social movement? Please explain with case(s). 

Lecture 7 

Do Minorities really face greater exposure to environmental risks? Do poor and minority populations suffer disproportionately from exposure to toxic materials? Please give an example for elaboration.  

Lecture 8 

Are the concepts of civil society and social capital important to organize social movement? Please explain with case(s).  

Lecture 10 

 How do identities, such as class, race, gender, and sexual orientation, shape social movement? Please explain with case(s).  

Lecture 11 

Is democracy in decline? Is the concern about democratic decline in recent years overblown? What’s the evidence to support our claims?  

Lecture 12 

What do you think about the latest development of social movement? How far does it affect perception and strategy work out by the law enforcement agencies? Please explain with case(s).  

Lecture 13 

To what extent can the public influence policymaking in China? Why is it important that their voices are heard by the government? Please pick a case and explain. 

Lecture 14 

How is the global expansion of social media likely to change how people pursue social change? How has it done so already? 

Lecture 15 

One of the key tactics of the Civil Rights Movement was the widespread use of civil disobedience. What is meant by civil disobedience? When can it be effective? 

Guidelines for the Case Study 

This report presents an illustrative case concerning a particular social action/ political participation in local or global context. A case study analysis requires you to investigate a selected case study and discuss with supporting evidences, as well as course reading(s). The goal of the discussion is to examine how the case relates to and illustrates key course themes and readings. Plagiarism, in any form, is strictly prohibited by the university policy. Reports found plagiarism receive zero point.  Students may use the following format in their case study.  

Deciding the Topic  

Consult your topic ideas with the tutor. Potential topics need to address a social action/ political participation.  

As you probably realize already, access to information is key in the success of your case study. Materials helping you to write your cases can come from government documents, newspapers, or your personal experiences through interviews or field study.  

Before writing 

Before you begin writing, follow these guidelines to help you prepare and understand the case study, and more information and example cases could be provided by individual tutors in response to student needs.  

The format 

Once you have gathered the necessary information, a draft of your analysis should include these sections: 

1. Introduction 

1. Offer background information, relevant facts, and the most important issues. 

2. Outline research questions. 

2. Literature Review  

3. Case Study  

1. Outline the case 

2. Involved stakeholders and their dynamics 

3. What are their appeals/ grievances?  

4. Consequence(s) / Impact(s) of action(s) 

4. Discussion /Conclusion 

1. Reflection on reading(s)  

2. Conclude your case study report 

We expect an essay with 3,000 words. A Reference Section that includes all articles cited in the report should be at the end of the project. Students can choose to use either American Psychological Association (APA) or Chicago Style of manuscript preparation or any other academic or research referencing style in preparation of the reference section. 

Your grade is based on the fulfillment of these requirements, the reasoning and rigor of your work, and the quality of your writing.  The report will be due 11:59pm on the last day of the semester on or before 12 June 2022. NO late report is acceptable. 

1. 

Alan Scott, Kate Nash, Anna Marie Smith (eds.), 2009. New critical writings in political sociology, Farnham: Ashgate. [3 vol.] 

2. 

Mancur Olson, 1971. The Logic of Collective Action: Public Goods and the Theory of Groups, Cambridge: Harvard University Press. 

3.  

Benford, Robert D. and Snow, David A., 2000, “Framing Processes and Social Movements: An Overview and Assessment”, Annual Review of Sociology 26: 611-639. 

4. 

Goodwin, J. and Japser, J. (eds.), 2004. Rethinking social movements. Structure, meaning, and emotion, Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield publishers.   

5. 

Flesher, Cristina and Cox, Laurence (eds.), 2013. Understanding European Movements. New social movements, global justice struggles, anti-austerity protest, Abingdon: Routledge. 

6. 

Kuah-Pearce, Khun Eng and Guiheux, Gilles (eds), 2009. Social movements in China and Hong Kong. The expansion of protest space. Amsterdam: University of Amsterdam.