Steven M Buechler
Biographic Data
| ID | 245336 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Steven M Buechler |
| GIVEN NAMES | Steven M |
| FAMILY NAME | Buechler |
| SIGNATURE | BUECHLER S M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Minnesota State University, Mankato |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 37 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 146 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 37 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1982 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
The Social Construction of Race
The analysis of social class has been part of sociology from the beginning. Race is different. Although scholars like W. E. B. DuBois (1903) had crucial insights into race relations more than a hundred years ago, sociology was slow to see race as an important subject in its own right.
The Social Construction of Race
Critical Sociology
Toward a Critical Sociology
The Sociology of Everyday Life
The Sociology of Everyday Life
Social Movements, Strain and Breakdown Theories of
Strain and breakdown theories seek to explain outbreaks of collective action. When social institutions are stable, collective action is unlikely. When they undergo strain or breakdown, social controls and moral imperatives are weakened, increasing the likelihood of collective action such as fads, crazes, riots, rebellions, movements, and revolutions
Understanding Social Movements
In thirteen succinct chapters, Buechler traces movement theories from the classical era of sociology to the most recent examples of transnational activism. He identifies the socio-historical context, central concepts, and guiding logic of diverse movement theories, with emphasis on: Comparisons of Marx and Lenin; Weber and Michels; and Durkheim and LeBon The Chicago School of the inter-war period The political-sociological approaches of the 1950s…
New Social Movement Theory
New social movement theory (NSMT) emerged in the 1980s in Europe to analyze distinctive social movements that appeared from the 1960s onward. These movements were seen as “new” in contrast to the “old” working‐class movement. New social movements (NSMs) are organized around race, ethnicity, youth, sexuality, countercultures, environmentalism, pacifism, human rights, and the like. NSMT is a distinct approach to the study of social movements, albei…
Critical Sociology
Critical Sociology is a thoroughly revised, updated, and sophisticated introduction to the sociological perspective as a critical lens on society. Much has happened since the first edition: the Great Recession, the Obama presidency, the burgeoning role of social media, and recent global social movements such the Tea Party, Occupy Wall Street, and the Arab Spring. In this second edition, Buechler discusses the changing relationship between social …
Strain and Breakdown Theories
One classic explanation for collective action involves structural strain or societal breakdown. The logic is that when chronic strain or acute breakdown undermine societal integration, the social controls and moral imperatives that normally constrain collective behavior are weakened. Strain or breakdown thus allows or “causes” collective action that would otherwise be contained
What is Critical About Sociology
Critical thinking is often presented as a generic technique. This article develops an alternative that links critique more closely to the sociological perspective. I suggest three answers to the above question: that the sociological perspective is critical for comprehending complex issues, that all sociology is implicitly critical by virtue of its debunking tendency, and that some sociology is explicitly critical by virtue of value commitments th…
Social Strain, Structural Breakdown, Political Opportunity, and Collective Action
Sociology traditionally identified social strain and structural breakdown as causes of collective action. Such explanations were widely interpreted as endorsing social order and viewing its breakdown and the resulting collective action in a negative light. In the 1970s, advocates of the resource mobilization perspective criticized strain and breakdown explanations and this negative connotation of collective action. Rather than strain or breakdown…
Social Movements, Strain and Breakdown Theories of
Strain and breakdown theories seek to explain the causes of collective behavior and social movements. They implicitly presume that when social institutions are stable, collective behavior is unlikely. It is when institutions undergo strain or breakdown that the resulting social disorganization and decreased social control are more likely to foster collective behavior in the form of fads, crazes, riots, rebellions, movements, and revolutions
New Social Movement Theory
New social movement theory (NSMT) emerged in the 1980s in Europe to analyze new types of social movements that appeared from the 1960s onward. These movements were seen as “new” in contrast to the “old” working‐class movement identified by Marxist theory as the major challenger to capitalist society. By contrast, new social movements are organized around race, ethnicity, youth, sexuality, countercultures, environmentalism, pacifism, human rights,…
Social movements in advanced capitalism
Building on a critical overview of current social movement theory, this book presents a structural model for analysing social movements in advanced capitalism that locates them within global, national, regional and local structures.
Social Movements
What's Left? Radical Politics in the Postcommunist Era
The collapse of Soviet-style communism has provoked an identity crisis among socialists and leftists giving rise to separate identity politics among feminists, gays and other social movements. This study explores this crisis and offers suggestions for a new vision and direction for the left
New Social Movement Theories
This article offers an overview and assessment of the utility of new social movement theories for analyzing contemporary forms of collective action. The article beings with a brief overview of the origins of new social movement theory and a description of some of the general tenets of this approach. Next, I consider the contributions of four major theorists (Castells, Touraine, Habermas, and Melucci) to this paradigm. The heart of the article pro…
Beyond Resource Mobilization? Emerging Trends in Social Movement Theory
Resource mobilization theory became the dominant paradigm for studying social movements in the 1970s because it was better able to account for the 1960s cycle of protest than previous theories of collective behavior. After almost two decades of theoretical development, the resource mobilization framework is now under increasing challenge. Drawing on research on women's movements in the United States, this article identifies ten issues which colle…
Women's History as a Growth Field
Women in the Sanctuary Movement.Robin Lorentzen
The Politics of Feminism
Women's Movements in the United States
Steven Buechler has written a comparative sociological analysis of the woman suffrage movement (1840-1920)and the contemporary women's movement (1960s to the present). His identification of similarities and differences between these movements reveals persistent feminist issues over time as well as the distinctive concerns of each movement in its sociohistorical context. Buechler compares these two movements in terms of their origins, organization…
Crossing Boundaries
This article describes an experiential course that centers on a week-long wilderness journey through the Boundary Waters Canoe Area. The course promotes development of the sociological perspective through a tripartite experiential pedagogy of social removal, social construction, and sociological reflection. Pairing this experiential pedagogy with a wildernessjourney has helped to vivify a number of sociological lessons for students in the course.…
New Social Movement Theories
This article offers an overview and assessment of the utility of new social movement theories for analyzing contemporary forms of collective action. The article beings with a brief overview of the origins of new social movement theory and a description of some of the general tenets of this approach. Next, I consider the contributions of four major theorists (Castells, Touraine, Habermas, and Melucci) to this paradigm. The heart of the article pro…
Beyond Resource Mobilization? Emerging Trends in Social Movement Theory
Resource mobilization theory became the dominant paradigm for studying social movements in the 1970s because it was better able to account for the 1960s cycle of protest than previous theories of collective behavior. After almost two decades of theoretical development, the resource mobilization framework is now under increasing challenge. Drawing on research on women's movements in the United States, this article identifies ten issues which colle…
Understanding Social Movements
In thirteen succinct chapters, Buechler traces movement theories from the classical era of sociology to the most recent examples of transnational activism. He identifies the socio-historical context, central concepts, and guiding logic of diverse movement theories, with emphasis on: Comparisons of Marx and Lenin; Weber and Michels; and Durkheim and LeBon The Chicago School of the inter-war period The political-sociological approaches of the 1950s…
What is Critical About Sociology
Critical thinking is often presented as a generic technique. This article develops an alternative that links critique more closely to the sociological perspective. I suggest three answers to the above question: that the sociological perspective is critical for comprehending complex issues, that all sociology is implicitly critical by virtue of its debunking tendency, and that some sociology is explicitly critical by virtue of value commitments th…
Women's Movements in the United States
Steven Buechler has written a comparative sociological analysis of the woman suffrage movement (1840-1920)and the contemporary women's movement (1960s to the present). His identification of similarities and differences between these movements reveals persistent feminist issues over time as well as the distinctive concerns of each movement in its sociohistorical context. Buechler compares these two movements in terms of their origins, organization…
Critical Sociology
Critical Sociology is a thoroughly revised, updated, and sophisticated introduction to the sociological perspective as a critical lens on society. Much has happened since the first edition: the Great Recession, the Obama presidency, the burgeoning role of social media, and recent global social movements such the Tea Party, Occupy Wall Street, and the Arab Spring. In this second edition, Buechler discusses the changing relationship between social …
Social Strain, Structural Breakdown, Political Opportunity, and Collective Action
Sociology traditionally identified social strain and structural breakdown as causes of collective action. Such explanations were widely interpreted as endorsing social order and viewing its breakdown and the resulting collective action in a negative light. In the 1970s, advocates of the resource mobilization perspective criticized strain and breakdown explanations and this negative connotation of collective action. Rather than strain or breakdown…
Crossing Boundaries
This article describes an experiential course that centers on a week-long wilderness journey through the Boundary Waters Canoe Area. The course promotes development of the sociological perspective through a tripartite experiential pedagogy of social removal, social construction, and sociological reflection. Pairing this experiential pedagogy with a wildernessjourney has helped to vivify a number of sociological lessons for students in the course.…
Elizabeth Boynton Harbert and the Woman Suffrage Movement, 1870-1896
Female Revolt
True Love and Perfect Union
Never Done
Female Revolt
The Transformation of the Woman Suffrage Movement
Women and the Ballot
The Transformation of the Woman Suffrage Movement
The Production of Society
Hungry for Profit
Elizabeth Boynton Harbert and the Woman Suffrage Movement, 1870-1896
The Grounding of Modern Feminism. Nancy F. Cott
Survival in the Doldrums
Black and White America
The Politics of Feminism
Women's Movements in the United States
Steven Buechler has written a comparative sociological analysis of the woman suffrage movement (1840-1920)and the contemporary women's movement (1960s to the present). His identification of similarities and differences between these movements reveals persistent feminist issues over time as well as the distinctive concerns of each movement in its sociohistorical context. Buechler compares these two movements in terms of their origins, organization…
Crossing Boundaries
This article describes an experiential course that centers on a week-long wilderness journey through the Boundary Waters Canoe Area. The course promotes development of the sociological perspective through a tripartite experiential pedagogy of social removal, social construction, and sociological reflection. Pairing this experiential pedagogy with a wildernessjourney has helped to vivify a number of sociological lessons for students in the course.…
Women's History as a Growth Field
Women in the Sanctuary Movement.Robin Lorentzen
Beyond Resource Mobilization? Emerging Trends in Social Movement Theory
Resource mobilization theory became the dominant paradigm for studying social movements in the 1970s because it was better able to account for the 1960s cycle of protest than previous theories of collective behavior. After almost two decades of theoretical development, the resource mobilization framework is now under increasing challenge. Drawing on research on women's movements in the United States, this article identifies ten issues which colle…
New Social Movement Theories
This article offers an overview and assessment of the utility of new social movement theories for analyzing contemporary forms of collective action. The article beings with a brief overview of the origins of new social movement theory and a description of some of the general tenets of this approach. Next, I consider the contributions of four major theorists (Castells, Touraine, Habermas, and Melucci) to this paradigm. The heart of the article pro…
What's Left? Radical Politics in the Postcommunist Era
The collapse of Soviet-style communism has provoked an identity crisis among socialists and leftists giving rise to separate identity politics among feminists, gays and other social movements. This study explores this crisis and offers suggestions for a new vision and direction for the left
Social Movements
Social movements in advanced capitalism
Building on a critical overview of current social movement theory, this book presents a structural model for analysing social movements in advanced capitalism that locates them within global, national, regional and local structures.
Social Movements, Strain and Breakdown Theories of
Strain and breakdown theories seek to explain the causes of collective behavior and social movements. They implicitly presume that when social institutions are stable, collective behavior is unlikely. It is when institutions undergo strain or breakdown that the resulting social disorganization and decreased social control are more likely to foster collective behavior in the form of fads, crazes, riots, rebellions, movements, and revolutions
New Social Movement Theory
New social movement theory (NSMT) emerged in the 1980s in Europe to analyze new types of social movements that appeared from the 1960s onward. These movements were seen as “new” in contrast to the “old” working‐class movement identified by Marxist theory as the major challenger to capitalist society. By contrast, new social movements are organized around race, ethnicity, youth, sexuality, countercultures, environmentalism, pacifism, human rights,…
What is Critical About Sociology
Critical thinking is often presented as a generic technique. This article develops an alternative that links critique more closely to the sociological perspective. I suggest three answers to the above question: that the sociological perspective is critical for comprehending complex issues, that all sociology is implicitly critical by virtue of its debunking tendency, and that some sociology is explicitly critical by virtue of value commitments th…
Sociology (30 works) · Political science (23 works) · Law (17 works) · Politics (15 works) · Contemporary Sociological Theory and Practice (13 works) · Law (12 works) · Gender Studies (11 works) · Social science (10 works) · Social movement (9 works) · Philosophy (8 works)