Beyond Resource Mobilization? Emerging Trends in Social Movement Theory
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2276680 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Steven M Buechler (Minnesota State University, Mankato, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1993 |
| Volume | 34 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 217-235 |
| Publication date | 1993-05-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Sociological Quarterly (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0038-0253 • E-ISSN: 1533-8525 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/j.1533-8525.1993.tb00388.x |
| OpenAlex | W2155460985 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 104 |
| References cited | 44 |
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 collectively pose a major theoretical challenge to the dominance of resource mobilization theory and which may initiate a paradigm shift to a new framework for the study of social movements
Dominance (genetics) · Economics · Mobilization · Movement (music) · New social movements · Political science · Politics · Positive economics · Resource (disambiguation) · Resource mobilization · Social movement · Social movement theory · Sociology · Computer Science · Electoral Systems and Political Participation · Law · Political Conflict and Governance · Politics and Society in Latin America
Repression and Protest Structural Models and Strategic Interactions
Population and political participation
Is the Political Personal? Everyday Behaviors as Forms of Environmental Movement Participation
How Does Postcommunist Transformation Affect Political Protest? The Example of East Germany
Social Movements and the Commons
Motherhood and Opportunities for Activism Before and After the Czech Velvet Revolution
Cultural Context and Social Movement Outcomes
Intergroup conflict and the process of social change
The role of local actors in transforming the urban fringe
Media Strategies and Political Projects
The vegan shift in the Australian animal movement
(Re)constructing multiracial blackness
Truth and Dare
How Do Organizations Matter? Mobilization and Support for Participants at Five Globalization Protests
Negotiated Meanings and State Transformation
Constructing the Public Good
De la répression considérée dans ses rapports à l'activité protestataire
The Decline of a New Christian Right Social Movement Organization
Religious Rhetoric in American Populism
The Enduring Vitality of the Resource Mobilization Theory of Social Movements
Building a Climate Movement Through Relational Organizing
From Struggle to Settlement
The Formation of Feminist Consciousness Among Left- And Right-Wing Activists of the 1960s
Bound-Risk
When Bain Town Woman Catch A Fire, Even the Devil Run.”
Conflict Versus Consensus Strategic Orientations Among Environmental NGOs
New Social Movement Theory
Wissensproduktion zum Iran im Kontext der Proteste 2022
Contracting, Contesting, and Co-Optation
Social Movements Through the Gender Lens
Language revitalization through a social movement lens
The gay rights backlash
Islamic Activism and Social Movement Theory
Quietist’ Salafis after the ‘Arab revolts’ in Algeria and Libya (2011–2019)
Dichotomies and contemporary social movements
Beyond burned bras and purple dungarees
Uniting Political Bloggers in Diversity
The Global Justice Movement’s Use of “Jail Solidarity” as a Response to Police Repression and Arrest
Achieving pay equity
Communication Technology and Social Movements
All Dressed Up With No Place to Go
Artistic Scripts, Narratives, and the Theatre
OMGs! Offline-based movement organizations, online-based movement organizations and network mobilization
‘Noon Al Niswa’ – N is for the female collective
The Underside of Social Movements
The gap between us
Changing anarchism
Elections, Protest, and Authoritarian Regime Stability
Changing anarchism
Mobilization at the Margins
Organizing Across the Divide
Predictors of Engagement in Abortion-Related Activism Before and After the Nomination of Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh
Revisiting the Black Struggle
Economic Crisis and Levels of Political Participation in Europe (2002–2010)
Household, Gender, and Political Responses to Economic Downturn
Household, Gender, and Political Responses to Economic Downturn
A Decade of Dare
Black Movements Need Black Theorizing
The Power of Informal Leadership
Diverse and Contra-Sectional Subjectivities in Social Movement Unionism
Mobilizing from appropriate technologies to sustainable technologies based on grassroots innovations
Mobilising and organising in precarious times
Cultural Barriers to Activist Networking
Movement-oriented labor organizations in an authoritarian regime
The politics of alliances. The making and breaking of social movement coalitions. Introduction to the special issue
Women's Movements and the State
Lifestyle Movements
How activists and media frame social problems
Lethal Engagement
Public opinion polarisation and protest behaviour
The influence of donors on cross class social movements
Mobilizing for Change
Floating control
Reconceptualizing Online Free Spaces
Policing Protest
Can grassroots movements in water conflicts drive socio-technical transitions in water management systems
Collective Identity, Organization, and Public Reaction in Protests
The ruling Islamism
Christmas fairs in Danish churches abroad
Protesting with the ballot
New Social Movements and the 'Centri Sociali' in Milan
Contested Communities
Beyond the Pales of Babylon
Gender and Race in a Pro-Feminist, Progressive, Mixed-Gender, Mixed-Race Organization
Identity, Emotion, and Feminist Collective Action
Community Organizing or Organizing Community
You've Struck a Rock
We Have Two Engines, and We Must Keep Them Both Running
Examining Athlete Ally Through Resource Mobilization Theory
Making the Transition from Conventional to Sustainable Agriculture
Collective Identity in the Straight Edge Movement
Master Framing and Cross-Movement Networking in Contemporary Social Movements
New Social Movement Theories
Mobilization Processes and the 1989 Chinese Democracy Movement
Community, Movement, Organization
Race/Class Interactions in the Formation of Political Ideology
You Could be the Hundredth Monkey
Constructing 'Social Change' through Philanthropy
An Insider's Critique of the Social Movement Framing Perspective
Culture, Power, and Institutions
Introduction to social movements.
Encounters with unjust authority
Controversy and coalition
The politics of women's liberation
The strategy of social protest
Social conflict and social movements.
Nomads of the present
Postindustrial Possibilities
The structure of scientific revolutions
Theoretical sociology
Structure of Social Action
Politics of Mass Society
Theory of collective behavior.
Racial Formation in the United States from the 1960s to the 1980s, by Michael Omi and Howard Winant
On the Division of Labor in Society
Black Feminist Thought
The Logic of Collective Action
Resource Mobilization
The constitution of society
Social Movement Involvement in the Wake of a Nuclear Accident
Mobilization and Participation
Social Movement Continuity
The Consequences of Professionalization and Formalization in the Pro-Choice Movement
Frame Alignment Processes, Micromobilization, and Movement Participation
Political Process and the Development of Black Insurgency, 1930-1970
Differential Paths to Political Activism
Introduction to Social Movements
Stability and Innovation in the Women's Movement
Resource Mobilization and Citizen Protest in Communities around Three Mile Island
Sisterhood, Solidarity, and Modern Feminism
Resource Mobilization Theory and the Study of Social Movements
Strands of Theory and Research in Collective Behavior
You Could be the Hundredth Monkey
Mobilization and Meaning
Elizabeth Boynton Harbert and the Woman Suffrage Movement, 1870-1896
Gender as a Mediator of the Activist Experience
Resource Mobilization and Social Movements
| Unique citing works | 104 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 3,15 |
| Citation span | 1993 - 2024 (32) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | Yes |
| Citation types | Neutral: 85 |