The modern era has generated a bewildering profusion of popular
protest including widespread social movements and sporadic
revolutionary upheaval. Despite the seemingly chaotic character of
such collective action, social scientists have increasingly noted
the remarkable regularities exhibited by even the most tumultuous
social change. In this volume, sociologists, political scientists,
and historians come together to assess the complementary concepts
of repertoires and cycles as tools for illuminating the consistent
patterns that emerge from the apparent chaos.
The significance of repertoires--recurrent forms or tactics of
social protest-- is explored in an essay on eighteenth- and
nineteenth-century Britain by the originator of the concept,
Charles Tilly. Sidney Tarrow, whose work has most directly linked
the concept of repertoires with that of cycles--the recurrent peaks
and troughs in the historical incidence of collective
action--contributes an essay that focuses on twentieth-century
Italy. Other essays investigate the rhythms and logic of social
change in contexts as diverse as sixteenth- through
nineteenth-century Japan, nineteeth-century Europe, and
twentieth-century America. Through inquiries into the consequences
of violent repression for social mobilization, the struggle to
control the linguistic terms of social conflict, the unacknowledged
antecedents of contemporary movements, and the importance of
"movement families," this volume demonstrates the usefulness of
these two concepts and defines the relationship between them.
Collected from past issues of "Social Science History," with a new
introduction and two new essays, "Repertoires and Cycles of
Collective Action "will reward an interdisciplinary audience of
readers with the extraordinary vitality that emerges from this rich
blend of historical perspectives.
"Contributors." Charles Brockett, Craig Calhoun, Doug McAdam,
Marc Steinberg, Sidney Tarrow, Charles Tilly, Mark Traugott, James
White
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