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The Politics of Authenticity: Civic Individualism and the Cultural Roots of Gay Normalization
Steven Seidman,Chet Meeks +1 more
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The authors sketch a culturalist account of the ascendance of the gay and lesbian movement in the US in the 1970s and 1990s, concluding that "the abiding reality has been a politics centered on rights, identity normalization, pride, and social integration, or what we simply call a politics of normalization".Abstract:
Scholars and activists often assume that liberationism is the originating and guiding force in the gay and lesbian movement in the US. In fact, liberationism was but an ‘episode’ in the late 1960s and then again in the early 1990s. The abiding reality has been a politics centered on rights, identity normalization, pride, and social integration, or what we simply call a politics of normalization. Curiously, and perhaps expressing the above normative position, the research literature tends to ignore this rather stunning reality; instead researchers seem more disposed to explaining the waning of liberationism and lesbian feminism and their sustaining cultural force. With a few exceptions, social scientists have only recently addressed the social movement debates. We are encouraged by the promising and important research of sociologists and others. However, much of this recent social movement research has been one-sidedly social structural. In this article, we sketch a culturalist account of the ascendance of...read more
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Challenging Codes: Collective Action in the Information Age@@@The Playing Self: Person and Meaning in the Planetary Society
TL;DR: The field of collective action has been studied extensively in the last few decades as discussed by the authors, with a focus on the construction of collective actions and the process of collective identity, as well as their meaning and meaning.
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Political Process and the Development of Black Insurgency, 1930-1970
TL;DR: McAdam as discussed by the authors presented a political process model that explains the rise and decline of the black protest movement in the United States, focusing on the crucial role of three institutions that foster protest: black churches, black colleges, and Southern chapters of the NAACP.
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Purity and Danger: An Analysis of Concepts of Pollution and Taboo.
Edwin Ardener,Mary Douglas +1 more
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Challenging Codes: Collective Action in the Information Age@@@The Playing Self: Person and Meaning in the Planetary Society
TL;DR: The field of collective action has been studied extensively in the last few decades as discussed by the authors, with a focus on the construction of collective actions and the process of collective identity, as well as their meaning and meaning.
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Challenging codes : collective action in the information age
TL;DR: The field of collective action has been studied extensively in the last few decades as discussed by the authors, with a focus on the construction of collective actions and the process of collective identity, as well as their meaning and meaning.
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Culture and practical reason
TL;DR: Sahlins as mentioned in this paper argues that symbols enter all phases of social life, including those which we tend to regard as strictly pragmatic, or based on concerns with material need or advantage, as well as those which are purely symbolic, such as ideology, ritual, myth, moral codes, and the like.
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