- Title Pages
- Dedication
- Preface and Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Why Emotions Matter
- Chapter One Social Movements and the Focus of Emotional Attention
- Chapter Two Putting Emotions in their Place
- Chapter Three A Structural Approach to Social Movement Emotions
- Chapter Four The Business of Social Movements
- Chapter Five Emotions and Political Identity: Mobilizing Affection for the Polity
- Chapter Six A Revolution of the Soul: Transformative Experiences and Immediate Abolition
- Chapter Seven Revenge of the Shamed: The Christian Right's Emotional Culture War
- Chapter Eight Rock the Boat, Don't Rock the Boat, Baby: Ambivalence and the Emergence of Militant Aids Activism
- Chapter Nine The Social Structure of Moral Outrage in Recruitment to the U.S. Central America Peace Movement
- Chapter Ten Fear, Laughter, and Collective Power: The Making of Solidarity at the Lenin Shipyard in Gdansk, Poland, August 1980
- Chapter Eleven The Felt Politics of Charity: Serving “The Ambassadors of God” and Saving “The Sinking Classes”
- Chapter Twelve Animal Rights and the Politics of Emotion: Folk Constructs of Emotions in the Animal Rights Movement
- Chapter Thirteen Emotional Strategies: The Collective Reconstruction and Display of Oppositional Emotions in the Movement against Child Sexual Abuse
- Chapter Fourteen Finding Emotion in Social Movement Processes: Irish Land Movement Metaphors and Narratives
- Chapter Fifteen The Emotional Benefits of Insurgency in El Salvador
- Chapter Sixteen Emotion Work in High-Risk Social Movements: Managing Fear in the U.S. and East German Civil Rights Movements
- Conclusion: Second that Emotion?: Lessons from Once-Novel Concepts in Social Movement Research
- Contributors
- References
- Index
Social Movements and the Focus of Emotional Attention
Social Movements and the Focus of Emotional Attention
- Chapter:
- (p.27) Chapter One Social Movements and the Focus of Emotional Attention
- Source:
- Passionate Politics
- Author(s):
Randall Collins
- Publisher:
- University of Chicago Press
Social movements, when successful, are crescive, emergent phenomena. This chapter suggests that in order to understand the shape of their emergent and transient pathways across time, we need to capture their emotional dynamics in a social attention space. Social movements operate inside a social attention space, which has room for only a limited number of participants; hence there is an implicit struggle to position oneself within this attention space. This process largely determines victory or defeat, as well as whether a movement can get off the ground at all and how long it will remain important.
Keywords: social movements, emotional dynamics, social attention space
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- Title Pages
- Dedication
- Preface and Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Why Emotions Matter
- Chapter One Social Movements and the Focus of Emotional Attention
- Chapter Two Putting Emotions in their Place
- Chapter Three A Structural Approach to Social Movement Emotions
- Chapter Four The Business of Social Movements
- Chapter Five Emotions and Political Identity: Mobilizing Affection for the Polity
- Chapter Six A Revolution of the Soul: Transformative Experiences and Immediate Abolition
- Chapter Seven Revenge of the Shamed: The Christian Right's Emotional Culture War
- Chapter Eight Rock the Boat, Don't Rock the Boat, Baby: Ambivalence and the Emergence of Militant Aids Activism
- Chapter Nine The Social Structure of Moral Outrage in Recruitment to the U.S. Central America Peace Movement
- Chapter Ten Fear, Laughter, and Collective Power: The Making of Solidarity at the Lenin Shipyard in Gdansk, Poland, August 1980
- Chapter Eleven The Felt Politics of Charity: Serving “The Ambassadors of God” and Saving “The Sinking Classes”
- Chapter Twelve Animal Rights and the Politics of Emotion: Folk Constructs of Emotions in the Animal Rights Movement
- Chapter Thirteen Emotional Strategies: The Collective Reconstruction and Display of Oppositional Emotions in the Movement against Child Sexual Abuse
- Chapter Fourteen Finding Emotion in Social Movement Processes: Irish Land Movement Metaphors and Narratives
- Chapter Fifteen The Emotional Benefits of Insurgency in El Salvador
- Chapter Sixteen Emotion Work in High-Risk Social Movements: Managing Fear in the U.S. and East German Civil Rights Movements
- Conclusion: Second that Emotion?: Lessons from Once-Novel Concepts in Social Movement Research
- Contributors
- References
- Index
