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The Civil Rights Movement and the Logic of Social Change
This book examines the success and failure of social movements to bring about change in American society, focusing on the targets of protests to explain diverse outcomes.
Joseph E. Luders (Author)
9780521133395, Cambridge University Press
Paperback, published 25 January 2010
260 pages, 3 b/w illus. 3 tables
22.9 x 15.4 x 1.5 cm, 0.36 kg
“Luders offers the simple and elegant theory that social movements will achieve their goals when they can to impose high disruption costs on their targets, when the costs of compliance are modest. The theory is convincingly illustrated with an extensive analysis of the American Civil Rights Movement. A smart and powerful contribution to the theory of contestation.”
– Mark Warren, University of British Columbia
Social movements have wrought dramatic changes upon American society. This raises the question: Why do some movements succeed in their endeavors while others fail? Luders answers this question by introducing an analytical framework that begins with a shift in emphasis away from the characteristics of movements toward the targets of protests and affected bystanders and why they respond as they do. This shift brings into focus how targets and other interests assess both their exposure to movement disruptions as well as the costs of conceding to movement demands. From this point, diverse outcomes stem not only from a movement's capabilities for protest but also from differences among targets and others in their vulnerability to disruption and the substance of movement goals. Applied to the civil rights movement, this approach recasts conventional accounts of the movement's outcome in local struggles and national politics and clarifies the broader logic of social change.
1. The logic of social movement outcomes
2. Civil rights and reactive countermobilization
3. The calculus of compromise
4. Local struggles
5. Patterns of regional change
6. Federal responses to civil rights mobilization
7. Conclusion.
