Essay Questions

  1. What is it that makes some protest movements grow dramatically while others stagnate? (PPE 2018)

  2. Do social movements cause or reflect political change? (PPE 2016)

  3. ‘Revolutions cannot succeed without strong leadership.’ Discuss. (Prelims Exam TT’22)

  4. Beal, G. M., & Bohlen, J. M. (1956). The diffusion process.

  5. Beal, G. M., Rogers, E. M., & Bohlen, J. M. (1957). Validity of the concept of stages in the adoption process. Rural sociology, 22 (2), 166–168.

  6. **Biggs, M. (2005). Strikes as forest fires: Chicago and paris in the late nineteenth century. American Journal of Sociology, 110 .

  7. Biggs, M. (2018). Size matters: Quantifying protest by counting participants. Sociological methods research, 47 (3), 351–383.

  8. *Gambetta, Diego. (2011). Signaling. In The Oxford Handbook of Analytical Sociology (Oxford Handbooks, pp. The Oxford Handbook of Analytical Sociology, 2011-01-06). Oxford University Press.

  9. Giugni, M. (2007). Useless protest? a time-series analysis of the policy outcomes of ecology, antinuclear, and peace movements in the united states, 1977-1995. Mobilization (San Diego, Calif.), 12 (1), 53–77.

  10. **Granovetter, M. (1978). Threshold models of collective behavior. The American journal of sociology, 83 (6), 1420–1443.

  11. *Tilly, C., & Wood, L. J. (2012). Social movements, 1768-2012 (3rd ed. ed.). Boulder, CO ; London: Paradigm Publishers.