Making of Pro-Life Activists How Social Movement Mobilization Works

Name: Making of Pro-Life Activists How Social Movement Mobilization Works
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ISBN: 9780226551203

ISBN-10: 0226551202

ISBN-13: 9780226551203

Edition: 2nd 2008

Authors: Ziad W. Munson

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How do people become activists for causes they care deeply about? Many people with similar backgrounds, for instance, fervently believe that abortion should be illegal, but only some of them join the pro-life movement. By delving into the lives and beliefs of activists and nonactivists alike, Ziad W. Munson is able to lucidly examine the differences between them. Through extensive interviews and detailed studies of pro-life organizations across the nation, Munson makes the startling discovery that many activists join up before they develop strong beliefs about abortion-in fact, some are even pro-choice prior to their mobilization. Therefore, Munson concludes, commitment to an issue is often…

Book details

List price: $25.00
Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 2/15/2009
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 248
Size: 6.00" wide x 8.75" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.748
Language: English

Ziad W. Munsonis the Frank R. Hook Assistant Professor of Sociology at Lehigh University.



List of Illustrations


Acknowledgments



Explaining Mobilization in the American Pro-life Movement



Learning to Care



The Mobilization Process



The Birth of a Movement



Together but Not One: The Pro-life Movement Structure



"United We Stand"? Tension in the Pro-life Moral Universe



"My Life Is My Argument": Religion and the Movement



Becoming an Activist: Ideas and Social Movements



Study Methodology


Notes


References


Index