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Dynamics of Contention. By McAdam, Doug, Tarrow, Sidney, and Tilly, Charles. New York and Cambridge: University of Cambridge Press, 2001. 387 pages, ISBN: 0521011876. Silence and Voice in the Study of Contentious Politics. By Aminzade, Ronald R., Goldstone, Jack A., McAdam, Doug, Perry, Elizabeth J., Sewell, William H., Jr., Tarrow, Sidney, and Tilly, Charles. New York and Cambridge: University of Cambridge Press, 2001. 280 pages, ISBN: 0521001552. The publication of Dynamics of Contention (hereafter DoC) and its companion volume, Silence and Voice in the Study of Contentious Politics (hereafter SV it was publically announced the next year in the lead essay of the first edition of Mobilization, a journal devoted to studies of social movements. The 1996 essay and DoC are authored by Doug McAdam, Sidney Tarrow and Charles Tilly. DoC and S&V are complex books. Their complexity stems from two sources. First, although the authors are major contributors to social movement theory, they now view their earlier work as deficient and are determined to move forward theoretically. A new theory requires a new conceptual language which they employ, and some description of their language is necessary to assess the significance of the work in a manner appropriate to the authors’ intentions. The second source of complexity stems from the authors’ attempt to integrate “structure and agency” while accommodating theory to the fragmented character of everyday social life. Use of an appropriate epistemology is a difficult problem facing contemporary sociological theory in general. Many sociologists have stumbled upon the obstacles |
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