Politics of Contentious Collective Action and Cultural Change in Novel Form

The role that the politics of collective contention plays in cultural change has yet to become a major concern of political sociology, social movement research, or sociology of culture. It should be. Taking this relationship seriously leads to a host of interesting and important questions, such as: (1) How are contentious collective actions that constitute social movements involved in producing cultural change? (2) What genres or forms of cultural change might be responsive to social movement actions? And in what ways might such processes be historically (Continued pg. 3) Politics of Contentious Collective Action and Cultural Change in Novel Form* (FALL 2009) Volume 15, Issue 1