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David A. Snow

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David A. Snow's Degrees

PhD Sociology University of Arizona
Masters Sociology University of Arizona
Bachelors Sociology University of California, Santa Barbara

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According to Wikipedia, David A. Snow is a Distinguished Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Irvine. Intellectual Contributions Snow's research constitutes one of the most original and groundbreaking bodies of work in the discipline. While it addresses a number of discrete theoretical and empirical problems, it has the common goal of creating general conceptual tools to comprehend the dynamics of everyday social interaction. Snow’s influence is particularly deep in two areas of the discipline: social movements and social inequality.

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David A. Snow's Published Works

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Framing Processes and Social Movements: An Overview and Assessment (2000) (7846)
Frame alignment processes, micromobilization, and movement participation. (1986) (5454)
Identity Work Among the Homeless: The Verbal Construction and Avowal of Personal Identities (1987) (1285)
Social Networks and Social Movements: A Microstructural Approach to Differential Recruitment (1980) (1079)
The Blackwell companion to social movements (2003) (1051)
Framing Processes, Ideology, and Discursive Fields (2007) (679)
The Outcomes of Homeless Mobilization: The Influence of Organization, Disruption, Political Mediation, and Framing (2000) (663)
Down on Their Luck: A Study of Homeless Street People (1993) (562)
MOBILIZATION AT THE MARGINS: RESOURCES, BENEFACTORS, AND THE VIABILITY OF HOMELESS SOCIAL MOVEMENT ORGANIZATIONS* (1996) (348)
Collective Identity and Expressive Forms (2001) (266)
Elaborating Analytic Ethnography (2003) (226)
Disrupting the "Quotidian": Reconceptualizing the Relationship Between Breakdown and the Emergence of Collective Action (1998) (220)
A Primer on Social Movements (2009) (214)
Ideology, Framing Processes, and Islamic Terrorist Movements (2007) (198)
Mapping the Terrain (2007) (197)
Framing the French Riots: A Comparative Study of Frame Variation (2007) (192)
Extending and Broadening Blumer's Conceptualization of Symbolic Interactionism (2001) (186)
The Emergence, Development, and Future of the Framing Perspective: 25+ Years Since "Frame Alignment" (2014) (175)
The Myth of Pervasive Mental Illness Among the Homeless (1986) (165)
The convert as a social type (1983) (159)
The Lofland-Stark Conversion Model: A Critical Reassessment (1980) (159)
Space, Politics, and the Survival Strategies of the Homeless (2001) (155)
SOCIAL MOVEMENTS AS CHALLENGES TO AUTHORITY: RESISTANCE TO AN EMERGING CONCEPTUAL HEGEMONY (2004) (154)
Social Movements: Perspectives and Issues@@@Social Movements: Readings on Their Emergence, Mobilization, and Dynamics (1997) (137)
Criminality and Homeless Men: An Empirical Assessment (1989) (136)
Distorting Tendencies in Research on the Homeless (1994) (106)
Alternative Types of Cross-national Diffusion in the Social Movement Arena (1999) (92)
Framing and Social Movements (2012) (88)
Protest on the Fly (2014) (83)
Interviewing by comment: An adjunct to the direct question (1982) (81)
Mobilization Forum: Comment on Oliver and Johnston (2000) (73)
The Framing Perspective on Social Movements (2018) (63)
Fieldwork Roles and Informational Yield (1986) (61)
Radicalism within the Context of Social Movements: Processes and Types (2011) (61)
The disengagement process: A neglected problem in participant observation research (1980) (57)
VICTORY CELEBRATIONS AS THEATER: A DRAMATURGICAL APPROACH TO CROWD BEHAVIOR* (1981) (57)
Elaborating the discursive contexts of framing: discursive fields and spaces (2008) (56)
Inequality and the Self: Exploring Connections from an Interactionist Perspective (2001) (55)
Subcultures and the Emergence of the Estonian Nationalist Opposition 1945–1990 (1998) (54)
“COOLING OUT” MEN IN SINGLES BARS AND NIGHTCLUBS (1991) (53)
On the Presumed Fragility of Unconventional Beliefs (1982) (47)
The Cultural Patterning of Sympathy Toward the Homeless and Other Victims of Misfortune (1996) (45)
A Dramaturgical Analysis Of Movement Accommodation: Building Idiosyncrasy Credit As A Movement Mobilization Strategy* (1979) (42)
Readings on social movements : origins, dynamics and outcomes (2010) (41)
Social Scientific Inquiry Into Genocide and Mass Killing: From Unitary Outcome to Complex Processes (2013) (39)
Social Movements, Framing Processes, and Cultural Revitalization and Fabrication (2013) (37)
Review Symposium (2002) (34)
Explaining the Puzzle of Homeless Mobilization: An Examination of Differential Participation (2009) (34)
Together Alone: Personal Relationships in Public Spaces (2005) (31)
On the Precariousness of Measuring Insanity in Insane Contexts (1988) (26)
The Changing Self-Orientations of College Students: From Institution to Impulse. (1982) (21)
Reflections on Anthropology's Ethnographic Crisis of Faith@@@Culture and Anomie: Ethnographic Imagination in the Nineteenth Century.@@@The Savage Within: The Social History of British Anthropology@@@Romantic Motives: Essays on Anthropological Sensibility.@@@Colonial Situations: Essays on the Context (1993) (18)
COLLECTIVE ACTION THEORY AND SOCIAL MOVEMENTS RESEARCH (2011) (18)
1998 PSA Presidential Address: The Value of Sociology (1999) (18)
Further Thoughts on Social Networks and Movement Recruitment (1983) (17)
Shakubuku : a study of the Nichiren Shoshu Buddhist movement in America, 1960-1975 (1993) (16)
Social Psychological Perspectives on Crowds and Social Movements (2006) (16)
Assessing the Ways in Which Qualitative/Ethnographic Research Contributes to Social Psychology: Introduction to the Special Issue (1999) (16)
Identity Dilemmas, Discursive Fields, Identity Work, and Mobilization: Clarifying the Identity–Movement Nexus (2013) (15)
Hobos, Hustlers, and Backsliders: Homeless in San Francisco. By Teresa Gowan. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2010. Pp. 368. $75.00 (cloth); $24.95 (paper). (2012) (14)
The Diffusion of Social Movements: Temporality and Frame Diffusion: The Case of the Creationist/Intelligent Design and Evolutionist Movements from 1925 to 2005 (2010) (14)
Theorizing Social Movements (2016) (14)
NEW ETHNOGRAPHIES: REVIEW SYMPOSIUM (1995) (13)
Grievances, Individual and Mobilizing (2013) (13)
Broadening Perspectives on Homelessness (1994) (11)
Social Interaction in a Heterogeneous Apartment: An Investigation of the Effects of Environment upon Behavior (1981) (11)
MOBILIZATION FORUM: Comment on Oliver and Johnston Clarifying the Relationship between Framing and Ideology David A. Snow and Robert D. Benford During the decade of the 1990s the evolving framing perspective on social movements (2004) (11)
Collective Behavior: Social Movements (2017) (10)
Consciousness, Conscience, and Social Movements (2013) (9)
Social Movements and Social Inequality: Toward a More Balanced Assessment of the Relationship (2014) (9)
NEW ETHNOGRAPHIES: REVIEW SYMPOSIUM (1995) (9)
A team field study of the appeal of megachurches (2010) (9)
The Making of a Black Slum-Ghetto: A Case Study of Neighborhood Transition (1980) (8)
The antiabortion movement and symbolic crusades: Reappraisal of a popular theory (1983) (8)
A linguistic account of a developmental, semantic-pragmatic disorder: Evidence from a case study (1996) (7)
" If You Don ' t Do it , Nobody Else Will " : Active and Token Contributors to Local Collective Action (2008) (7)
The Wiley Blackwell companion to social movements. Second edition (2019) (7)
On the presumed crisis in ethnographic representation: Observations from a sociological and interactionist standpoint : Review symposium: Crisis in representation (2002) (7)
Libraries, Social Movements, and Cultural Change (2014) (7)
Observations and Comments on Gusfield's Journey (2003) (6)
Frames and Framing Processes (2016) (6)
Framing Hazards in the Health Arena (2010) (6)
Street People (2003) (5)
Working Mothers and the Welfare State (review) (2008) (5)
Introduction : mapping and opening up the terrain (2019) (4)
Taking Stock: Functions, Places, and Personal Relationships (2005) (4)
Genocide and Social Movements (2013) (3)
Case Studies and Social Movements (2013) (3)
Social Networks and Social Movements: A Microstructural Approach to Differential (2009) (2)
Cultural Conflicts and Social Movements (2015) (2)
From Right in Front of the Sun (2017) (2)
Bringing the Study of Religion and Social Movements Together (2018) (2)
Crowds (Gatherings) and Collective Behavior (Action) (2013) (1)
Editor's Introduction to the Special Issue on the Value-Added Contributions of Ethnographic Research (1997) (1)
Gone from the Promised Land: Jonestown in American Cultural History.John R. Hall (1990) (1)
Facilitative Conditions for Domestic Terrorism: Extremist Political Violence in the United States, 1980-2012 (2015) (1)
Down and Out in America. The Origins of Homelessness. Peter H. Rossi. University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 1989. xii, 247 pp. $15.95. (1990) (1)
Criminology, Racial Dehumanization and the Crime of Genocide in Darfur (2011) (1)
28. Social Movements (2012) (1)
The Changing Culture of Opposition in Italy, 1965-1975 (1989) (0)
Linguistic variability and young children's acquisition of prosodic speech timing (1996) (0)
Book Shelf (1987) (0)
Convergence/Dispositional Theory (2013) (0)
Mind-Bending: Brainwashing, Cults, and Deprogramming in the Eighties. (1985) (0)
Social Interaction As Drama: Applications From Conflict Resolution.By A. Paul Hare. Sage, 1985. 183 pp. Cloth, $28.00; paper, $14.00 (1986) (0)
Book Shelf (1987) (0)
Types of comments. (1993) (0)
Cultural Change Via Cultural Revitalization and Fabrication in the Context of Social Movements (2013) (0)
Spanish Abstracts of Sociological Perspectives Volume 42 Number 1, 1999 (1999) (0)
An Ethnography of Recruitment and Nominal Conversion to Nichiren Shoshu in the 1970s (2012) (0)
Encounters with Unjust Authority.By William A. Gamson, Bruce Fireman, and Steven Rytina. Dorsey, 1982. 171 pp. $9.50 (1984) (0)
Serpentine Hot Springs, Bering Land Bridge National Preserve - a Cultural Resource Evaluation (1983) (0)
Biographical consequences of activism GIUGNI , (2018) (0)
An imperious, closed sandbox? A rejoinder to Van Dijk’s critique of the framing perspective on social movement mobilization (2023) (0)

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