William A. Gamson
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American sociologist
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, William Anthony Gamson was a professor of Sociology at Boston College, where he was also the co-director of the Media Research and Action Project . He is the author of numerous books and articles on political discourse, the mass-media and social movements from as early as the 1960s. His influential works include Power and Discontent , The Strategy of Social Protest , Encounters with Unjust Authority and Talking Politics , as well as numerous editions of SIMSOC.
William A. Gamson's Published Works
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Published Works
- Media Discourse and Public Opinion on Nuclear Power: A Constructionist Approach (1989) (4316)
- The strategy of social protest (1975) (2190)
- Media Images and the Social Construction of Reality (1992) (1361)
- The Changing Culture of Affirmative Action (1987) (1151)
- Movements and Media as Interacting Systems (1993) (928)
- A theory of coalition formation (1961) (898)
- Comparative Perspectives on Social Movements: Framing political opportunity (1996) (879)
- Shaping Abortion Discourse: Democracy and the Public Sphere in Germany and the United States (2002) (870)
- Power and discontent (1969) (681)
- Encounters with unjust authority (1982) (507)
- The Political Culture of Social Welfare Policy (1980) (442)
- News as Framing (1989) (438)
- Four models of the public sphere in modern democracies (2002) (422)
- The social psychology of collective action. (1992) (418)
- Scapegoating in Baseball (1964) (384)
- Utilitarian Logic in the Resource Mobilization Perspective (1977) (293)
- Bystanders, Public Opinion, and the Media (2007) (288)
- Commitment and agency in social movements (1991) (226)
- The 1987 Distinguished Lecture: A Constructionist Approach to Mass Media and Public Opinion (1988) (191)
- Experimental Studies of Coalition Formation (1964) (190)
- Media discourse as a symbolic contest: The bomb in political cartoons (1992) (157)
- Public Sociologies: A Symposium from Boston College (2004) (146)
- Assessment in Simulation and Gaming (2009) (144)
- An Experimental Test of a Theory of Coalition Formation (1961) (131)
- Hiroshima, the holocaust, and the politics of exclusion (1995) (108)
- Goffman's legacy to political sociology (1985) (108)
- The #Occupy Movement: An Introduction (2013) (93)
- The Art of Reframing Political Debates (2006) (91)
- Social influence and power in two-person groups (1961) (89)
- Rhyming Hope and History: Activists, Academics, and Social Movement Scholarship (2005) (63)
- THE FLUORIDATION DIALOGUE: IS IT AN IDEOLOGICAL CONFLICT? (1961) (59)
- RANCOROUS CONFLICT IN COMMUNITY POLITICS (1966) (57)
- Organizing the poor (1984) (57)
- Stable Unrepresentation in American Society (1968) (57)
- KNOWLEDGE AND FOREIGN POLICY OPINIONS: SOME MODELS FOR CONSIDERATION (1966) (53)
- The Political Culture of Arab-Israeli Conflict (1981) (44)
- Coalition Formation at Presidential Nominating Conventions (1962) (44)
- Reputation and Resources in Community Politics (1966) (44)
- On Coming to Terms with the Past (1997) (42)
- Mediated Politics: Promoting Political Engagement (2000) (39)
- Arab Spring, Israeli Summer, and the Process of Cognitive Liberation (2011) (34)
- Thinking about politics (1979) (32)
- Police Violence and Its Public Support (1970) (31)
- SIMSOC: Simulated Society (1970) (30)
- Untangling the Cold War: A Strategy for Testing Rival Theories. (1973) (29)
- Shaping Abortion Discourse: Frontmatter (2002) (29)
- Understanding the Careers of Challenging Groups: A Commentary on Goldstone (1980) (28)
- Beyond the Science-versus-Advocacy Distinction (1999) (24)
- On a Sociology of the Media (2004) (24)
- Prefiguring Peace: Israeli-Palestinian Peacebuilding Partnerships (2012) (21)
- What's news : a game simulation of TV news : participant's manual (1984) (21)
- Living with Contradictions: The Taken-for-Granted in Israeli Political Discourse (1999) (21)
- Policy Discourse and the Language of the Life-World (1999) (20)
- Reflections onThe Strategy of Social Protest (1989) (20)
- Community Characteristics and Fluoridation Outcome (1961) (18)
- Knowing Your Adversary: Israeli Structure of Political Opportunity and the Inception of the Palestinian Intifada (2006) (17)
- SIMSOC: Establishing Social Order in a Simulated Society. (1971) (16)
- Some Undercurrents in the Prestige of Physicians (1963) (15)
- Public Information in a Fluoridation Referendum (1961) (13)
- Thinking about Elephants Toward a Dialogue with George Lakoff (2005) (12)
- The Gendering of Abortion Discourse: Assessing Global Feminist Influence in the United States and Germany (1999) (12)
- Tensions and Concessions: The Empirical Confirmation of Belief Systems About Soviet Behavior (1963) (10)
- Social Science Aspects of Fluoridation (1961) (9)
- John D. McCarthy Lifetime Achievement Award (2011) (8)
- Constructing the Political Spectacle.Murray J. Edelman (1988) (8)
- Social Science Aspects of Fluoridation (1965) (7)
- Ambivalences about affirmative action (1999) (7)
- The Dissent of the Governed: Alienation and Democracy in America.James D. Wright (1979) (6)
- An Annotated Bibliography of Social Science Aspects of Fluoridation (1961) (6)
- Robert M. Entman.Projections of Power: Framing News, Public Opinion, and U.S. Foreign Policy. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. 2003. 240 pp. $40.00 (cloth); $16.00 (paper) (2005) (6)
- Conceptions of social life : a text-reader for social psychology (1974) (6)
- Collective Identity and the Mass Media (2009) (6)
- Statement by SPSSI on current IQ controversy: Heredity versus environment. (1969) (6)
- The Model Underlying Simsoc (1978) (5)
- Media and Social Movements (2001) (5)
- Discourse, nuclear power, and collective action (1998) (4)
- Abortion Talk in Germany and the United States: Why Rights Explanations are Wrong (2002) (4)
- The Voice and the Eye: An Analysis of Social Movements.Alain Touraine , Alan Duff (1983) (4)
- On Teaching the Mass Media and Politics (2008) (3)
- Power and the Structure of Society (2018) (3)
- Shaping Abortion Discourse: Tables and Figures (2002) (3)
- Shaping Abortion Discourse: Standing (2002) (3)
- SIMSOC at 30 (1994) (3)
- My Life-Long Involvement with Games (2009) (3)
- Political Socialization and Grandparenting (2007) (3)
- SIMSOC : simulated society : participant's manual with selected readings (1969) (3)
- Making Something of Ourselves: On Culture and Politics in the United States. (1985) (3)
- Power and Probability (1972) (3)
- Shaping Abortion Discourse: Normative Criteria for the Public Sphere (2002) (3)
- THE POLITICS OF EXCLUSION * 1994 Presidential Address (2007) (3)
- Games Throughout the Life Cycle (2013) (3)
- A Stranger Determined to Remain One (2009) (3)
- Simulation Review Essay : DEMOCRACY: The Workings of the Legislative Process by James S. Coleman. Bobbs-Merrill Company, Indianapolis © 1966, 1969 by James S. Coleman, $8.00 (1974) (2)
- Trends in American Political Sociology (1979) (2)
- A Review of: “Frames of Protest: Social Movements and the Framing Perspective Framing American Politics” (2006) (2)
- On Being Jewish at a Jesuit University: Reflections on Organizational Cultures (2010) (2)
- La vertu civique des sitcoms (2001) (2)
- Commentary on "Fluoridation attitude change". (1968) (2)
- Book Review:The Theory of Political Coalitions. William H. Riker (1964) (2)
- SIMSOC: Simulated Society.@@@Star Power. (1971) (1)
- Simulation in International Relations: Developments for Research and Teaching.Harold Guetzkow , Chadwick F. Alger , Richard A. Brody , Robert C. Noel , Richard C. Snyder (1964) (1)
- A REVIEW OF: “Talking about Politics: Informal Groups and Social Identity in American Life” (2005) (1)
- The Discursive Opportunity Structure (2002) (1)
- Three Perspectives on Three Books (1981) (1)
- Civic Talk: Peers, Politics, and the Future of Democracy . By Casey A. Klofstad. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2010. 200p. $26.95. (2012) (1)
- How to lose a referendum: The case of fluoridation (1964) (1)
- Catalyzing Rebellion: An Introduction to the Mobilization in Miniature Project (1976) (1)
- Book Reviews (1999) (1)
- Social Control Errors (2013) (1)
- Book Review:Citizenship Between Elections: An Inquiry Into the Mobilizable American. James N. Rosenau (1975) (0)
- A Sweet Vision of Postindustrial Society@@@A Preface to Economic Democracy. (1986) (0)
- Avoiding Nuclear War@@@The Atomic Bomb: Voices from Hiroshima and Nagasaki.@@@The Nuclear Seduction: Why the Arms Race Doesn't Matter--And What Does.@@@Warpaths: The Politics of Partition.@@@Peace Games. (1992) (0)
- Lessons for Democracy and the Public Sphere (2002) (0)
- Simsoc (1971) (0)
- The Limits of Pluralism (1974) (0)
- Book Review:City Politics. Edward C. Banfield, James Q. Wilson (1964) (0)
- Simulation Review Essay (1974) (0)
- Crimes of Obedience.Herbert C. Kelman , V. Lee Hamilton (1989) (0)
- Towards a Proactive View of Political Action (1971) (0)
- Shaping Abortion Discourse: Representing Religious Claims (2002) (0)
- Shaping Abortion Discourse: Framing (2002) (0)
- Racial factors in intelligence—A rebuttal (1969) (0)
- Volume Information (1977) (0)
- Shaping Abortion Discourse: Foreword by Friedhelm Neidhardt (2002) (0)
- Two Related Stories (2002) (0)
- Shaping Abortion Discourse: Representing Different Constituencies (2002) (0)
- Restraining Myths.Richard Hamilton (1977) (0)
- Measuring the Quality of Discourse (2002) (0)
- Shaping Abortion Discourse: References (2002) (0)
- Everyday Politics: Reconnecting Citizens and Public Life (2005) (0)
- Civic Renewal And Inequality (2003) (0)
- Power and Politics in Organizations: The Social Psychology of Conflict, Coalitions, and Bargaining.Samuel B. Bacharach , Edward J. Lawler (1981) (0)
- Shaping Abortion Discourse: Major Outcomes (2002) (0)
- The nuclear freeze campaign: from protest to policy. (1989) (0)
- The Undeserving Rich: American Beliefs about Inequality, Opportunity, and Redistribution. By Leslie McCall. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2013. Pp. xviii+292. $29.99 (paper). (2014) (0)
- Shaping Abortion Discourse: Glossary (2002) (0)
- Volume Information (1967) (0)
- Book Review:The Analysis of Political Systems. Douglas V. Verney (1961) (0)
- Global Companies: The Political Economy of World Business@@@The Strategy of Social Protest (1976) (0)
- The Strategy of Social Protest.@@@The Rebellious Century 1830-1930. (1976) (0)
- Shaping Abortion Discourse: Representing Women's Claims (2002) (0)
- Police and Society in Israel and America (1974) (0)
- Review Essay: Outsiders' Politics (2016) (0)
- Volume Information (1987) (0)
- Talking about Race: Community Dialogues and the Politics of Difference (review) (2009) (0)
- Shaping Abortion Discourse: Representing the Tradition of the Left (2002) (0)
- Shaping Abortion Discourse: Historical Context (2002) (0)
- Shaping Abortion Discourse: Metatalk (2002) (0)
- Book reviews (1970) (0)
- Shaping Abortion Discourse: Introduction (2002) (0)
- Shaping Abortion Discourse: The Quality of Abortion Discourse (2002) (0)
- Commentary on "Fluoridation Attitude Change" (1969) (0)
- Shaping Abortion Discourse: Preface (2002) (0)
- Organizing for Peace: Neutrality, the Test Ban, and the Freeze. (1994) (0)
- Toward a Proactive view of Poljtical fiction (1971) (0)
- Book Review:The Intellectuals and McCarthy: The Radical Specter. Michael Paul Rogin (1968) (0)
- Game Theory and Related Approaches to Social Behavior. Edited by Martin Shubik. New York : John Wiley and Sons, 1964. 390 pp. Paper (1965) (0)
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