Counter Action Frames: Employer Repertoires and the Union Menace in the Late Nineteenth Century

Haydu, Jeffrey

doi:10.1525/sp.1999.46.3.03x0248n

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“…The framing efforts of countermobilizing elites who seek to limit political challenges have received little research attention. Haydu (1999) provided a telling case study of how elites mobilized their resources and formulated frames in response to the collective action of workers in the late 19th century. Similarly, Gitlin (1980) revealed how the political right and the Johnson administration mobilized to limit the New Left's appeal in the 1960s.…”

Section: Frames Movements and Political And Social Powermentioning

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The Neglect of Power in Recent Framing Research

Carragee

Roefs

2004

Journal of Communication

464

173

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This article provides a critique of recent developments in research examining media frames and their influence. We contend that a number of trends in framing research have neglected the relationship between media frames and broader issues of political and social power. This neglect is a product of a number of factors, including conceptual problems in the definition of frames, the inattention to frames sponsorship, the failure to examine framing contests within wider political and social contexts, and the reduction of framing to a form of media effects. We conclude that framing research needs to be linked to the political and social questions regarding power central to the media hegemony thesis, and illustrate this focus by exploring how framing research can contribute to an understanding of the interaction between social movements and the news media.Examinations of the production, character, and influence of news stories represent an enduring focus of media scholarship. A variety of approaches, including gatekeeping, agenda setting, organizational studies of news work, and analyses of news bias, have explored either the gathering of news or journalism's political role. In recent decades, a rapidly expanding research literature on news frames has sought to provide a comprehensive perspective on the production, reception, and influence of news texts.This article provides a critique of recent developments in research examining media frames and their influence. We contend that a number of trends in framing research have neglected the relationship between media frames and broader issues of political and social power. This neglect is a product of conceptual problems in the definition of frames, the inattention to frame sponsorship, the failure to examine framing contests within wider political and social contexts, and the reduction of framing to a form of media effects. In keeping with early sociological research on framing (Gitlin, 1980;Tuchman, 1978), we suggest that framing processes need to be examined within the contexts of the distribution of political and social power. We, therefore, call for the integration of framing research with the Kevin M.

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Section: Frames Movements and Political And Social Powermentioning

confidence: 99%

The Neglect of Power in Recent Framing Research

Carragee

Roefs

2004

Journal of Communication

464

173

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“…Although this is nota new observation to social movement scholars, both movement participants and RCCs often ate surprised when elites claim to be people of faith but will not recognize the validity of theological positions to regulate their behavior (Mirola 1999;Haydu 1999). In these kinds of struggles, the morality of profit trumps the morality of economic justice.…”

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Religious Protest and Economic Conflict: Possibilities and Constraints on Religious Resource Mobilization and Coalitions in Detroit's Newspaper Strike

Mirola

2003

Sociology of Religion

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Previous research demonstrates the tole of reli~ous beliefs, ~actices, and people in a wide varie~ of social movement struggles. In most c.ases, re|i~ous resource mobilization seems to occur in a relatively straightforward, uncomplicated manner and with positive oummu~s for the mot~tmat in question. L/tt/e attention has been paid to the chaUenges that ex/st to mob///zing reli~ous resources and building coalitions with reli~ous supporters. This essay examines the problematic nature of reli~ous resource mobilization as part of union strate~es to win a strikellockout against Detroit' s two newspapers, the News and the Free Press, between 1995-2000. Intensive interviews u,ith strikers, union spokespersons, and reli~ous activists, iUustrate how reli~ous resources contributed to union strength during the strike. However, these contributions were limited by the intemal dynamics in the relatiortship between the unions and reli~ous supporters as well as by the power disparities between these local coalitions and the multinational corporations they strugg~ against.

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“…The cultural turn in sociology has entered into social movement literature in several ways, most notably in the increased attention to meaning construction and framing processes (Benford 1993;Coles 1998;Diani 1996;Gotham 1999;Haydu 1999;Mooney and Hunt 1996;Mueller 1999;Snow et al 1986;Snow and Benford 1992;Valocchi 1996). Although cultural approaches to social movements are relatively new and remain diverse, some clear contributions to our understanding of movement development and dynamics have emerged from this literature.…”

Section: Theoretical Concernsmentioning

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Cultural and Political Constraints in the Gulf War Illness Social Movement

2002

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Recent contributions to social movement theory have emphasized the importance of cultural and political opportunities in shaping movement growth and development. While most ofthat work focuses on how these factors facilitate social movement efforts, we examine a case in which cultural and political factors have constrained the efforts of a social movement. Analyzing data from in-depth interviews with 55 respondents, we examine the organizing efforts of Gulf War veteran* claiming illnesses connected to environmental exposures in the Persian Gulf. Despite the claims of many veterans that exposure to hazardous conditions resulted in illness, they have been unsuccessful in legitimating Gulf War illness to the government or to the public. This article contributes to the social movement literature by analyzing ways in which both cultural and political institutions may hamper the efforts of a contemporary social movement.

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Counter Action Frames: Employer Repertoires and the Union Menace in the Late Nineteenth Century

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The Neglect of Power in Recent Framing Research

The Neglect of Power in Recent Framing Research

Religious Protest and Economic Conflict: Possibilities and Constraints on Religious Resource Mobilization and Coalitions in Detroit's Newspaper Strike

Cultural and Political Constraints in the Gulf War Illness Social Movement

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