UNIVERSIDADE DE SÃO PAULO

FACULDADE DE FILOSOFIA, LETRAS E CIÊNCIAS HUMANAS

DEPARTAMENTO DE SOCIOLOGIA
PROGRAMA DE PÓS-GRADUAÇÃO EM SOCIOLOGIA

DISCIPLINA: Cultura e ação política: introdução ao debate contemporâneo

Profa. Angela Alonso
2º. Semestre de 2013

PROGRAMA:
1. Teorias dos movimentos sociais e o problema da cultura
2. Movimentos sociais e confronto político
3. Conceitos de cultura na explicação dos movimentos sociais
4. Incorporações do interacionismo simbólico na sociologia dos movimentos sociais
5. O problema estrutura/agency nas explicações da mobilização política
6. neodurkheimianismo e o retorno das emoções na sociologia política
7. Sociologia relacional e o estudo das redes de ativismo
8. Ciclos de protesto, inovação, difusão, apropriação de ideias e estratégias de ação
9. Ciberprotesto e ativismo transnacional
10. Cultura e violência

CRONOGRAMA: LEITURAS E SEMINÁRIOS

27/8 - Aula 1: Teorias dos movimentos sociais e o problema da cultura

Leituras básicas:
Alonso, A. (2009). Teorias dos movimentos sociais: balanço do debate. Lua Nova, no.
75.
Sewell, Jr , William H. (2005), “The Concept(s) of Culture,” in Bonnell, Victoria and
Hunt, Lynn. Beyond the Cultural Turn. New directions in the study of society and culture.
Berkeley. University of California Press.
Jasper, James (2007). Cultural Approaches in the sociology of social movements. In
Roggeband, C. and Klandermans, B. (edts) Handbook of social movement across disciplines.
Springer.

Leituras complementares:
Diani, Mario. (1992). The concept of social movement. The sociological Review, 40 (1).
Edelman, Marc. (2001). Social movements: changing paradigms and forms of politics.
Annual Review of Anthropology, no. 30.
1
 Swidler, Ann (1995). “Cultural Power and Social Movements”. In Johnston, Hank e
Klandermans, Bert, (eds). Social Movements and Culture. University of Minnesota Press
Swindler, Ann (1986). Culture in action: symbols and strategies. American Sociological
Review, vol 51, apr.
Poletta, Francesca. (1997). “Culture and its Discontents: Recent Theorizing on Culture
and Protest.” Sociological Inquiry 67: 431-50.

3/9 - feriado

10/9 - Aula 2: Movimentos Sociais e Confronto Político - o projeto de sociologia política

Tilly-Tarrow-McAdam (DOC)
Leituras básicas:
Tarrow, Sidney e Tilly, Charles “Contentious Politics and Social Movements” in Carles
Boix and Susan C. Stokes (edtrs) 2007The Oxford Handbook of Comparative Politics, Oxford
UP, p 435-460
McAdam, D., Tarrow, S. & Tilly, C. (2001), Dynamics of contention. New York:
Cambridge University Press. Capítulo 1

Seminário:
Tarrow, Sidney. Poder em movimento. Movimentos sociais e confronto político. Ed.
Vozes. 2009.

Leituras complementares:
Tilly, Charles. Os movimentos sociais como política In Revista Brasileira de Ciência
Política, no.3, Brasília, janeiro-julho, 2010, pp.133-160.
Tilly, C., Tarrow, S., McAdam, D. Mapeando a política conflitiva. Lua Nova, 2009, no. 75
Tilly, Charles (2006). Regimes and Repertoires. Chicago University press
McAdam, Doug; McCarthy, John and Zald, Mayer N. (1996). Comparative Perspectives
on Social Movements: Political Opportunities, Mobilizing Structures and Cultural Framings,
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

17/9 - Aula 3: Performances e repertórios políticos - a incorporação do interacionismo

simbólico na sociologia dos movimentos sociais
Leituras básicas:
Tilly, Charles. “How to detect and describe performances and repertoires” in
Contentious performances. Cambridge Univ. Press, 2008, p 31-61
Alonso, Angela. Repertório, segundo Charles Tilly. História de um conceito. Sociologia &
Antropologia, vol 2, 2012

2
Seminário:
Diani, Mario. the 'Unusual Suspects": radical repertoires in consensual settings in in
Seferiades, Seraphim and Johnston, Hans. Violent Protest, contentious politics and the
neoliberal state, England, Ashgate Publishing, 2012
Traugott, Mark. Barricades as repertoire: continuities and discontinuities in the
history of French contention. In Traugott, Mark (ed.), Repertoires and cycles of collective
action. Durham: Duke University Press, 1995, p. 16-43.
Clemens, Elisabeth “Organizational Repertoires and Institutional Change: Women’s
Groups and the Transformation of U.S. Politics, 1890-1920,” in Goodwin, J. e Jasper, J. (ed)
the social movements readers. Cases and concepts. Blackwell, 2003.

Leituras complementares:
Bringel, Breno. Com, contra e para além de charles tilly: Mudanças teóricas no estudo
das ações Coletivas e dos movimentos sociais Sociologia & Antropologia, vol 2, 2012
Steinberg, Marc. The roar of the crowd: repertoires of discourse and collective action
among the Spitafields Silk Weavers in nineteenth-century London. In Traugott, Mark (ed.).
Repertoires and cycles of collective action. Durham: Duke University Press, 1995, p. 57-88.
Halfmann, Drew & Young, Michael P. War pictures: the grotesque as moral repertoire
in the antislavery and antiabortion movements. Mobilization: An International Quarterly
Issue, 2010, 15/1, p. 1-24.
Offerlé, Michel « Retour critique sur les répertoires de l'action collective ( XVIII e-
XXIe siècles) », Politix, Volume 21, n° 81/2008, p 181-202
Tilly, Charles Contentious repertoires in Great Britain, 1758-1834. In Traugott, Mark
(ed.), Repertoires and cycles of collective action. Durham: Duke University Press, 1995, p. 15-
42.
Tilly, Charles Regimes and repertoires. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2006.
Tilly, Charles Contentious performances. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press,
2008.

24/9 Anpocs não há aula

1/10 - Aula 4: Cognição e mobilização - novas incorporações de Erving Goffman: o

conceito de enquadramentos interpretativos
Leituras básicas:
DiMaggio, Paul. (1997). Culture and cognition. Annual Review of Sociology 23.
Benford, Robert D. & David A. Snow (2000): “Framing Processes and Social Movements:
An Overview and Assessment,” Annual Review of Sociology 26.

Seminário: Gamson, William A. (1992). Talking Politics. Cambridge Univ. Press. cap 3
Injustice p 31-58; cap 6 Talk and action, p 110-114, cap 8 Cultural resonances p135-162

3
Leituras complementares:
Snow, David A. and Benford, Robert D. (1988) “Ideology, frame resonance and
participant mobilization” in International Social Movement Research v. 1.
Goffman, Erving (1974): Frame Analysis New York, NY: Harper
Snow, David et al., (1986). “Frame Alignment Processes, Micromobilization, and
Movement Participation,” American Sociological Review

8/10 – Aula 5: Narrativas mobilizadoras - cultura como retórica, impactos do pós-

estruturalismo na sociologia dos movimentos sociais
Leituras Básicas:
Swidler, Ann. "How culture matters" in Talk of Love. How culture matters. , Chicago,
univ of Chicago press,2001
Tilly, Charles “The Trouble with Stories,” in Stories, Identities, and Political Change
(2002).
Kurzman, Charles. "the poststructuralist consensus in social movement theory" in
Rethinking Social Movements: Structure, Meaning, and Emotion by Goodwin, Jeff and James
M. Jasper (ed.). Rowman & Littlefield Publishers: New York

Seminário:
Polletta, Francesca. It Was Like a Fever: Storytelling in Protest and Politics.
University of Chicago Press. 2006 “It was life a fever…:Why people protest” in p32-52
Swidler, Ann. Talk of love. How culture matters. Chicago, University of Chicago Press,
2001. cap 2. Repertoires; p 24-40; cap 4 cultured capacities and strategies of action, p 71-
88

Leituras complementares:
Armstrong; Elizabeth A Suzanna M Crage. Movements and Memory: The Making of the
Stonewall Myth American Sociological Review; Oct 2006; 71, 5
Margaret Somers, “Narrativity, Narrative Identity, and Social Action: Rethinking
English Working Class formation,” Social Science History 16:4 (1992), pp. 591-630.
Uehling, Greta. Social memory as collective action: the Crimean Tatar national
movement. In Guidry, John A., Kennedy, Michael D. Zald, Mayer, N. 2000. Globalizations and
social movements: culture, power, and the Transnational Public Sphere. The University of
Michigan Press .

15/10 - Aula 6: Emoções do protesto, rituais políticos e protesto moral -

neodurkheimianismo e o retorno das emoções na sociologia política

Leituras Básicas:
Jasper, James. (2003). The Emotions of protest. in Goodwin, Jeffrey and Jasper,
James. The Social Movements Reader. London,Blackwell.

4
 Polletta, Francesca. 2004. “Culture is Not Just in Your Head” in Rethinking Social
Movements: Structure, Meaning, and Emotion by Goodwin, Jeff and James M. Jasper (ed.).
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers: New York

Seminário:
Alexander, Jeffrey (2006). “From the depths of despair: performance,
conterperformance and ‘September 11”. In Alexander, C., Bernhard Giesen and Jason L. Mast
(2006). Social Performance: Symbolic Action, Cultural Pragmatics and Ritual. Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press.
Wood, Elizabeth: "the emotional benefits of insurgency in El Salvador" p 267 in Goodwin,
Jeff, Jasper, James & Polletta, Francesca (eds). (2001). Passionate Politics. Emotions and Social
Movements. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
Jasper, James (1997). "ritual and emotions at Diablo Canyon: sustaining activists
identities" p 183-209 The Art of Moral Protest. Culture, Biography, and Creativity in Social
Movements. Chicago: University of Chicago Press

Bibliografia complementar:
Goldstone, Jack and Elizabeth Perry. 2001. "The Sacred, Religious, and Secular in
Contentious Politics: Blurring Boundaries." Pp. 155-78 in Silence and Voice in the Study of
Contentious Politics, edited by R. Aminzade, et. al. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

22/10 - Aula 7: Sociologia relacional, sociabilidade e redes de ativismo

Leituras Básicas:
Gould, Roger V. “Why do networks matter? Rationalist and Structuralist
Interpretations” In Diani, Mario e McAdam, Doug. Social Movements and Networks.
Relational approaches to collective action. Oxford. 2003, p 233-257
Mische, Ann. 2011. Relational sociology, culture and agency. In Scott, John and
Carrington, Peter (eds). Sage Handbook of social network analysis, Sage.

Seminário:
Haenfler, Ross, Hohnson, Brett & Jones, Ellis. Lifestyle movements: exploring
intersection on lifestyle and social movements. Social Movement Studies, vol 11. , no. 1, 1-20,
january, 2012
Auyero Javier. When everyday life, routine politics, and protest meet. Theory and
Society, 2004, 33, p. 417-441.
Mische, Ann; Partisan publics: Communication and contention across Brazilian youth
activist networks. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2008. "Civic mediation in the
1992 Impeachment movement" p 134-179

Leituras complementares:
Emirbayer, Mustafa. 1997. “Manifest for a Relational Sociology.” The American
Journal of Sociology, Volume 103, Number. 2. (Sep., 1997), pp. 281-317
5
 Diani, Mario. Organizational field and social movement dynamics. In in Social Movement
Research, Bert Klandermans, Conny Roggeband & Jacqueline Van Stekelenburg (eds.),
Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press. 2012
Sewell, William (1992). “A Theory of Structure: Duality, Agency and Transformation,”
American Journal of Sociology, 98 (1).
Giugni, Marco (1998). Structure and Culture in Social Movement theory. Sociological
Forum, vol. 13, no.2, jun.

29/10 - Aula 8: Inovação, difusão, apropriação e ciclos de protesto

Leituras Básicas:
Tarrow, Sidney, From 'moments of madness' to waves of contention in Tarrow, S.
Strangers at the Gates: movements and states in contentious politics, Cambridge UP, 2012
Snow, David and Robert Benford “Master Frames and Cycles of Protest” in Aldon
Morris and Carol McClurg Mueller (eds.) Frontiers in Social Movement Theory Yale University
Press 1992

Textos para Seminario:

Chabot, Sean, A culture of peace in motion: transnational diffusion of the Gandhian
repertoire from India to the U. S. civil rights movement. International Journal of Humanities
and Peace,, 2000.
McAdam, Doug. 1995. “‘Initiator’ and ‘Spin-off’ Movements: Diffusion Processes in
Protest Cycles” in Repertoires and Cycles of Collective Action by Traugott, Mark (ed.). Duke
University Press: Durham.
Tarrow, Sidney. Dynamics of diffusion: mechanisms, institutions, and scale shift. In
Givan, Rebecca K.; Roberts, Kenneth M. & Soule, Sarah A. (eds.), The diffusion of social
movements. Actors, mechanisms, and political effects. Cambridge: Cambridge University
Press, 2010, p. 204-220.

Leituras complementares:
Givan, Rebecca Kolins, Roberts, Kenneth M.; Soule, Sarah A.,.The Diffusion of Social
Movements. Actors, mechanisms, and Political Effects. Cambridge university press.
Tarrow, Sidney. 1995. “Cycles of Collective Action: Between Moments of Madness and
the Repertoire of Contention” in Traugott, Mark (ed.). Repertoires and Cycles of Collective
Action Duke University Press: Durham.
Meyer, David S.; Whittier, Nancy. Social Movement Spillover Social Problems, Vol. 41,
No. 2. (May, 1994), pp. 277-298.
Tarrow, Sidney. Modular collective action and the rise of the social movement: Why
the French revolution was not enough. Politics & Society, 1993, 21/1, p. 69-90.
Tilly, Charles (2006). “Invention, Diffusion, and Transformation of the Social
Movement Repertoire,” in Identities, Boundaries, and Social Ties. Paradigm.

6
 Beissinger, Mark R. 2007. “Structure and Example in Modular Political Phenomena:The
Diffusion of Bulldozer/Rose/Orange/Tulip Revolutions.” Perspectives on Social Movement
Theory and Terrorism Sociology Compass 2/5 (2008): 1565–1581 Politics 5: 259-276.

5/11 - Aula 9: ciberprotesto e ativismo transnacional

Leituras Básicas:
Rucht, Dieter. “The quadruple ‘A’: Media strategies of protest movements since the
1960s”. In W. Van De Donk, B. Loader, P. Nixon & D. Rucht (Eds.), 2004, Cyberprotest: New
Media, Citizens and Social Movements. London: Routledge, pp. 29-56
Keck, M.E. and Sikking, K., 1998. Activists beyond borders: advocacy networks in
international politics. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press

Seminário:
Van Aelst, Peter and Walgrave, Stefaan. "New Media, New Movements? The role of
the internet in Shaping The 'Anti-Globalization' Movement" Information, Communication &
Society, 2002 Taylor & Francis Ltd (http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals)
Stamatov, Peter. Activist Religion, Empire, and the Emergence of Modern Long-
Distance Advocacy Networks, American Sociological Review XX(X) 1–22, 2010
Fillieule, Olivier. La genealogie du movement altermondialiste en France. Cahier
d´historie immediate, 41, 2012

Leituras complementares:
Smith, Jackie. Globalizing resistance: the Battle of Seattle and the future of social
movements”. Mobilization, 2001, 6, p. 1-19.
Anderson, Benedict. Under Three Flags: Anarchism and the Anti-Colonial Imagination.
Verso, 2007
Calhoun, Craig (1995). ‘New social movements’ of the early Nineteenth Century in in
Mark Trauggot (ed.), Repertoires and Cycles of Collective Action. Durham: Duke University
Press.
Della Porta, Donatella, Kriesi, Hanspeter, Rucht, Dieter. (eds.) (1999), Social
Movements in a Globalizing World. New York: St. Martin’s / Macmillan.
Guidry, John A., Kennedy, Michael D. Zald e Mayer, N. Globalizations and social
movements: culture, power, and the transnational public sphere. Ann Arbor: The University of
Michigan Press, 2000;
Tarrow, Sidney (2005).The new transnational activism. Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press.

12/11 - Aula 10: A violência como política

Leituras Básicas:
Tilly, Charles. "violence as politics". In The Politics of Collective Violence, Cambridge
UP, 2003
Della Porta, Donatella. Competitive escalation during protest cycles in Clandestine
Political Violence, Cambridge, 2013

7
 Bennani-Chraïbi, Mounia et al. Towards a Sociology of Revolutionary Situations.
Reflections on the Arab uprisings. Revue française de science politique 2012/5 - Vol. 62, pp.1-29

Textos para seminário:

Dupuis-Deri, Francis. The Black Blocs ten Years after Seattle. anarchism, direct action
and deliberative practices. Journal for the study of radicalism, vol. 4, no. 2, 2010
Piven, Frances Fox. Protest movements and violence in Seferiades, Seraphim and
Johnston, Hans. Violent Protest, contentious politics and the neoliberal state, England,
Ashgate Publishing, 2012
Auyero, Javier. routine politics and violence in Argentine. the gray zone of state
power. Cambridge University Press 2007. Introduction p 1-30. , cap 3 Food lootings p 73-95

Leituras complementares:
Hafez, Mohammed M. e Wiktorowicz, Quintan. Violence as Contention in the Egyptian
Islamic Movement
Kanepollopoulos, K.: the accidental eruption of an anarchist protest in Seferiades,
Seraphim and Johnston, Hans. Violent Protest, contentious politics and the neoliberal state,
England, Ashgate Publishing, 2012
Dupuis-Deri, Francis. Penser l´action des Black Blocs. Politix, anee 2004, vol. 17, no. 68.
Perseé. http://www.persee.fr

19/11 - Aula 11: agenda contemporânea de pesquisa

Leituras Básicas:
Jasper, James. Social movement theory today: towards a theory of action? Sociology
Compass, 4/11, 2010

26/11: Aula 12: sessão de orientação de trabalhos, mediante agendamento prévio

14 às 15:40 - orientação dos alunos que escolherem a opção 2 (ver abaixo)
16 às 18:00 - orientação dos alunos que escolherem a opção 1 (ver abaixo)

15/12 Data Final para entrega de trabalhos

FUNCIONAMENTO:
O curso se compõe de 12 aulas, sendo a primeira inteiramente expositiva e a última de
discussão dos trabalhos finais. Todas as demais se estruturam em duas partes: aula teórica,
seguida de seminários de discussão de trabalhos empíricos exemplares acerca do tema
tratado.
Seminários: Todos os alunos deverão participar de TODOS os seminários, variando
sua posição como expositor ou debatedor.
A cada aula, a classe se dividirá em 3 grupos, responsáveis cada um por expor 1 e
criticar 2 artigos ou capítulos de livros.
Cada aluno deve entregar no início da aula uma resenha de 10 linhas de apreciação
sobre o modo como o conceito de cultura é usado no artigo que irá expor ou debater.
8
 Acesso aos textos: A maioria dos textos está em formato eletrônico e ficará
disponíveis no MOODLE-USP. É preciso se cadastrar nele para ter acesso ao conteúdo do
curso. A bibliografia complementar não digital será disponibilizada conforme demanda.

AVALIAÇÃO: A avaliação consistirá de:

- Apreciação das 10 miniresenhas entregues e do desempenho nos seminários
- Trabalho dissertativo final (máximo 20 páginas, espaço 1,5, letra tamanho 12):
Opção 1: comparação entre 3 dos conceitos de cultura apresentados e aplicação d eum
deles a um caso empírico particular de livre escolha
Opção 2: discussão de um conceito de cultura a partir de sua aplicação na análise daos
protestos sociais no Brasil em junho e julho de 2013

Entrega do trabalho final: até 15 de dezembro, na secretaria de pós-graduação

em sociologia. Adicionalmente, envio eletrônico, para amalonso@usp.br (assunto: trabalho
disciplina Cultura e Ação Política; nomear o arquivo com o nome do aluno)