This part is based on the article “Frame AlignmentProcesses” by Snow et al. (1986) as well as our discussion on research concepts. Answer these three questions: 1) What are frame amplif
Part 1:
This part is based on the article “Frame AlignmentProcesses” by Snow et al. (1986) as well as our discussion on research concepts. Answer these three questions:
1) What are frame amplification, frame bridging, and frame extension? (briefly define these processes using your own words)
2) Provide your own example of frame amplification or frame extension and explain how this specific framing proces can aid in mobilization of a social movement (you can use any social movement or social movement organization to illustrate your point).
3) Come up with a research question that deals with some aspect of a social movement. Convert this question into a hypothesis. Identify the independent and dependent variables.
Part 2:
Based on the reading by Fantasia and Voss (Ch.2 An Exceptionally Hostile Terrain), answer these questions:
1. Differentiate between the kind of unionism represented by the AFL and the kind of unionism represented by the Knights of Labor and/or the Wobblies. (your answer should include things like who were the members of these organizations and the kind of demands or issues these organizations were fighting for)
2. What was the significance of the rapid decline of the Knights and the Wobblies for the larger labor movement in the U.S.?
3. Was the 1947 Taft-Hartley Act good or bad for the labor movement in the U.S.? (Briefly explain your answer by providing examples of specific provisions included in the Act).
Part 3:
Based on the PBS documentary Makers: women who make America” episode 1: Awakening, please answer these questions:
1. What was the significance of the Civil Rights Movement to the Women’s Movement? (provide two reasons)
2. What was the main argument of the book “Feminine Mystique” by Betty Friedan?
What is the book’s significance for the Women’s Movement?
3. What was the first EEOC employment discrimination cases involving women? What was the women organization that emerged after that?
4. What was the specific tactic used by a group of women that involved the publisher of the Ladies’ Home Journal? What was the end result of the women’s actions?
5. What was the importance of the Ms Magazine and its founder Gloria Steinem to the Women’s Movement? (provide two reasons)
Makers (episode 2)
This is based on the documentary “Makers” (episode 2). Answer the following questions:
1. What was the significance of the TV show That Girl to the Women’s Movement?
2. What was the significance of the tennis match between Billie Jean King and Bobby Rigs to the movement?
3. What were the “revolutions” played in peoples’ homes and apartments?
4. Why abortion became a central theme for the Women’s Movement?
5. What was ERA and why have the Women’s Movement lost the battle to pass ERA?