The recent proliferation of scholarship on collective action frames and framing processes in
relation to social movements indicates that framing processes have come to be regarded …

In this chapter, I examine ideational factors and interpretive processes associated with the
operation of social movements by drawing on the framing perspective and related constructs …

During the decade of the 1990s, the evolving framing perspective on social movements has
found its way into an increasing amount of conceptual and empirical scholarship. There has …

In the last decade the framing perspective has gained increasing popularity among social
movement researchers and theorists. Surprisingly, there has been no critical assessment of …

Over the past decade many analysts of collective action from the political-process and social-
constructionist perspectives have sought to bring ideology back into the analysis of social …

It has been more than twenty-five years since publication of David Snow, Burke Rochford,
Steven Worden, and Robert Benford's article," Frame Alignment Processes …

The study of social movements has always had one foot in social psychology and the other
in political sociology, although at times these two sides have seemed to be at war with each …

Framing, within the context of social movements, refers to the signifying work or meaning
construction engaged in by movement adherents (eg leaders, activists, and rank‐and‐file …

The conceptual definitions we use in social science often need adjusting to allow scholars to
hone in on issues that are obscured under other definitions and to open research agendas …

With the clarity of hindsight, we can look upon the notion of collective action frames and say
that it was an idea whose time had come. When Gamson, Fireman, and Rytina applied the …