METHODOLOGY FOR THE ANALYSIS OF INTERNAL SOCIAL MOVEMENTS (SOCIAL MOVEMENTS AND SOCIAL SYSTEM CHANGE)
Abstract
This report closes out the second year of effort on a project which is developing methods and theory for the study of incidents of violent social protest and broad social movements in the context of social system change. The method of building computer based inventories of incidents of protest and conflict permits the quantitative description of large numbers of such events, based on easily accessible public records and historical documents. Critical instance case studies supplement the quantitative data through detailed qualitative investigation. The project's frame of reference emphasizes event sequence analysis in conflict and mobilization. In order to assess flexibility and power of the procedure, long time series, the entire 19th century, were chosen for incident inventories on two societies of widely different characteristics. An Oriental society (China) and a Western society (Germany) were selected. The data gathering phase for China (31,000 incidents) has been completed.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Aug 01, 1968
- Accession Number
- AD0676665
Entities
People
- Burkart Holzner
- Ching-kun Yang
Organizations
- University of Pittsburgh