Doug McAdam facts for kids
Doug McAdam is a well-known professor of Sociology at Stanford University. He was born on August 31, 1951. Sociology is the study of how people live together in groups and societies. Professor McAdam studies how social movements work and why people come together to make changes in society. He is especially known for his work on the Civil Rights Movement in the United States.
About Doug McAdam
Doug McAdam started his career by studying something called the "political process model." This model helps us understand how social movements grow and succeed. He wrote an important book about this idea in 1982. This book looked closely at the U.S. Civil Rights Movement.
Key Achievements
Professor McAdam wrote another famous book called Freedom Summer. This book won a special award called the C. Wright Mills Award in 1990. From 2001 to 2005, he was the director of a place called the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences. This center helps people study human behavior. In 2003, he was chosen to be part of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. This is a group that honors important thinkers and leaders.
His Important Books
Doug McAdam has written many books that help us understand social movements and how society works. Here are some of his well-known works:
- Deeply Divided: Racial Politics and Social Movements in Postwar America (2014) – He wrote this with Karina Kloos.
- A Theory of Fields (2012) – He wrote this with N. Fligstein.
- Social Movements and Organizations (2005) – He helped edit this book with Gerald Davis, W. Richard Scott, and Mayer N. Zald.
- Social Movements and Networks: Relational Approaches to Collective Action (2003) – He helped edit this book with Mario Diani.
- Dynamics of Contention (2001) – He wrote this with Sidney Tarrow and Charles Tilly.
- Political Process and the Development of Black Insurgency, 1930-1970 (1982, 2nd Edition 1999) – This was one of his earliest and most important books.
- Freedom Summer (1988) – This book won an award for its insights.
External Links
- Home page at Stanford
See also
In Spanish: Doug McAdam para niños
