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56
Citations
49911
World Ranking
1824
National Ranking
869

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2008 - Lee Founders Award, Society for the Study of Social Problems

Overview

David A. Snow is affiliated with the University of California, Irvine in the United States. Their research primarily spans the field of Social Sciences, with a significant focus on Sociology and Political Science. Additional subfields include Communication, Political Science and International Relations, Health, and Cognitive Neuroscience.

Their work covers diverse topics such as Political Conflict and Governance, Social Media and Politics, Social and Cultural Dynamics, Religion and Society Interactions, Social and Intergroup Psychology, Religion, Society, and Development, and the Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment.

Frequent co-authors collaborating with David A. Snow include Hjalmar Bang Carlsen, Jonas Toubøl, Donatella della Porta, Doug McAdam, and Peter B. Owens.

David A. Snow has published extensively in venues such as The Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Social and Political Movements and Discourse Studies.

  • "An imperious, closed sandbox? A rejoinder to Van Dijk's critique of the framing perspective on social movement mobilization" (2023), Discourse Studies
  • "Framing and Social Movements" (2022), The Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Social and Political Movements
  • "Consciousness, Conscience, and Social Movements" (2022), The Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Social and Political Movements
  • "Case Studies and Social Movements" (2022), The Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Social and Political Movements

David A. Snow received the Lee Founders Award from the Society for the Study of Social Problems in 2008.

Best Publications

  • Framing Processes and Social Movements: An Overview and Assessment

    Robert D. Benford;David A. Snow

  • Frame alignment processes, micromobilization, and movement participation.

    David A. Snow;E. Burke Rochford;Steven K. Worden;Robert D. Benford

  • Master-frames and cycles of protest

    D. P. Snow;Robert D. Benford

  • Identity Work Among the Homeless: The Verbal Construction and Avowal of Personal Identities

    David A. Snow;Leon Anderson

  • Social Networks and Social Movements: A Microstructural Approach to Differential Recruitment

    David A. Snow;Louis A. Zurcher;Sheldon Ekland-Olson

  • Framing Processes, Ideology, and Discursive Fields

    David A. Snow

  • Down on Their Luck: A Study of Homeless Street People

    David A. Snow;Leon Anderson

  • The Outcomes of Homeless Mobilization: The Influence of Organization, Disruption, Political Mediation, and Framing

    Daniel M. Cress;David A. Snow

  • The Blackwell companion to social movements

    David Alan Snow;Sarah Anne Soule;Hanspeter Kriesi

  • Collective Identity and Expressive Forms

    David Snow

  • MOBILIZATION AT THE MARGINS: RESOURCES, BENEFACTORS, AND THE VIABILITY OF HOMELESS SOCIAL MOVEMENT ORGANIZATIONS*

    Daniel M. Cress;David A. Snow

  • Mapping the Terrain

    David A. Snow;Sarah A. Soule;Hanspeter Kriesi

  • A Primer on Social Movements

    David A. Snow;Sarah Anne Soule

  • Elaborating Analytic Ethnography: Linking Fieldwork and Theory

    David A. Snow;Calvin Morrill;Leon Anderson

  • The Emergence, Development, and Future of the Framing Perspective: 25+ Years Since "Frame Alignment"

    David A. Snow;Robert D. Benford;Holly J. McCammon;Lyndi Hewitt

  • Framing the French Riots: A Comparative Study of Frame Variation

    David A. Snow;Rens Vliegenthart;Catherine Corrigall-Brown

  • Disrupting the "Quotidian": Reconceptualizing the Relationship Between Breakdown and the Emergence of Collective Action

    David Snow;Daniel Cress;Liam Downey;Andrew Jones

  • The Myth of Pervasive Mental Illness Among the Homeless

    David A. Snow;Susan G. Baker;Leon Anderson;Michaei Martin

  • Marcos de acción colectiva y campos de identidad en la construcción social de los movimientos

    Robert Benford;David Snow

  • Ideology, Framing Processes, and Islamic Terrorist Movements

    David Snow;Scott Byrd

  • Down on Their Luck: A Study of Homeless Street People

    James Deutsch;David A. Snow;Leon Anderson

Frequent Co-Authors

Sarah A. Soule
Sarah A. Soule Stanford University
Doug McAdam
Doug McAdam Stanford University
Kenneth J. Gergen
Kenneth J. Gergen Swarthmore College
Peter K. Manning
Peter K. Manning Northeastern University
Anthony Giddens
Anthony Giddens London School of Economics and Political Science
Paul Koegel
Paul Koegel RAND Corporation
Norman K. Denzin
Norman K. Denzin University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

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