Part one of term paper
Benford’s recent critique of the framing perspective in the social movements literature posits the need for a sociology of framing processes (Benford 1997). The framing perspective was inspired by Erving Goffman’s (1974) notion of “invisible structures” called frames (Ritzer 1992). The outcome of countless interactions that combine sy ...

Part two of term paper
... for a sociology of framing processes is a desire to expand upon the existing preoccupation with a means-oriented focus on micromobilization -- to see the recruitment of the individual as occurring on contested terrain, where are fought battles over entrenchment versus change (Garner 1996; Alexander 1996). The pupose of expansion is to invigorate the frequently reified conceptualizations of social movements by recognizing the contribution of organized collective action to definitions of social pr ...