William A. Gamson was an American professor of sociology at Boston College, born in 1934, where he was also co-director of the Media Research and Action Project. He wrote numerous books and articles on political discourse, mass media and social movements from as early as the 1960s, including Power and Discontent (1968), The Strategy of Social Protest (1975), Encounters with Unjust Authority (1982) and Talking Politics (2002), as well as numerous editions of SIMSOC. He died in 2021. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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Nationality / Culture Defining ContributionResearch on political discourse, mass media and social movements 1 Notable WorkPower and Discontent (1968) 1 In the Other Atlases
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William Anthony Gamson was a professor of Sociology at Boston College, where he was also the co-director of the Media Research and Action Project (MRAP).
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William Anthony Gamson (January 27, 1934
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American sociologist
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March 23, 2021) was a professor of Sociology at Boston College
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His influential works include Power and Discontent (1968), The Strategy of Social Protest (1975), Encounters with Unjust Authority (1982) and Talking Politics (2002), as well as numerous editions of SIMSOC.
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He is the author of numerous books and articles on political discourse, the mass-media and social movements from as early as the 1960s.
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