This seminar focuses on literature pertaining to collective, extra-institutional efforts to form new or maintain old forms of social order in the United States and other countries. While specific content might vary in response to instructors' interests and department demands, attention will be given to such issues as movement emergence, maintenance, and transformation, labor and resource mobilization, social networks, organization cultures, movement identities and ideologies, social problems construction, strategies and tactics development, as well as the relative success of social movement activities. The seminar can include illustrative material from a variety of social movements and counter-movements (e.g., political, lifestyle, religious, etc.)