Cross-National Comparisons of Social Movement Unionism

2013 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Social Movement ◽  
Social Movement Unionism ◽  
Cross National

Correcting for Selection Bias in Social Movement Research

1998 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 141-161 ◽  
Author(s):  
Simon Hug ◽  
Dominique Wisler
Keyword(s):  
Social Movement ◽  
Selection Bias ◽  
Truncated Regression ◽  
Factors Affecting ◽  
Local Newspapers ◽  
Data Analyses ◽  
Regression Approach ◽  
Scant Attention ◽  
The Media ◽  
Cross National

Longitudinal and cross-national research on new social movements often relies on newspaper reports for data on the frequency and type of events. Reporting by newspapers is, however, known to be strongly affected by selection bias. Newspapers report events that they find "newsworthy." Surprisingly, the effect of these selection biases on data analyses has received scant attention, and the methodology to correct for these biases hardly has been discussed. Based on data covering events in four cities in Switzerland we propose two types of corrections for the selection bias. The first is based on a simple weighting scheme for events reported in local newspapers. These weights are likely to provide useful corrections even in other contexts. The second correction attempts to model explicitly the selection bias of the media. This truncated regression approach is shown to be a useful strategy when the selectivity by the newspapers is severe, and the factors affecting this selection are largely known.

Diverse and Contra-Sectional Subjectivities in Social Movement Unionism: A Study of Chhattisgarh Mukti Morcha (Mazdoor Karyakarta Samiti)

2020 ◽  
pp. 003802292097031
Author(s):  
Dillip Kumar Dash
Keyword(s):  
Social Movements ◽  
Social Movement ◽  
Social Movement Unionism ◽  
Sectional Analysis

Social movement unionism is one of the experiments of bringing together different issues and struggles associated with workers. The idea has been critiqued by different scholars because of different confrontations associated with issues and strategies. The paper argues that such discomfort arises from a monolithic understanding of social movements and their subjects. Assumption of ideological uniformity restricts analysis of the confronting nature of subjects and subjectivities as well as factions and fragmentation of movements. Here, the attempt is to understand diversity in movements through ‘contra-sectionality’. The ethnography for research was conducted on a movement named Chhattisgarh Mukti Morcha (Mazdoor Karyakarta Samiti) in Chhattisgarh. Through a contra-sectional analysis, the article reflects on fragmented consciousness and its implication for the movement.

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