Date of Graduation
2015
Document Type
Thesis
Degree Type
MA
College
Eberly College of Arts and Sciences
Department
Psychology
Committee Chair
Daniel Renfrew
Committee Co-Chair
Daniel Renfrew
Committee Member
Jennifer Steele
Committee Member
Jesse Wozniak
Abstract
Social movements have been studied in a wide variety of ways. From the use of resource mobilization and political opportunity structure to the new social movement theories. In my paper I discuss how the use of identity and tactics is crucial in understanding how the social movement surrounding anti-mountaintop removal mining in West Virginia works. I studied two groups within this particular movement that use very different tactics as means to the same end. By analyzing them with the use of NSM theory I show how a multi-group approach to studying social movements gives a lot of information on the variance and nuance within the movement itself. This covers topics ranging from how they got involved to the tactics they and their group uses to what one groups' members think of another within their movement.
Recommended Citation
Zell, Craig, "Protest Tactics and Motivations Surrounding Mountaintop Removal Mining in West Virginia" (2015). Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Problem Reports. 7028.
https://researchrepository.wvu.edu/etd/7028