Kenneth (Andy) Andrews
Department of Sociology
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Kenneth (Andy) Andrews
209 Hamilton Hall, CB 3210
Department of Sociology
University of North Carolina
Chapel Hill, NC 27599
email: kta@unc.edu
phone: 919-843-5104
office hours: Wednesday 1-3
Overview
My research focuses on the organizational dimensions of
social movements and the impacts of movements on political and social
change. Most of my research focuses on the civil rights struggle in the
U.S. South and the contemporary environmental movement. Through this research I attempt to understand
why movements have (and do not have) enduring influences on patterns of
individual behavior and institutional change.
Major
Projects
The Origins, Dynamics, and Impacts of the 1960 Sit-In
Movement in the Civil Rights Struggle:
Michael Biggs
(University of Oxford) and I are studying the campaigns to end segregation in
public facilities like restaurants and movie theaters in the U.S. South. We focus on the period from the 1960 lunch
counter protests by black college students to the passage of the 1964 Civil
Rights Act. We’ve published a paper on the 1960 sit-ins in the American Sociological Review, and we are
extending this research to look at the development and impact of local protest
campaigns in over 300 cities.
National Purpose,
Local Action: Explaining the Effectiveness of Local Sierra Club Organizations:
With Marshall
Ganz (Harvard), Matthew
Baggetta (Harvard), Hahrie Han
(Wellesley), and Chaeyoon
Lim (Wisconsin), I have been studying the Sierra Club to understand why
some civic associations are more effective than others at influencing their
communities, engaging members, and developing leadership. Our study
includes surveys with over 1,600 local leaders, interviews with the chair of
over 90% of local groups, and broader information about the organization’s
history and community. In a forthcoming
paper at the American Journal of
Sociology, we develop a new framework for understanding group
effectiveness.
Local Environmental Mobilization: Structure, Dynamics,
and Influence:
Bob
Edwards (East Carolina University) and I are studying environmental
organizations, their strategies and activities, and their consequences.
Specifically, we are trying to determine how organizational and contextual
factors shape the strategies and activities of groups and how these factors, in
turn, influence the extent of legitimacy, institutional access, and political
change on environmental issues. Our study includes data on the population
of organizations, detailed surveys with leaders of almost 200 groups, and media
coverage of environmental groups and their activities.
Book
Freedom is a Constant Struggle: The Mississippi Civil
Rights Movement and Its Legacy, (University of Chicago Press), 2004. (Link)
Papers
“Leadership,
Membership and Voice: Civic Associations That Work.” Forthcoming,
American Journal of Sociology with
Marshall Ganz, Matt Baggetta, Hahrie Han, and Chaeyoon Lim.
“Black
Voting During the Civil Rights Movement: A Micro-Level Analysis,”
Social Forces 87:65-93, 2008 (with Kraig Beyerlein).
“The
Dynamics of Protest Diffusion: Movement Organizations, Social Networks, and
News Media in the 1960 Sit-Ins,” American Sociological Review
71: 752-777, 2006. (with Michael Biggs). (PDF)
“The
Organizational Structure of Local Environmentalism,” Mobilization.
10:213-234, 2005. (with Bob Edwards). (PDF)
“Advocacy
Organizations in the U.S. Policy Process,” Annual Review of
Sociology. 30:479-506, 2004 (with Bob Edwards). (PDF)
“Movement-Countermovement
Dynamics and the Emergence of New Institutions: The Case of 'White Flight'
Schools in Mississippi,” Social Forces.
80:911-936, 2002. (PDF)
“Creating Social
Change: Analyzing the Impacts of Social Movements,” Pp 105-117 in Social
Movements: Identity, Culture and the State. Edited
by David Meyer, Belinda Robnett, and Nancy Whittier.
New York: Oxford University Press, 2002.
“Social Movements
and Policy Implementation: The Mississippi Civil Rights Movement and the War on
Poverty, 1965-1971,” American Sociological Review
66:71-95, 2001. (PDF)
“The Impacts of
Social Movements on the Political Process: The Civil Rights Movement and Black
Electoral Politics in Mississippi,” American Sociological
Review 62:800-819, 1997. (PDF)
Working
papers
“Making the News: How Movement Organizations Shape
the Public Agenda,” Revise and resubmit
“Leadership, Organization, and Action: Explaining the Public Influence of
Civic Associations,” Under
review, with Hahrie Han, Marshall Ganz, Matt Baggetta, and Chaeyoon Lim
“From Protest to Organization: The Impact
of the 1960 Sit-ins on Movement Organizations in the American South,” Under
review, with Michael Biggs
“Explaining Volunteer Leader
Time Commitment: Civic Resources, Personal Motivations, and Organizational
Characteristics,” In preparation, with Matt Baggetta and Hahrie Han
Short CV
Teaching
I teach courses on social movements, political sociology,
sociology of law, and research methods.
Social Movements – SOCI 411 (Syllabus – Fall
2009)
Honors
Seminar Thesis - SOCI 691H (Syllabus)
Organizations in Politics &
Society - SOCI 950 – Section 3 (Syllabus)
First Year Seminar - (Syllabus)
Measurement and Data Collection - SOC 051 (Syllabus)
Social Movements - Graduate Seminar (Syllabus)