William A. Gamson

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William Anthony Gamson (January 27, 1934 – March 23, 2021

social movements from as early as the 1960s. His influential works include Power and Discontent (1968),[3] The Strategy of Social Protest (1975),[4] Encounters with Unjust Authority (1982)[5] and Talking Politics (2002),[6] as well as numerous editions of SIMSOC.[7]

Gamson received his Ph.D. in 1959 from the

president of the American Sociological Association (ASA) in 1994.[11] His awards include the ASA’s Distinguished Contributions to Teaching Award in 1987,[12] the Distinguished Career award from the ASA Section on Peace and War in 1997,[13] the McCarthy Lifetime Achievement Award from the Center for the Study of Social Movements In 2011,[14] and the ASA’s W.E.B. Du Bois Career of Distinguished Scholarship Award by the American Sociological Association in 2012.[15]

Gamson was a leader and organizer of the 1965 anti-Vietnam War teach-in at the University of Michigan and continued to participate in anti-war sentiment and protest throughout the 60s and early 70s. He led a fast by university professors against University involvement in military research.[16] His wife, Zelda F. Gamson, was also an active participant in the peace movement and was involved in the 1971 March on Washington.[16]

Gamson is also known for his writing about and creation of simulation games used primarily in teaching and organizational training environments.[17] These include SIMSOC: Simulated Society (1969),[18] What’s News: A Game Simulation of TV News (1984),[19] and the Global Justice Game (2007).[20]

Gamson was also instrumental in the creation of

fantasy sports industry.[21][22]

Gamson and his wife Zelda, who lived in Brookline, Massachusetts, had two children, Jennifer and Joshua,[23] and five grandchildren.

Gamson's Law

Gamson's Law of Proportionality or simply Gamson's Law was suggested by Eric C. Browne and Mark N. Franklin in 1971.[24] They stated that there is proportionality between the numerical representation of each political force in a government and their number of seats in the parliament.[25] It was based on the idea that each actor in government expects a payoff proportional to the weight that it contributes to the coalition, that had been proposed in the paper A theory of coalition formation, published in 1961 by William Gamson.[26]

Selected bibliography

  • Gamson, William A.; Modigliani, Andre. 1989. "Media Discourse and Public Opinion on Nuclear Power: A Constructionist Approach". American Journal of Sociology 95: 1–37.
  • Gamson, William, A.; Wolfsfeld, Gadi. 1993. "Movements and Media as Interacting Systems." The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science 528: 114–125.
  • Gamson, William A.; Meyer, David. 1996. "Framing political opportunity." In D. McAdam, J. McCarthy, & M. Zald (Eds.), Comparative Perspectives on Social Movements: Political Opportunities, Mobilizing Structures, and Cultural Framings (Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics, pp. 275–290). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. doi:10.1017/CBO9780511803987.014
  • Gamson, William A. 1997. "On Coming to Terms with the Past." American Journal of Sociology 103: 210–215.
  • Ferree, Myra Marx; Gamson, William A.; Gerhards, Jurgen; and Rucht, Dieter. 2002. Shaping Abortion Discourse: Democracy and the Public Sphere in Germany and the United States. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press.
  • Gamson, William A. 2011. “From Outsiders to Insiders: The Changing Perception of Emotional Culture and Consciousness among Social Movement Scholars.” Mobilization 16: 405–418.
  • Gamson, William A. 2013. “Games Throughout the Life-Cycle,” Simulation and Gaming, Vol. 44: 609–623.

References

  1. ^ "In Memoriam: William Gamson".
  2. ^ "William Gamson's Homepage". Boston College. Archived from the original on 2011-06-29. Retrieved 2012-12-13.
  3. OCLC 468481419
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  4. ISBN 978-0-534-12078-8
  5. OCLC 483824335
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  6. ISBN 978-0-521-43679-3
  7. ISBN 978-0-684-87140-0
  8. ^ "AAAS Prize for Behavioral Science Research". American Association for the Advancement of Science. Retrieved 2019-03-03.
  9. ^ "John Simon Guggenheim Foundation | William A. Gamson". Retrieved 2019-03-03.
  10. ^ "William Gamson | Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences". casbs.stanford.edu. Retrieved 2019-03-03.
  11. ^ "William A. Gamson". American Sociological Association. 2009-06-04. Retrieved 2019-03-03.
  12. ^ "Distinguished Contributions to Teaching Award". American Sociological Association. 2016-04-22. Retrieved 2019-03-03.
  13. ^ "Section on Peace, War and Social Conflict Past Award Recipients". American Sociological Association. 2011-10-03. Retrieved 2019-03-03.
  14. doi:10.17813/maiq.16.3.2827g6x370l73567. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help
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  15. ^ "W.E.B. Du Bois Career of Distinguished Scholarship Award". American Sociological Association. 2016-04-22. Retrieved 2019-03-03.
  16. ^ a b "William Gamson (U of M Professor of Sociology) · Interviews · Resistance and Revolution: The Anti-Vietnam War Movement at the University of Michigan, 1965–1972". michiganintheworld.history.lsa.umich.edu. Retrieved 2019-03-03.
  17. S2CID 145358887
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  18. OCLC 933949332
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  19. OCLC 465878845
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  20. ^ "Global Justice Game: The Game". MRAP. Retrieved 2019-05-15.
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    ISBN 978-0-312-32222-9
  22. ^ Hilt, Ed (2007-06-26). "Fantasy baseball league owners still bonding in their 32nd season". Press of Atlantic City. Archived from the original on 2007-07-04. Retrieved 2007-07-17.
  23. ^ Magazine, Contexts. "Keeping it in the Family - Contexts". Retrieved 2019-03-03.
  24. S2CID 145313614
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  25. ^ "Party Size and Portfolio Payoffs. A Study of the Mechanism Underlying Gamson's Law of Proportionality" (PDF).
  26. JSTOR 2090664
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