Gerald M. Platt

Education and Interests

Ph.D., University of California at Los Angeles 1964

Sociological Theory, Social Movements, History and Sociology of the Civil Rights Movement. 

Selected Publications

• Muted Voices: Ordinary People in the Civil Rights Moveme, book manuscript in progress.
• Language, Identification, Participation: Activists’ Discourses in Constructing and Aligning with SCLC’s Collective Identity, essay in progress.
• Unifying Social Movement Theories: Review Essay, Qualitative Sociology, Spring, 2004, Volume 27: 1, pp. 107 - 116.
• Ideological Language and Social Movement Mobilization: A Sociolinguistic Analysis of Segregationist Ideologies, (with Rhys H. Williams) Sociological Theory, November 2002, 20:3, pp. 328 - 359
• Race and Gender Discourse Strategies: Creating Solidarity and Framing the Civil Rights Movement, (with Michael R. Fraser), Social Problems, May, 1998, Volume 45: 2, pp. 160 - 179.
• Religion, Ideology, and Electoral Politics, (with Rhys Williams) Society, July/August, 1988, pp.38 - 45. Reprinted in Cultural Wars in American Politics: Critical Reviews of a Popular Myth, Rhys H. Williams (ed.), New York, Aldine De Gruyter, 1997, pp. 221 - 236.
• Correspondent's Impressions of Martin Luther King, Jr: An Interpretive Theory of Movement Leadership, (with Stephen J. Lilley) in Theodore R. Sarbin and John I. Kitsuse (eds.), Constructing the Social, Sage Publications, 1994, pp. 65 - 83. Reprinted in Leadership: Classical, Contemporary, and Critical Approaches, Keith Grint (ed.), Oxford University Press, 1997, pp. 319 - 337.
• Multiple Images of a Charismatic; An Interpretive Conception of Martin Luther King, Jr.'s Leadership, (with Stephen J. Lilley) in Gerald M. Platt and Chad Gordon (eds.), Self, Collective Behavior, and Society: Essays Honoring the Contributions of Ralph H. Turner, Contemporary Studies in Sociology: Theoretical and Empirical Monographs, Volume 12, Greenwich, Connecticut, JAI Press, 1994, pp. 55 - 74.