TY - JOUR AU - Hennen, Peter AB - #2160—CONTEMPORARY SOCIOLOGY—VOL 34 NO 3—FILE: 34302-reviews 308–Politics, Social Movements, and The State stantive insights it generates turn out to be of protest, to suggest a protest outburst that was significant empirical and theoretical interest. not really embedded in dense oppositional Quantitative evidence is supplemented by milieus. Very different network patterns detailed historical accounts, largely based on showed in 1980, with organizational net- secondary sources but for the occasional works being much more diversified, includ- interview, of main transformations in Polish ing in particular social and workers society and politics over the period of inter- organizations beside Catholic and youth est. Unsurprisingly, a large section of it is ones; and network density being already sub- devoted to the role of the Catholic Church in stantial well before protest activities started, supporting resistance to the Communist to suggest a genuine social movement regime and the fabrication of interpretative process in motion. frames capable of integrating the different Osa’s analysis implicitly questions the role strands of Polish opposition. Two events are social movement scholars traditionally assign of particular interest. First, the Great Novena, to networks, that is, as mere predictors of the launched by Cardinal Wyszy´nski following insurgence of collective action, and TI - Beyond the Closet JF - Contemporary Sociology: A Journal of Reviews DO - 10.1177/009430610503400351 DA - 2005-05-01 UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/sage/beyond-the-closet-RyiWHyEdS0 SP - 308 EP - 310 VL - 34 IS - 3 DP - DeepDyve ER -