Collective Action Frames Benford’s recent critique of the framing perspective in the social movements literature posits the need for a sociology of framing processes (Benford 1997). The framing perspective was inspired by Erving Goffman’s (1974) notion of “invisible structures” called frames (Ritzer 1992). The outcome of countless interactions that combine symbols and small-scale structures, frames prefigure the grievance(s) that lead to participation and activity. Consequently, frames foster meanings that, as Gonos (1977, 860) explains, are “constituted of a set number of essential components, having a definite arrangement and stable relations.” Underlying the assertion of the need for a sociology of framing processes is a desire to expand upon the existing preoccupation with a means-oriented focus on micromobilization -- to see the rec....

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