 His influential works include "Power and Discontent" (1968), "The Strategy of Social Protest" (1975), "Encounters with Unjust Authority" (1982) and "Talking Politics" (2002), as well as numerous editions of "SIMSOC".Gamson received his Ph.D. in 1959 from the University of Michigan, where he taught from 1962 until 1982.In 1962, he won the AAAS Prize for Behavioral Science Research.