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map of social movement theory, including arguments relating to contemporary social movements in the global South. It expands upon the definition of social movements provided in chapter one, setting out some of the defining features of movements. It explores some fundamental conceptual concerns for social
Aug 4, 2014 · The Handbook presents a most updated and comprehensive exploration of social movement research. It not only maps, but also expands the field of social movement studies, taking stock of recent developments in cognate areas of studies, within and beyond sociology and political science.
Oct 4, 2019 · This chapter addresses the issue of definition of “social movement,” which reveals how different theoretical traditions conceptualize the authors' object of study. It then moves from actor to action: what do movements do?
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- 2019
CHAPTER OBJECTIVES. Explain the important role of social movements in addressing social problems. Describe the different types of social movements. Identify the contrasting sociological explanations for the development and success of social movements. Outline the stages of development and decline of social movements.
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- The Structure of Collective Action
- The Core Movement Elements
- The State
- Methods
- Theory
- Global South, Authoritarian Regimes, and Transnational Movements
The voluntary coming together of people in joint action has served as a major engine of social transformation throughout human history. From the spread of major world religions to community-led public health campaigns for reducing debilitating vector-borne diseases at the village level, collective mobilization may lead to profound changes in a wide...
Sustained Collective Mobilization Social movements are collective and sustained over a period of time. How and why individuals come together to pursue common goals provides much of the content of this book. The larger the scale of collective action, the longer the mobilization should endure to be considered a “movement.” Local neighborhood and comm...
Throughout this work, I will use the state to refer to the government. The state may be local (e.g., city council), regional, or national. Social move-ments are deeply shaped by states, and at times movements have a pro-found impact in changing government policies and priorities. Different types of states often determine the possibilities for colle...
While it might seem rather simple to identify a social movement on the basis of the concepts just outlined, systematically dissecting movement dynamics using social science methods is a challenging process. In the first part of chapter 2, I classify levels of social movement activity, from the microscale of everyday forms of resistance in small ins...
Chapter 3 introduces the main theoretical explanations for social move-ment dynamics. Theories provide guides that reduce the social world to the most important features driving social movement mobilization. We review early models of social movements that failed to account for the unequal distribution of power and resources in modern societies. The...
Chapter 8 focuses on movements in the global South and transnational movements (movements operating in more than one country). The majority of social movement studies concentrate on movements in industrialized democracies in the global North. However, a growing body of literature now exists on political contexts outside of the advanced capitalist s...
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Essentially, Caradec’s 324-page-long dictionary is a witty, erudite token of scholarly divertissement, which might lead some readers to profound insights into the nature and forms of human gesticulation, or quite simply entertain them.
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many studies of social movements are dangerously naive. Too often, authors, while they think they are describing collective actions or historical events, express very crudely their own opinions or ideologies. The limited value of most studies of social movements becomes even more conspicuous if we com-
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