Johnston What is a Social Movement?

1. Auflage 2014
ISBN: 978-0-7456-8234-1
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, Band 1, 176 Seiten, E-Book

Reihe: What is Sociology?

Social movements play a central role in the scope and direction ofsocial change. They were instrumental in the creation of the modernstate and, today, are major forces in politics and culture.Environmentalism, gay rights, alterglobalization, and Islamicfundamentalism are all movements with far-reaching impacts oncontemporary society.
What is a Social Movement? traces how the study of movementssuch as these - of their structures, their ideas, and theirrepertoires of protest - have grown in recent years to become amajor focus in the social sciences. It deftly navigates theorganizational, ideational, and cultural complexity of politicaland social movements, and offers a succinct but comprehensiveoverview of the hows, whys, and wheretofores of studying them. Thebook analyzes how politics and culture frequently intersect aspeople participate in movements that call for change and pursuegroup interests. By focusing on movement organizations andnetworks, on what they do, and how they articulate their ideas ofjustice and collective interests, What is a Social Movement?lays the essential groundwork for understanding this significantand exciting field of research, where it came from, and where it isheaded.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Johnston, Hank

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1 What is a Social Movement? 1
2 The Study of Social Movements 26
3 What is a Political Movement? 49
4 What is a Cultural Movement? 72
5 What Do Social Movements Do? 94
6 Researching Social Movements 118
7 Where are Social Movements Headed? 139
References 161
Index 180

Über Autor(innen)

Hank Johnston is Associate Professor of Sociology at San DiegoState University. He is the founding editor of Mobilization,a journal of research in social and political movements,ranked as a top-ten journal in sociology.