Social and Political Movements

Four-Volume Set Auflage
ISBN: 978-0-85702-091-8
Verlag: Sage Publications

Buch, Englisch, 1640 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 3143 g

Reihe: SAGE Library of Political Science

'Social movements' refer to purposeful undertakings by people who do not hold positions of authority or wealth, but who wish to redirect their society towards new goals and values by bypassing or defying those in power. Scholarly opinions about such movements vary tremendously. Some - especially those with painful first-hand experiences of fascist regimes - fear movements, cite their extra-constitutional features, and predict authoritarian consequences if unauthorized collective actions become more common. Others - for instance those who sympathize with recent peace, environmental, or women's movements - admire and applaud social movements, viewing them as schools for healthy citizenship.

This collection contains more than 55 writings by academics and public intellectuals. The essays are drawn from different decades of the 20th and 21st centuries, and from across the globe, presenting different and sometimes divergent lines of thinking about social movements.

Volume One: Theorizing about Movements after World War II
Volume Two: Emergence and Evolution of Political-Process Theory
Volume Three: Cultural Approaches
Volume Four: Components, Contradictions and Contexts

Autoren/Hrsg.

Zirakzadeh, Cyrus Ernesto

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Kultur Interessengruppen, Lobbyismus und Protestbewegungen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

VOLUME 1: THEORIZING ABOUT MOVEMENTS AFTER WORLD WAR II
Editor's Introduction to the Overall Handbook
Editor's Introduction to Volume 1
Section 1: Mass-Society Theories
Life Cycles of Social Movements
The Revolutionary Process: A frame of reference for the study of revolutionary movements - Rex Hooper
Totalitarian Movements and the Loneliness of the Bourgeoisie
The Origins of Totalitarianism - Hannah Arendt
Class Insecurity versus Status Insecurity
The Radical Right: A Problem for American Democracy - Seymour Martin Lipset
Modernity and Anger
Fascism and Modernization - Henry Ashby Turner, Jr.
Section 2: Marxist Visions
Purposefulness of Resistance
Concept of Class and the Roots of Fascism
The Lower Middle Class as Historical Problem - Arno Mayer
Role of Movements in Class Formation
Proletariat into a Class: The process of class formation from Karl Kautsky's The Class Struggle to Recent Controversies - Adam Przeworski

Dangers of Political Incorporation
Retrospective Comments - Francis Fox Piven
Section 3: Peasant Movements as a Theoretical Puzzle
Alternatives to Movement Activism
Hegemony and the Peasantry - James Scott
Instrumental Reasoning and Tactical Choices
The Rational Peasant: The political economy of rural society - Samuel Popkin
Regime Changes and Shifts in Peasant Politics
From Avoidance to Confrontation: Peasant protest in precolonial and colonial Southeast Asia - Michael Adas
Section 4: Speculations about New Social Movements
Uncovering a New Style of Movement Experience
New Social Movements - J rgen Habermas

Analyzing a New Phenomenon
The 'New Social Movements': Moral crusades, political pressure groups, or social movements - Klaus Elder

Are New Social Movements Truly New?
'New Social Movements' of the Early Nineteenth Century - Craig Calhoun

VOLUME 2: EMERGENCE AND EVOLUTION OF POLITICAL-PROCESS THEORY
Editor's Introduction to Volume 2
Section 1: Components of Political-Process Thinking
Strategic Calculations and Acts of Protest
Protest as a Political Resource - Martin Lipsky
Resource Mobilization Theory
Resource Mobilization and Social Movements: A partial theory - John McCarthy and Mayer N. Zald
Frame theory
Frame Alignment Processes, Micromobilization and Movement Participation - David Snow, E. Burke Rochford, Jr., Steven Worden, and Robert Benford

Section 2: Vision Articulated
In Sociology
The Political Process Model - Doug McAdam
In History

Social Movements and National Politics - Charles Tilly
In Political Science
Political Opportunity Structure and Political Protest: Anti-Nuclear Movements in Four Democracies - Herbert Kitschelt

Mobilizing Around the Vision
Crossing Frontiers: Theoretical innovations in the study of social movements - Cyrus Ernesto Zirakzadeh

Section 3: Vision Applied and Enriched
Protest Waves
The Dynamics of Protest Waves: West Germany, 1965 to 1989 - Ruud Koopmans

Cycles of Contention
Cycles of Collective Action: Between moments of madness and the repertoire of contention - Sidney Tarrow
Movements and Countermovements
Movements, Countermovements, and the Structure of Political Opportunity - David Meyer and Suzanne Staggenborg

Section 4: Criticisms of Political-Process Theory
Is Political-Process Theory Too Elitist?
An Insider's Critique of the Social Movement Framing Perspective - Robert Benford

Is Political-Process Theory Naively Structural?
Caught in a Winding, Snarling Vine: The structural bias of political process theory - Jeff Goodwin and James Jasper
Is Political-Process Theory Excessively Scholastic?
The Question of Relevance in Social Movement Studies - Richard Flacks

Section 5: Responses to Critics by One Political-Process Theorist

Introduction to the Second Edition - Doug McAdam
VOLUME 3: CULTURAL APPROACHES
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Über Autor(innen)

Zirakzadeh, Cyrus Ernesto
Cyrus Ernesto Zirakzadeh is editor of the journal Polity, Professor of political science and Associate Dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at the University of Connecticut. For the past 25 years he has examined the origins, activities, and evolution of social movements in Western and Central Europe, and in Latin and North America. Over the past decade, he has also published essays on ethnography and on the representation of political problems in American literature and film. He has authored and co-authored four books and has penned numerous book chapters and articles for professional journals, including Polity, Social Movement Studies, West European Politics, International Political Science Review, Journal of Theoretical Politics, The Review of Politics and Comparative Studies in Society and History.