Comparative Perspectives On Social Movements

Author : Doug McAdam,John D. McCarthy,Mayer N. Zald
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 450 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1996-01-26
Category : History
ISBN : 0521485169

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Comparative Perspectives on Social Movements by Doug McAdam,John D. McCarthy,Mayer N. Zald Pdf

Social movements such as environmentalism, feminism, nationalism, and the anti-immigration movement are a prominent feature of the modern world and have attracted increasing attention from scholars in many countries. Comparative Perspectives on Social Movements, first published in 1996, brings together a set of essays that focus upon mobilization structures and strategies, political opportunities, and cultural framing and ideologies. The essays are comparative and include studies of the former Soviet Union and eastern Europe, the United States, Italy, the Netherlands, and Germany. Their authors are amongst the leaders in the development of social movement theory and the empirical study of social movements.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 381 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Comparative government
ISBN : OCLC:300392211

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The Politics of Social Protest by Anonim Pdf

Author : J. Craig Jenkins
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 394 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Comparative government
ISBN : 9781452901411

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The Politics of Social Protest by J. Craig Jenkins Pdf

Author : Craig Jenkins
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 381 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1995-05-25
Category : History
ISBN : 0203992679

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The Politics Of Social Protest by Craig Jenkins Pdf

This book examines why citizens resort to the often risky and demanding strategy of using disruptive protest when other channels of political intervention appear to be available. It analyzes the relationship between protest movements and the formal political system.; This book is intended for postgraduate and undergraduate sociology and politics students on courses in political sociology, comparative politics and social movements. Also of strong interest within social psychology, social anthropology, contemporary history and social geography.

Author : Gerald F. Davis,Doug McAdam,W. Richard Scott,Mayer N. Zald
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 454 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2005-05-09
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781139444194

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Social Movements and Organization Theory by Gerald F. Davis,Doug McAdam,W. Richard Scott,Mayer N. Zald Pdf

Although the fields of organization theory and social movement theory have long been viewed as belonging to different worlds, recent events have intervened, reminding us that organizations are becoming more movement-like - more volatile and politicized - while movements are more likely to borrow strategies from organizations. Organization theory and social movement theory are two of the most vibrant areas within the social sciences. This collection of original essays and studies both calls for a closer connection between these fields and demonstrates the value of this interchange. Three introductory, programmatic essays by leading scholars in the two fields are followed by eight empirical studies that directly illustrate the benefits of this type of cross-pollination. The studies variously examine the processes by which movements become organized and the role of movement processes within and among organizations. The topics covered range from globalization and transnational social movement organizations to community recycling programs.

Author : Hank Johnston,John A. Noakes
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2005-07-05
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780742580510

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Frames of Protest by Hank Johnston,John A. Noakes Pdf

Frames of Protest brings together important empirical research and theoretical essays by leading sociologists, political scientists, and media specialists that focus on social movement frames and framing practices. Frames are new ways of understanding political and social relations that emphasize injustice and the need for change. As such, they are crucial for the development of social movements and protest. Frames of Protest is the only book to focus exclusively on this major research perspective in social movement and protest studies. Thirteen chapters encompass the major themes in the framing perspective to offer a state-of-the-art review. Three chapters present evidence for the determining influence of framing in social movement mobilization. Next, framing activities by the state and the mass media are analyzed. Then, two research reports examine the effect of political opportunities on framing-in Poland under the Communists and in New York City's ethnic politics. Several chapters by leading theorists present a lively debate about the relationship of ideologies to collective action frames. The book closes with a hands-on discussion about analyzing textual materials and interview transcripts to do frame analysis that lends itself to longitudinal and cross-case comparisons.

Author : Christopher K. Chase-Dunn,Salvatore J. Babones
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2006-09-22
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0801884233

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Global Social Change by Christopher K. Chase-Dunn,Salvatore J. Babones Pdf

This informative and exciting volume brings together accomplished sociologists and scholars to offer an introduction to ways of studying and understanding global social change. The essays in Global Social Change explore globalization from a world-systems perspective, untangling its many contested meanings. This perspective offers insights into globalization's gradual and uneven growth throughout the course of human social evolution. In this informative and exciting volume, Christopher Chase-Dunn and Salvatore J. Babones bring together accomplished senior sociologists and outstanding younger scholars with a mix of interests, expertise, and methodologies to offer an introduction to ways of studying and understanding global social change. In both newly written essays and previously published articles from the Journal of World Systems Research, the contributors employ historical and comparative social science to examine the development of institutions of global governance, the rise and fall of hegemonic core states, transnational social movements, and global environmental challenges. They compare post–World War II globalization with the great wave of economic integration that occurred in the late nineteenth century, analyze the rise of the political ideology of the "globalization project"—Reaganism-Thatcherism—and discuss issues of gender and global inequalities.

Author : Olivier Fillieule,Guya Accornero
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 526 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2016-03-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781785330988

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Social Movement Studies in Europe by Olivier Fillieule,Guya Accornero Pdf

Bringing together over forty established and emerging scholars, this landmark volume is the first to comprehensively examine the evolution and current practice of social movement studies in a specifically European context. While its first half offers comparative approaches to an array of significant issues and movements, its second half assembles focused national studies that include most major European states. Throughout, these contributions are guided by a shared set of historical and social-scientific questions with a particular emphasis on political sociology, thus offering a bold and uncommonly unified survey that will be essential for scholars and students of European social movements.

Author : Cyrus Ernesto Zirakzadeh
Publisher : Longman Publishing Group
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1997-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0582209463

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Social Movements in Politics by Cyrus Ernesto Zirakzadeh Pdf

The author of this volume offers an exploration and application of contemporary social-movement theory and examines the different ways that European and North American scholars have thought about social movements since the Second World War. Also incuded in the text is an examination of three movements that captured attention during the 1980s, West German Greens, Poland's Solidarity and Peru's Shining Path.

Author : Santiago Anria
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 307 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2018-11-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781108427579

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When Movements Become Parties by Santiago Anria Pdf

Provides a new way of thinking about parties formed by social movements, and their evolution over time.

Author : Sabrina Zajak,Sebastian Haunss
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2019-11-22
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000767216

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Social Stratification and Social Movements by Sabrina Zajak,Sebastian Haunss Pdf

This volume addresses the contested relationship between social stratification and social movements in three different ways: First, the authors address the relationship between social stratification and the emergence of protest mobilization. Second, the texts look at social stratification and social positions to explain variations in political orientations, as well as differing aims and interests of protestors. Finally, the volume focuses on the socio-structural composition of protestors. Social Stratification and Social Movements takes up recent attempts to reconnect research on these two fields. Instead of calling for a return of a class perspective or abandoning the classical social movement research agenda, it introduces a multi-dimensional perspective on stratification and social movements and broadens the view by extending the empirical analysis beyond Europe.

Author : Mario Diani,Doug McAdam
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199251773

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Social Movements and Networks by Mario Diani,Doug McAdam Pdf

Social Movements and Networks examines the extent to which a network approach should inform research on collective action. For the first time in a single volume, leading social movements researchers systematically map out and assess the contribution of social network approaches to their field of enquiry in light of broader theoretical perspective. By exploring how networks affect individual contributions to collective action in both democratic and non-democratic organizations, and how patterns of inter-organizational linkages affect the circulation of resources within and between movements, the authors show how network concepts improve our grasp of the relationship between social movements and elites and of the dynamics of the political processes.

Author : Kurt Schock
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 359 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2015-08-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781452945118

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Civil Resistance by Kurt Schock Pdf

In the past quarter century the world has witnessed dramatic social and political transformations, due in part to an upsurge in civil resistance. There have been significant uprisings around the globe, including the toppling of communist regimes in Eastern Europe, the Color Revolutions, the Arab Spring, protests against war and economic inequality, countless struggles against corruption, and demands for more equitable distribution of land. These actions have attracted substantial scholarly attention, reflected in the growth of literature on social movements and revolution as well as literature on nonviolent resistance. Until now, however, the two bodies of literature have largely developed in parallel—with relatively little acknowledgment of the existence of the other. In this useful collection, an international and interdisciplinary group of scholars takes stock of the current state of the theoretical and empirical literature on civil resistance. Contributors analyze key processes of nonviolent struggle and identify both frictions and points of synthesis between the narrower literature on civil resistance and the broader literature on social movements and revolution. By doing so, Civil Resistance: Comparative Perspectives on Nonviolent Struggle pushes the boundaries of the study of civil resistance and generates social scientific knowledge that will be helpful for all scholars and activists concerned with democracy, human rights, and social justice.

Author : Jennifer N. Collins
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2022-03-16
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781498572347

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Social Movements and Radical Populism in the Andes by Jennifer N. Collins Pdf

In Social Movements and Radical Populism in the Andes: Ecuador and Bolivia in Comparative Perspective, Jennifer N. Collins examines why the new left took the form of radical populism in Ecuador and Bolivia and how social movements were impacted by this development. Using a Laclauian approach, Collins argues that anti-neoliberal social movements provided the groundwork for populist identity formation. This book also offers a nuanced and insightful explanation for the decline of Ecuador's indigenous movement, examining the role of state resurgence in the fragmentation of social movements. Collins’s analysis provides key insights into the life cycles of social movements in the Andes from development to decline.

Author : Marco Giugni
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : History
ISBN : 0742518272

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Social Protest and Policy Change by Marco Giugni Pdf

While movement activists spend much of their time and energy trying to change the world and we think that social movements often matter, our theoretical and empirical knowledge in this field is still relatively poor. Social Protest and Policy Change offers a systematic and empirically grounded analysis of the impact of three major contemporary movements on public policy. Following a comparative and historical perspective, the author argues that the policy impact of social movements is facilitated by the presence of favorable political opportunity structures, and more precisely by the presence of institutional allies among the elites, and by a favorable public opinion. Furthermore, the very content of the movements' demands also plays a role, insofar as the power holders are more willing to make concessions on certain issues than on others. On the basis of a historical overview of the mobilization of ecology, antinuclear, and peace movements in the United States, Italy, and Switzerland, and using a unique body of original data, the book presents the results of time-series analyses showing the joint effect of protest, political alliances, and shifts in public opinion for movements that do not address issues that pose too serious a threat to the power holders.