Social Movements An Introduction

Author : Donatella della Porta,Mario Diani
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2009-02-09
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781405148214

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Social Movements by Donatella della Porta,Mario Diani Pdf

Social Movements is a comprehensive introduction andcritical analysis of collective action in society today. In thisnew edition, the authors have updated all chapters with the mostrecent scientific literature, expanded on topics such as individualmotivations, new media, public policies, and governance. Draws on research and empirical work across the social sciencesto address the key questions in this international field. New edition expands on topics such as individual motivations,new media, public policies, and governance. Has been redesigned in a more user-friendly format.

Author : James M. Jasper
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2014-10-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780745686707

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Protest by James M. Jasper Pdf

Every day around the world there are dozens of protests both large and small. Most groups engage the local police, some get media attention, and a few are successful. Who are these people? What do they want? What do they do to get it? What effects do they ultimately have on our world? In this lively and compelling book, James Jasper, an international expert on the cultural and emotional dimensions of social movements, shows that we cannot answer these questions until we bring culture squarely into the frame. Drawing on a broad range of examples, from the Women's Movement to Occupy and the Arab Spring, Jasper makes clear that we need to appreciate fully the protestors' points of view - in other words their cultural meanings and feelings - as well as the meanings held by other strategic players, such as the police, media, politicians, and intellectuals. In fact, we can't understand our world at all without grasping the profound impact of protest. Protest: A Cultural Introduction to Social Movements is an invaluable and insightful contribution to understanding social movements for beginners and experts alike.

Author : Laurence Cox
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 150 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2018-06-08
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781786607836

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Why Social Movements Matter by Laurence Cox Pdf

Social movements and popular struggle are a central part of today’s world, but often neglected or misunderstood by media commentary as well as experts in other fields. In an age when struggles over climate change, women’s rights, austerity politics, racism, warfare and surveillance are central to the future of our societies, we urgently need to understand social movements. Accessible, comprehensive and grounded in deep scholarship, Why Social Movements Matter explains social movements for a general educated readership, those interested in progressive politics and scholars and students in other fields. It shows how much social movements are part of our everyday lives, and how in many ways they have shaped the world we live in over centuries. It explores the relationship between social movements and the left, how movements develop and change, the complex relationship between movements and intellectual life, and delivers a powerful argument for rethinking how the social world is constructed. Drawing on three decades of experience, Why Social Movements Matter shows the real space for hope in a contested world.

Author : Karl-Dieter Opp
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 406 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2009-04-08
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781134014392

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Theories of Political Protest and Social Movements by Karl-Dieter Opp Pdf

Political protest and social movements are ubiquitous phenomena. This book focuses on the current theoretical approaches that aim at explaining them: the theory of collective action, the resource mobilization perspective, political opportunity structure theory, the identity approach, the framing perspective, and the dynamics of contention approach. The book has three objectives: (1) Many basic concepts like political opportunities or identity are not clearly defined. It is further often a matter of interpretation what factors are supposed to affect which phenomena. The first aim is therefore to provide a detailed introduction to and a clear restatement of the theories. Only then is it possible to assess and improve them. (2) For each theory the major strengths and weaknesses are discussed, and various modifications and extensions are suggested. (3) Building on these analyses, it is shown how the theories can be integrated into a single theoretical paradigm: the structural-cognitive model.

Author : Doug McAdam,John D. McCarthy,Mayer N. Zald
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 450 pages
File Size : 51,7 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 : Kathleen Rodgers
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2018-02
Category : Canada
ISBN : 0199021619

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Protest, Activism, and Social Movements by Kathleen Rodgers Pdf

Protest, Activism, and Social Movements is a thematic overview of the study of social movements in Canada, covering key topics such as framing, identity, tactics, repression, digital media, and globalization. With an engaging narrative style, case studies, and empirical examples from Canadianand global movements that are solidly grounded in theory, this text brings the passion and potential of social movements to life for Canadian students.

Author : Greg Martin
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 323 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2015-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781136868153

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Understanding Social Movements by Greg Martin Pdf

"Understanding Social Movements offers a multidisciplinary introduction to the study of social and cultural protest and contentious politics. It combines a theoretical perspective and with a fascinating array of case studies. It covers religious movements; social welfare movements; struggles over space; law, crime and social movements; and media and movements. Other sections of the book discuss the origins of social movement studies and historical perspectives, social movements and political processes, new social movements, identity and cultural politics, and virtual networking and cyber protest. Case studies include the US civil rights movement, anti-globalization campaigns, and include further material from Europe, China, Latin America, Africa, India and the Middle East"--

Author : Graeme Chesters,Ian Welsh
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 108 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2010-10-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9781136893308

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Social Movements: The Key Concepts by Graeme Chesters,Ian Welsh Pdf

Social Movements: The Key Concepts provides an insightful, contemporary introduction to some of the frequently encountered terms and groups that are central to the study of collective action and social and political activism. Following an A-Z format, the entries defined and discussed are drawn from the following areas: the ‘old’ social movements of the nineteenth century the ‘new’ social movements of the 1960s and 1970s the rise of contemporary ‘network’ movements. Key American, European and global social movements are addressed, with each entry related to contemporary developments and emergent tendencies within the field. Including helpful references for further study, this concise and up-to-date guide is of relevance for those studying a range of disciplines, including sociology, politics, cultural studies and human geography.

Author : Miriam Smith
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 417 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2014-01-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781442606951

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Group Politics and Social Movements in Canada by Miriam Smith Pdf

Group Politics and Social Movements in Canada, Second Edition updates and expands its exploration of a wide range of organized group and social movement activity in Canadian politics. Particularly distinctive is the inclusion of Quebec nationalism and Aboriginal politics. Many other areas of collective activity are also included: the Occupy movement and anti-poverty organizing, ethnocultural political mobilization, disability, lesbian and gay politics, feminism, farmers and organized interests in agriculture, Christian evangelical groups, environment, and health movements. Contributors to the collection employ a number of theoretical perspectives from political science and sociology to describe the evolution of organized groups and movements and to evaluate successes in exercising influence on Canadian politics. Each chapter provides an overview of the group or movement along with an account of its main networks and organizations, strategies, goals, successes, and failures.

Author : Donatella Della Porta
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780190860936

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Legacies and Memories in Movements by Donatella Della Porta Pdf

Legacies and Memories in Movements addresses the long term effects of democratic transitions on social movements in Italy, Greece, Portugal and Spain. Donatella della Porta and her collaborators examine the concepts of historical legacy and memory, suggesting ways to apply them in analyses of the long-term effects of movements, movement participation, and movement strategies and tactics.

Author : Staffan Lindberg,Arni Sverrisson
Publisher : Springer
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2016-07-27
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781349254484

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Social Movements in Development by Staffan Lindberg,Arni Sverrisson Pdf

Nationalist movements in the South have been superseded by a plethora of different social movements. This book examines these new movements and considers emerging paradigms of organization and mobilization, which are related to the role movements play in economic and political development. The book analyzes a number of cases and their context and discusses the implications for social movement theory. The focus is on social movements among underprivileged and middle class groups, and the book is global in scope.

Author : John Wilson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1973-06-25
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105005330365

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Intro To Social Movements by John Wilson Pdf

Author : Donatella Della Porta,Hanspeter Kriesi,Dieter Rucht
Publisher : Palgrave Schol, Print UK
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : International relations
ISBN : 0333739817

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Social Movements in a Globalizing World by Donatella Della Porta,Hanspeter Kriesi,Dieter Rucht Pdf

The growing interdependence on a global scale which characterizes the human condition at the turn of the century constitutes a challenge for both the mobilization of social movements and social movement theory. This volume makes an attempt to adjust the perspective of the political process approach to a world in which political opportunities, mobilizing structures, framing processes and collective action of social movements are political contexts.

Author : Donatella della Porta,Manuela Caiani
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2011-06-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9780191619694

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Social Movements and Europeanization by Donatella della Porta,Manuela Caiani Pdf

Are social movement organizations euro-sceptical, euro-pragmatic, or euro-opportunist? Or do they accept the EU as a new level of governance to place pressure on? Do they provide a critical capital, necessary for the political structuring of the EU, or do they disrupt the process of EU integration? This book includes surveys of activists at international protest events targeting the European Union (for a total of about 5000 interviews); a discourse analysis of documents and transcripts of debates on European politics and policies conducted during the four European social forums held between 2002 and 2006 and involving hundreds of social movement organizations and tens of thousands of activists from all European countries; about 320 interviews with representatives of civil society organizations in six EU countries (France, Germany, the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, Spain, and Italy) and one non-member state (Switzerland), and a systematic claims analysis of the daily press in selected years between 1990 and 2003. The empirical research shows the different paths of Europeanization taken by social movements and civil society organizations.

Author : Hank Johnston
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2014-04-10
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780745682341

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What is a Social Movement? by Hank Johnston Pdf

Social movements play a central role in the scope and direction of social change. They were instrumental in the creation of the modern state and, today, are major forces in politics and culture. Environmentalism, gay rights, alterglobalization, and Islamic fundamentalism are all movements with far-reaching impacts on contemporary society. What is a Social Movement? traces how the study of movements such as these - of their structures, their ideas, and their repertoires of protest - have grown in recent years to become a major focus in the social sciences. It deftly navigates the organizational, ideational, and cultural complexity of political and social movements, and offers a succinct but comprehensive overview of the hows, whys, and wheretofores of studying them. The book analyzes how politics and culture frequently intersect as people participate in movements that call for change and pursue group interests. By focusing on movement organizations and networks, on what they do, and how they articulate their ideas of justice and collective interests, What is a Social Movement? lays the essential groundwork for understanding this significant and exciting field of research, where it came from, and where it is headed.