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What is a Social Movement? (Paperback)
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What is a Social Movement? (Paperback)
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Loot Price R542
Discovery Miles 5 420
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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.
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