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Social movements around the world have used a wide variety of
protest tactics to bring about enormous social changes, influencing
cultural arrangements, public opinion, and government policies in
the process. This concise yet in-depth primer provides a broad
overview of theoretical issues in the study of social movements,
illustrating key concepts with a series of case studies. It offers
engaging analyses of the protest cycle of the 1960s, the women's
movement, the LGBT movement, the environmental movement, right-wing
movements, and global social justice movements. Author Suzanne
Staggenborg examines these social movements in terms of their
strategies and tactics, the organizational challenges they faced,
and the roles that the mass media and counter-movements played in
determining their successes and failures.
Grassroots activism is essential to the success of the contemporary
environmental movement, which depends on the organization of local
activists as well as state, national, and international
organizations. Yet grassroots activists confront numerous
challenges as they attempt to organize diverse participants and
devise fresh strategies and tactics. Drawing on more than seven
years of fieldwork following diverse organizations in Pittsburgh
over time, this book sheds light on the struggles that activists
face and the factors that sustain movements. Suzanne Staggenborg
examines individual motivations and participation, organizational
structures and cultures, relationships in movement communities, and
strategies and tactics, including issue framing. The book shows
that collective action campaigns and tactics generate solidarity,
maintain involvement, and bring in new participants even as
organizers struggle to devise effective new types of actions.
Social movements around the world have used a wide variety of
protest tactics to bring about enormous social changes, influencing
cultural arrangements, public opinion, and government policies in
the process. This concise yet in-depth primer provides a broad
overview of theoretical issues in the study of social movements,
illustrating key concepts with a series of case studies. It offers
engaging analyses of the protest cycle of the 1960s, the women's
movement, the gay and lesbian rights movement, the environmental
movement, the new American right, and the global justice movement.
Author Suzanne Staggenborg examines these social movements in terms
of their strategies and tactics, the organizational challenges they
faced, and the roles that the mass media and counter-movements
played in determining their successes and failures. Ideal as a core
text for courses in social movements/collective behavior and
political sociology/social change, Social Movements is brief enough
to be easily supplemented by a reader containing primary documents.
Grassroots activism is essential to the success of the contemporary
environmental movement, which depends on the organization of local
activists as well as state, national, and international
organizations. Yet grassroots activists confront numerous
challenges as they attempt to organize diverse participants and
devise fresh strategies and tactics. Drawing on more than seven
years of fieldwork following diverse organizations in Pittsburgh
over time, this book sheds light on the struggles that activists
face and the factors that sustain movements. Suzanne Staggenborg
examines individual motivations and participation, organizational
structures and cultures, relationships in movement communities, and
strategies and tactics, including issue framing. The book shows
that collective action campaigns and tactics generate solidarity,
maintain involvement, and bring in new participants even as
organizers struggle to devise effective new types of actions.
In this highly-praised analysis of the controversial pro-choice
movement, Suzanne Staggenborg traces the development of the
movement from its origins through the 1980s. She shows how a small
group of activists were able to build on the momentum created by
other social movements of the 1960s to win their cause--the
legalization of abortion in 1973--and argues that professional
leadership and formal organizational structures, together with
threats from the anti-abortion movement and grass-roots support,
enabled the pro-choice movement to remain an active force even
after their primary goal had been achieved.
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