ISBN:
9781003828433
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (453 pages)
Edition:
2nd ed.
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
DDC:
303.48/4
Keywords:
Globalization-Social aspects
;
Online social networks
;
Social change
;
Social movements
Abstract:
Intro -- Half Title -- Endorsements -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Figures -- Boxes -- Acknowledgements -- Chapter 1. Introduction -- Can we be optimistic about protest politics and social movement radicalism? -- Social movements in society -- Policing the post-protest society -- Social movements and protest politics -- Note -- Chapter 2. Social movement research methods -- Introduction -- Theory building over methodology? -- Possibilities for academic-activist research -- Sociological interventions in collective action -- Elements of an expanding methodological repertoire: Protest surveys, interviews, bias, and sampling -- Social movement research ethics -- Conclusion -- Suggested readings -- Chapter 3. Origins of social movement studies -- Introduction -- Social psychology of crowds -- Collective behaviour theory -- Symbolic interactionism: Blumer's theory of social movements -- Smesler's structural-functionalism and the value-added model -- Evaluating Blumer and Smelser -- The enduring influence of collective behaviour theories and symbolic interactionism -- Social movements as dramas -- Rational choice theory and the free rider problem -- Critiques of rational choice theory -- Conclusion -- Note -- Suggested readings -- Chapter 4. Political opportunity, resource mobilisation, and social movement organisation -- Introduction -- Resource mobilisation theory -- Political process model -- Structure of political opportunities -- Opportunity structures in anti-corporate activism -- Repertoires of contention -- Cycles of protest -- How organised should a social movement be? -- Assessing social movement success -- The 'cultural turn' in resource mobilisation theory: Framing processes and collective action -- Conclusion -- Note -- Suggested readings -- Chapter 5. Social movements, old and new -- Introduction.
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