The Social Movements Reader: Cases and Concepts (Blackwell Readers in Sociology) - Softcover

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ISBN 10: 0631221964 ISBN 13: 9780631221968

Verlag: Blackwell Publishers, 2002

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The Social Movements Reader is an extensive collection of the key classic and contemporary readings on the origins, organization, dynamics, and effects of social movements. These essays analyze the specific resources, networks, structures, and environments of social movements, as well as the motivating psychology, political debates, emotions, and personal and collective identities behind them. The book includes several case studies of some of the most important social movements, including the civil rights, women's, and environmental movements. Chapter introductions, brief biographies, and definitions of key concepts guide readers to a clear understanding of the essays. For anyone curious about social movements, this is an engaging and illuminating compilation.

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Jeff Goodwin is Associate Professor of Sociology at New York University. He is the author of No Other Way Out: States and Revolutionaries (2001) and co-editor of Passionate Politics: Emotions and Social Movements (2001). James Jasper is the author of The Animal Rights Crusade (1991), The Art of Moral Protest (1998) and the co-editor of Passionate Politics: Emotions and Social Movements (2001).

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The Social Movements Reader is an extensive collection of the key classic and contemporary readings on the origins, organization, dynamics, and effects of social movements. These essays analyze the specific resources, networks, structures, and environments of social movements, as well as the motivating psychology, political debates, emotions, and personal and collective identities behind them. The book includes several case studies of some of the most important social movements, including the civil rights, women s, and environmental movements.

Chapter introductions, brief biographies, and definitions of key concepts guide readers to a clear understanding of the essays. For anyone curious about social movements, this is an engaging and illuminating compilation.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Blackwell Publishers
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2002
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0631221964
• ISBN 13: 9780631221968
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 408
• Herausgeber: Goodwin Jeff, Jasper James
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