Social Movements: Critiques, Concepts, Case-Studies

✍ Scribed by Stanford M. Lyman (eds.)

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK
• Year: 1995
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 453
• Series: Main Trends of the Modern World
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

The aim of this book is to bring together classical, recent and contemporary analyses of the social movement phenomenon. Analysis is represented in several variants of its discursive form: the expository essay, the critique, the general theory, the specific case study and the futuristic meditation.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xi
Introduction....Pages 1-6
Front Matter....Pages 7-7
The General Will....Pages 9-26
The Religion of Progress....Pages 27-46
Front Matter....Pages 47-47
Social Movements and Social Order....Pages 49-59
Social Movements....Pages 60-83
Dramaturgy and Social Movements: The Social Construction and Communication of Power....Pages 84-109
Front Matter....Pages 111-111
What’s So New About New Social Movements?....Pages 113-136
Collective Protest: A Critique of Resource-Mobilization Theory....Pages 137-167
Social Movement Research in the United States: A European Perspective....Pages 168-195
Front Matter....Pages 197-197
It Happened Here:Political Opportunity,the New nstitutionalism,and the Townsend Movement....Pages 199-233
Ideology as Episodic Discourse: The Case of the Iranian Revolution....Pages 234-290
AIDS, the Politically Correct and Social Theory....Pages 291-308
Environmentalism and Human Emancipation....Pages 309-328
Front Matter....Pages 329-329
Rethinking the Sixties Legacy: From New Left to New Social Movements....Pages 331-355
The Left as the Counterculture of Modernity....Pages 356-370
Beyond Social Movements?....Pages 371-393
Front Matter....Pages 395-395
Social Theory and Social Movements:Sociology as Sociodicy....Pages 397-435
Back Matter....Pages 436-450

✦ Subjects

Sociology, general