Social Movements cleverly translates the art of collective action and mobilization by excluded groups to facilitate understanding social change from below. Students learn the core components of social movements, the theory and methods used to study them, and the conditions under which they can lead...

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Main Author:	Almeida, Paul 1968- (Author)
Format:	Electronic eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Oakland, California University of California Press [2019]
Subjects:	SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General Social movements > Textbooks Soziale Bewegung
Online Access:	DE-188 DE-355 DE-706
Summary:	Social Movements cleverly translates the art of collective action and mobilization by excluded groups to facilitate understanding social change from below. Students learn the core components of social movements, the theory and methods used to study them, and the conditions under which they can lead to political and social transformation. This fully class-tested book is the first to be organized along the lines of the major subfields of social movement scholarship-framing, movement emergence, recruitment, and outcomes-to provide comprehensive coverage in a single core text. Features include:use of real data collected in the U.S. and around the worldthe emphasis on student learning outcomescase studies that bring social movements to lifeexamples of cultural repertoires used by movements (flyers, pamphlets, event data on activist websites, illustrations by activist musicians) to mobilize a grouptopics such as immigrant rights, transnational movement for climate justice, Women's Marches, Fight for
Physical Description:	1 Online-Ressource (x, 224 Seiten) Karten
ISBN:	9780520964846