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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.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Preface; R.Jackall & A.J.Vidich - Acknowledgements - Notes on the Contributors - Introduction - PART 1: CLASSICAL PERSPECTIVES - The General Will; R.E.Park - The Religion of Progress; A.Salomon - PART 2: DISCIPLINARY APPROACHES - Social Movements and Social Order; R.Heberle - Social Movements; H.Blumer - Dramaturgy and Social Movements: The Social Construction and Communication of Power; R.D.Benford & S.A.Hunt - PART 3: CONCEPTUAL ISSUES: DEBATES AND CRITIQUES - What's So New About New Social Movements?; D.Plotke - Collective Protest: A Critique of Resource Mobilization Theory; F.F.Piven & R.Cloward - Social Movement Research in the United States: A European Perspective; M.Mayer - PART 4: CONTEMPORARY STUDIES - It Happened Here: Political Opportunity, the New Institutionalism, and the Townsend Movement; E.Amenta & Y.Zylan - Ideology as Episodic Discourse: The Case of the Iranian Revolution; M.Moaddel - AIDS, The Politically Correct, and Social Theory; D.Harris - Environmentalism and Human Emancipation; R.Brulle - PART 5: THE FUTURE OF SOCIAL MOVEMENTS - Rethinking the Sixties Legacy: From New Left to New Social Movements; C.Boggs - The Left as the Counter-Culture of Modernity; Z.Bauman - Beyond Social Movements?; A.Touraine - PART 6: CODA: SOCIAL MOVEMENTS IN SOCIOLOGICAL THOUGHT - Social Theory and Social Movements: Sociology as Sociodicy; S.M.Lyman - Index
Zusammenfassung
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.
