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Social movements are not only a potential challenge tosocieties, they also challenge social theory. This volume looks at socialmovements and social movement research through the lens of different socialtheories. What can social movement studies learn from these theories? And: Whatcan these theories learn from the analysis of social movements? From thisdouble vantage point, the book discusses the theories of Michel Foucault,Pierre Bourdieu, Niklas Luhmann, Jeffrey Alexander, and Judith Butler, as wellas rational choice theory, relational sociology, and organizationalneo-institutionalism.
List of contents
Paths of Innovation in Social Movement ResearchTheory.- Discourse, Power and Governmentality. Social Movement Research with andbeyond Foucault.- Social Movements and the Rationality of Choice.- Bourdieu Meets Social Movement.- Social Movements and Sociological Systems Theory.- Inequality,Inclusion, and Protest. JeffreyAlexander's Theory of the Civil Sphere.- Social Movementsand Neo-Institutionalism. A FruitfulMerger?.- Judith Butler and the Politics ofProtest.- Networks, Interaction, and Conflict. ARelational Sociology of Social Movements and Protest.
About the author
Dr. Jochen Roose is
Professor for Social Sciences at the Willy Brandt Zentrum of the University
Wrocław, Poland.
Dr. Hella Dietz works at the Institute for Sociology
at the Georg-August University in Göttingen, Germany.
Summary
Social movements are not only a potential challenge to
societies, they also challenge social theory. This volume looks at social
movements and social movement research through the lens of different social
theories. What can social movement studies learn from these theories? And: What
can these theories learn from the analysis of social movements? From this
double vantage point, the book discusses the theories of Michel Foucault,
Pierre Bourdieu, Niklas Luhmann, Jeffrey Alexander, and Judith Butler, as well
as rational choice theory, relational sociology, and organizational
neo-institutionalism.
