Law, Mobilization, and Social Movements - How Many Masters?

This Element shows an interactive approach to movements changing the meanings of the law and sketch four mechanisms that seem promising in effecting a true fusion: legal mobilization, legal-political opportunity structure, social construction, and movement-countermovement interaction.

List of contents

Introduction; 1. How movement scholars turned to the law; 2. Legal scholars turn to movements; 3. Crossovers and convergences; 4. Theorizing law and movements through four mechanisms; 5. Two test cases; Conclusions; References.

Summary

This Element shows an interactive approach to movements changing the meanings of the law and sketch four mechanisms that seem promising in effecting a true fusion: legal mobilization, legal-political opportunity structure, social construction, and movement-countermovement interaction.

Product details

• Authors: Sidney Tarrow, Sidney (Cornell University) Tarrow, Tarrow Sidney, Whitney K Taylor, Whitney K. Taylor, Whitney K. (San Francisco State University Taylor, Whitney K. (San Francisco State University) Taylor
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.03.2024
• EAN: 9781009493017
• ISBN: 978-1-0-0949301-7
• No. of pages: 90
• Series: Elements in Contentious Politics
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, Social groups, Social discrimination & inequality, Comparative Politics, Law & society, Law and society, sociology of law, Social discrimination and social justice, Social groups, communities and identities