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Informationen zum Autor David A. Snow is Professor of Sociology at the University ofCalifornia, Irvine. He is widely published in social movements, andauthor of, among other books, the award-winning Down on TheirLuck: A Study of Homeless Street People (with Leon Anderson,1993). He is a former President of both the Society for the Studyof Symbolic Interaction and the Pacific Sociological Association, and has been a Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in theBehavioral Sciences. Sarah A. Soule is Associate Professor of Sociology at theUniversity of Arizona. Her main areas of research are socialmovements and political sociology. She has published severalarticles on social movements with a focus on diffusion processes insocial movements. Hanspeter Kriesi is Professor of Political Science at theUniversity of Zurich, Switzerland. He is an internationallyrenowned scholar and has published numerous journal articles onsocial movements. He is the author of Political Mobilization andSocial Change (1993). Klappentext The Blackwell Companion to Social Movements is a compilationof original, state-of-the-art essays by internationally recognizedscholars. Covering a diverse range of topics in the field of socialmovement studies, this volume offers an illuminating guide tounderstanding the dynamics and operation of social movements withinthe modern, global world. The abundance of social movement activity throughout the world, both violent and nonviolent, has made the study of social movementsa valuable resource for helping students and scholars to engage andunderstand their own social world. Issues covered in this onevolume include: historical, political, and cultural contexts;leadership; organizational dynamics; social networks andparticipation; consequences and outcomes; and synthetic overviewsof major social movements, including labor, anti-war, women's, religious, ethnic and national, and environmentalmovements. Zusammenfassung Covers a wide array of topics in the field of social movement studies. This book helps situate the study of social movements within other disciplines. It includes coverage of historical! political! and cultural contexts; leadership; organizational dynamics; social networks and participation; and case studies of major social movements. Inhaltsverzeichnis Contributors.Acknowledgements.Part I: Introduction:.1. Mapping The Terrain: David A. Snow (University Of Arizona)! Sarah A. Soule (University Of Arizona)! And Hanspeter Kriesi (University Of Zurich).Part II: Facilitative Contexts and Conditions:.2.Protest in Time and Space: The Evolution of Waves of Contention: Ruud Koopmans (Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin Fur Sozialforschun).3. The Strange Career of Strain and Breakdown Theories of Collection Action: Steven M. Buechler (Minnesota State University).4. Political Context and Opportunity: Hanspeter Kriesi (Universitat Zurich).5. The Cultural Contexts of Collective Action: Constraints! Opportunities! and The Symbolic Life Of Social Movements: Rhys H. Williams (University Of Cincinnati).6.Resources and Social Movement Mobilization: Bob Edwards (East Carolina University) And John D. Mccarthy (The Pennsylvania State University).Part III: Field of Action and Dynamics:.7. Beyond the Iron Law: Rethinking the Place of Organizations in Social Movement Research: Elisabeth S. Clemens and Debra C. Minkoff (University Of Chicago; University Of Washington).8. Leadership in Social Movements: Aldon D. Morris and Suzanne Staggenborg (Northwestern University; Mcgill University).9. Movement Allies! Adversaries and Third Parties: Dieter Rucht (Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin).10. Policing Social Protest: Donatella Della Porta and Olivier Fillieule (European University Institute! Florence; University of Lausanne).11. Bystanders! Public Opinion! and the Media: William A. Gamson (Boston C...
