The Blackwell Companion to Social Movements
Language: English
Pages: 763
ISBN: 1405175613
Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub
The Blackwell Companion to Social Movements is a compilation of original, state-of-the-art essays by internationally recognized scholars on an array of topics in the field of social movement studies.
• Contains original, state-of-the-art essays by internationally recognized scholars
• Covers a wide array of topics in the field of social movement studies
• Features a valuable introduction by the editors which maps the field, and helps situate the study of social movements within other disciplines
• Includes coverage of historical, political, and cultural contexts; leadership; organizational dynamics; social networks and participation; consequences and outcomes; and case studies of major social movements
• Offers the most comprehensive discussion of social movements available
The Matthew Effect: How Advantage Begets Further Advantage
Arrernte Present, Arrernte Past: Invasion, Violence, and Imagination in Indigenous Central Australia
Engaging the Past: Mass Culture and the Production of Historical Knowledge
Backgrounds. To be successful, social movements require that a myriad of intellectual tasks be performed extremely well. A host of social movement activities – framing grievances and formulating ideologies, debating, interfacing with media, writing, orating, devising strategies and tactics, creatively synthesizing information gleaned from local, national, and international venues, dialoguing with internal and external elites, improvising and innovating, developing rationales for coalition.
Trace the demise of these theories with the decline of the collective behavior paradigm and the emergence of the resource mobilization approach. Third, I document how such theories nonetheless persisted throughout the predominance of resource mobilization theory. Finally, I identify how they have returned, in a new guise and nomenclature, to a central role in the analysis of collective action. The Classical Era of Strain and Breakdown Theories The concepts of strain and breakdown imply a social.
Theories challenged them on their own terms. Second, the rise of the resource mobilization paradigm undermined the collective behavior tradition within which strain and breakdown theories had been embedded. And third, the research program launched by resource mobilization theory pursued questions and sought answers that rendered strain and breakdown marginal to social movement theory. By the mid-1980s, it appeared that strain and breakdown theories were completely moribund. Nonetheless, such.
Has a somewhat arbitrary quality, and blurs some of the fluidity of collective action in the empirical world. However, some research demonstrates that framings and discourse within movement groups are distinct from those used for public claims (e.g., Bates 1995; Kubal 1998), while other research shows that frames or collective identities that are effective in mobilizing those already committed have trouble reaching those not yet fully persuaded (Maurer 2002). A key argument in this chapter is.
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