What Is a Social Movement?

Name: What Is a Social Movement?
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ISBN: 9780745660851

ISBN-10: 0745660851

ISBN-13: 9780745660851

Edition: 2014

Authors: Hank Johnston

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Social movements play a central role in the scope and direction of social change. They were instrumental in the creation of the modern state and, today, are major forces in politics and culture. Environmentalism, gay rights, alterglobalization, and Islamic fundamentalism are all movements with far-reaching impacts on contemporary society. What is a Social Movement? traces how the study of movements such as these - of their structures, their ideas, and their repertoires of protest - have grown in recent years to become a major focus in the social sciences. It deftly navigates the organizational, ideational, and cultural complexity of political and social movements, and offers a succinct but…

Book details

List price: $31.95
Copyright year: 2014
Publisher: Polity Press
Publication date: 2/28/2014
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 176
Size: 5.00" wide x 8.00" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.594
Language: English