Social Movement Organizations

Guide to Research on Insurgent Realities

Well-known for his sociological studies of social movements, John Lofland has now written the authoritative guide to research on social movement organizations viewed as insurgent realities - countercurrents of varying intensity and duration, which challenge mainstream conceptions of how society ought to be organized and how life ought to be lived.

For them, social movement analysis such as explained in this guide is likely less
pertinent. What is required, instead, is a more generic perspective on conflict per
se among relatively equal parties in strife as visualized in Relation A of Figure ...