Citing the critical importance of empirical work to social movement research, the editors of this volume have put together the first systematic overview of the major methods used by social movement theorists. Original chapters cover the range of techniques: surveys, formal models, discourse analysis, in-depth interviews, participant observation, case studies, network analysis, historical methods, protest event analysis, macro-organizational analysis, and comparative politics. Each chapter includes a methodological discussion, examples of studies employing the method, an examination of its strengths and weaknesses, and practical guidelines for its application.
In this concluding chapter, we examine the processes through which social
movement theory has advanced, discuss some issues of controversy, assess the
field's strengths and challenges, and explore some areas of potential expansion.
The Oxford Handbook of Social Movements is an innovative volume that presents a comprehensive exploration of social movement studies, mapping the field and expanding it to examine the recent developments in cognate areas of studies, within and beyond sociology and political science. This volume brings together the most distinguished social and political scientists working in this field, each writing thought-provoking essays in their area of expertise, and facilitates conversations between classic social movement agenda and lines of research. The Oxford Handbook of Social Movements discusses core theoretical perspectives, recent contributions from the field, and how patterns of macro social change may affect social movements, as well as suggesting what contributions social movement studies can give to other research areas in various disciplines.
The Oxford Handbook of Social Movements is an innovative volume that presents a comprehensive exploration of social movement studies, mapping the field and expanding it to examine the recent developments in cognate areas of studies, within ...
This book’s four main aims are to examine: firstly, why movements happened in the socio-historical context of sixties’ radicalism; secondly, its distinctive legacy of crucial, cultural, societal and political interconnections; thirdly, continuing links between seminal ideas and movements and socio-political activism today; fourthly little-discussed national instances and divergent impacts of sixties radicalism, in relation to contemporary 'global' social movements. A conclusion traces all these dimensions from current social movements back to sixties radicalism’s pioneering upheavals.
He has published a history of students' movements in Portugal from 1956 to 1974
(A Tradição da Contestação. Resistência Estudantil durante o marcelismo.
Coimbra: Angelus Novus, 2008); as well as a didactical book on the radical left in
the ...
John D. McCarthy and Mayer N. Zald Past analysis of social movements and
social movement organizations has normally assumed a close link between the
frustrations or grievances of a collectivity of actors and the growth and decline of
...
Social Movements and Networks examines the extent to which a network approach should inform research on collective action. For the first time in a single volume, leading social movements researchers systematically map out and assess the contribution of social network approaches to their field of enquiry in light of broader theoretical perspective. By exploring how networks affect individual contributions to collective action in both democratic and non-democratic organizations, and how patterns of inter-organizational linkages affect the circulation of resources within and between movements, the authors show how network concepts improve our grasp of the relationship between social movements and elites and of the dynamics of the political processes.
Positions and Influence in Social Movement Networks Mario Diani Social
scientists from a structuralist perspective have often addressed the question
whether actors' power and influence correlate with their network position (
Freeman 1979; ...
Are environmentalists in Britain part of a transnational movement or are they tactically and ideologically distinct? How can we understand the environmental movement within the context of social movement theory? Based on detailed empirical research, this is a penetrating analysis of the state of the environmental movement.
It opens with a discussion of definitions of pressure and interest groups and
social movements to make explicit what might be meant by the term '
environmental movement', and why I prefer instead to use the term '
environmental networks'.
This book considers the proliferation in Malaysia over the past two decades of non-governmental organizations (NGOs) associated with various social movements, both to provide basic information about the NGOs and social movements, and to discuss their role in the development of civil society generally in particular their contribution to the reform movement, which has been gathering strength since 1998. The book discusses the nature and development of the movements, and shows that those movements concerned with human rights and women's issues have made significant contributions to the reform movement and been irrevocably changed by their involvement in it.
This volume on Social Movements in Malaysia grew out of a perceived serious
lack in the literature. While non-governmental organisations (NGOs) associated
with various social movements have proliferated over the past two decades in ...
"While rabbinic literature enables us to know more about the rabbis than any of the other members of the Jewish population of Roman Palestine, the social structure of the rabbinic movement remained largely unexplored. In the present study Catherine Hezser combines a critical analysis of the available literary, legal, and epigraphic evi-dence with a selective employment of sociological models. She examines the definition of the boundaries of the rabbinic movement, deals with the nature of the relationships amongst rabbis, and investigates the relationship between rabbis and their contemporaries, that is students, the community, and the patriarch."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
The Boundaries of the Rabbinic Movement The boundaries of the rabbinic
movement in Roman Palestine were not clearcut but blurred. It seems that, from
the first century C.E. onwards, Jewish Torah teachers were called “Rabbi” by their
...
This volume introduces and compares different concepts of culture in social movement research. It assesses their advantages and shortcomings, drawing links to anthropology, discourse analysis, sociology of emotions, narration, spatial theory, and others. Each contribution's approach is illustrated with recent cases of mobilization.
Introduction. Themost recent waveof antiausterity mobilizations –in particular the
Occupy and Indignados movements, aswell astheArab Spring– once again
draws attention tothe interrelationofsocial movements andspace: With the
occupation ...
