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Social Movements

Ideologies, Interests, and Identities

More than any other topic in social science, the study of social movements provides an opportunity to combine social theory with political action. Such study is a key to understanding the motivations, successes, and failures of thousands who aspire to high ideals of justice, but who sometimes aid in perpetuating inhumane political acts and systems. Building upon the past twenty years' developments in theory and research, Social Movements combines original theoretical and methodological approaches with penetrating analyses of contemporary movements from the sixties to the present. Anthony Oberschall argues that social movements are central to contemporary politics in both Western and Third World nations. They are not quaint stepchildren to public policy and social change that disappear as nations modernize. Collective action by the citizenry, spilling beyond the boundaries of routine politics is an integral part of the process of creative destruction that Joseph Schumpeter ascribed to modern capitalism and all dynamic, modern societies. Among the subjects that OberschaU examines in Social Movements are the Civil Rights movement, decline of the New Left, the feminist movement, the New Christian Right, the tobacco control movement, collective violence in U.S. industrial relations, and some comparative historical movements, including the Cultural Revolution in China, the abortive 1968 revolution in Czechoslovakia, political strife in postcolonial Africa, and the sixteenth-century European witch craze. In looking beyond the immediate political circumstances of these social movements, Oberschall points the way to achieving the next major task of social movement theory: a more satisfactory understanding of the dynamics and course of social movements and counter movements and a method of accounting for the outcomes of public controversies. Free of jargon and technical terminology, Social Movements is written for sociologists, political scientists, historians, professionals dealing with conflict and resolution, students and the lay public interested in public affairs.

Anthony Oberschall argues that social movements are central to contemporary politics in both Western and Third World nations. They are not quaint stepchildren to public policy and social change that disappear as nations modernize.

Social Movements And Culture

First Published in 1995. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

the four cultural dimensions that we lay out in this essay overlap considerably,
because they are not so much separate and independent elements of social
movement culture as they are alternative ways toapproach theanalysis of culture
that ...

Social Movements in India

Poverty, Power, and Politics

Social movements have played a vital role in Indian politics since well before the inception of India as a new nation in 1947. During the Nehruvian era, poverty alleviation was a foundational standard against which policy proposals and political claims were measured; at this time, movement activism was directly accountable to this state discourse. In the first volume to focus on poverty and class in its analysis of social movements, a group of leading India scholars shows how social movements have had to change because poverty reduction no longer serves its earlier role as a political template. With distinctive chapters on gender, lower castes, environment, the Hindu Right, Kerala, labor, farmers, and biotechnology, Social Movements in India will be attractive to students and researchers in many different disciplines.

Decentralization and the Transformation of Movement Politics in Kerala Patrick
Heller Class-based social movements have traditionally been concerned with
capturing the state and wielding the instrumentalities of bureaucratic power to ...

Social Movement Malaysia

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 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 ...

The Woman Movement from the Point of View of Social Consciousness

A SOCIAL THEORY OF THE SELF AS THE GROUND OF THE WOMAN
MOVEMENT The clash of home and outer world which so disturbs the feminine
mind today , as well as the struggle of labor and capital , might be avoided to a
large ...

Charles Kingsley and the Christian Social Movement

In the first place , because , although Maurice was its real founder , no name is
more closely associated in the public mind with the movement than that of “
Parson Lot ” , the pseudonym under which Kingsley wrote “ Cheap Clothes and
Nasty ...

The Civil Rights Movement and the Logic of Social Change

This book examines the success and failure of social movements to bring about change in American society, focusing on the targets of protests to explain diverse outcomes.

This book examines the success and failure of social movements to bring about change in American society, focusing on the targets of protests to explain diverse outcomes.

Feminist Approaches to Social Movements, Community, and Power: Conscious acts and the politics of social change

This collection of essays offers a range of reports on feminist theory and activism, with case studies investigating the characteristics and strategies that have effected positive social change with an eye to understanding how persons who want to initiate constructive social change might do so.

Chapter 8 Women's Movements and the Autonomy of Civil Society in Kuwait
Haya al-Mughni In the mid-1970s, a small group of Islamist women challenged
the values and goals of feminism, and campaigned against changes in traditional
 ...

Social Movements and Democracy in Africa

The Impact of Women's Struggle for Equal Rights in Botswana

This book examines social movements in Africa, analyzing how they emerge and how they may impact public policy, the legal and political situation, and the society by focusing on the following question: How do women's political and legal rights get extended and institutionalized in a patriarchal democratic society?

The state is central to the study of social movements. Theories of the state
provide the starting point for an understanding of the politics of social movement
analyses (Jenkins, 1995). Studies emphasizing the significance of the state are ...

Statemaking and Social Movements

Essays in History and Theory

An interdisciplinary dialogue about politics, social movements, and the transformative relationship between states and societies.

An interdisciplinary dialogue about politics, social movements, and the transformative relationship between states and societies.