Snow, Kriesi, Soule

Gebundenes Buch

Blackwell Companion to Social Movements

Beschreibung

The Blackwell Companion to Social Movements is a compilationof original, state-of-the-art essays by internationally recognizedscholars. Covering a diverse range of topics in the field of socialmovement studies, this volume offers an illuminating guide tounderstanding the dynamics and operation of social movements withinthe modern, global world. The abundance of social movement activity throughout the world, both violent and nonviolent, has made the study of social movementsa valuable resource for helping students and scholars to engage andunderstand their own social world. Issues covered in this onevolume include: historical, political, and cultural contexts;leadership; organizational dynamics; social networks andparticipation; consequences and outcomes; and synthetic overviewsof major social movements, including labor, anti-war, women's, religious, ethnic and national, and environmentalmovements.

Autor

David A. Snow is Professor of Sociology at the University ofCalifornia, Irvine. He is widely published in social movements, andauthor of, among other books, the award-winning Down on TheirLuck: A Study of Homeless Street People (with Leon Anderson,1993). He is a former President of both the Society for the Studyof Symbolic Interaction and the Pacific Sociological Association, and has been a Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in theBehavioral Sciences. Sarah A. Soule is Associate Professor of Sociology at theUniversity of Arizona. Her main areas of research are socialmovements and political sociology. She has published severalarticles on social movements with a focus on diffusion processes insocial movements. Hanspeter Kriesi is Professor of Political Science at theUniversity of Zurich, Switzerland. He is an internationallyrenowned scholar and has published numerous journal articles onsocial movements. He is the author of Political Mobilization andSocial Change (1993).

Produktdetails

• Blackwell Companions to Sociol
• Verlag: Wiley
• New
• Seitenzahl: 776
• Erscheinungstermin: Februar 2004
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 260mm x 183mm x 45mm
• Gewicht: 1629g
• ISBN-13: 9780631226697
• ISBN-10: 0631226699
• Artikelnr.: 22465833

Rezensionen

"It's hard to imagine how this volume could beimproved. The organizing framework is terrific and the cast ofcharacters is a virtual 'who's who' of socialmovement scholars. All in all, a wonderful addition to thebookshelf of any social movement analyst."
Doug McAdam, Stanford University

"A comprehensive survey of the current state of the art inSocial Movement Studies, and launch pad for future work.Indispensible."
Colin Barker, Manchester Metropolitan University