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The Social Movements Reader

Cases and Concepts

Herausgegeben von Goodwin, Jeff; Jasper, James M.

Beschreibung

Providing a unique blend of cases, concepts, and essential readings The Social Movements Reader, Third Edition, delivers key classic and contemporary articles and book selections from around the world.

Includes the latest research on contemporary movements in the US and abroad, including the Arab spring, Occupy, and the global justice movement
Provides original texts, many of them classics in the field, which have been edited for the non-technical reader
Combines the strengths of a reader and a textbook with selected readings and extensive editorial material
Sidebars offer concise definitions of key terms, as well as biographies of famous activists and chronologies of several key movements
Requires no prior knowledge about social movements or theories of social movements

Autor

Jeff Goodwin is Professor of Sociology at New York University. He is the author of No Other Way Out: States and Revolutionary Movements, 1945-1991 (2001). James M. Jasper is Professor of Sociology at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. He has written many books, including The Animal Rights Crusade(1992) and The Art of Moral Protest (1997), and Getting Your Way (2006). Together they have edited two previous editions of The Social Movements Reader (2003, 2009) Passionate Politics (2001) and Contention in Context (2012).

Produktdetails

• Blackwell Readers in Sociology
• Verlag: Wiley & Sons
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 1W118729790
• 3. Aufl.
• Seitenzahl: 448
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Dezember 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 244mm x 169mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 673g
• ISBN-13: 9781118729793
• ISBN-10: 111872979X
• Artikelnr.: 41430023

Rezensionen

As a new wave of protest is spreading globally, this expanded reader offers us important tools to understand why and how social movements emerge, develop and influence politics and society. Donatella Della Porta, European University Institute

This timely reader provides not only a comprehensive introduction for undergraduates and postgraduates studying social movements but also a shrewd global perspective, combining the best of classical literature in the field and contemporary theoretical and methodological concerns... an excellent text for anyone interested in understanding social conflicts. Olivier Fillieule, University of Lausanne Switzerland