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Social movement theory is an interdisciplinary study within the social sciences that generally seeks to explain why social mobilization occurs, the forms under which it manifests, as well as potential social, cultural, political, and economic consequences, such as the creation and functioning of social movements.
Research in Social Movements, Conflicts and Change is a peer-reviewed book series that covers sociological research on social conflict, social movements, collective behavior, and social change. The journal also publishes reviews of books on these topics. It was established in 1977 and is published by Emerald Group Publishing.
Complexity and Social Movements: Multitudes at the Edge of Chaos Routledge 2006. ISBN 0-415-43974-4; Mario Diani and Doug McAdam, Social movements and networks, Oxford University Press, 2003. Susan Eckstei, ed. Power and Popular Protest: Latin American Social Movements, Updated Edition, University of California Press 2001. ISBN 0-520-22705-0
These include the behaviors associated with crowds, disasters, fads, revolutionary movements, riots, and social movements. [1] The purpose of the section is to foster the study of these topics, [ 2 ] which is done so by communicating through its newsletter Critical Mass , organizing research-related participation, and sponsoring workshops .
The term new social movements (NSMs) is a theory of social movements that attempts to explain the plethora of new movements that have come up in various western societies roughly since the mid-1960s (i.e. in a post-industrial economy) which are claimed to depart significantly from the conventional social movement paradigm. [1]
The British Journal of Sociology. 11 (1): 92– 93. doi:10.2307/587051. ISSN 0007-1315. JSTOR 587051. Coser, Lewis A. (1960). "Review of Social Bandits and Primitive Rebels: Studies in Archaic Forms of Social Movements in the 19th and 20th Centuries". American Sociological Review. 25 (6): 988– 989. doi:10.2307/2090015. ISSN 0003-1224. JSTOR ...
This provoked a major backlash among Social Movement Theorists, and the idea that organization in social movements is harmful has been largely discredited. [3] [4] [5] They also argue that social movement organizations will be most successful when there is a divide among the elites, and some elites are forced to side with the poor. This was ...
Cristina Flesher Fominaya, The Global Interface Project: Linking Sociology and Movement Activists, 16 February 2011, International Sociological Association; Becky Lentz, Michel Bauwens, Launch of Interface Journal for knowledge sharing around social movements, 2 May 2010, P2P Foundation