Making sense of social movements /
By: Crossley, Nick.
Publisher: Buckingham ; Philadelphia, PA : Open University Press, 2002Description: 207 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm.Content type: text | text | still image Media type: unmediated | unmediated Carrier type: volume | volumeISBN: 0335206034; 9780335206032:; 9780335206032; 0335206026; 9780335206025.Subject(s): Social movements -- PhilosophyDDC classification: 303.48401 CRO| Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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| 303.4834 SCH The new digital age : transforming nations, businesses, and our lives / | 303.484 CAS The power of identity / | 303.484 GOO The social movements reader : cases and concepts / | 303.48401 CRO Making sense of social movements / | 303.4857 SLA Plague : a very short introduction / | 303.4857 SLA Plague : a very short introduction / | 303.49 ROS Factfulness : ten reasons we're wrong about the world - and why things are better than you think / |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 192-199) and index.
1. Introduction -- 2. Social unrest, movement culture and identity: the symbolic interactionists -- 3. Smelser's value-added approach -- 4. Rational actor theory -- 5. Resources, networks and organizations -- 6. Opportunities, cognition and biography -- 7. Repertoires, frames and cycles -- 8. New social movements -- 9. Social movements and the theory of practice: a new synthesis.
This texts offers a comprehensive overview of the key sociological approaches to the study of social movements. It argues that each of these approaches makes an important contribution to our understanding of social movements.