Social Movements Since the Sixties
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Köp båda 2 för 1091 krA 'good read' sorely needed to fill a gap in the political science literature on social movements. -- Karen O'Connor, American University Freeman, Johnson, and their fellow authors survey American social movements since the 1960s with enthusiasm and perspicacity, forcing us to recognize how movement activity has transformed American life over the last half-century. -- Charles Tilly, Joseph L. Buttenwieser Professor of Social Science, Columbia University The current generation of political science students will appreciate the useful summaries and valuable analyses of movements' political strategies within the structures of the American political system. -- Andrew S. McFarland, University of Illinois--Chicago Fresh, timely, and widely useful. . . . Readers are informed about a wide range of movements as well as given conceptual tools to analyze them. -- Myra Marx Ferree, University of Connecticut This is a highly useful and empirically rich collection that considers movements since the sixties as a protest wave. Indeed, the movements here are a tsunami of challenge and contention that will pique the interest of students. -- Hank Johnston, San Diego State University This is an important contribution to the development of political thought. * Race Relations Abstracts * Waves of Protest is excellent social science. It is well-written, empirical, and intellectually stimulating. The book will be useful for students and scholars of political science, sociology, and social movements, and for people interested in working in such movements. In comparison with other sociological treatments of organizational behavior, Waves of Protest provides theoretical breadth, new concepts about organizations, and substantive empirical results. It offers new understanding of recent U.S. social history. * Perspectives on Political Science * A wide range of movements are examined. Written in an accessible style, this book is aimed at students of social movements from undergradute level onwards. * Political Studies Review * My students like this book. They tell me they plan to keep it. -- Thomas Hodd, University of Tennessee
Jo Freeman is editor of Social Movements of the Sixties and Seventies and Women: A Feminist Perspective and author of A Room at a Time and The Politics of Women's Liberation. Victoria Johnson is assistant professor of sociology at Bates College and a contributor to several anthologies on social movements.
Chapter 1 Introduction Part 2 Mobilization Chapter 3 On the Origins of Social Movements Chapter 4 Mobilizing the Disabled Chapter 5 Sacrifice for the Cause: Group Processes, Recruitment, and Commitment in a Student Social Movement Chapter 6 Recruiting Intimates, Recruiting Strangers: Building the Contemporary Animal Rights Movement Part 7 Organization Chapter 8 The Structure of Social Movements: Environmental Activism and Its Opponents Chapter 9 The Consequences of Professionalization and Formalization in the Pro-Choice Movement Chapter 10 AIDS, Anger, and Activism: ACT UP as a Social Movement Organization Part 11 Consciousness Chapter 12 The Spirit Willing: Collective Identity and the Development of the Christian Right Chapter 13 Collective Identity in Social Movement Communities: Lesbian Feminist Mobilization Chapter 14 The Social Construction of Subversive Evil: The Contemporary Anticult and Anti-Satanism Movements Part 15 Strategy and Tactics Chapter 16 A Model for Analyzing the Strategic Options of Social Movement Organizations Chapter 17 The Strategic Determinants of a Countermovement: The Emergence and Impact of Operation Rescue Blockades Chapter 18 Civil Disobedience and Protest Cycles Chapter 19 The Transformation of a Constituency into a Movement Revisited: Farmworker Organizing in California Part 20 Decline Chapter 21 The End of SDS and the Emergence of Weatherman: Demise Through Success Chapter 22 The Decline of the Civil Rights Movement Chapter 23 The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee: The Rise and Fall of a Redemptive Organization Chapter 24 Index Chapter 25 About the Contributors