The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Social Movements

Synopsis

The most up-to-date and thorough compendium of scholarship on social movements This second edition of The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Social Movements features forty original essays from the field. With contributions from both established and ascendant scholars, the Companion seeks to present current research on social movements in all its diversity. It is the most up-to-date, comprehensive volume of social science research on social movements available today. The essays address: facilitative and constraining contexts and conditions; social movement organizations, fields, and dynamics; strategies and tactics; micro-structural and social psychological dimensions of participation; consequences and outcomes; and various thematic intersections, including the intersection of social movements and social class, gender, race and ethnicity, religion, human rights, globalization, political extremism and more. Offers an illuminating guide to understanding the dynamics and operation of social movements within the modern, global world Covers a diverse range of topics in the field of social movement studies Offers original, state-of-the-art essays by internationally recognized scholars The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Social Movements is recommended for graduate seminars on social movement and for scholars of social movements worldwide. It is also an excellent text for college and university libraries, especially with graduate programs in the social sciences.

Book details

Edition:

2

Series:

Wiley Blackwell Companions to Sociology

Author:

David A. Snow, Sarah A. Soule, Hanspeter Kriesi, Holly J. McCammon

ISBN:

9781119168607

Related ISBNs:

9781119168577, 9781119168584, 9781119168553

Publisher:

Wiley

Pages:

704

Reading age:

Not specified

Includes images:

No

Date of addition:

2019-12-23

Usage restrictions:

Copyright

Copyright date:

2018

Copyright by:

N/A 

Adult content:

No

Language:

English

Categories:

Nonfiction, Sociology