Social movements : the key concepts / Graeme Chesters and Ian Welsh.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Chesters, Graeme, Ph. D., author.

Contributor:

Welsh, Ian, 1954-

Series:

Routledge key guides.

Routledge key guides

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Social movements.

Globalization--Social aspects.

Globalization.

Social networks.

Physical Description:

203p.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : Routledge, 2011.

Summary:

Social Movements: The Key Concepts provides an insightful, contemporary introduction to some of the frequently encountered terms and groups that are central to the study of collective action and social and political activism.

Contents:

chapter INTRODUCTION: THE CONCEPT OF SOCIAL MOVEMENT

chapter SOME PROBLEMS AND FUTURE AREAS OF RESEARCH

chapter CONCLUSION: NEW DIRECTIONS

chapter CONCLUDING COMMENTS – OUR APPROACH

chapter SOCIAL MOVEMENTS The Key Concepts

chapter ALTERNATIVE GLOBALISATION MOVEMENTS

chapter ANTI-NUCLEAR MOVEMENTS

chapter AUTONOMY

chapter BLACK POWER MOVEMENT

chapter COUNTERCULTURE

chapter References and resources

chapter ECOLOGY OF MIND AND ECOLOGY OF ACTION

chapter EMOTIONS

chapter Second wave feminism

chapter GLOBAL SOCIAL MOVEMENT (TRANSNATIONALISM)

chapter GREENHAM WOMEN

chapter IDENTITY POLITICS

chapter LEADERSHIP

chapter NEW SOCIAL MOVEMENTS

chapter References and resources POLITICAL OPPORTUNITY STRUCTURE

chapter POWER

chapter SOCIAL MOVEMENT ORGANISATION

chapter SOCIAL MOVEMENT UNIONISM

chapter STUDENTS FOR A DEMOCRATIC SOCIETY.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [168]-187) and index.

ISBN:

1-136-89330-X

1-136-89331-8

1-283-03776-9

9786613037763

0-203-84068-2

9780203840689

OCLC:

699474401