More than any other topic in social science, the study of social movements provides an
opportunity to combine social theory with political action. Such study is a key to …

Social movements play a central role in the scope and direction of social change. They were
instrumental in the creation of the modern state and, today, are major forces in politics and …

Combining the strengths of both a reader and a textbook, this second edition of The Social
Movements Reader not only expands on the collection of" classic" texts, but also provides …

Why do social movements take the forms they do? How do activists' efforts and beliefs
interact with the cultural and political contexts in which they work? Why do activists take …

Until the 1970s, the study of social movements was firmly within a diverse sociological
tradition that explored the relationship between social structure and political behavior, and …

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 …

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 …

Social movements are an inherently complex, multifaceted set of phenomena, permitting any
number of viable analytic perspectives. In the 1950s and the 1960s, scholars of contentious …

In the last three decades important new social movements have emerged in the United
States and elsewhere. Though levels of mobilization are now modest, there is good reason …

The arrival of a new century and a new millennium are attention-grabbing symbolic markers.
They provide a convenient opportunity for me to reflect critically on the current status of …