… – are also prominent features with regard to the civil rights movement in … movement, a social
movement working for political and social change in a society marked by protracted conflict. …

… area of social movements as a research field. Over the past fifteen years, the sociology of
social movements has gained a growing influence within sociology and all the social sciences. …

… of these emerging conflicts in our society. Social movement studies have long stressed
conflict as the … The ‘European tradition’ in social movement studies has looked at new social …

… Among the features which distinguish the emerging global social movements from the social
movements of the last third of the twentieth century, the most obvious and most frequently …

… they may play in conflicts, social movements, and the human propensity to change. Just two
… , enrich our understandings of social movements, conflicts, and change. Now we are particu…

… were able to sprea to be transmitted by dependent or i For these reasons, and to help elimi
and artificial discussions, I will try to "'social movement" and to relate it to a broader frame of …

… focus on how social movements flow across national … movements have repeatedly challenged
and remade existing institutions. After reviewing more than two centuries of political conflict…

… change the latest candidate for the “it” in the above quote? How can we possibly assess the
impact of social movements … Various writers call upon us to consider changes at the level of …

… by past as well as contemporary movements. The lack of scholarly work on … of social
movements is to bring about changes in some aspects of society, a fundamental goal of movements …

… This essay explores how social movements change-and fail to change-the positive law of …
of how social movements succeed or fail in general. The reasons for social movement success …