In thirteen succinct chapters, Buechler traces movement theories from the classical era of
sociology to the most recent examples of transnational activism. He identifies the socio …

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

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 one of the principal social forms through which collectivities give
voice to their grievances and concerns about the rights, welfare, and well-being of …

First published in 1990, Ideology and the New Social Movements provides an incisive and
much-needed assessment of debates concerning the nature and motivation of social …

The Blackwell Companion to Social Movements is a compilation of original, state-of-the-art
essays by internationally recognized scholars on an array of topics in the field of social …

The analysis of social movements in the United States reflects the develop ment and state of
the movements themselves. Social movements here have been extremely heterogeneous …

This article offers an overview and assessment of the utility of new social movement theories
for analyzing contemporary forms of collective action. The article beings with a brief …