There has been considerable debate over the extent and role of young people's political
participation. Whether considering popular hand‐wringing over concerns about declines in …

Political protest and social movements are ubiquitous phenomena. This book focuses on the
current theoretical approaches that aim at explaining them: the theory of collective action …

The wave of sit-ins that swept through the American South in the spring of 1960 transformed
the struggle for racial equality. This episode is widely cited in the literature on social …

This chapter reviews some of the key literature on networks and movements. The first
section looks at the issue of networks and mobilization, asking why and how networks can …

Southern bus boycotts and lunch counter sit-ins were famous acts of civil disobedience but
were also demands for jobs in the very services being denied blacks. Gavin Wright shows …

Social Movements and Social Networks: Introduction Page 1 1 Social Movements and Social
Networks: Introduction JOHN KRINSKY* & NICK CROSSLEY** *Department of Political …

This project explores cohort and period trends in political participation in the United States
between 1973 and 2008. We examine the extent to which protest attendance and petition …

Public and private universities tasked with incorporating principles of social responsibility
(SR) into their activities face the multiple challenges of addressing expectations of diverse …

Since 2003, Hong Kong has witnessed a series of large-scale protests which have
constituted the core of a reinvigorated pro-democracy movement. What drove tens of …

Although the triggering effect of economic crises on revolt is a classic sociological topic,
crises have until recently mostly triggered large-scale collective action in developing …