Rethinking Social Movements: Structure, Meaning, and Emotion: People, Passions, and Power: Social Movements, Interest Organizations, and the P Myra Marx Ferree Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

Rethinking Social Movements

Structure, Meaning, and Emotion

Textbook

Rethinking Social Movements

Structure, Meaning, and Emotion

Textbook

Description

This landmark volume brings together some of the titans of social movement theory in a grand reassessment of its status. For some time, the field has been divided between a dominant structural approach and a cultural or constructivist tradition. The gaps and misunderstandings between the two sides-as well as the efforts to bridge them-closely parallel those in the discipline of sociology at large. This book aims to further the dialogue between these two distinct approaches to social movements and to show the broader implications for sociology as a whole as it struggles with issues including culture, emotion, and agency.

Chapter 1 Introduction
Part 2 I Political Process Theory: Opportunity or Constraint?
Chapter 3 Caught in a Winding, Snarling Vine: The Structural Bias of Political Process Theory
Chapter 4 Wise Quacks
Chapter 5 Paradigm Warriors: Regress and Progress in the Study of Contentious Politics
Chapter 6 Tending the Vineyard: Cultivating Political Process Research
Chapter 7 Political Opportunity Structure: Some Splitting to Balance the Lumping
Chapter 8 Trouble in Paradigms
Part 9 II Beyond Dominant Paradigms
Chapter 10 Culture Is Not Just in Your Head
Chapter 11 The Post-Structuralist Consensus in Social Movement Theory
Chapter 12 The Intellectual Challenges of Toiling in the Vineyard
Chapter 13 Knowledge for What? Thoughts on the State of Social Movements Studies
Chapter 14 Passionate Political Processes: Bringing Emotions Back into the Study of Social Movements
Chapter 15 Why David Sometimes Wins: Strategic Capacity in Social Movements
Part 16 III Concluding Reflections
Chapter 17 Rethinking Political Process Theory
Chapter 18 Reflections on Social Movement Theory: Criticisms and Proposals
Chapter 19 Hot Movements, Cold Cognition: Thinking about Social Movements in Gendered Frames

Product details

Published	Oct 14 2003
Format	Hardback
Edition	1st
Extent	320
ISBN	9780742525955
Imprint	Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Dimensions	236 x 157 mm
Series	People, Passions, and Power: Social Movements, Interest Organizations, and the P
Publisher	Bloomsbury Publishing

Anthology Editor

Jeff Goodwin

Anthology Editor

James M. Jasper

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Myra Marx Ferree

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Richard Flacks

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Marshall Ganz

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Jeff Goodwin

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Deborah B. Gould

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James M. Jasper

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Ruud Koopmans

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Charles Kurzman

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Doug McAdam

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David A. Merrill

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David S. Meyer

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Aldon Morris

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Francesca Polletta

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Marc W. Steinberg

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Sidney Tarrow

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Charles Tilly

[This book] is a most welcome and useful assessment of recent theory, one that will contribute to regenerating the field of social movements and contentious politics.

Contemporary Sociology
This volume should be particularly valuable reading on social movements for academics and those with an advanced knowledge of social movement theories. True to its title, the book engages several important topics in these fields and gives one the feeling of being privy to discussions on the state-of-the-art of new research in an increasingly important body of work.

Political Studies Review