The Blackwell Companion to Social Movements - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0631226699 ISBN 13: 9780631226697

Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell, 2004

Synopsis

The Blackwell Companion to Social Movements is a compilationof original, state-of-the-art essays by internationally recognizedscholars on an array of topics in the field of social movementstudies.

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• Contains original, state-of-the-art essays by internationallyrecognized scholars
  
• Covers a wide array of topics in the field of social movementstudies
  
• Features a valuable introduction by the editors which maps thefield, and helps situate the study of social movements within otherdisciplines
  
• Includes coverage of historical, political, and culturalcontexts; leadership; organizational dynamics; social networks andparticipation; consequences and outcomes; and case studies of majorsocial movements
  
• Offers the most comprehensive discussion of social movementsavailable

About this title

Book Description:

The Blackwell Companion to Social Movements is a compilation of original, state-of-the-art essays by internationally recognized scholars. Covering a diverse range of topics in the field of social movement studies, this volume offers an illuminating guide to understanding the dynamics and operation of social movements within the modern, global world.The abundance of social movement activity throughout the world, both violent and nonviolent, has made the study of social movements a valuable resource for helping students and scholars to engage and understand their own social world. Issues covered in this one volume include: historical, political, and cultural contexts; leadership; organizational dynamics; social networks and participation; consequences and outcomes; and synthetic overviews of major social movements, including labor, anti-war, womens, religious, ethnic and national, and environmental movements.This outstanding resource offers the most comprehensive discussion of social movements available.

About the Author:

David A. Snow is Professor of Sociology at the University ofCalifornia, Irvine. He is widely published in social movements, andauthor of, among other books, the award-winning Down on TheirLuck: A Study of Homeless Street People (with Leon Anderson,1993). He is a former President of both the Society for the Studyof Symbolic Interaction and the Pacific Sociological Association,and has been a Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in theBehavioral Sciences.

Sarah A. Soule is Associate Professor of Sociology at theUniversity of Arizona. Her main areas of research are socialmovements and political sociology. She has published severalarticles on social movements with a focus on diffusion processes insocial movements.

Hanspeter Kriesi is Professor of Political Science at theUniversity of Zurich, Switzerland. He is an internationallyrenowned scholar and has published numerous journal articles onsocial movements. He is the author of Political Mobilization andSocial Change (1993).

About this edition

• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 0631226699
• ISBN 13: 9780631226697
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 776
• Editor: Snow David A., Soule Sarah A., Kriesi Hanspeter