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Synopsis
This book updates and adds to the classic Social Movements of the Sixties and Seventies, showing how social movement theory has grown and changed—from an earlier emphasis on collective behavior, to the resource mobilization approach, and currently to analyses that emphasize culture, ideology, and collective identity. Top social scientists combine insiders' insights with critical analyses to examine a wide variety of social movements active in the most recent U.S. cycle of protest. Waves of Protest is a must-read for students of social movements, social change, political sociology, and American studies.
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About the Author
Jo Freeman is editor of Social Movements of the Sixties and Seventies and Women: A Feminist Perspective and author of A Room at a Time and The Politics of Women's Liberation.
Victoria Johnson is assistant professor of sociology at Bates College and a contributor to several anthologies on social movements.
Review
A 'good read' sorely needed to fill a gap in the political science literature on social movements. (O'Connor, Karen)
Freeman, Johnson, and their fellow authors survey American social movements since the 1960s with enthusiasm and perspicacity, forcing us to recognize how movement activity has transformed American life over the last half-century. (Tilly, Charles)
The current generation of political science students will appreciate the useful summaries and valuable analyses of movements' political strategies within the structures of the American political system. (McFarland, Andrew S.)
Fresh, timely, and widely useful. . . . Readers are informed about a wide range of movements as well as given conceptual tools to analyze them. (Ferree, Myra Marx)
This is a highly useful and empirically rich collection that considers movements since the sixties as a protest wave. Indeed, the movements here are a tsunami of challenge and contention that will pique the interest of students. (Johnston, Hank)
This is an important contribution to the development of political thought. (Race Relations Abastracts)
Waves of Protest is excellent social science. It is well-written, empirical, and intellectually stimulating. The book will be useful for students and scholars of political science, sociology, and social movements, and for people interested in working in such movements. In comparison with other sociological treatments of organizational behavior, Waves of Protest provides theoretical breadth, new concepts about organizations, and substantive empirical results. It offers new understanding of recent U.S. social history. (Perspectives On Political Science)
A wide range of movements are examined. Written in an accessible style, this book is aimed at students of social movements from undergradute level onwards. (Political Studies)
My students like this book. They tell me they plan to keep it. (Thomas Hodd)
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- PublisherRowman & Littlefield Publishers
- Publication date1999
- ISBN 10 0847687473
- ISBN 13 9780847687473
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages400
- EditorFreeman Jo, Johnson Victoria
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