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The New Social Movements

2014
Chapter 3 made an attempt to establish a normative model for a digital-media-infused politics in liberal democratic societies. While this theoretical framework can be used for most types of political activity — in this sense it can be used for the types of activity that will be discussed in this chapter — it is most credibly applied to electoral ...
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The new social movement approach

2014
In contrast to other approaches, the new social movement (NSM) approach stands out, with its complicated language and yet less structured analytical categories. Because it is the first approach to pay extensive attention to the cultural dimension of contentious politics, it is an important theoretical tradition to consider in relation to political ...
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Social Movements and the News Media

The McMaster Journal of Communication, 2007
This paper analyzes the paradoxical relationship that exists between social movements and the news media. The concept of framing is explored, particularly the ways in which social movements come to be contextually framed within the news media and the consequent impact on the social movement itself.
Katherine Phipps, Katryna Szagala
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"Requested death": a new social movement

Social Science & Medicine, 2000
This paper addresses current developments in the right-to-die arena. While discussion of this area has traditionally been the province of disciplines other than sociology, including philosophy and bioethics, this paper offers an alternative framework from which to consider the progressive interest in control and choice at life's end which has developed
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Occupy: A new new social movement

Current Sociology, 2013
The recent mobilizations in the Middle East, Southern Europe, and United States were both inevitable given the implosion of global capital, and at the same time unexpected and unpredictable. How are we to understand these mobilizations? This article suggests that NSM, New Social Movement theory, with its concerns for identity, culture, and meaning, in ...
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The new politics and the new social movements

European Journal of Political Research, 1992
Abstract Central to the ‘new politics’ is the increased salience of non-material issues and a heightened concern with participation. ‘New social movements’ and ‘new politics’ parties are contingent manifestations of this new politics, which is also manifest in changed orientations toward established political parties. In most respects,
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What’s New in the History of Social Movements:

2015
• Craig Browne: Critical Social Theory, London: Sage, 2017, 216 pp., ISBN: 978-1- 44624-693-1 (pbk). • Timothy J. LeCain: The Matter of History: How Things Create the Past, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017, 366 pp., ISBN: 978-1-31646-025-2. • Constance Bantman and Bert Altena (eds.): Reassessing the Transnational Turn: Scales of Analysis in ...
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Themes of modernity in new religious movements and new social movements

Social Science Information, 1993
Analyse des mouvements religieux et des mouvements socio-politiques dans une perspective comparative : constat d'une certaine relation entre l'activisme religieux et l'activisme politique ; apports pour une theorie de la ...
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New Social Movements of the Early Nineteenth Century

Social Science History, 1993
Sometime After 1968, analysts and participants began to speak of “new social movements” that worked outside formal institutional channels and emphasized lifestyle, ethical, or “identity” concerns rather than narrowly economic goals. A variety of examples informed the conceptualization.
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Together We Rise: How Social Movements Succeed

Journal of Consumer Psychology, 2021
Gia Nardini, Tracy Rank-Christman, Melissa G Bublitz   +2 more
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