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Social Movements

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Meriluoto, Taina, Luhtakallio, Eeva
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The Concept of Social Movement

The Sociological Review, 1992
Recent developments in social movement research have evidenced a greater underlying consensus in the field than one might have assumed. Efforts have been made to bridge different perspectives and merge them into a new synthesis. Yet, comparative discussion of the concept of ‘social movement’ has been largely neglected so far.
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Social Movements and Resistance

2017
Although social movements are concerned with resistance, there has been a surprisingly little effort towards conceptualizing and problematising resistance within social movement studies. This chapter aims to address such a gap. It shows how a deeper understanding of resistance can in turn allow to better grasp diverse social movements.
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Social Movements as Politics

2019
This chapter serves as an introduction to the definition of a social movement, and makes clear what makes this form of politics different to other types of political action. It explains how the particular characteristics of the social movement emerged at a particular historical moment in Western Europe through struggles by ordinary people to make ...
Lesley J. Wood, Charles Tilly
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The Social Movement

2012
During the summer and autumn of 1901, the anti-imperialist movement faced what were perhaps the greatest obstacles to maintaining its relevance. Change from both within and outside the movement posed serious, if not fatal, threats to its existence. Inside the movement, some activists still held out hope for a reversal of the Downes v. Bidwell case. But
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Comparative Social Movements

Comparative Sociology, 1981
In the last decade two major developments have taken place in the comparative study of social movements. First, the social-integration perspective has been challenged by the growth of the resource-mobilization paradigm. These opposing perspectives make different assumptions about the rationality of the motives of social-movement participants and assign
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Democratization and Social Movements

2019
This chapter analyzes the relationship between democratization and social movements. Arguing that most people in the world still lack access to social movements as a way of making claims, it carefully outlines the processes that underlie democratization.
Lesley J. Wood, Charles Tilly
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Beyond Social Movements?

Theory, Culture & Society, 1992
All of us employ the term `social movements’ in such different ways that our debates are often artificial. Even more clearly, historical analyses of the current situation of any given country and of factors favourable or unfavourable to the formation of social movements are almost meaningless.
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Social Movement Theory and the Character of Environmental Social Movements

2005
The end of the millennium provided an apparently irresistible occasion for trying to take stock of all kinds of human endeavours. Commentators asked whether war and violence were decreasing or on the rise; the Jubilee 2000 pressure group proposed that this was a fitting time for the forgiveness of international debt; religious spokespersons wondered ...
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