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The Cultural Impacts of Social Movements
Annual Review of Sociology, 2019The most important impacts of social movements are often cultural, but the sheer variety of potential cultural impacts—from shifts in public opinion to new portrayals of a group on television to the metrics guiding funding in a federal agency—presents ...
Edwin Amenta, Francesca Polletta
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Framing Processes and Social Movements: An Overview and Assessment
Annual Review of Sociology, 2000Robert D Benford, David A Snow
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Ideology and the New Social Movements
, 2023New social movements - major themes general theories of social movements - functionalism and Marxism sociological responses to the rise of new social movements varieties of ideology within the ecology movement movements and parties - problems of ...
Alan Scott
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The activist's dilemma: Extreme protest actions reduce popular support for social movements.
Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 2020How do protest actions impact public support for social movements? Here we test the claim that extreme protest actions-protest behaviors perceived to be harmful to others, highly disruptive, or both-typically reduce support for social movements. Across 6
M. Feinberg +2 more
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The Effects of Social Movements: Evidence from #MeToo
Social Science Research Network, 2020Social movements are associated with large societal changes, but evidence on their causal effects is limited. We study the effect of the MeToo movement on a high-stakes decision—reporting a sexual crime to the police. We construct a new dataset of sexual
Ro’ee Levy, Martin Mattsson
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2009
Abstract This article looks at social movements and democracy. It examines the theoretical perspectives on social movements, such as resource mobilization and the political opportunity structure. The current challenges of social movements are discussed in the second section of the article. Finally, the article concludes with a discussion
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Abstract This article looks at social movements and democracy. It examines the theoretical perspectives on social movements, such as resource mobilization and the political opportunity structure. The current challenges of social movements are discussed in the second section of the article. Finally, the article concludes with a discussion
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Social Movements and Europeanization
2009Are social movement organizations euroskeptical? Or do they accept the EU as a new level of governance to place pressure on? Do they provide a critical capital, necessary for the political structuring of the EU? This book includes surveys of activists at international protest events, targeting the European Union (for a total of about 5000 interviews ...
Della Porta, Donatella Alessandra +1 more
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The Concept of Social Movement
The Sociological Review, 1992Recent 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 media empowerment in social movements: power activation and power accrual in digital activism
European Journal of Information Systems, 2018Social media assume a role in activism by enabling the powerless to voice widely shared grievances and organise unequally distributed resources. However, the predominant focus on the episodic effect of social media in the digital activism literature ...
C. Leong, S. Pan, S. Bahri, Ali Fauzi
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Social Movements in Interaction with Political Parties
The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Social Movements, 2018In this chapter, we review the literature on social-movements and political parties interactions. We propose a research agenda that conceptualizes and empirically studies how movement-party interactions vary quantitatively and qualitatively under ...
Swen Hutter, H. Kriesi, J. Lorenzini
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