Social Movements: Critiques, Concepts, Case-studies (main Trends Of The Modern World)

The aim of this book is to bring together classical, recent and contemporary analyses of the social movement phenomenon. Analysis is represented in several variants of its discursive form: the expository essay, the critique, the general theory, the specific case study and the futuristic meditation. Front Matter....Pages i-xi Introduction....Pages 1-6 Front Matter....Pages 7-7 The General Will....Pages 9-26 The Religion of Progress....Pages 27-46 Front Matter....Pages 47-47 Social Movements and Social Order....Pages 49-59 Social Movements....Pages 60-83 Dramaturgy and Social Movements: The Social Construction and Communication of Power....Pages 84-109 Front Matter....Pages 111-111 What’s So New About New Social Movements?....Pages 113-136 Collective Protest: A Critique of Resource-Mobilization Theory....Pages 137-167 Social Movement Research in the United States: A European Perspective....Pages 168-195 Front Matter....Pages 197-197 It Happened Here:Political Opportunity,the New nstitutionalism,and the Townsend Movement....Pages 199-233 Ideology as Episodic Discourse: The Case of the Iranian Revolution....Pages 234-290 AIDS, the Politically Correct and Social Theory....Pages 291-308 Environmentalism and Human Emancipation....Pages 309-328 Front Matter....Pages 329-329 Rethinking the Sixties Legacy: From New Left to New Social Movements....Pages 331-355 The Left as the Counterculture of Modernity....Pages 356-370 Beyond Social Movements?....Pages 371-393 Front Matter....Pages 395-395 Social Theory and Social Movements:Sociology as Sociodicy....Pages 397-435 Back Matter....Pages 436-450 Edited By Stanford M. Lyman. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.