Social Movement Organizations: Guide to Research on Insurgent Realities - Couverture rigide

Lofland, John

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 020230552X ISBN 13 : 9780202305523

Editeur : AldineTransaction, 1996

Synopsis

The authorative and richly detailed handbook is divided into three parts: (1) procedures for studying SMOs; (2) propositions or generalizations about them; and (3) perspectives or wider considerations relating to them. Included are discussions of such basic questions as: What causes SMOs and why do people join them? What are the beliefs and practices of SMOs? What effect do SMOs have, and what are the social reactions to them?

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

John Lofland is professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of California at Davis. He has served as president of the Pacific Sociological Society, has chaired the section on collective behavior and social movements of the American Sociological Association, and is founding editor of Urban Life, a Journal of Ethnographic Research. He is the author and coauthor of numerous works on social movements, social psychology, and research methods including the following: Doomsday Cult; Symbolic Sit-ins; Doing Social Life; Deviance and Identity; and Analyzing Social Settings.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: AldineTransaction
• Date d'édition: 1996
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 020230552X
• ISBN 13: 9780202305523
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 421
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible