The Social Movements Reader: Cases and Concepts - Couverture souple

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 111872979X ISBN 13 : 9781118729793

Editeur : Wiley-Blackwell, 2014

Synopsis

Providing a unique blend of cases, concepts, and essential readings The Social Movements Reader, Third Edition, delivers key classic and contemporary articles and book selections from around the world.

• Includes the latest research on contemporary movements in the US and abroad, including the Arab spring, Occupy, and the global justice movement
• Provides original texts, many of them classics in the field, which have been edited for the non-technical reader
• Combines the strengths of a reader and a textbook with selected readings and extensive editorial material
• Sidebars offer concise definitions of key terms, as well as biographies of famous activists and chronologies of several key movements
• Requires no prior knowledge about social movements or theories of social movements

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Jeff Goodwin is Professor of Sociology at New York University. He is the author of No Other Way Out: States and Revolutionary Movements, 1945-1991 (2001).

James M. Jasper is Professor of Sociology at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. He has written many books, including The Animal Rights Crusade(1992) and The Art of Moral Protest (1997), and Getting Your Way (2006).

Together they have edited two previous editions of The Social Movements Reader (2003, 2009) Passionate Politics (2001) and Contention in Context (2012).

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Wiley-Blackwell
• Date d'édition: 2014
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 111872979X
• ISBN 13: 9781118729793
• Reliure: Broché
• Numéro d'édition: 3
• Nombre de pages: 448
• Éditeur: Goodwin Jeff, Jasper James M.
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible