The Social Movements Reader: Cases and Concepts - Couverture souple

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1405187646 ISBN 13 : 9781405187640

Editeur : Wiley-Blackwell (an imprint of John Wiley & Sons Ltd), 2009

Synopsis

The Social Movements Reader , Second Edition, provides the most important and readable articles and book selections on recent social movements from around the world. With selected readings and editorial material this book combines the strengths of a reader and a textbook Reflects new developments in the study of social movements, both empirical and theoretical Provides original texts, many of them classics in the field of social movements, which have been edited for the non-technical reader 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) and Choosing Terror (2010). 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), The Art of Moral Protest (1997), and Getting Your Way (2006). Together they have edited Passionate Politics: Emotions and Social Movements (with Francesca Polletta) (2001), The Social Movements Reader (2003), Rethinking Social Movements: Structure, Culture, and Emotion (2004), Social Movements: Critical Concepts in Sociology (2007), and The Contexts Reader (2007).

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Wiley-Blackwell (an imprint of John Wiley & Sons Ltd)
• Date d'édition: 2009
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1405187646
• ISBN 13: 9781405187640
• Reliure: Broché
• Numéro d'édition: 2
• Nombre de pages: 472
• Éditeur: Goodwin Jeff, Jasper James M.
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible