Social Conflict and Social Movements
Author: Anthony Oberschall
Publisher: Englewood Cliffs., N.J : Prentice-Hall
Published: 1973
Total Pages: 392
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Anthony Oberschall
Publisher: Englewood Cliffs., N.J : Prentice-Hall
Published: 1973
Total Pages: 392
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Susan C. Stokes
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 1995-05
Total Pages: 199
ISBN-13: 0520200233
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This ethnography set in contemporary Peru provides an analysis of the making and unmaking of class consciousness among the urban poor. The book chronicles the transformation of Peru's poor from a culture of deference and clientelism to a population mobilized for radical political action.
Author: Thomas V. Maher
Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing
Published: 2023-07-12
Total Pages: 297
ISBN-13: 1801178860
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Now that we are almost a quarter of the way into the 21st century, the field of sociology is in need of research like this which explores methods for studying contentious politics in the context of broader social changes to peacebuilding, armed conflicts, and social movements.
Author: Abdul Rohman
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Published: 2022-07-11
Total Pages: 142
ISBN-13: 1000604497
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This book demonstrates how preserving ideology and relationships with other activists affords social movements to persist over time amid limited resources and political opportunities in Southeast Asia. Examining two peace movements in Indonesia – the largest democratic country in Southeast Asia – to illuminate discontinuity, continuity, and change in social movements, the author uses a cultural approach to understanding why social movements persist. He argues that the activists’ memory, relationship with others, collective identity, and emotion are reasons for social movements to ascend and peak. This is a direct response to the argument that the availability of resources and political opportunities is the main ingredient for any social movements to rise. While having different fates, the two movements studied arose in the midst of violence between Christian and Muslim communities in Ambon, Indonesia: The Kopi Badati movement and Filterinfo. The book extends the applicability of the cultural approach in explaining why social movements discontinue, continue, and change over time, without discounting the importance of available resources and political opportunities. Addressing a gap in the existing social movement studies, the book explains why a social movement disbands and why the other manages to continue and change after achieving its immediate goal. It will be of interest to academics in the fields of Asian studies, (new)-media and communications, civil society, and international development.
Author: Anthony Oberschall
Publisher: Transaction Publishers
Published:
Total Pages: 414
ISBN-13: 1412834368
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Anthony Oberschall
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2017-10-23
Total Pages: 416
ISBN-13: 1351490001
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →More than any other topic in social science, the study of social movements provides an opportunity to combine social theory with political action. Such study is a key to understanding the motivations, successes, and failures of thousands who aspire to high ideals of justice, but who sometimes aid in perpetuating inhumane political acts and systems. Building upon the past twenty years' developments in theory and research, Social Movements combines original theoretical and methodological approaches with penetrating analyses of contemporary movements from the sixties to the present.Anthony Oberschall argues that social movements are central to contemporary politics in both Western and Third World nations. They are not quaint stepchildren to public policy and social change that disappear as nations modernize. Collective action by the citizenry, spilling beyond the boundaries of routine politics is an integral part of the process of creative destruction that Joseph Schumpeter ascribed to modern capitalism and all dynamic, modern societies.Among the subjects that OberschaU examines in Social Movements are the Civil Rights movement, decline of the New Left, the feminist movement, the New Christian Right, the tobacco control movement, collective violence in U.S. industrial relations, and some comparative historical movements, including the Cultural Revolution in China, the abortive 1968 revolution in Czechoslovakia, political strife in postcolonial Africa, and the sixteenth-century European witch craze.In looking beyond the immediate political circumstances of these social movements, Oberschall points the way to achieving the next major task of social movement theory: a more satisfactory understanding of the dynamics and course of social movements and counter movements and a method of accounting for the outcomes of public controversies. Free of jargon and technical terminology, Social Movements is written for sociologists, political scientists, historians, professionals dea
Author: John Nagle
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2016-02-26
Total Pages: 210
ISBN-13: 1317508009
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Violently divided societies present major challenges to institutions seeking to establish peace in places characterised by ethnic conflict and high levels of social segregation. Yet such societies also contain groups that refuse to be confined within separate forms of ethnic community and instead develop alternative modes of action that generate shared identities, build trust and foster consensual, peaceful politics. Advancing a unique social movement approach to the study of violently divided societies, this book highlights how various social movements function within a context of violent ethnic politics and provide new ways of imagining citizenship that complements peacebuilding. By analysing the impact of social movements on divided societies, this book contributes to debates about the complexity of belonging and identity, and constructs a nuanced understanding of political mobilisation in regions defined by ethnic violence. In turn, the book provides important insights into the dynamics of social movement mobilisation. Based on the author's extensive research in Lebanon and Northern Ireland, and drawing on numerous examples from other divided societies, this book examines a range of social movements, including nationalists, victims, sexual minorities, labour movements, feminists, environmentalists, secularists, and peace movements. Bringing together social theory and case studies in order to consider how grassroots movements intersect with political institutions, this book will be of interest to students, scholars and policymakers working in sociology and politics.
Author: Patrick G. Coy
Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing
Published: 2011-01-12
Total Pages: 344
ISBN-13: 0857246100
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Part of the "Research in Social Movements, Conflicts and Change" series, this title contains three sections of data-driven articles that address topics central to scholarship on social movements and conflict resolution. It also showcases research on a variety of movements, organizations and conflicts in ways that contribute to theory-building.
Author: Donatella della Porta
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2015-10-29
Total Pages: 800
ISBN-13: 019166782X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The Oxford Handbook of Social Movements is an innovative volume that presents a comprehensive exploration of social movement studies, mapping the field and expanding it to examine the recent developments in cognate areas of studies, within and beyond sociology and political science. This volume brings together the most distinguished social and political scientists working in this field, each writing thought-provoking essays in their area of expertise, and facilitates conversations between classic social movement agenda and lines of research. The Oxford Handbook of Social Movements discusses core theoretical perspectives, recent contributions from the field, and how patterns of macro social change may affect social movements, as well as suggesting what contributions social movement studies can give to other research areas in various disciplines.
Author: Stephen Zunes
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Published: 1991-01-16
Total Pages: 355
ISBN-13: 1577180755
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Nonviolent Social Movements is the first book to offer a truly global overview of the dramatic growth of popular nonviolent struggles in recent years.