Social Movements: A Cognitive Approach - Softcover

Eyerman, Ron

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9780745608679: Social Movements: A Cognitive Approach

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ISBN 10: 0745608671 ISBN 13: 9780745608679

Publisher: Polity, 1991

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Social movements are now a popular subject of sociological investigation. This timely book offers a new approach to the study of such movements, integrating American and European approaches. The authors are particularly concerned with the processes which transform groups of individuals into social movements, and which give social movements their active orientation. They examine the success and failure of social movements in comparative terms, comparing different historical periods as well as political cultures.

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Social Movements aeo With its integration of both American and European approaches, this book is a highly original study of social movements. aeo Eyerman and Jamison see social movements through a social theory of knowledge that is both politically and historically informed. Full description

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a Eyerman and Jamison have written a pathbreaking book that simultaneously places previous theories of collective behaviour in sociohistorical perspective while developing their own cognitive approach to social movements.a Choice a Readable and well documented. I would recommend Eyerman and Jamisona s book to all scholars who are interested in social movements.a ANZJS

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