New Social Movements: From Ideology to Identity - Softcover

Enrique Larana

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1566391873 ISBN 13: 9781566391870

Publisher: Temple University Press, 1994

Synopsis

Cultural changes over the past two decades have led to a proliferation of new social movements in Europe and the United States. New social movements such as ecology, peace, ethnicity, New Age philosophies, alternative medicine, and gender and sexual identity are among those that are emerging to challenge traditional categories in social movement theory. Synthesizing classic and modern perspectives the contributors help to redefine the field of social movements and advance an understanding of them through cross-cultural research, comparison with older movements, and an examination of the dimensions of identity—individual, collective, and melding of the two.

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Review:

"There has been remarkable interest in social constructionist approaches to social movements and integrating classical collective behavior theory and European new social movements approaches. This collection of articles does the best job that I have seen of accomplishing both of these agendas. The editors' introduction pulls together one of the first and most coherent statements of new social movements...clearly on the cutting edge."
—Verta Taylor, Ohio State University

From the Author:

Enrique Laraña is Titular Professor of Sociology at the University of Madrid, Spain.

Hank Johnston is a lecturer in the Department of Sociology at San Diego State University.

Joseph R. Gusfield is Professor Emeritus of Sociology at the University of California, San Diego.
Contributors: José Alvarez-Junco, Robert Benford, Richard Flacks, Scott Hunt, Bert Klandermans, Alberto Melucci, Doug McAdam, John McCarthy, Carol Mueller, Máté Szabó, David A. Snow, Ralph H. Turner, and the editors.

About this edition

• Publisher: Temple University Press
• Publication date: 1994
• ISBN 10: 1566391873
• ISBN 13: 9781566391870
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 464