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A Theory of Fields
Finding ways to understand the nature of social change and social order-from political movements to market meltdowns-is one of the enduring problems of social science. A Theory of …
Rethinking Social Movements
This landmark volume brings together some of the titans of social movement theory in a grand reassessment of its status. For some time, the field has been divided between a …
From Contention to Democracy
From Contention to Democracy addresses a crucial aspect of contemporary societies: the role of social movements for political and social change. The volume gathers together essays …
Waves of Protest
This book updates and adds to the classic Social Movements of the Sixties and Seventies, showing how social movement theory has grown and changed_from an earlier emphasis on …
Deeply Divided
By many measures--commonsensical or statistical--the United States has not been more divided politically or economically in the last hundred years than it is now. How have we gone …
Deliberation, Democracy, and the Media
Is deliberative democracy the ideal goal of free speech? How do social movement organizations, activists, and political candidates use the media to frame their discourse? What …
Social Movements and Networks
This text examines the extent to which a network approach should inform research on collective action. Leading social movements researchers systematically map out and assess the …
Freedom Summer
In June 1964, over 1,000 volunteers - most of them white, northern college students - arrived in Mississippi to campaign for black enfranchisement and teach at `freedom schools' as …
Transnational Protest and Global Activism
In this book, two titans of social movement scholarship bring together the best current research on the nexus between the local and the global in translating the global justice …
Delaware Naturalist Handbook
The Delaware Naturalist Handbook is the primary public face of a major university-led public educational outreach and community engagement initiative. This statewide master …
How Social Movements Matter
Readings on Social Movements: Origins, Dynamics, and Outcomes
Over the past two decades, the study of social movements has emerged as one of the largest, most intellectually vibrant subfields in American sociology. A comprehensive and timely …