(Wiley Blackwell Companions to Sociology) 2nd Edition
by David A. Snow (Editor), Sarah A. Soule (Editor), Hanspeter Kriesi (Editor), Holly J. McCammon (Editor)
The most up-to-date and thorough compendium of scholarship on social movements
This second edition of The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Social Movements features forty original essays from the field. With contributions from both established and ascendant scholars, the Companion
seeks to present current research on social movements in all its
diversity. It is the most up-to-date, comprehensive volume of social
science research on social movements available today.
The essays
address: facilitative and constraining contexts and conditions; social
movement organizations, fields, and dynamics; strategies and tactics;
micro-structural and social psychological dimensions of participation;
consequences and outcomes; and various thematic intersections, including
the intersection of social movements and social class, gender, race and
ethnicity, religion, human rights, globalization, political extremism
and more.
- Offers an illuminating guide to understanding the dynamics and operation of social movements within the modern, global world
- Covers a diverse range of topics in the field of social movement studies
- Offers original, state-of-the-art essays by internationally recognized scholars
The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Social Movements is recommended for graduate seminars on social movement and for scholars of social movements worldwide. It is also an excellent text for college and university libraries, especially with graduate programs in the social sciences.
