Methods of Social Movement Research

The Canadian Review of Sociology and Anthropology;  February 1, 2004 ;     700+ words ......STAGGENBORG (eds.), Methods of Social Movement Research. University of Minnesota...essays on the methods of social movement research is that book. Klandermans...mathematical modelling of social movement phenomena is an outstanding...

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West European Politics;  April 1, 2002 ;     501 words ......in one country, one movement across several countries...policy are the targets of social movement protest. Using similar...national and comparative social movement research, this volume examines...academics in the field of social movement research, this volume ...

Unions, solidarity, and striking *.

Social Forces;  September 1, 2004 ;     700+ words ......understanding social movement emergence and...1987, 2003). Most social movement and labor research...assumes, that social movement organizations...exclusive. To be sure, social movement organizations...selection bias in social movement research ...

Differential participation and the nature of a movement: a study of the...

Social Forces;  March 1, 2006 ;     700+ words ......benefit. Tilly's classification of social movement participants is formally defined...and analysis demonstrate that social movement participants differ in terms...area of inquiry in studies of social movement mobilization. This is, however...may have been recruited into a ...

Institutional constraints on social movement "frame extension": shifts in...

Social Forces;  June 1, 1998 ;     700+ words ......We focus on social movement emergence in...ways in which a social movement organization...processes, a social movement frame is an interpretive...which renders social movement issues and goals...action in the social movement, according to...adherents with ...

Political consciousness and new social movement theory: the case of Fuerza...

Social Justice;  March 22, 2003 ;     700+ words ......ARTICLE IS TO ASSESS NEW SOCIAL MOVEMENT THEORY'S treatment of race...some limitations of new social movement theory by using theoretical...from discourse theory. New social movement theory addresses limitations...

WAVES OF PROTEST: POPULAR STRUGGLES IN EL SALVADOR, 1925-2005

NACLA Report on the Americas;  November 1, 2008 ;     236 words ......movements. He is interested in the standard questions of social movement research: Why do people rebel? Why, and under what circumstances...Almeida tries to move away from well-worked foci of recent social movement literature - protest in the world's "new democracies...

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American Political Science Review;  June 1, 1996 ;     700+ words ......University of California, Irvine New social movements have become important and contentious...resource for those studying contemporary social movements. Koopmans also makes the important theoretical argument that social movement behavior reflects a combination of institutional...factors, he moves ...

Taiwan's state and social movements under the DPP government,...

Journal of East Asian Studies;  September 1, 2005 ;     700+ words ......article explores the evolution of social movement politics under the Democratic Progressive...government opens some policy channels, and social movement activists are given chances to work...now in opposition, devises its own social movement strategy. Some social ...

Social movement size, organizational diversity and the making of federal...

Social Forces;  March 1, 2008 ;     700+ words ......goal of many social movement organizations...characteristics of social movement organizational...measures of social movement size or resource...conservationist movement. Are changes...structure in social movement research generally...understanding of ...

Framing the issue: religion, secular ethics and the case of animal rights...

Social Forces;  December 1, 2006 ;     700+ words ...Social movement actors commonly attempt to persuade...the most successful contemporary social movement organizations, commonly makes use...the media. This article addresses social movement framing, generally, and within contemporary...

Parents of premature babies: a new social movement in the US.(ROUND UP:...

Reproductive Health Matters;  November 1, 2006 ;     194 words ......questions whether the parents of preemies movement is actually a social movement that challenges the primacy of the medical establishment...preterm infants. (1) (1.) Landzelius K. The incubation of a social movement? Preterm babies, parent activists, and neonatal productions...

The Management of Islamic Activism: Salafis, the Muslim Brotherhood, and...

The Middle East Journal;  July 1, 2001 ;     700+ words ......activism in Jordan through the lens of social movement theory, Quintan Wiktorowicz traces...and controlled the development of social movement organizations. Contrasting the political...change. With a solid application of social movement theory, a healthy skepticism about...

New social movement politics in France: the rise of civic forms of...

West European Politics;  July 1, 1998 ;     700+ words ......experienced a rise of new types of social movement (anti-racist movement, solidarity...Within existing literature, the 'new social movement' approach remains the dominant paradigm...Yet, if we look at recent forms of social movement in France, they appear to differ from...

Passing through the door: social movement literature and legal...

University of Pennsylvania Law Review;  November 1, 2001 ;     700+ words ......gap between American and Continental social movement literature is now widely recognized...between legal scholarship and the social movement literature as a whole. As discussed...if at all, with one another. The social movement literature, although it pays some...