Full Description
Social Movements, third edition, is a core or supplemental text suitable for upper-year undergraduate social movements courses offered out of sociology, labour studies, and political science departments in both colleges and universities. It offers a concise yet comprehensive introduction to the field's historical background and major theories. Key issues are explored in the context of specific social movements and counter-movements active within Canada and around the world, showing how these movements originate, mobilize participants, and bring about social change. Chapters on the women's, Indigenous, LGBT, environmental, and global justice movements reveal exactly how these groups maximized their resources to attract followers and further their goals. The text also discusses the cluster of protest movements that arose in many countries in the 1960s and how the strategies and changes implemented then continue to influence collective action in the twenty-first century. The third edition is enhanced with photographs to help students visualize various social movements and includes content on recent movements such as the Arab Spring, Idle No More, the Quebec student movement, and Occupy.
Contents
Preface and Acknowledgements ; Abbreviations ; 1. Introduction ; The Origins of the Social Movement ; Defining Social Movements ; Outline of the Book ; Discussion Questions ; Suggested Readings ; 2. Theories of Social Movements and Collective Action ; Collective Behaviour Theory ; Resource Mobilization and Political Process Theories ; New Social Movement Theory and Collective Identity ; New Directions in Social Movement Theory ; Conclusion ; Discussion Questions ; Suggested Readings ; 3. Issues in the Study of Social Movements and Collective Action ; Movement Emergence: Mobilization and Recruitment ; Movement Maintenance, Growth, and Decline ; Movement Outcomes ; Movements and Media ; Methods of Social Movement Research ; Conclusion ; Discussion Questions ; Suggested Readings ; 4. The Protest Cycle of the 1960s ; The Rise, Decline, and Significance of the 1960s Protest Cycle ; The American Civil Rights Movement ; The Rise of New Left Student and Anti-war Movements ; Legacies of the Protest Cycle of the 1960s ; Conclusion ; Discussion Questions ; Suggested Readings ; 5. Indigenous Protest ; Communities, Bystanders, and Critical Events ; The Rise of Contemporary Canadian Indigenous Mobilization ; The White Paper ; The Constitution Act, 1982 ; The Indian Summer of 1990 ; Idle No More ; International Attention and Indigenous Political Parties ; Conclusion ; Discussion Questions ; Suggested Readings ; 6. The Women's Movement ; Origins of the Second Wave ; Mobilizing Issues of the Second Wave ; Feminist Survival among New Generations ; The Global Women's Movement ; Maintenance and Growth of the Women's Movement ; Conclusion ; Discussion Questions ; Suggested Readings ; 7. The LGBT Movement ; Origins of the LGBT Movement ; LGBT Liberation ; Struggles for Equal Rights ; AIDS Activism and Queer Politics ; Relationship Recognition and Same-Sex Marriage ; Influences on Movement Strategies and Outcomes ; Conclusion ; Discussion Questions ; Suggested Readings ; 8. The Environmental Movement ; Origins of the Environmental Movement ; Mobilizing Support for Environmentalism ; Debates on the Power and Direction of the Environmental Movement ; Greenpeace and the Mass Media ; Green Lobbies and Consumer Boycotts ; Grassroots Environmentalism and Direct-Action Campaigns ; Conclusion ; Discussion Questions ; Suggested Readings ; 9. Global Movements for Social Justice ; Origins of the Global Justice Movement ; Mobilizing Frames, Structures, and Opportunities ; Movement Strategies and Outcomes ; Conclusion ; Discussion Questions ; Suggested Readings ; 10. Conclusion: Social Movements and Social Change ; Large-Scale Changes, Grievances, and Opportunities ; Movement Organization and Strategy ; Conclusion ; Notes ; Glossary ; References ; Index
