Social Problems & Social Movements
Title | Social Problems & Social Movements PDF eBook |
Author | Harry H. Bash |
Publisher | Humanities Press International |
Pages | 288 |
Release | 1995 |
Genre | History |
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The two sociological fields of Social Problems and Social Movements have been typically disassociated and treated in isolation from each other. Harry Bash traces the development of these sociological specializations and, in doing so, brings together a widely dispersed literature.
Social Problems and Social Movements
Title | Social Problems and Social Movements PDF eBook |
Author | James DeFronzo |
Publisher | Rowman & Littlefield |
Pages | 520 |
Release | 2019-03-20 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 1442221550 |
Social Problems aims to not only introduce students to the key social problems discussed in most courses, but also to show them that change is possible by introducing them to key social movements working to solve some of these social problems.
Social Problems as Social Movements
Title | Social Problems as Social Movements PDF eBook |
Author | Armand L. Mauss |
Publisher | Philadelphia : Lippincott |
Pages | 718 |
Release | 1975-01-01 |
Genre | Mouvements sociaux |
ISBN | 9780397473250 |
Solutions to Social Problems from the Bottom Up
Title | Solutions to Social Problems from the Bottom Up PDF eBook |
Author | D. Stanley Eitzen |
Publisher | Allyn & Bacon |
Pages | 164 |
Release | 2007 |
Genre | Political Science |
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This brief reader examines a number of organized movements that have successfully brought about reform and change "from the bottom up."
Social Movements
Title | Social Movements PDF eBook |
Author | F. Kurt Cylke |
Publisher | McGraw-Hill Humanities, Social Sciences & World Languages |
Pages | 596 |
Release | 1997 |
Genre | History |
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Drawing from a wide selection of classic and contemporary works, the editors have chosen readings that reflect the major approaches and central debates in the field of social movement.
Social Movements
Title | Social Movements PDF eBook |
Author | Suzanne Staggenborg |
Publisher | OUP Canada |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2007-09-06 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 9780195423099 |
In this book, the author explores the key theoretical issues in the study of social movements through a series of case studies, including the aboriginal rights movement, the women's movement, the gay and lesbian rights movement, the environmental movement, and the global justice movement.
It Was Like a Fever
Title | It Was Like a Fever PDF eBook |
Author | Francesca Polletta |
Publisher | University of Chicago Press |
Pages | 258 |
Release | 2009-01-14 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 0226673774 |
Activists and politicians have long recognized the power of a good story to move people to action. In early 1960 four black college students sat down at a whites-only lunch counter in Greensboro, North Carolina, and refused to leave. Within a month sit-ins spread to thirty cities in seven states. Student participants told stories of impulsive, spontaneous action—this despite all the planning that had gone into the sit-ins. “It was like a fever,” they said. Francesca Polletta’s It Was Like a Fever sets out to account for the power of storytelling in mobilizing political and social movements. Drawing on cases ranging from sixteenth-century tax revolts to contemporary debates about the future of the World Trade Center site, Polletta argues that stories are politically effective not when they have clear moral messages, but when they have complex, often ambiguous ones. The openness of stories to interpretation has allowed disadvantaged groups, in particular, to gain a hearing for new needs and to forge surprising political alliances. But popular beliefs in America about storytelling as a genre have also hurt those challenging the status quo. A rich analysis of storytelling in courtrooms, newsrooms, public forums, and the United States Congress, It Was Like a Fever offers provocative new insights into the dynamics of culture and contention.