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| Genre/Form: | Textbooks Case studies Textbooks Manuels d'enseignement supérieur Cas, Études de Manuels d'enseignement supérieur |
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| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Suzanne Staggenborg |
| ISBN: | 9780195441246 0195441249 |
| OCLC Number: | 746596546 |
| Description: | ix, 222 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. |
| Contents: | 1. Introduction -- 2. Theories of social movements and collective action -- Collective behaviour theory -- Resource mobilization and political process theories -- New social movement theory -- New directions in social movement theory -- 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 -- 4. The protest cycle of the 1960's -- The rise decline and significance of the protest cycle -- The American Civil Rights Movement -- The rise of new left student and anti-war movements -- Legacies of the protest cycle of the 1960's -- 5. Aboriginal protest / Howard Ramos -- Communities, bystanders and critical events -- The rise of contemporary Canadian Aboriginal mobilization -- The White Paper -- The Constitution Act, 1982 -- The Indian Summer of 1990 -- A new millennium: potential or stagnation -- International attention and the rise of indigenous political parties -- 6. The women's movement -- Origins of the second wave -- Mobilizing issues of the second wave -- Feminist survival and the emergence of the third wave -- The Global women's movement -- Maintenance and growth of the women's movement -- The Gay and Lesbian movement -- Origins of the Gay and Lesbian movement -- Gay and Lesbian liberation -- Struggles for equal rights -- AIDS activism and queer politics -- Relationship recognition and same-sex marriage -- Influences on movement strategies and outcomes -- Environmental movement -- Origins of the environmental movement -- Public support for environmentalism -- Participation in the environmental movement -- Debates on the direction of the environmental movement -- Greenpeace and the mass media -- Green lobbies and consumer boycotts -- Grassroots environmentalism and direct-action campaigns |
| Series Title: | Themes in Canadian sociology. |
| Responsibility: | Suzanne Staggenborg. |
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