Social Movements

Social movements around the world have used a wide variety of protest tactics to bring about enormous social changes, influencing cultural arrangements, public opinion, and government policies in the process. This concise yet in-depth primer provides a broad overview of theoretical issues in the study of social movements, illustrating key concepts with a series of case studies. It offers engaging analyses of the protest cycle of the 1960s, the women's movement, the LGBT movement, the environmental movement, right-wing movements, and global social justice movements. Author Suzanne Staggenborg examines these social movements in terms of their strategies and tactics, the organizational challenges they faced, and the roles that the mass media and counter-movements played in determining their successes and failures.

• The Social Movements Reader: Cases and Concepts (Wiley Blackwell Readers in Sociology)
• Doing Democracy: The MAP Model for Organizing Social Movements
• When We Fight, We Win: Twenty-First-Century Social Movements and the Activists That Are Transforming Our World
• Networks of Outrage and Hope: Social Movements in the Internet Age
• Resisting Reagan: The U.S. Central America Peace Movement
• A Primer on Social Movements (Contemporary Societies Series)
• The Origins of the Civil Rights Movement: Black Communities Organizing for Change
• Social Movements and New Technology
• Bury the Chains: Prophets and Rebels in the Fight to Free an Empire's Slaves
• To the Promised Land: Martin Luther King and the Fight for Economic Justice