Social Movements Reader
Subtitle: Cases and Concepts
Publisher: Wiley & Sons, Limited, John
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 448
ISBN-13: 9781118729793
Subjects: Social movements
Description: Providing a unique blend of cases, concepts, and essential readings The Social Movements Reader, Third Edition, delivers key classic and contemporary articles and book selections from around the world. Includes the latest research on contemporary movements in the US and abroad, including the Arab spring, Occupy, and the global justice movement Provides original texts, many of them classics in the field, which have been edited for the non-technical reader Combines the strengths of a reader and a textbook with selected readings and extensive editorial material Sidebars offer concise definitions of key terms, as well as biographies of famous activists and chronologies of several key movements Requires no prior knowledge about social movements or theories of social movements.