(P/B) SOCIAL MOVEMENTS AND SOCIAL CLASSES

Παρουσίαση

This book assembles an international cast of eminent contributors who focus on issues of social movements and social class from the perspective of collective action. An important addition to current debate, the text discusses such topics as: middle-class radicalism, racism, class, the institutionalization of movements, urban politics, citizenship, education and democracy.
Part One reviews the various analytical approaches used to explain the foundations for collective action. Part Two examines the close links between local power structures, spatial issues and the institutionalization of collective action. Part Three analyzes the ways that social struggles penetrate political life, with further reflections on culture and democracy. (From the publisher)

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Introduction - Louis Maheu
PART ONE: FOUNDATIONS FOR COLLECTIVE ACTION
Does Social Class Matter in the Study of Social Movements? - Klaus Eder
A Theory of Middle-Class Radicalism
Social Movements and Class - Jan Pakulski
The Decline of the Marxist Paradigm
Racism and Social Movements - Michel Wieviorka
The New Social Movements Revisited - Alberto Melucci
Reflections on a Sociological Misunderstanding
PART TWO: SPACE, POWER AND COLLECTIVE ACTION
Social Movements in the Transition from State Socialism - Chris Pickvance
Convergence or Divergence?
Social Movements and the Challenge of Urban Politics - Henri Lustiger-Thaler and Louis Maheu
Rethinking Class - John Urry
PART THREE: COLLECTIVE ACTION: FROM POLITICS TO DEMOCRACY
Rethinking Citizenship and Social Movements - Maurice Roche
Themes in Contemporary Sociology and Neoconservative Ideology
A New Class? The Higher Educated and the New Politics - Chris Rootes
Collective Action and the Paradigm of Individualism - Pierre Hamel
Democracy - Alain Touraine
From a Politics of Citizenship to a Politics of Recognition