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The SAGE Handbook of Political Sociology offers a comprehensive and contemporary look at this evolving field of study. The focus is on political life itself and the chapters, written by a highly-respected and international team of authors, cover the core themes which need to be understood in order to study political life from a sociological perspective, or simply to understand the political world. The two volumes are structured around five key areas: PART 1: TRADITIONS AND PERSPECTIVES PART 2: CORE CONCEPTS PART 03: POLITICAL IDEOLOGIES AND MOVEMENTS PART 04: TOPICS PART 05: WORLD REGIONS This future-oriented and cross-disciplinary handbook is a landmark text for students and scholars interested in the social investigation of politics.
Social Movements
Social Movements
Introduction
Social movements refer to organized and sustained collective attempts to promote or resist social change. Typically they seek to affect the course of change by employing extra-institutional means. Thus, they are sometimes viewed as operating outside the established political order often eschewing traditional avenues for pursuing structural and/or cultural alterations. Nevertheless, contemporary scholars tend to view social movements as ‘politics by other means’ and thus acknowledge a close linkage between extra-institutional and institutional politics (Oliver, Cadena-Rosa, & Strawn, 2003, p. 214; Perrow, 1979; Tilly, 1978). Furthermore, social movements usually challenge or defend ‘extant authority, whether it is institutionally or culturally based, in the group, organization, society, culture, or world ...
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