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Social movement

About: Social movement is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 23103 publications have been published within this topic receiving 653076 citations. The topic is also known as: movement & syndical movement.


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TL;DR: In this article, the authors consider how often minorities and women mobilize federal EEO laws in their fight for equal treatment in the marketplace, how often they with their cases, and how victory is related to their ability to organize and to get help from the federal government.
Abstract: This article attempts to establish theoretical and methodological links between work on social movements and work on the mobilization of law by analyzing legal mobilization as a social movement tactic-the pursuit of movement goals through "proper channels." Focusing on the movement for equal employment opportunity (EEO), the article considers how often minorities and women mobilize federal EEO laws in their fight for equal treatment in the marketplace, how often they with their cases, and how victory is related to thier ability to organize and to get help from the federal government. Analysis of one aspect of the mobilization of EEO laws-in the federal appellate courts-leads to some conclusions very much in keeping with recent work on social movements. They are that the relationship between grievances and mobilization is problematic, that blacks remain central to the struggle for equality in the United States, that resources matter for challengers of the status quo, and that the federal government can be ...

208 citations

Book
04 May 2015
TL;DR: The re-emergence of a class cleavage in social movements in times of Austerity is discussed in this article. But the focus is on the old working class, the new precariat, or yet something different.
Abstract: Acknowledgements vi 1 The Re-emergence of a Class Cleavage? Social Movements in Times of Austerity 1 2 Social Structure: Old Working Class, New Precariat, or Yet Something Different? 26 3 Identification Processes: Class and Culture 67 4 Lo Llaman Democracia Y No Lo Es: A Crisis of Political Responsibility 110 5 Democracy Is Not a Spectator Sport: Changing Conceptions of Democracy in Social Movements 157 6 Bringing Capitalism Back into Protest Analysis? Some Concluding Remarks 211 Notes 226 References 228 Index 247

208 citations

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TL;DR: The WGIP is a site where notions of indigenous culture have been articulated systematically and with striking consistency for nearly two decades and is a vital nodal point in the global "indigeno-scape" (Beckett 1996).
Abstract: neva, Switzerland, has since its beginnings escaped anthropological attention to a large degree.' Yet it is a site where notions of indigenous culture have been articulated systematically and with striking consistency for nearly two decades. It is the only global institution at which indigenous identity has for years been discussed. It is also a place to which indigenous delegates have traveled in numbers that have increased dramatically over the last eighteen years. The WGIP has offered them the possibility to comment on local, regional, national, and international developments pertaining to the situations of indigenous peoples, and to participate actively in the development of international legal standards for the protection of their rights. No other global forum has ever enabled such a large and diverse group of activists and their organizations to fully articulate their problems on a regular, that is, yearly, basis, and to voice their opinion on how these problems should be solved. Indeed, the WGIP is a "unique exercise in international affairs" (Burger 1994:90) and "an exceptional U.N. forum in this regard" (Lam 1992:617). The arguments brought forth by indigenous representatives are breathtaking in their breadth and complexity, while the host of actors and institutions involved directly or indirectly is virtually innumerable. As a site of particular discursive density where indigenous identities and cultures are generated and articulated during intense encounters between indigenous and nonindigenous individuals, groups, institutions, organizations, and state-representatives, the WGIP is a vital nodal point in the global "indigeno-scape" (Beckett 1996). If the transnational indigenous social movement is to be understood "from above and below" (Brysk

208 citations

Book
30 Jan 1987
TL;DR: In this article, a partial theory of resource mobilization and social movement is presented. But it is not a complete theory of social movement. And it does not consider the relationship between social movement and the infrastructure of the movement.
Abstract: Introduction Resource Mobilization Theory 1. Resource Mobilization and Social Movements: A Partial Theory The Infrastructure of Movements 2. Pro-Life and Pro-Choice Mobilization: Infrastructure Deficits and New Technologies 3. Religious Groups as Crucibles of Social Movements 4. Organizational Intellectuals and the Criticism of Society Processes of Organizational Change 5. Social Movement Organizations: Growth, Decay, and Change 6. From Evangelism to General Services: The Transformation of the YMCA 7. Social Movement Industries: Competition and Conflict Among SMOs Movements Within Organizations 8. Social Movements in Organizations: Coup d'Etat, Bureaucratic Insurgency, and Mass Movement 9. Aspects of Racial Integration in the Methodist Church: Sources of Resistance to Organizational Policy Movements and Countermovements 10. Movement and Countermovement Interaction: Mobilization, Tactics, and State Involvement 11. From Pressure Group to Social Movement: Efforts to Promote Use of Nuclear Power Social Movement Sectors and the Future 12. The Political Economy of Social Movement Sectors 13. The Future of Social Movements

207 citations


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No. of papers in the topic in previous years
YearPapers
20241
2023342
2022758
2021829
20201,073
20191,050