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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 paper, the authors develop the concept of legal framing to expand theoretical knowledge on the cultural and symbolic processes that enable, constrain, and transform social movements and argue that law is a type of "master frame" and that mobilizing law's "constitutive" symbols and categories is a central, yet routinely overlooked, way in which challengers frame their grievances, identity and objectives.
Abstract: The author develops the concept of legal framing to expand theoretical knowledge on the cultural and symbolic processes that enable, constrain, and transform social movements. Merging insights from social movement theory, the sociology of law, and law and society scholarship, the author argues that law is a type of “master frame,” and that mobilizing law’s “constitutive” symbols and categories is a central, yet routinely overlooked, way in which challengers frame their grievances, identity, and objectives. This study systematically explores legal framing processes through historical‐narrative analysis of the women’s movement and the debate over protective labor laws in the 1960s. Historical evidence suggests that reciprocal transformations in the women’s movement and equal employment law were largely attributable to a symbolic framing contest between competing cultural representations of gender (“protective” vs. “equal” treatment) and that this contest was waged in explicitly legal terms.

146 citations

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TL;DR: The authors investigated media practices in the Occupy movement and developed the concept of social movement media cultures: the set of tools, skills, social practices and norms that movement participants deploy to create, circulate, curate and amplify movement media across all available platforms.
Abstract: Scholars and activists have hotly debated the relationship between social media and social movement activity during the current global cycle of protest. This article investigates media practices in the Occupy movement and develops the concept of social movement media cultures: the set of tools, skills, social practices and norms that movement participants deploy to create, circulate, curate and amplify movement media across all available platforms. The article posits three key areas of inquiry into social movement media cultures, and explores them through the lens of the Occupy movement: (1) What media platforms, tools and skills are used most widely by movement participants? (Practices); (2) What role do experienced practitioners play in movement media practices? (Expertise); and (3) In what ways does the movement media culture lean toward open or participatory, and in what ways toward closed or top–down? (Open/Closed). Insight into the media culture of the Occupy movement is based on mixed qualitative a...

146 citations

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TL;DR: The authors argue that the increasing concern for, and elaboration of, human rights points to a world-cultural environment where the individual is increasingly regarded as sacred and inviolable, and explore how human rights have developed historically as a ''cult of the individual''.
Abstract: Despite ongoing attention to the subject, cultural accounts of the globalization of human rights are surprisingly scarce. Most accounts describe this phenomenon either as a function of evolutionary progress or the rational/strategic action of states and social movement organizations. As a result, they have difficulty explaining both the moral impulse to act on behalf of human rights and the tremendous expansion of the ideology itself. Borrowing insights from global cultural analysis, I argue that the increasing concern for, and elaboration of, human rights points to a world-cultural environment where the individual is increasingly regarded as sacred and inviolable. To demonstrate this, I explore how human rights have developed historically as a `cult of the individual' and present new data on their recent worldwide expansion.

146 citations

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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors provide a theoretical framework for understanding the political outcomes of movement abeyance, drawing from recent work on political opportunity structure and policy domains, which includes not only retreat from political engagement, but also the fragmentation of a broad movement coalition.
Abstract: Social movements can continue in hostile political climates by adapting abeyance structures, that is, disengaging from active challenge to the state on policy matters to focus instead on preserving enduring values and identity. But doing so can be politically costly. In this article we provide a theoretical framework for understanding the political outcomes of movement abeyance, drawing from recent work on political opportunity structure and policy domains. We present a more developed model of social movement abeyance, which includes not only retreat from political engagement, but also the fragmentation of a broad movement coalition, and use this model to examine the women's movement in the 1980s. We then look at the costs of movement abeyance on two policy areas: family leave and fetal protection. Partly in response to a hostile national political climate in the 1980s, the women's movement adopted a less visible public profile. This may have allowed women's groups to maintain their identity and values, but choices activists made to survive in hostile times had longer term consequences in terms of lost policy influence. We conclude with a discussion of the interaction of political opportunities and movement abeyance.

145 citations

Book
19 May 2000
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors argue that advances in technology and modern communications are said to have unleashed new contacts and intercourse among peoples, social movements, transnational corporations, and governments.
Abstract: Globalization has become a particularly fashionable way to analyse changes in the international economy and in world politics. Advances in technology and modern communications are said to have unleashed new contacts and intercourse among peoples, social movements, transnational corporations, and governments. The result is a set of processes which have affected national and international politics in an extraordinary way. The chapters of this volume debate the nature and implications of this transformation.

145 citations


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