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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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01 Jan 1990
TL;DR: In this paper, a social movement perspective of women and men in the working class is presented. But the focus is not on women, but on women's empowerment, and not on men's empowerment.
Abstract: 1. Introduction 2. Freeway Males 3. Freeway Females 4. Within the School 5. Freeway Teachers 6. Freeway Parents 7. Women and Men: A Social Movement Perspective 8. Whether the Working Class?
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TL;DR: The authors argue for the contingent nature of capital and labor's support for democracy, especially in the context of late development, and offer a theory of democratic contingency, proposing that a few variables, namely, state dependence, aristocratic privilege, and social fear account for much of the variation found in class support for democratization both across and within cases.
Abstract: Many classic works of political economy have identified capital and labor as the champions of democratization during the first wave of transition By contrast, this article argues for the contingent nature of capital and labor's support for democracy, especially in the context of late development The article offers a theory of democratic contingency, proposing that a few variables, namely, state dependence, aristocratic privilege, and social fear account for much of the variation found in class support for democratization both across and within cases Conditions associated with late development make capital and labor especially prone to diffidence about democratization But such diffidence is subject to change, especially under the impact of international economic integration, poverty-reducing social welfare policies, and economic growth that is widely shared Case material from Korea, Indonesia, Mexico, Zambia, Brazil, Tunisia and other countries is offered as evidence
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TL;DR: A variety of examples informed the conceptualization of "new social movements" as mentioned in this paper, which emphasized lifestyle, ethical, or "identity" concerns rather than narrowly economic goals, and were new even by comparison with conventional liberalism with its assumption of fixed individual identities and interests.
Abstract: Sometime After 1968, analysts and participants began to speak of “new social movements” that worked outside formal institutional channels and emphasized lifestyle, ethical, or “identity” concerns rather than narrowly economic goals. A variety of examples informed the conceptualization. Alberto Melucci (1988: 247), for instance, cited feminism, the ecology movement or “greens,” the peace movement, and the youth movement. Others added the gay movement, the animal rights movement, and the antiabortion and prochoice movements. These movements were allegedly new in issues, tactics, and constituencies. Above all, they were new by contrast to the labor movement, which was the paradigmatic “old” social movement, and to Marxism and socialism, which asserted that class was the central issue in politics and that a single political economic transformation would solve the whole range of social ills. They were new even by comparison with conventional liberalism with its assumption of fixed individual identities and interests. The new social movements thus challenged the conventional division of politics into left and right and broadened the definition of politics to include issues that had been considered outside the domain of political action (Scott 1990).
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01 Jan 2007TL;DR: The Making of a Post-Islamist Movement: Social Movements and Socio-Political Change in Iran, 1980-1997 and Egypt's 'Passive Revolution': The State and the Fragmentation of Islamism (1992-2005) as discussed by the authors.
Abstract: CONTENTS Abbreviations xxx Chronology xxx Preface xxx 1 Islam and Democracy: Perverse Charm of an Irrelevant Question 1 2 Revolution without Movement, Movement without Revolution: Islamist Activism in Iran and Egypt (1960s-1980s) 000 3 The Making of a Post-Islamist Movement: Social Movements and Socio-Political Change in Iran, 1980-1997 000 4 Post-Islamism in Power: Dilemmas of Reform Project, 1997-2004 000 5 Egypt's 'Passive Revolution': The State and the Fragmentation of Islamism (1992-2005) 000 6 The Politics of Presence: Imagining a Post-Islamist Democracy 000 Reference Matter 000 Persian and Arabic Journals Cited 000 Notes 000 Bibliography 000 Index 000
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