Handbook of Social Movements Across Disciplines

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Klandermans, Bert. (Editor), Roggeband, Conny. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: Boston, MA : Springer US, 2010.
• Edition: 1st.
• Series: Handbooks of Sociology and Social Research,
• Subjects: Sociology.; Social Sciences, general.
• Online Access: https://ezaccess.library.uitm.edu.my/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-70960-4

Researchers and students from divergent academic disciplines share an interest in the study of social movements and collective action. Through a variety of disciplinary approaches and techniques, researchers seek to understand the emergence and development of collective action. In the last few decad...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction: Richness of Perspectives
• Disciplinary Approaches to Collective Behavior
• Political Science: The Political Behavior of Social Movements: Movement Strategies
• How Political Structures Affect Mobilization Patterns
• Sociology: Structuralist chapter
• Culturalist chapter
• Social Psychology: Why and Whom: Motivation
• Collective Identity
• Interaction within Movements
• Anthropology: Culture and Movements: How Culture Affects Movements
• Social Movement (sub)cultures.