Changing Minds: Social Movements' Cultural Impacts

by Edwin Amenta and Francesca Polletta

Social movements--organized efforts by relatively powerless people to change society--can result in legal and policy changes, such as laws protecting same-sex marriage and tax rebates for solar energy. However, movements also change people's beliefs, values, and everyday behavior. Such changes may help bring about new policies or take place in the absence of new policy, yet we still know little about when and why they occur. In Changing Minds,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0871548534
• ISBN13: 9780871548535
• Release Date: January 2025
• Publisher: Russell Sage Foundation
• Length: 276 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.