What Is a Social Movement?

by Hank Johnston

Book Overview

Social movements play a central role in the scope and direction of social change. They were instrumental in the creation of the modern state and, today, are major forces in politics and culture. Environmentalism, gay rights, alterglobalization, and Islamic fundamentalism are all movements with far-reaching impacts on contemporary society.

What is a Social Movement? traces how the study of movements such as these - of their structures,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0745660851
• ISBN13: 9780745660851
• Release Date: April 2014
• Publisher: Polity Press
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.4" x 8.4"