Close cookie details

This site uses cookies. Learn more about cookies.

OverDrive would like to use cookies to store information on your computer to improve your user experience at our Website. One of the cookies we use is critical for certain aspects of the site to operate and has already been set. You may delete and block all cookies from this site, but this could affect certain features or services of the site. To find out more about the cookies we use and how to delete them, click here to see our Privacy Policy.

If you do not wish to continue, please click here to exit this site.

Hide notification

  Main Nav
The Social Movements Reader
Cover of The Social Movements Reader
Sample
The Social Movements Reader
Cases and Concepts
Borrow Borrow
 
Providing a unique blend of cases, concepts, and essential readings The Social Movements Reader, Third Edition, delivers key classic and contemporary articles and book selections from around the world.
  • Includes the latest research on contemporary movements in the US and abroad, including the Arab spring, Occupy, and the global justice movement
  • Provides original texts, many of them classics in the field, which have been edited for the non-technical reader
  • Combines the strengths of a reader and a textbook with selected readings and extensive editorial material
  • Sidebars offer concise definitions of key terms, as well as biographies of famous activists and chronologies of several key movements
  • Requires no prior knowledge about social movements or theories of social movements
    •
    Providing a unique blend of cases, concepts, and essential readings The Social Movements Reader, Third Edition, delivers key classic and contemporary articles and book selections from around the world.
  • Includes the latest research on contemporary movements in the US and abroad, including the Arab spring, Occupy, and the global justice movement
  • Provides original texts, many of them classics in the field, which have been edited for the non-technical reader
  • Combines the strengths of a reader and a textbook with selected readings and extensive editorial material
  • Sidebars offer concise definitions of key terms, as well as biographies of famous activists and chronologies of several key movements
  • Requires no prior knowledge about social movements or theories of social movements
    •
    Available formats-
    • OverDrive Read
    • EPUB eBook
    Subjects-
    Languages:-
    Copies-
    • Available:
      1
    • Library copies:
      1
    Levels-
    • ATOS:
    • Lexile:
    • Interest Level:
    • Text Difficulty:


    About the Author-

    • Jeff Goodwin is Professor of Sociology at New York University. He is the author of No Other Way Out: States and Revolutionary Movements, 1945-1991 (2001).

      James M. Jasper is Professor of Sociology at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. He has written many books, including The Animal Rights Crusade(1992) and The Art of Moral Protest (1997), and Getting Your Way (2006).

      Together they have edited two previous editions of The Social Movements Reader (2003, 2009) Passionate Politics (2001) and Contention in Context (2012).

    Table of Contents-

    • List of Key Concepts and Chronologies viii

      List of Activist Biographies ix

      Part I Introduction 1

      1 Editors’ Introduction 3
      Jeff Goodwin and James M. Jasper

      Part II When and Why Do Social Movements Occur? 9

      2 The Women’s Movement 13
      Jo Freeman

      3 The Gay Liberation Movement 24
      John D’Emilio

      4 Occupy Wall Street 30
      Ruth Milkman, Stephanie Luce, and Penny Lewis

      5 The Egyptian Revolution 45
      Manuel Castells

      Part III Who Joins or Supports Movements? 53

      6 The Free-Rider Problem 59
      Mancur Olson

      7 Recruits to Civil Rights Activism 65
      Doug McAdam

      8 Who Are the Radical Islamists? 76
      Charles Kurzman

      9 Women’s Mobilization into the Salvadoran Guerrilla Army 83
      Jocelyn S. Viterna

      Part IV Who Remains in Movements, Who Drops Out, and Why? 101

      10 Generating Commitment among Students 105
      Eric L. Hirsch

      11 Sustaining Commitment among Radical Feminists 114
      Nancy Whittier

      12 True Believers and Charismatic Cults 126
      Janja Lalich

      13 Are Frames Enough? 136
      Charlotte Ryan and William A. Gamson

      14 The Emotional Benefits of Insurgency in El Salvador 143
      Elisabeth Jean Wood

      15 Classic Protest Songs: A List 153

      Part V How Are Movements Organized? 155

      16 Social Movement Organizations 159
      John D. McCarthy and Mayer N. Zald

      17 Transnational Environmental Activism 175
      Paul Wapner

      18 The Transnational Network for Democratic Globalization 184
      Jackie Smith

      19 Meeting Arenas 196
      Christoph Haug

      Part VI What Do Movements Do? 213

      20 Tactical Innovation in the Civil Rights Movement 219
      Aldon D. Morris

      21 Armed Struggle in the South African Anti-Apartheid Movement 224
      Gay Seidman

      22 Suicide Bombing 239
      Robert J. Brym

      23 Everyday Life, Routine Politics, and Protest 246
      Javier Auyero

      24 The Emotion Work of Movements 254
      Deborah B. Gould

      25 Tactical Repertoires: Same-Sex Weddings 266
      Verta Taylor, Katrina Kimport, Nella Van Dyke, and Ellen Ann Andersen

      Part VII How Do Movements Interact with Other Players? 283

      26 Farmworkers’ Movements in Changing Political Contexts 287
      J. Craig Jenkins and Charles Perrow

      27 Movements in the Media 302
      Edwin Amenta, Neal Caren, Sheera Joy Olasky, and James E. Stobaugh

      28 What Shapes the West’s Human Rights Focus? 317
      James Ron, Howard Ramos, and Kathleen Rodgers

      29 The Quest for International Allies 325
      Clifford Bob

      30 Global Corporations, Global Unions 335
      Stephen Lerner

      Part VIII Why Do Movements Decline? 343

      31 The Decline of the Women’s Movement 347
      Barbara Epstein

      32 The Dilemmas of Identity Politics 354
      Joshua Gamson

      33 The Repression/Protest Paradox in Central America 363
      Charles D. Brockett

      34 Counterinsurgency 370
      Ian Roxborough

      Part IX What Changes Do Movements Bring About? 379

      35 Defining Movement “Success” 383
      William A. Gamson

      36 How Social Movements Matter 386
      David S. Meyer

      37 Environmental Justice 391
      David Naguib Pellow and Robert J. Brulle

      38 Understanding...

    Title Information+
    • Publisher
      Wiley
    • OverDrive Read
      Release date:
    • EPUB eBook
      Release date:
    Digital Rights Information+
    • Copyright Protection (DRM) required by the Publisher may be applied to this title to limit or prohibit printing or copying. File sharing or redistribution is prohibited. Your rights to access this material expire at the end of the lending period. Please see Important Notice about Copyrighted Materials for terms applicable to this content.

    Status bar:

    You've reached your checkout limit.

    Visit your Checkouts page to manage your titles.

    Close

    You already have this title checked out.

    Want to go to your Checkouts?

    Close

    Recommendation Limit Reached.

    You've reached the maximum number of titles you can recommend at this time. You can recommend up to 99 titles every 1 day(s).

    Close

    Sign in to recommend this title.

    Recommend your library consider adding this title to the Digital Collection.

    Close

    Enhanced Details

    Close
    Close

    Limited availability

    Availability can change throughout the month based on the library's budget.

    is available for days.

    Once playback starts, you have hours to view the title.

    Close

    Permissions

    Close

    The OverDrive Read format of this eBook has professional narration that plays while you read in your browser. Learn more here.

    Close

    Holds

    Total holds:

    Close

    Restricted

    Some format options have been disabled. You may see additional download options outside of this network.

    Close

    MP3 audiobooks are only supported on macOS 10.6 (Snow Leopard) through 10.14 (Mojave). Learn more about MP3 audiobook support on Macs.

    Close

    Please update to the latest version of the OverDrive app to stream videos.

    Close

    Device Compatibility Notice

    The OverDrive app is required for this format on your current device.

    Close

    Bahrain, Egypt, Hong Kong, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Mauritania, Morocco, Oman, Palestine, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, the Sudan, the Syrian Arab Republic, Tunisia, Turkey, the United Arab Emirates, and Yemen

    Close

    You've reached your library's checkout limit for digital titles.

    To make room for more checkouts, you may be able to return titles from your Checkouts page.

    Close

    Excessive Checkout Limit Reached.

    There have been too many titles checked out and returned by your account within a short period of time.

    Try again in several days. If you are still not able to check out titles after 7 days, please contact Support.

    Close

    You have already checked out this title. To access it, return to your Checkouts page.

    Close

    This title is not available for your card type. If you think this is an error contact support.

    Close

    An unexpected error has occurred.

    If this problem persists, please contact support.

    Close

    Close

    NOTE: Barnes and Noble® may change this list of devices at any time.

    Close
    Buy it now
    and help our library WIN!
    The Social Movements Reader
    The Social Movements Reader
    Cases and Concepts
    Jeff Goodwin
    Choose a retail partner below to buy this title for yourself.
    A portion of this purchase goes to support your library.

    Sorry, no retailers are currently available to purchase this title. Please check back later.

    Close
    Close

    There are no copies of this issue left to borrow. Please try to borrow this title again when a new issue is released.

    Close
    Barnes & Noble Sign In |   Sign In

    You will be prompted to sign into your library account on the next page.

    If this is your first time selecting “Send to NOOK,” you will then be taken to a Barnes & Noble page to sign into (or create) your NOOK account. You should only have to sign into your NOOK account once to link it to your library account. After this one-time step, periodicals will be automatically sent to your NOOK account when you select "Send to NOOK."

    The first time you select “Send to NOOK,” you will be taken to a Barnes & Noble page to sign into (or create) your NOOK account. You should only have to sign into your NOOK account once to link it to your library account. After this one-time step, periodicals will be automatically sent to your NOOK account when you select "Send to NOOK."

    You can read periodicals on any NOOK tablet or in the free NOOK reading app for iOS, Android or Windows 8.

    Accept to ContinueCancel

    Your device will not be able to access the digital library after October 30.

    We are making necessary security upgrades that will end this device's access to the digital library on October 30, 2020.

    LEARN MORE

    Continue to the digital library

    Close