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The Social Movements Reader: Cases and Concepts

The Social Movements Reader, Second Edition, provides the most important and readable articles and book selections on recent social movements from around the world.

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With selected readings and editorial material this book combines the strengths of a reader and a textbook

Reflects new developments in the study of social movements, both empirical and theoretical

Provides original texts, many of them classics in the field of social movements, which have been edited for the non-technical reader

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

Audience
adult
Length
long · 458 pages

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