New Social Movements: From Ideology to Identity

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Enrique Larana, Hank Johnston, Joseph R. Gusfield
Temple University Press, Aug 19, 1994 - History - 368 pages

Cultural changes over the past two decades have led to a proliferation of new social movements in Europe and the United States. New social movements such as ecology, peace, ethnicity, New Age philosophies, alternative medicine, and gender and sexual identity are among those that are emerging to challenge traditional categories in social movement theory. Synthesizing classic and modern perspectives the contributors help to redefine the field of social movements and advance an understanding of them through cross-cultural research, comparison with older movements, and an examination of the dimensions of identity—individual, collective, and melding of the two.

 

Contents

Part II Collective Actors in New Social Movements
131
Part III Collective Action and Identity in Changing Political Contexts
265
The Contributors
353

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Enrique Laraņa is Titular Professor of Sociology at the University of Madrid, Spain.