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Social movement organizations : guide to research on insurgent realities / John Lofland.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Social problems and social issuesPublisher: New York : Aldine de Gruyter, [1996]Copyright date: ©1996Description: xv, 421 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 020230552X
  • 9780202305523
  • 0202305538
  • 9780202305530
Other title:
  • Social movement organisations
  • Social movement organisations : Guide to research on insurgent realities
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 303.484 20
LOC classification:
  • HN29 .L63 1996
Contents:
List of Figures -- Preface and Acknowledgments -- 1. Introduction: Why Social Movement Organizations (SMOs) Are and Why People Study Them -- 2. Steps One and Two: Selecting Cases and Collecting Data -- 3. Step Three: Asking Questions -- 4. Step Four: Answering Questions -- 5. What Are SMO Beliefs? -- 6. How Are SMOs Organized? -- 7. What Are Causes of SMOs? -- 8. Why Do People Join SMOs? -- 9. What Are SMO Strategies? -- 10. What Are Reactions to SMOs? -- 11. What Are Effects of SMOs? -- 12. Dissecting Research Reports -- 13. Contextual Themes -- References -- Index.
Review: "Well-known for his sociological studies of social movements, John Lofland has now written the authoritative guide to research on social movement organizations viewed as insurgent realities - countercurrents of varying intensity and duration, which challenge mainstream conceptions of how society ought to be organized and how life ought to be lived."--BOOK JACKET.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 379-403) and index.

List of Figures -- Preface and Acknowledgments -- 1. Introduction: Why Social Movement Organizations (SMOs) Are and Why People Study Them -- 2. Steps One and Two: Selecting Cases and Collecting Data -- 3. Step Three: Asking Questions -- 4. Step Four: Answering Questions -- 5. What Are SMO Beliefs? -- 6. How Are SMOs Organized? -- 7. What Are Causes of SMOs? -- 8. Why Do People Join SMOs? -- 9. What Are SMO Strategies? -- 10. What Are Reactions to SMOs? -- 11. What Are Effects of SMOs? -- 12. Dissecting Research Reports -- 13. Contextual Themes -- References -- Index.

"Well-known for his sociological studies of social movements, John Lofland has now written the authoritative guide to research on social movement organizations viewed as insurgent realities - countercurrents of varying intensity and duration, which challenge mainstream conceptions of how society ought to be organized and how life ought to be lived."--BOOK JACKET.

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