Johannes P. van Vugt

Democratic Organization for Social Change

Latin American Christian Base Communities and Literacy Campaigns

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

How is a local level democratic organization cultivated so that members, who were previously disenfranchised, are empowered to oppose an oppressive central authority and participate in a revolutionary reconstruction of society? Having spent many years researching this question, Johannes P. Van Vugt applies a model of democratic organization for social change to his findings regarding the way literacy campaigns and Christian Base communities were organized in Nicaragua, El Salvador, Guatemala, and Brazil. His study is valuable as an example of a scientific methodology for studying and cultivating democratic organization for social change, and as a clarification of the controversy over the role of specific campaigns and organizations. Van Vugt approaches his study from an interdisciplinary perspective using a methodology that is qualitative, historical, and comparative. He blends the cultural insights of ethnography with the structural understanding of how ideologies and organizations motivate and mobilize people. His research is based on field studies in Nicaragua; other studies of El Salvador, Guatemala, and Brazil; and theories of democratic organization and social change.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Praeger
• Seitenzahl: 190
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Mai 1991
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 457g
• ISBN-13: 9780897892452
• ISBN-10: 0897892453
• Artikelnr.: 22252039

Autorenporträt

Johannes P. Van Vugt

Inhaltsangabe

Preface Introduction Constructing the Model A Model of Democratic
Organization for Social Transformation Nicaraguan Christian Base
Communities Limits and Contradictions Initial Conclusions A Comparative
Analysis of Christian Base Communities Mass Education as Democratic Process
Nicaragua's Literacy Campaign The Mass Organizations Conclusion Glossary of
Acronyms and Foreign Language Usage Selected Bibliography Index