Social Theory and Social Movements

Mutual Inspirations
Herausgegeben:Roose, Jochen; Dietz, Hella

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Social movements are not only a potential challenge tosocieties, they also challenge social theory. This volume looks at socialmovements and social movement research through the lens of different socialtheories. What can social movement studies learn from these theories? And: Whatcan these theories learn from the analysis of social movements? From thisdouble vantage point, the book discusses the theories of Michel Foucault,Pierre Bourdieu, Niklas Luhmann, Jeffrey Alexander, and Judith Butler, as wellas rational choice theory, relational sociology, and organizationalneo-institutionalism.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden / Springer VS / Springer, Berlin
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 978-3-658-13380-1
• 1st ed. 2016
• Seitenzahl: 184
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. September 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 210mm x 148mm x 11mm
• Gewicht: 262g
• ISBN-13: 9783658133801
• ISBN-10: 3658133805
• Artikelnr.: 44688346

Autorenporträt

Dr. Jochen Roose is Professor for Social Sciences at the Willy Brandt Zentrum of the University Wroc¿aw, Poland. Dr. Hella Dietz works at the Institute for Sociology at the Georg-August University in Göttingen, Germany.

Inhaltsangabe

Paths of Innovation in Social Movement ResearchTheory.- Discourse, Power and Governmentality. Social Movement Research with andbeyond Foucault.- Social Movements and the Rationality of Choice.- Bourdieu Meets Social Movement.- Social Movements and Sociological Systems Theory.- Inequality,Inclusion, and Protest. JeffreyAlexander's Theory of the Civil Sphere.- Social Movementsand Neo-Institutionalism. A FruitfulMerger?.- Judith Butler and the Politics ofProtest.- Networks, Interaction, and Conflict. ARelational Sociology of Social Movements and Protest.