Movement-relevant Theory: Rethinking Social Movement Scholarship and Activism

Autor:	Chris Dixon, Douglas Bevington
Rok vydání:	2005
Předmět:	Cultural Studies Scholarship Resource mobilization Sociology and Political Science Global justice movement Movement (music) New social movements Social change Social movement theory Sociology Social psychology Social movement Epistemology
Zdroj:	Social Movement Studies. 4:185-208
ISSN:	1474-2829 1474-2837
DOI:	10.1080/14742830500329838
Popis:	The dominant American social movement scholarship has become detached from the concerns of actual social movements. But the dramatic growth of social movement activity in recent years, especially the global justice movement, is creating the conditions for an emerging new direction in social movement scholarship which prioritizes the relevance of such work to the movements themselves. A problem in the current social movement literature is that the different schools of thought tend to overemphasize particular variables and pit them against one another. Rather than simply seeking to emphasize a different variable in the lifecycle of a social movement, a movement-relevant approach has the potential to transcend these schisms (such as structure versus culture). At the same time, this approach does not categorically reject earlier theoretical perspectives, but instead seeks to glean what is most useful for movements from these earlier works. Likewise, this emergent direction entails a dynamic engagement with th...
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