Social Movements

Social Movements, second edition, is a core or supplemental text suitable for sociology courses for upper-year undergraduate students in both colleges and universities. This book examines collective behaviour and how it relates to the emergence of social movements. Staggenborg lays out the natural cycle of social movements through the stages of maintenance, growth and decline. The author contextualizes this theory by examining specific social movements such as the women's movement, the Aboriginal movement, and the environmental movement to see how these movements maximized their resources to achieve growth and further their goals. This book is part of the Themes in Canadian Sociology series, which reflects the work of Canadian scholars in recent research and trends in sociology.

Table of Contents:
PREFACE AND ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS ; INTRODUCTION ; THE ORIGINS OF THE SOCIAL MOVEMENT ; DE?NING SOCIAL MOVEMENTS ; OUTLINE OF THE BOOK ; DISCUSSION QUESTIONS ; SUGGESTED READINGS ; THEORIES OF SOCIAL MOVEMENTS AND COLLECTIVE ACTION ; COLLECTIVE BEHAVIOUR THEORY ; RESOURCE MOBILIZATION AND POLITICAL PROCESS THEORIES ; NEW SOCIAL MOVEMENT THEORY ; NEW DIRECTIONS IN SOCIAL MOVEMENT THEORY ; CONCLUSION ; DISCUSSION QUESTIONS ; SUGGESTED READINGS ; ISSUES IN THE STUDY OF SOCIAL MOVEMENTS AND COLLECTIVE ACTION ; MOVEMENT EMERGENCE: MOBILIZATION AND RECRUITMENT ; MOVEMENT MAINTENANCE, GROWTH, AND DECLINE ; MOVEMENT OUTCOMES ; MOVEMENTS AND MEDIA ; METHODS OF SOCIAL MOVEMENT RESEARCH ; CONCLUSION ; DISCUSSION QUESTIONS ; SUGGESTED READINGS ; THE PROTEST CYCLE OF THE 1960S ; THE RISE, DECLINE, AND SIGNI?CANCE OF THE PROTEST CYCLE ; THE AMERICAN CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT ; THE RISE OF NEW LEFT STUDENT AND ANTI-WAR MOVEMENTS ; LEGACIES OF THE PROTEST CYCLE OF THE 1960S ; CONCLUSION ; DISCUSSION QUESTIONS ; SUGGESTED READINGS ; ABORIGINAL PROTEST BY HOWARD RAMOS ; COMMUNITIES, BYSTANDERS, AND CRITICAL EVENTS ; THE RISE OF CONTEMPORARY CANADIAN ABORIGINAL MOBILIZATION ; THE WHITE PAPER ; FROM LOCAL COMMUNITIES TO NATIONAL POLITICAL ORGANIZATIONS ; THE CONSTITUTION ACT, 1982 ; 'INDIAN SUMMER' OF 1990 ; A NEW MILLENNIUM: POTENTIAL OR STAGNATION? ; INTERNATIONAL ATTENTION AND THE RISE OF INDIGENOUS POLITICAL PARTIES ; CONCLUSION ; DISCUSSION QUESTIONS ; SUGGESTED READINGS ; THE WOMEN'S MOVEMENT ; ORIGINS OF THE SECOND WAVE ; MOBILIZING ISSUES OF THE SECOND WAVE ; FEMINIST SURVIVAL AND THE EMERGENCE OF THE THIRD WAVE ; THE GLOBAL WOMEN'S MOVEMENT ; MAINTENANCE AND GROWTH OF THE WOMEN'S MOVEMENT ; CONCLUSION ; DISCUSSION QUESTIONS ; SUGGESTED READINGS ; THE GAY AND LESBIAN MOVEMENT ; ORIGINS OF THE GAY AND LESBIAN MOVEMENT ; GAY AND LESBIAN LIBERATION ; STRUGGLES FOR EQUAL RIGHTS ; AIDS ACTIVISM AND QUEER POLITICS ; RELATIONSHIP RECOGNITION AND SAME-SEX MARRIAGE ; IN?UENCES ON MOVEMENT STRATEGIES AND OUTCOMES ; CONCLUSION ; DISCUSSION QUESTIONS ; SUGGESTED READINGS ; THE ENVIRONMENTAL MOVEMENT ; ORIGINS OF THE ENVIRONMENTAL MOVEMENT ; PUBLIC SUPPORT FOR ENVIRONMENTALISM ; PARTICIPATION IN THE ENVIRONMENTAL MOVEMENT ; DEBATES ON THE DIRECTION OF THE ENVIRONMENTAL MOVEMENT ; GREENPEACE AND THE MASS MEDIA ; GREEN LOBBIES AND CONSUMER BOYCOTTS ; GRASSROOTS ENVIRONMENTALISM AND DIRECT-ACTION CAMPAIGNS ; CONCLUSION ; DISCUSSION QUESTIONS ; SUGGESTED READINGS ; THE GLOBAL JUSTICE MOVEMENT ; ORIGINS OF THE GLOBAL JUSTICE MOVEMENT ; MOBILIZING FRAMES, STRUCTURES, AND OPPORTUNITIES ; MOVEMENT STRATEGIES AND OUTCOMES ; CONCLUSION ; DISCUSSION QUESTIONS ; SUGGESTED READINGS ; CONCLUSION: SOCIAL MOVEMENTS AND SOCIAL CHANGE ; LARGE-SCALE CHANGES, GRIEVANCES, AND OPPORTUNITIES ; MOVEMENT ORGANIZATION AND STRATEGY ; CONCLUSION ; NOTES ; GLOSSARY ; REFERENCES ; INDEX

About the Author :
Suzanne Staggenborg is a professor at the University of Pittsburgh and the former chair of sociology at McGill University. She has written two books for OUP Canada, the first edition of Social Movements and The Pro-Choice Movement. The US adaptation of Social Movements was published in February 2010.