Social Movements Reader
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Civil Rights Movement
Product details
- ISBN 9781118729793
- Weight: 748g
- Dimensions: 170 x 241mm
- Publication Date: 12 Dec 2014
- Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
- Language: English
- Includes the latest research on contemporary movements in the US and abroad, including the Arab spring, Occupy, and the global justice movement
- Provides original texts, many of them classics in the field, which have been edited for the non-technical reader
- Combines the strengths of a reader and a textbook with selected readings and extensive editorial material
- Sidebars offer concise definitions of key terms, as well as biographies of famous activists and chronologies of several key movements
- Requires no prior knowledge about social movements or theories of social movements
Jeff Goodwin is Professor of Sociology at New York University. He is the author of No Other Way Out: States and Revolutionary Movements, 1945-1991 (2001).
James M. Jasper is Professor of Sociology at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. He has written many books, including The Animal Rights Crusade(1992) and The Art of Moral Protest (1997), and Getting Your Way (2006).
Together they have edited two previous editions of The Social Movements Reader (2003, 2009) Passionate Politics (2001) and Contention in Context (2012).
