Social Movements

ISBN-13: 9780199013975 / Angielski / 2015 / 264 str.

Un Department of Sociology Suzanne (Professor Staggenborg; Department of Sociology Howard (Associate Professor Ramos

Opis

Social Movements, third edition, is a core or supplemental text suitable for social movements courses offered out of sociology, labour studies, and political science departments in both colleges and universities. This book offers a concise yet comprehensive introduction to the field's historical background and major theories.

O autorze

Suzanne Staggenborg is professor in and chair of the Department of Sociology at the University of Pittsburgh, and the former chair of sociology at McGill University. She has written two books for OUP Canada: The Pro-Choice Movement and the first two editions of Social Movements. She has also published the US version of Social Movements, now in its second edition. Howard Ramos is associate professor in the Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology at Dalhousie University. He has published on political sociology, Canadian Aboriginal mobilization, ethnicity and race, immigration, Atlantic Canada, and transnational human rights. He has published many articles and has contributed to several books, including a chapter on Aboriginal protest in the second edition of Social Movements. He is the co-author of Seeing Politics Differently: A Brief Introduction to Political Sociology, also published by Oxford University Press Canada.