Steve Breyman
Biographic Data
| ID | 118176 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Steve Breyman |
| GIVEN NAMES | Steve |
| FAMILY NAME | Breyman |
| SIGNATURE | BREYMAN S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 58 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1991 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The Atomic Bomb and American Society
Reviewed by: The Atomic Bomb and American Society: New Perspectives Steve Breyman (bio) The Atomic Bomb and American Society: New Perspectives. Edited by Rosemary B. Mariner and G. Kurt Piehler. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2009. Pp. xxx+447. $42. It is encouraging that as the nuclear age nears its seventh decade, social scientists and humanists continue to analyze and interpret what it means for American society. The eighteen essays…
Green Chemistry as Social Movement
Are there circumstances under which scientists and engineers doing their ordinary jobs can be thought of as participants in a social movement? The technoscientists analyzed in this article are at the forefront of a new way of doing chemistry; they are attempting to redesign chemical products and synthesis pathways to significantly reduce health effects and environmental damage from industrial chemicals. Green chemistry practitioners and entrepren…
Research in Social Movements, Conflicts, and Change, Vol. 23
Moyens de communication, mobilisation rapide et actions préventives contre la guerre
Science Studies and Activism
Might a rapprochement be desirable and possible between the more academic and the more activist wings of STS? What can each learn from the other? A promising trajectory for this purpose may be to reinterpret and extend research in the constructivist tradition, building on recent work that appears to constitute the beginnings of a reconstructivist scholarly tradition. Some of the necessary work would be explicitly prescriptive: given that technolo…
Why Movements Matter
Critical Masses
Thomas Wellock's Critical Masses is the latest salvo in a controversy over resistance to civilian nuclear power in the United States. Social scientists and historians have been debating a number of questions for which there is conflicting evidence, and one of the contentious issues concerns the reasons why the United States nuclear industry declined only two decades after its birth. According to some parties to the debate, it was because banks an…
Movement Genesis. Social Movement Theory and the 1980s West German Peace Movement
Movement Genesis
Movement Genesis
Background and Overview Movement Definitions and Novelty Movement Origins Organizations and Constituencies Spectrums Strategy and Goals Tactics Mobilization Theory Revisited: Novelty and Origins
Deep Ecological Science
Deep ecology's biocentric philosophy rejects the anthropocentrism of mainstream environmentalism. Biocentrism holds that all life has inherent value and, as such, is worthy of respect and protection. Deep ecology's action strategy emerges from disgust with the compromises made by mainstream environmentalism. Deep ecologists tend toward confrontational actions such as blockades, “tree sits,” and “ecotage” (“monkey wrenching” or covert direct actio…
Were the 1980s' Anti‐Nuclear Weapons Movements New Social Movements
The cycle of social movement mobilization over the past generation moved theorists to make claims about the novelty of student, peace, ecology, and women's movements of the period. It has not been determined whether such characteristics apply to the anti‐nuclear weapons movements of the 1980s. This article reviews the theoretical underpinning of “new social movements” and assesses the extent to which it accurately describes the action, identity, …
Bioregional education on the Hudson
1996). Bioregional education on the Hudson. Capitalism Nature Socialism: Vol. 7, No. 3, pp. 133-135
Movements rising in the west
Questions as to what, if anything, is new about contemporary Western transnational social movements (TSMs) have puzzled theorists for more than a decade. These questions are of more than academic interest because the more we know about these movements the better we can participate in them and aid them in achieving their objectives. My purpose here is to critically review three principal arguments regarding the novelty of TSMs: first, that they ac…
Beyond the European Left
Science Studies and Activism
Might a rapprochement be desirable and possible between the more academic and the more activist wings of STS? What can each learn from the other? A promising trajectory for this purpose may be to reinterpret and extend research in the constructivist tradition, building on recent work that appears to constitute the beginnings of a reconstructivist scholarly tradition. Some of the necessary work would be explicitly prescriptive: given that technolo…
Green Chemistry as Social Movement
Are there circumstances under which scientists and engineers doing their ordinary jobs can be thought of as participants in a social movement? The technoscientists analyzed in this article are at the forefront of a new way of doing chemistry; they are attempting to redesign chemical products and synthesis pathways to significantly reduce health effects and environmental damage from industrial chemicals. Green chemistry practitioners and entrepren…
Bioregional education on the Hudson
1996). Bioregional education on the Hudson. Capitalism Nature Socialism: Vol. 7, No. 3, pp. 133-135
Beyond the European Left
Movements rising in the west
Questions as to what, if anything, is new about contemporary Western transnational social movements (TSMs) have puzzled theorists for more than a decade. These questions are of more than academic interest because the more we know about these movements the better we can participate in them and aid them in achieving their objectives. My purpose here is to critically review three principal arguments regarding the novelty of TSMs: first, that they ac…
Bioregional education on the Hudson
1996). Bioregional education on the Hudson. Capitalism Nature Socialism: Vol. 7, No. 3, pp. 133-135
Were the 1980s' Anti‐Nuclear Weapons Movements New Social Movements
The cycle of social movement mobilization over the past generation moved theorists to make claims about the novelty of student, peace, ecology, and women's movements of the period. It has not been determined whether such characteristics apply to the anti‐nuclear weapons movements of the 1980s. This article reviews the theoretical underpinning of “new social movements” and assesses the extent to which it accurately describes the action, identity, …
Deep Ecological Science
Deep ecology's biocentric philosophy rejects the anthropocentrism of mainstream environmentalism. Biocentrism holds that all life has inherent value and, as such, is worthy of respect and protection. Deep ecology's action strategy emerges from disgust with the compromises made by mainstream environmentalism. Deep ecologists tend toward confrontational actions such as blockades, “tree sits,” and “ecotage” (“monkey wrenching” or covert direct actio…
Movement Genesis. Social Movement Theory and the 1980s West German Peace Movement
Movement Genesis
Movement Genesis
Background and Overview Movement Definitions and Novelty Movement Origins Organizations and Constituencies Spectrums Strategy and Goals Tactics Mobilization Theory Revisited: Novelty and Origins
Critical Masses
Thomas Wellock's Critical Masses is the latest salvo in a controversy over resistance to civilian nuclear power in the United States. Social scientists and historians have been debating a number of questions for which there is conflicting evidence, and one of the contentious issues concerns the reasons why the United States nuclear industry declined only two decades after its birth. According to some parties to the debate, it was because banks an…
Science Studies and Activism
Might a rapprochement be desirable and possible between the more academic and the more activist wings of STS? What can each learn from the other? A promising trajectory for this purpose may be to reinterpret and extend research in the constructivist tradition, building on recent work that appears to constitute the beginnings of a reconstructivist scholarly tradition. Some of the necessary work would be explicitly prescriptive: given that technolo…
Why Movements Matter
Research in Social Movements, Conflicts, and Change, Vol. 23
Moyens de communication, mobilisation rapide et actions préventives contre la guerre
Green Chemistry as Social Movement
Are there circumstances under which scientists and engineers doing their ordinary jobs can be thought of as participants in a social movement? The technoscientists analyzed in this article are at the forefront of a new way of doing chemistry; they are attempting to redesign chemical products and synthesis pathways to significantly reduce health effects and environmental damage from industrial chemicals. Green chemistry practitioners and entrepren…
The Atomic Bomb and American Society
Reviewed by: The Atomic Bomb and American Society: New Perspectives Steve Breyman (bio) The Atomic Bomb and American Society: New Perspectives. Edited by Rosemary B. Mariner and G. Kurt Piehler. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2009. Pp. xxx+447. $42. It is encouraging that as the nuclear age nears its seventh decade, social scientists and humanists continue to analyze and interpret what it means for American society. The eighteen essays…
Political science (15 works) · Law (14 works) · Politics (11 works) · Sociology (11 works) · Law (9 works) · Social movement (7 works) · Political economy (6 works) · Aesthetics (5 works) · Communism, Protests, Social Movements (5 works) · Environmental ethics (5 works)