Social Movements

Critiques, Concepts, Case-Studies

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ID2684131
AuthorsHerbert Blumer
EditorsStanford M Lyman (corresponding author)
Year1995
Pages60-83
Publication date1995-01-01
Open AccessNo
TypeBOOK
VenueSocial Movements (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherPalgrave Macmillan UK (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1007/978-1-349-23747-0_5
OpenAlexW4244399201
Open LibraryOL15000488M
ISBN9781349237470
LanguageEN
Citations received16

This chapter, a reprint of Herbert Blumer's 1946 article, examines the nature of social movements, arguing against prevalent reductive approaches that frame them primarily in terms of individual discontent or societal disorganization. Blumer emphasizes the collective process of interpretation and definition that shapes social unrest, highlighting how movements develop through a dynamic interaction of participants, their grievances, and the responses they evoke. He introduces a preliminary typology of social movements based on their objectives-general, specific, and expressive-and underscores the importance of studying the life cycle of movements to understand their transformative potential

Aesthetics · Division of labour · Economics · Ideology · Movement (music · New social movements · Order (exchange · Political science · Politics · Power (physics · Resource mobilization · Social change · Social life · Social movement · Social movement theory · Social order · Social organization · Social philosophy · Social relation · Social science · Social theory · Social unrest · Sociology · Unrest · Gender Studies · Law · Political theory and Gramsci · Psychology · Social Policy and Reform Studies · Social evolution · Social history · Social movements · Philosophy · Social Psychology

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