The Unity of Social Movements
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3213374 |
|---|---|
| Authors | T Jordan (0000-0002-0057-291X, University of East London, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1995 |
| Volume | 43 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 675-692 |
| Publication date | 1995-11-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Sociological Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0038-0261 • E-ISSN: 1467-954X |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1111/j.1467-954x.1995.tb00714.x |
| OpenAlex | W1994298197 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
| References cited | 26 |
A coherent intellectual structure for social movement studies has recently been emerging over a range of theoretical and empirical studies. This structure counterposes 'within social movements' a diverse range of collective actions against the unity imposed by a collective identity. However, theorisations of this collective identity have so far failed to address the contradiction between structure and agency. A definition of collective identity for social movements that is not caught in the structure/agency divide is proposed by defining the appropriate level of abstraction for such a definition, defining why movements are unified and then how
Abstraction · Aesthetics · Agency (philosophy) · Collective identity · Contradiction · Epistemology · Identity (music) · Movement (music) · Political science · Politics · Resource mobilization · Social group · Social identity theory · Social movement · Social science · Sociology · Structure and agency · Communism, Protests, Social Movements · Gender Politics and Representation · Law · Psychology · Social and Cultural Dynamics · Social Psychology
Personal politics
The voice and the eye
Ideology and the New Social Movements
Marxism and class theory
The City and the grassroots.
New Social Movements
Beyond Social Movements?
Transforming Socialist-Feminism
Challenging Imperial Feminism
Transforming Socialist-Feminism
Beyond Revolution
New Social Movements
The city and the grassroots
Collective Bodies
The past is before Us
Class analysis and the politics of new social movements
Social Change, the Middle Class and the Emergence of 'New Social Movements
The Concept of Social Movement
The new social movements
New political movements and changes in processes of intermediation
Organization between movement and institution
Towards an anti-racist feminism
Beyond Social Movements
How New are the New Social Movements
Social Life as Bootstrapped Induction
Resource Mobilization and Social Movements
| Unique citing works | 4 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,14 |
| Citation span | 1997 - 2022 (26) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 4 |