Social Theory and Social Movements
Mutual Inspirations
Editors: Roose, Jochen, Dietz, Hella (Eds.)
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- Overview over the correlation between social movements and social theory
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- About this book
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Social movements are not only a potential challenge to societies, they also challenge social theory. This volume looks at social movements and social movement research through the lens of different social theories. What can social movement studies learn from these theories? And: What can these theories learn from the analysis of social movements? From this double vantage point, the book discusses the theories of Michel Foucault, Pierre Bourdieu, Niklas Luhmann, Jeffrey Alexander, and Judith Butler, as well as rational choice theory, relational sociology, and organizational neo-institutionalism.
- About the authors
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Dr. Jochen Roose is Professor for Social Sciences at the Willy Brandt Zentrum of the University Wrocław, Poland.
Dr. Hella Dietz works at the Institute for Sociology at the Georg-August University in Göttingen, Germany.
- Table of contents (9 chapters)
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Paths of Innovation in Social Movement Research Theory
Pages 1-12
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Discourse, Power, and Governmentality. Social Movement Research with and beyond Foucault
Pages 13-38
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Social Movements and the Rationality of Choice
Pages 39-55
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Bourdieu Meets Social Movement
Pages 57-74
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Social Movements and Sociological Systems Theory
Pages 75-91
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Table of contents (9 chapters)
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Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- Social Theory and Social Movements
- Book Subtitle
- Mutual Inspirations
- Editors
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- Jochen Roose
- Hella Dietz
- Copyright
- 2016
- Publisher
- VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften
- Copyright Holder
- Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden
- eBook ISBN
- 978-3-658-13381-8
- DOI
- 10.1007/978-3-658-13381-8
- Softcover ISBN
- 978-3-658-13380-1
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- VIII, 173
- Number of Illustrations
- 2 b/w illustrations, 1 illustrations in colour
- Topics